The first table below looks at the demand for the Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 Hertfordshire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Analyst
Rank 4 3 1
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -2
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 95 191 192
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 14.53% 19.83% 22.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.25% 21.13% 23.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 86 106
Average daily rate £325 £338 £345
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.70% -2.17%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £168 £161 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £423 £425 £406
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 24 20
Average hourly rate £15.00 £12.00 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -25.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £11.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £36.00 £16.28
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £15.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -
All Job Titles
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
623 904 810
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 95.26% 93.87% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 397 343
Average daily rate £400 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £247 £217
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 87 105
Average hourly rate £17.47 £22.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.59% +29.41%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.15 £11.00 £11.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £37.00 £37.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Analyst
East of England

Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Analyst across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Hertfordshire Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Analyst across the Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Analyst across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Hertfordshire Analyst Hourly Rate Histogram

Analyst
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Hemel Hempstead -3 7 £300 -14.28%
St Albans +3 6 £360 +89.60%
Welwyn Garden City -3 6 £325 +30.00%
Watford -5 6 £403 +19.25%
Rickmansworth -3 5 £225 -47.05%
Stevenage 0 3 £231 -24.48%
Potters Bar - 2 £285 -
Hertford - 1 £105 -
Letchworth - 1 - -
Bishop's Stortford - 1 £325 -
Borehamwood - 1 - -
Welwyn - 1 - -
Analyst
East of England

Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region that cited 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 Analyst in their job title.

1 57 (25.79%) Finance
2 53 (23.98%) Retail
3 52 (23.53%) SQL
4 46 (20.81%) Business Analysis
5 25 (11.31%) MS Excel
6 23 (10.41%) Project Management
6 23 (10.41%) Windows
6 23 (10.41%) Stakeholder Management
7 22 (9.955%) Telecoms
7 22 (9.955%) MS Office
8 21 (9.502%) Data Analysis
9 20 (9.050%) Microsoft
10 18 (8.145%) Active Directory
10 18 (8.145%) Systems Analysis
11 17 (7.692%) SQL Server
11 17 (7.692%) Data Warehouse
12 16 (7.240%) Business Intelligence
12 16 (7.240%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 16 (7.240%) Marketing
13 15 (6.787%) Data Management
14 14 (6.335%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 14 (6.335%) User Acceptance Testing
15 13 (5.882%) E-Commerce
16 12 (5.430%) UML
16 12 (5.430%) Change Management
16 12 (5.430%) Test Scripting
16 12 (5.430%) Time Management
17 11 (4.977%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 11 (4.977%) Windows 7
17 11 (4.977%) Scrum

Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region that cited 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 Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (2.715%) XML
2 3 (1.357%) .NET
2 3 (1.357%) EDI
2 3 (1.357%) BAPI
2 3 (1.357%) SAP XI
3 2 (0.905%) Flash
3 2 (0.905%) ASP.NET
3 2 (0.905%) WCF
3 2 (0.905%) NHibernate
3 2 (0.905%) KnockoutJS
3 2 (0.905%) Gherkin
4 1 (0.452%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.452%) COM
4 1 (0.452%) CSS
4 1 (0.452%) JSP
4 1 (0.452%) Struts
4 1 (0.452%) Web Services
4 1 (0.452%) XSLT
4 1 (0.452%) ODBC
4 1 (0.452%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 7 (3.167%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.357%) Lotus Notes
2 3 (1.357%) Apache
3 2 (0.905%) LiveLink
3 2 (0.905%) CMS
3 2 (0.905%) MS Exchange
3 2 (0.905%) SAS
3 2 (0.905%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.452%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (0.452%) Joomla!
4 1 (0.452%) WebSphere MQ
4 1 (0.452%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 25 (11.31%) MS Excel
2 22 (9.955%) MS Office
3 10 (4.525%) MS Project
3 10 (4.525%) MS Visio
4 8 (3.620%) MS PowerPoint
5 1 (0.452%) PowerPivot
5 1 (0.452%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 5 (2.262%) Oracle EBS R12
2 4 (1.810%) Oracle Applications
2 4 (1.810%) Oracle Financials
3 3 (1.357%) Oracle iProcurement
3 3 (1.357%) Oracle 11i
4 2 (0.905%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.905%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.905%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.452%) ResourceLink
5 1 (0.452%) PeopleSoft HRMS
5 1 (0.452%) Agresso
5 1 (0.452%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.452%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.452%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.452%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.452%) Oracle Payroll
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.620%) 2G
1 8 (3.620%) LTE
2 5 (2.262%) HTTP
3 4 (1.810%) DHCP
3 4 (1.810%) DNS
3 4 (1.810%) 3G
4 3 (1.357%) SAN
4 3 (1.357%) VPN
5 2 (0.905%) Firewall
5 2 (0.905%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.905%) Internet
5 2 (0.905%) NFC
5 2 (0.905%) 4G
5 2 (0.905%) NAS
6 1 (0.452%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.452%) VoIP
6 1 (0.452%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.692%) SQL Server
1 17 (7.692%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (7.240%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 14 (6.335%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 11 (4.977%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (1.810%) MySQL
5 4 (1.810%) SQL Server 2008
6 3 (1.357%) BusinessObjects XI
6 3 (1.357%) Crystal Reports
6 3 (1.357%) BusinessObjects
6 3 (1.357%) Oracle Discoverer
7 2 (0.905%) MS Access
7 2 (0.905%) OLAP
8 1 (0.452%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.452%) PerformancePoint
8 1 (0.452%) Xcelsius
8 1 (0.452%) QlikView
8 1 (0.452%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
8 1 (0.452%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.452%) SAP BI
Development Applications
1 3 (1.357%) Rational DOORS
1 3 (1.357%) LSMW
2 2 (0.905%) Selenium
2 2 (0.905%) SpecFlow
2 2 (0.905%) Cucumber
2 2 (0.905%) Axure RP
3 1 (0.452%) WebDriver
3 1 (0.452%) Ant
3 1 (0.452%) Rational Rose
3 1 (0.452%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.452%) QuickTest Pro
3 1 (0.452%) Subversion
3 1 (0.452%) FrontPage
3 1 (0.452%) Bugzilla
General
1 57 (25.79%) Finance
2 53 (23.98%) Retail
3 22 (9.955%) Telecoms
4 16 (7.240%) Marketing
5 6 (2.715%) Games
6 5 (2.262%) Banking
7 4 (1.810%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.357%) Billing
8 3 (1.357%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.905%) Back Office
9 2 (0.905%) German Language
10 1 (0.452%) French Language
10 1 (0.452%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.452%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 8 (3.620%) EPoS
2 7 (3.167%) NHS
3 3 (1.357%) iPhone
3 3 (1.357%) EFTPOS
3 3 (1.357%) Chip and PIN
4 2 (0.905%) EMV
4 2 (0.905%) Blackberry
4 2 (0.905%) Smartcard
4 2 (0.905%) FMCG
4 2 (0.905%) Digital Media
4 2 (0.905%) iPad
5 1 (0.452%) Mobile Payment
5 1 (0.452%) Statistics
5 1 (0.452%) Mathematics
5 1 (0.452%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.452%) Data Extraction
5 1 (0.452%) Data Integration
5 1 (0.452%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (0.452%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.452%) EFT
Operating Systems
1 23 (10.41%) Windows
2 11 (4.977%) Windows 7
3 5 (2.262%) Windows XP
3 5 (2.262%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (1.810%) Linux
5 3 (1.357%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (1.357%) UNIX
6 2 (0.905%) AIX
6 2 (0.905%) HPUX
6 2 (0.905%) Windows 2000 Server
7 1 (0.452%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.452%) Android
7 1 (0.452%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.452%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (20.81%) Business Analysis
2 23 (10.41%) Project Management
2 23 (10.41%) Stakeholder Management
3 21 (9.502%) Data Analysis
4 18 (8.145%) Systems Analysis
5 16 (7.240%) Business Intelligence
6 15 (6.787%) Data Management
7 14 (6.335%) User Acceptance Testing
8 13 (5.882%) E-Commerce
9 12 (5.430%) UML
9 12 (5.430%) Change Management
9 12 (5.430%) Test Scripting
9 12 (5.430%) Time Management
10 11 (4.977%) Scrum
11 10 (4.525%) ETL
11 10 (4.525%) Six Sigma
11 10 (4.525%) Waterfall
12 9 (4.072%) Web Development
12 9 (4.072%) Migration
13 8 (3.620%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 52 (23.53%) SQL
2 5 (2.262%) T-SQL
3 4 (1.810%) VBA
4 3 (1.357%) C#
4 3 (1.357%) Java
4 3 (1.357%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.905%) Shell Script
5 2 (0.905%) MATLAB
5 2 (0.905%) VB
5 2 (0.905%) Erlang
6 1 (0.452%) ABAP
6 1 (0.452%) PHP
6 1 (0.452%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (3.620%) ISEB
2 7 (3.167%) Six Sigma Green Belt
2 7 (3.167%) Degree
2 7 (3.167%) Six Sigma Black Belt
3 6 (2.715%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.262%) PMI Certification
5 4 (1.810%) PMP
5 4 (1.810%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (1.810%) MCP
6 3 (1.357%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.905%) CISA
7 2 (0.905%) MCSE
8 1 (0.452%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.452%) BC Cleared
8 1 (0.452%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.452%) MCDST
8 1 (0.452%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.262%) PCI DSS
1 5 (2.262%) SLA
2 3 (1.357%) Solvency II
2 3 (1.357%) QA
System Software
1 18 (8.145%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.357%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (1.357%) Terminal Services
3 1 (0.452%) XenServer
3 1 (0.452%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 6 (2.715%) SCCM
2 2 (0.905%) Nagios
2 2 (0.905%) SCOM
2 2 (0.905%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.452%) OpenView
3 1 (0.452%) OVSD
Vendors
1 20 (9.050%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.977%) SAP
3 10 (4.525%) HP
4 8 (3.620%) Oracle
5 7 (3.167%) Business Objects
6 4 (1.810%) VMware
6 4 (1.810%) Remedy
7 3 (1.357%) Ericsson
7 3 (1.357%) Pegasus
7 3 (1.357%) Lotus
7 3 (1.357%) Cisco
7 3 (1.357%) Teradata
8 2 (0.905%) Brio
8 2 (0.905%) Citrix
8 2 (0.905%) McAfee
8 2 (0.905%) Sophos
8 2 (0.905%) PeopleSoft
9 1 (0.452%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.452%) Planview
9 1 (0.452%) Zend
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