Hertfordshire Business Intelligence Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Business Intelligence (BI) skills within the Hertfordshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Business Intelligence over the 3 months to 7 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Intelligence (BI)
Location Abingdon Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Channel Islands Cheshire Chester Chorley City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Essex Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Inverness Ipswich Jersey Johnstone Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Reading Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stafford Staffordshire Staines Strathclyde Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Whyteleafe Wiltshire Woking Wokingham York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	88	58
Rank change on same period last year	-30
Matching contract IT job ads	9	34
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.036 %
As % of the category below	0.876 %	3.782 %
Daily rates quoted	7	17
Average minimum daily rate	£393	£379
Average daily rate	£432	£413
% change on same period last year	+4.67 %
Average maximum daily rate	£471	£447
UK excluding London average daily rate	£425	£397
% change on same period last year	+6.92 %
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	£29.23	£38.07
% change on same period last year	-23.21 %
Processes & Methodologies Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1027	899
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.352 %	0.953 %
Daily rates quoted	437	354
Average minimum daily rate	£387	£347
Average daily rate	£416	£368
% change on same period last year	+13.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£446	£389
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£374
% change on same period last year	+2.61 %
Hourly rates quoted	88	58
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.67	£24.82
Average hourly rate	£29.35	£27.03
% change on same period last year	+8.58 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.03	£29.23
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.47	£30.33
% change on same period last year	-2.84 %
Business Intelligence 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.

Business Intelligence
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Business Intelligence across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Trend

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

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Business Intelligence
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Business Intelligence
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Business Intelligence 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
Rickmansworth	-	1	£350	-
Watford	-1	1	£550	+57.14 %

Business Intelligence East of England

Business Intelligence
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Business Intelligence also 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 that cited Business Intelligence.

1 11 (29.73 %) Oracle 2 10 (27.03 %) Datawarehouse 3 9 (24.32 %) Data Modelling 4 8 (21.62 %) SQL 4 8 (21.62 %) PRINCE2 5 6 (16.22 %) SQL Server 5 6 (16.22 %) ETL 5 6 (16.22 %) Finance 5 6 (16.22 %) SQL Server 2005 5 6 (16.22 %) Use Case 6 5 (13.51 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 5 (13.51 %) iDTV 6 5 (13.51 %) Internet 6 5 (13.51 %) SharePoint 6 5 (13.51 %) DSDM

7 4 (10.81 %) MS Excel 7 4 (10.81 %) Oracle Reports 7 4 (10.81 %) SAP 7 4 (10.81 %) Oracle Discoverer 7 4 (10.81 %) CMMI 7 4 (10.81 %) Oracle EBS 7 4 (10.81 %) Telecoms 7 4 (10.81 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 7 4 (10.81 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 8 3 (8.108 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 8 3 (8.108 %) SQL Server Integration Services 8 3 (8.108 %) Data Analysis 8 3 (8.108 %) Ab Initio 8 3 (8.108 %) Publishing 8 3 (8.108 %) Project Management

Business Intelligence
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Business Intelligence also 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 that cited Business Intelligence. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (5.405 %) SAP XI 2 1 (2.703 %) .NET 2 1 (2.703 %) ASP.NET	Application Platforms 1 5 (13.51 %) SharePoint 2 1 (2.703 %) BizTalk Server 2 1 (2.703 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 4 (10.81 %) MS Excel 2 1 (2.703 %) CA Clarity	Business Applications 1 4 (10.81 %) Oracle EBS 2 3 (8.108 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 3 1 (2.703 %) Cognos Planning
Communications & Networking 1 5 (13.51 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (27.03 %) Datawarehouse 2 6 (16.22 %) ETL 2 6 (16.22 %) SQL Server 2 6 (16.22 %) SQL Server 2005 3 5 (13.51 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 4 (10.81 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 4 4 (10.81 %) Oracle Reports 4 4 (10.81 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 4 4 (10.81 %) Oracle Discoverer 5 3 (8.108 %) BusinessObjects 5 3 (8.108 %) Cognos Impromptu 5 3 (8.108 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 2 (5.405 %) Cognos Powerplay 7 1 (2.703 %) SAP BW
Development Applications 1 2 (5.405 %) ERwin	General 1 6 (16.22 %) Finance 2 4 (10.81 %) Telecoms 3 3 (8.108 %) Publishing 4 2 (5.405 %) Financial Institution 5 1 (2.703 %) Games 5 1 (2.703 %) Retail 5 1 (2.703 %) Marketing 5 1 (2.703 %) Auditing 5 1 (2.703 %) Automotive 5 1 (2.703 %) Education 5 1 (2.703 %) Manufacturing
Job Titles 1 16 (43.24 %) Analyst 2 10 (27.03 %) Developer 3 9 (24.32 %) Business Analyst 4 5 (13.51 %) Business Developer 4 5 (13.51 %) Business Intelligence Developer 5 4 (10.81 %) Oracle Developer 5 4 (10.81 %) BI Manager 5 4 (10.81 %) Oracle Discoverer Developer 6 3 (8.108 %) Senior Analyst 6 3 (8.108 %) Data Analyst 6 3 (8.108 %) Consultant 7 2 (5.405 %) Senior Manager 7 2 (5.405 %) Project Manager 7 2 (5.405 %) IT Manager 7 2 (5.405 %) SAP Consultant 7 2 (5.405 %) Analyst Developer 7 2 (5.405 %) Business Manager 7 2 (5.405 %) Quality Analyst 7 2 (5.405 %) Data Quality Analyst 7 2 (5.405 %) Delivery Manager	Miscellaneous 1 5 (13.51 %) iDTV 2 1 (2.703 %) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (24.32 %) Data Modelling 2 8 (21.62 %) PRINCE2 3 6 (16.22 %) Use Case 4 5 (13.51 %) DSDM 5 4 (10.81 %) CMMI 6 3 (8.108 %) Project Management 6 3 (8.108 %) Data Analysis 7 2 (5.405 %) Requirements Management 7 2 (5.405 %) E-Commerce 8 1 (2.703 %) PRINCE 8 1 (2.703 %) Migration 8 1 (2.703 %) Stakeholder Management 8 1 (2.703 %) Data Management 8 1 (2.703 %) Information Management 8 1 (2.703 %) Matrix Management 8 1 (2.703 %) Software Engineering 8 1 (2.703 %) QMS	Programming Languages 1 8 (21.62 %) SQL 2 2 (5.405 %) Java 3 1 (2.703 %) C# 3 1 (2.703 %) VBA
Qualifications 1 3 (8.108 %) PRINCE2 Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (5.405 %) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors 1 11 (29.73 %) Oracle 2 4 (10.81 %) SAP 3 3 (8.108 %) Cognos 3 3 (8.108 %) Business Objects 3 3 (8.108 %) Ab Initio 4 2 (5.405 %) Trillium 4 2 (5.405 %) Microsoft 5 1 (2.703 %) Genesys 5 1 (2.703 %) Netezza