Hertfordshire Analyst Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Analyst role in IT contracts within the Hertfordshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 7 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Avon Aylesbury Ayrshire Bacup Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester City of London Clapham Cleethorpes Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Ayrshire East Grinstead East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Filton Flintshire Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grays Grimsby Guernsey Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Hartlepool Hastings Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Jersey Kegworth Kent Kilmarnock King's Lynn Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Melton Mowbray Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northumbria Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Pontypool Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Pudsey Reading Redcar Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Ayrshire South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Shields South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark Spalding St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Torfaen Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wymondham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	2	1
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	285	416
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.375 %	0.441 %
As % of the category below	19.14 %	25.82 %
Daily rates quoted	122	187
Average minimum daily rate	£338	£311
Average daily rate	£360	£330
% change on same period last year	+8.99 %
Average maximum daily rate	£381	£349
UK excluding London average daily rate	£336	£330
% change on same period last year	+1.83 %
Hourly rates quoted	27	38
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.67	£19.24
Average hourly rate	£18.96	£20.64
% change on same period last year	-8.10 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.26	£22.03
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.72	£20.83
% change on same period last year	-10.13 %
Job Titles Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1489	1611
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.960 %	1.707 %
Daily rates quoted	582	636
Average minimum daily rate	£364	£325
Average daily rate	£390	£346
% change on same period last year	+12.77 %
Average maximum daily rate	£416	£366
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	173	145
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.37	£22.24
Average hourly rate	£24.35	£23.28
% change on same period last year	+4.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.33	£24.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.40	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.22 %
Analyst East of England

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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Analyst across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 7 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Analyst across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 7 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Analyst within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 7 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Watford	-5	30	£414	+14.41 %
Rickmansworth	-3	18	£288	+27.77 %
Welwyn Garden City	+4	16	£267	-
Stevenage	-	5	£470	-
St Albans	-2	3	£275	-29.03 %
Bishop's Stortford	-	2	-	-
Potters Bar	-	2	£425	-
Berkhamsted	-	1	-	-

Analyst East of England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, 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.

1 123 (21.10 %) Finance 2 98 (16.81 %) Telecoms 2 98 (16.81 %) Retail 3 77 (13.21 %) UML 4 67 (11.49 %) SQL 4 67 (11.49 %) MS Office 5 61 (10.46 %) Windows 6 57 (9.777 %) Oracle 7 55 (9.434 %) MS Excel 8 51 (8.748 %) Microsoft 9 49 (8.405 %) Datawarehouse 9 49 (8.405 %) SAP 10 47 (8.062 %) Unix 11 46 (7.890 %) CRM 12 42 (7.204 %) PRINCE2

12 42 (7.204 %) Use Case 13 40 (6.861 %) Internet 14 36 (6.175 %) .NET 15 35 (6.003 %) Data Modelling 15 35 (6.003 %) Firewall 16 34 (5.832 %) ClearQuest 16 34 (5.832 %) Project Management 16 34 (5.832 %) ClearCase 17 33 (5.660 %) RUP 18 32 (5.489 %) ITIL 18 32 (5.489 %) Business Analysis 19 30 (5.146 %) Systems Analysis 19 30 (5.146 %) Test Scripting 19 30 (5.146 %) CheckPoint 20 29 (4.974 %) Change Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, 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 36 (6.175 %) .NET 2 22 (3.774 %) XML 3 16 (2.744 %) XML Schema 4 15 (2.573 %) Hibernate 4 15 (2.573 %) J2EE 5 14 (2.401 %) Spring 6 9 (1.544 %) WebSphere 7 4 (0.686 %) Java EE 8 2 (0.343 %) LAMP 8 2 (0.343 %) HTML 8 2 (0.343 %) WebServices 9 1 (0.172 %) Middleware 9 1 (0.172 %) JSF 9 1 (0.172 %) SAP XI 9 1 (0.172 %) ASP 9 1 (0.172 %) JDBC 9 1 (0.172 %) JSP 9 1 (0.172 %) Servlets 9 1 (0.172 %) SOAP 9 1 (0.172 %) Struts	Application Platforms 1 21 (3.602 %) WebLogic 2 10 (1.715 %) MQSeries 3 8 (1.372 %) MS Exchange 4 6 (1.029 %) SharePoint 4 6 (1.029 %) IIS 4 6 (1.029 %) Lotus Notes 5 5 (0.858 %) JBoss 5 5 (0.858 %) Tomcat 5 5 (0.858 %) Office Project Server 6 3 (0.515 %) Apache 6 3 (0.515 %) SAS 7 2 (0.343 %) BizTalk Server 7 2 (0.343 %) WebSphere MQ 7 2 (0.343 %) CoreMedia CMS 8 1 (0.172 %) Rendezvous 8 1 (0.172 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 8 1 (0.172 %) CMS 8 1 (0.172 %) Exchange Server 2003 8 1 (0.172 %) TIBCO EMS 8 1 (0.172 %) Tuxedo
Applications 1 67 (11.49 %) MS Office 2 55 (9.434 %) MS Excel 3 19 (3.259 %) MS Project 4 11 (1.887 %) MS PowerPoint 5 2 (0.343 %) MS Visio 6 1 (0.172 %) S-PLUS 6 1 (0.172 %) Casewise Corporate Modeler Suite	Business Applications 1 26 (4.460 %) SAP CRM 2 6 (1.029 %) SAP Retail 3 4 (0.686 %) Oracle CRM 4 3 (0.515 %) PeopleSoft HRMS 4 3 (0.515 %) BASE24 5 2 (0.343 %) Oracle ERP 5 2 (0.343 %) Oracle Financials 5 2 (0.343 %) Bond Adapt 6 1 (0.172 %) arcHouse 6 1 (0.172 %) SAP FI 6 1 (0.172 %) SAP FI/CO 6 1 (0.172 %) SAP CO
Communications & Networking 1 40 (6.861 %) Internet 2 35 (6.003 %) Firewall 3 19 (3.259 %) VPN 4 15 (2.573 %) TCP/IP 5 12 (2.058 %) Cisco PIX 5 12 (2.058 %) NetScreen 6 11 (1.887 %) SSL 6 11 (1.887 %) IPsec 6 11 (1.887 %) VoIP 7 5 (0.858 %) WAN 7 5 (0.858 %) ATM 7 5 (0.858 %) LAN 8 4 (0.686 %) PBX 8 4 (0.686 %) SMS 8 4 (0.686 %) DNS 8 4 (0.686 %) DECT 8 4 (0.686 %) GSM 8 4 (0.686 %) SMTP 8 4 (0.686 %) Symposium 8 4 (0.686 %) Nortel Meridian	Database & Business Intelligence 1 49 (8.405 %) Datawarehouse 2 17 (2.916 %) SQL Server 3 12 (2.058 %) ETL 4 7 (1.201 %) BusinessObjects 4 7 (1.201 %) MS Access 5 6 (1.029 %) Data Cleansing 6 4 (0.686 %) Reference Data 6 4 (0.686 %) Oracle Reports 6 4 (0.686 %) SQL Server 2005 7 3 (0.515 %) MySQL 8 2 (0.343 %) Oracle 8/8i 8 2 (0.343 %) SQL Server Integration Services 8 2 (0.343 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 8 2 (0.343 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 8 2 (0.343 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 8 2 (0.343 %) TOAD 8 2 (0.343 %) Oracle 10g 9 1 (0.172 %) DataStage 9 1 (0.172 %) SQL Server 7 9 1 (0.172 %) DB2
Development Applications 1 34 (5.832 %) ClearCase 1 34 (5.832 %) ClearQuest 2 21 (3.602 %) RequisitePro 3 20 (3.431 %) TestDirector 4 16 (2.744 %) JUnit 5 15 (2.573 %) Eclipse 6 13 (2.230 %) LoadRunner 7 9 (1.544 %) eCATT 8 8 (1.372 %) ERwin 9 3 (0.515 %) PeopleTools 9 3 (0.515 %) QuickTest Pro 10 2 (0.343 %) Synon 10 2 (0.343 %) WinRunner 10 2 (0.343 %) Visual Studio 10 2 (0.343 %) PVCS 10 2 (0.343 %) FitNesse 10 2 (0.343 %) CheckStyle 10 2 (0.343 %) SilkPerformer 10 2 (0.343 %) CaliberRM 11 1 (0.172 %) QALoad	General 1 123 (21.10 %) Finance 2 98 (16.81 %) Telecoms 2 98 (16.81 %) Retail 3 28 (4.803 %) Billing 4 24 (4.117 %) Pharmaceutical 5 18 (3.087 %) Financial Institution 6 14 (2.401 %) Marketing 7 10 (1.715 %) Automotive 7 10 (1.715 %) Games 8 7 (1.201 %) Banking 9 6 (1.029 %) Education 9 6 (1.029 %) Front Office 10 4 (0.686 %) Government 10 4 (0.686 %) Pensions 11 3 (0.515 %) Insurance 11 3 (0.515 %) Health 11 3 (0.515 %) Legal 12 2 (0.343 %) Chemicals 13 1 (0.172 %) Construction 13 1 (0.172 %) Back Office
