The first table below looks at the demand for Business Analysis skills in IT contracts advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Business Analysis over the 3 months to 17 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Kent 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Business Analysis
Rank 37 29 38
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +9
Contract jobs citing Business Analysis 1 7 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 0.327% 2.642% 2.194%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.503% 3.867% 3.804%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 3
Average daily rate - £413 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -8.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
-2.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £17.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.00 £25.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+12.00% +4.16%
All Processes & Methodologies
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
199 181 184
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 65.03% 68.30% 57.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 96 108
Average daily rate £303 £325 £293
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.92% +11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £253 £138 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 9 15
Average hourly rate £19.39 £17.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.80% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.15 £8.75 £15.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £53.25 £67.50 £49.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Business Analysis
South East

Business Analysis
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Business Analysis across the Kent region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Kent Business Analysis Jobs Demand Trend

Business Analysis
Daily Rate Trend

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

Kent Business Analysis Daily Rate Trend

Business Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Kent Business Analysis Hourly Rate Trend

Business Analysis
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region citing Business Analysis 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 Analysis.

1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Fixed Income
1 1 (50.00%) Equities
1 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (50.00%) Billing
1 1 (50.00%) Data Management
1 1 (50.00%) MS PowerPoint
1 1 (50.00%) Derivative
1 1 (50.00%) Use Case
1 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (50.00%) Fund Accounting
1 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (50.00%) C
1 1 (50.00%) MS Office
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (50.00%) UML
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management

Business Analysis
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region citing Business Analysis 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 Analysis. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Office
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
1 1 (50.00%) MS PowerPoint
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Business Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) IT Business Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Market Data Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Market Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Market Data Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Fixed Income
1 1 (50.00%) Equities
1 1 (50.00%) Derivative
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (50.00%) UML
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (50.00%) Data Management
1 1 (50.00%) Use Case
1 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (50.00%) Fund Accounting
1 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft