The first table below looks at the demand for the Data Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the Halifax region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Data Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Halifax region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Analyst
Rank 19 29 18
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 2 2 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Halifax 1.724% 0.870% 4.237%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.869% 0.909% 4.762%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
Average daily rate £380 £415 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.43% +18.57%
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £320 £325
% change year-on-year
+4.68% -1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.63 £14.50 £13.50
% change year-on-year
+14.65% +7.40%
All Job Titles
Halifax
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
107 220 105
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Halifax 92.24% 95.65% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 190 66
Average daily rate £365 £380 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.94% +1.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £260 £188
10% offered a daily rate of more than £505 £459 £488
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
Average hourly rate - £15.00 £7.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +114.28%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Data Analyst
West Yorkshire

Data Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Data Analyst across the Halifax region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Halifax Data Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Data Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

Halifax Data Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Data Analyst
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax region that cited Data 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 Data Analyst in their job title.

1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 4 (50.00%) Data Mining
2 4 (50.00%) Data Analysis
3 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (37.50%) VBA
3 3 (37.50%) Finance
4 2 (25.00%) SAP
5 1 (12.50%) Migration
5 1 (12.50%) SAP XI
5 1 (12.50%) Data Management
5 1 (12.50%) Oracle
5 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
5 1 (12.50%) Business Objects
5 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
5 1 (12.50%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (12.50%) Informatica
5 1 (12.50%) DataFlux
5 1 (12.50%) BusinessObjects XI
5 1 (12.50%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
5 1 (12.50%) Data Migration
5 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (12.50%) Data Governance
5 1 (12.50%) Data Quality

Data Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax region that cited Data 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 Data Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (12.50%) SAP XI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Data Mining
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (12.50%) BusinessObjects XI
2 1 (12.50%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (12.50%) Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Data Management
3 1 (12.50%) Data Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (12.50%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) VBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Business Objects
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Informatica
2 1 (12.50%) DataFlux