Miscellaneous 1 10 (1.715 %) iDTV 1 10 (1.715 %) Management Information System 2 8 (1.372 %) CMDB 3 5 (0.858 %) Informatics 3 5 (0.858 %) APACS 4 4 (0.686 %) EPoS 4 4 (0.686 %) EFT 4 4 (0.686 %) Data Extraction 5 3 (0.515 %) PMI 5 3 (0.515 %) Blackberry 5 3 (0.515 %) AS400 5 3 (0.515 %) Mathematics 5 3 (0.515 %) Mainframe 6 2 (0.343 %) PKI 6 2 (0.343 %) PDA 6 2 (0.343 %) Statistics 6 2 (0.343 %) Computer Science 6 2 (0.343 %) German Language 6 2 (0.343 %) E-Learning 7 1 (0.172 %) IVR	Operating Systems 1 61 (10.46 %) Windows 2 47 (8.062 %) Unix 3 19 (3.259 %) Windows XP 4 16 (2.744 %) Solaris 4 16 (2.744 %) Linux 5 9 (1.544 %) Windows NT 6 8 (1.372 %) Windows 2000 7 4 (0.686 %) Windows Server 2003 8 3 (0.515 %) NetWare 9 1 (0.172 %) AIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 77 (13.21 %) UML 2 46 (7.890 %) CRM 3 42 (7.204 %) PRINCE2 3 42 (7.204 %) Use Case 4 35 (6.003 %) Data Modelling 5 34 (5.832 %) Project Management 6 33 (5.660 %) RUP 7 32 (5.489 %) ITIL 7 32 (5.489 %) Business Analysis 8 30 (5.146 %) Systems Analysis 8 30 (5.146 %) Test Scripting 9 29 (4.974 %) Project Planning 9 29 (4.974 %) E-Commerce 9 29 (4.974 %) Change Management 10 23 (3.945 %) Migration 10 23 (3.945 %) User Acceptance Testing 11 21 (3.602 %) Unified Process 11 21 (3.602 %) Stakeholder Management 12 19 (3.259 %) Data Analysis 13 18 (3.087 %) Problem Management	Programming Languages 1 67 (11.49 %) SQL 2 29 (4.974 %) Java 3 14 (2.401 %) PL/SQL 4 8 (1.372 %) Shell Script 5 5 (0.858 %) C 6 4 (0.686 %) C# 6 4 (0.686 %) Transact-SQL 7 3 (0.515 %) VB 7 3 (0.515 %) C++ 7 3 (0.515 %) VBA 8 2 (0.343 %) VB6 8 2 (0.343 %) Erlang 8 2 (0.343 %) RPG 8 2 (0.343 %) VB.NET 9 1 (0.172 %) Perl 9 1 (0.172 %) PHP 9 1 (0.172 %) AWK
Qualifications 1 23 (3.945 %) Degree 2 22 (3.774 %) ISEB 3 12 (2.058 %) Microsoft Certification 4 9 (1.544 %) MCP 5 8 (1.372 %) CISSP 6 6 (1.029 %) ITIL Certification 6 6 (1.029 %) CISA 7 4 (0.686 %) CCSE 7 4 (0.686 %) Cisco Certification 7 4 (0.686 %) MCSE 8 3 (0.515 %) CCNA 8 3 (0.515 %) MOS 8 3 (0.515 %) A+ Certification 9 2 (0.343 %) CISM 9 2 (0.343 %) PMP 9 2 (0.343 %) PMI Certification 9 2 (0.343 %) PRINCE2 Certification 10 1 (0.172 %) GIAC 10 1 (0.172 %) GSEC	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 20 (3.431 %) SLA 2 17 (2.916 %) QA 3 6 (1.029 %) PCI DSS 4 5 (0.858 %) ISO8583 5 2 (0.343 %) BS7799 6 1 (0.172 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 6 1 (0.172 %) ISO27001 6 1 (0.172 %) ISO17799 6 1 (0.172 %) 21 CFR Part 11 6 1 (0.172 %) GMP 6 1 (0.172 %) ISO9000 6 1 (0.172 %) ISO9001
System Software 1 11 (1.887 %) Active Directory 2 4 (0.686 %) ISA Server 3 2 (0.343 %) VMware Workstation 3 2 (0.343 %) Backup Exec	Systems Management 1 5 (0.858 %) OpenView 2 4 (0.686 %) Tivoli 3 2 (0.343 %) MOM 3 2 (0.343 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 2 (0.343 %) Norton AntiVirus 3 2 (0.343 %) OVSD 4 1 (0.172 %) SCOM 4 1 (0.172 %) AutoSys
Vendors 1 57 (9.777 %) Oracle 2 51 (8.748 %) Microsoft 3 49 (8.405 %) SAP 4 30 (5.146 %) CheckPoint 5 29 (4.974 %) Ab Initio 6 27 (4.631 %) Nokia 7 21 (3.602 %) Blue Coat 8 19 (3.259 %) Netezza 9 18 (3.087 %) Cisco 10 17 (2.916 %) Crossbeam 11 16 (2.744 %) IBM 12 14 (2.401 %) Remedy 13 12 (2.058 %) Amdocs 13 12 (2.058 %) HP 13 12 (2.058 %) JDA 14 10 (1.715 %) BEA 15 7 (1.201 %) Business Objects 16 6 (1.029 %) Sun 16 6 (1.029 %) Lotus 16 6 (1.029 %) VMware