Halifax Business Analyst Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Business Analyst role in IT contracts within the Halifax region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Business Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Analyst
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Banbury Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Cleveland Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Fleetwood Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Great Yarmouth Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Kirkcaldy Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Lothian Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Market Drayton Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redhill Renfrew Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rotherham Rugby Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	8	10
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	11	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	16.42 %	4.054 %
Daily rates quoted	8	0
Average minimum daily rate	£275	-
Average daily rate	£285	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£295	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£375	£385
% change on same period last year	-2.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.72	£28.59
% change on same period last year	+7.44 %
Job Titles Halifax
Matching contract IT job ads	67	74
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.095 %	0.075 %
Daily rates quoted	34	17
Average minimum daily rate	£282	£267
Average daily rate	£296	£292
% change on same period last year	+1.38 %
Average maximum daily rate	£310	£317
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.18 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£10.53	£8.23
Average hourly rate	£11.33	£8.77
% change on same period last year	+29.12 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£12.12	£9.31
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.71	£25.14
% change on same period last year	-5.69 %
Business Analyst West Yorkshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Business Analyst
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Business Analyst across the Halifax region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Business Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Business Analyst across the Halifax region.

Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Business Analyst across the Halifax region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

Business Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax region that cited Business Analyst in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Business Analyst in their job title.

1 14 (63.64 %) Finance 2 5 (22.73 %) Use Case 3 4 (18.18 %) SLA 3 4 (18.18 %) Stakeholder Management 3 4 (18.18 %) Banking 3 4 (18.18 %) Retail 3 4 (18.18 %) Insurance 3 4 (18.18 %) Requirements Analysis 4 3 (13.64 %) CA Clarity 4 3 (13.64 %) Change Management 5 2 (9.091 %) BusinessObjects 5 2 (9.091 %) CA 5 2 (9.091 %) Hyperion 5 2 (9.091 %) Data Modelling 5 2 (9.091 %) Business Objects

5 2 (9.091 %) MS Project 5 2 (9.091 %) Data Analysis 5 2 (9.091 %) Systems Analysis 5 2 (9.091 %) Risk Management 5 2 (9.091 %) Data Mapping 6 1 (4.545 %) Test Scripting 6 1 (4.545 %) International Banking 6 1 (4.545 %) Business Analysis 6 1 (4.545 %) Pensions 6 1 (4.545 %) SAP 6 1 (4.545 %) MS Excel 6 1 (4.545 %) Business Intelligence 6 1 (4.545 %) Microsoft 6 1 (4.545 %) BPR 6 1 (4.545 %) Project Management

Business Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax region that cited Business Analyst in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Business Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 3 (13.64 %) CA Clarity 2 2 (9.091 %) MS Project 3 1 (4.545 %) MS Excel	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (9.091 %) BusinessObjects
General 1 14 (63.64 %) Finance 2 4 (18.18 %) Banking 2 4 (18.18 %) Retail 2 4 (18.18 %) Insurance 3 1 (4.545 %) Pensions 3 1 (4.545 %) International Banking 3 1 (4.545 %) Financial Institution	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (22.73 %) Use Case 2 4 (18.18 %) Requirements Analysis 2 4 (18.18 %) Stakeholder Management 3 3 (13.64 %) Change Management 4 2 (9.091 %) Risk Management 4 2 (9.091 %) Data Mapping 4 2 (9.091 %) Data Analysis 4 2 (9.091 %) Systems Analysis 4 2 (9.091 %) Data Modelling 5 1 (4.545 %) Business Intelligence 5 1 (4.545 %) BPR 5 1 (4.545 %) Project Management 5 1 (4.545 %) Service Delivery 5 1 (4.545 %) Business Analysis 5 1 (4.545 %) Test Scripting
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (18.18 %) SLA	Vendors 1 2 (9.091 %) Business Objects 1 2 (9.091 %) CA 1 2 (9.091 %) Hyperion 2 1 (4.545 %) SAP 2 1 (4.545 %) Microsoft