Kent Business Analyst Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Business Analyst role in IT contracts within the Kent region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Business Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Analyst
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Clevedon Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Grimsby Guernsey Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hastings Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent King's Lynn Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Melton Mowbray Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northumbria Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Pudsey Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	20	46
Rank change on same period last year	+26
Matching contract IT job ads	29	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.039 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	6.856 %	1.901 %
Daily rates quoted	15	1
Average minimum daily rate	£365	£450
Average daily rate	£387	£450
% change on same period last year	-14.07 %
Average maximum daily rate	£408	£450
UK excluding London average daily rate	£376	£375
% change on same period last year	+0.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£30.00
Average hourly rate	-	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.75	£33.31
% change on same period last year	-7.67 %
Job Titles Kent
Matching contract IT job ads	423	526
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.564 %	0.532 %
Daily rates quoted	124	97
Average minimum daily rate	£304	£281
Average daily rate	£325	£294
% change on same period last year	+10.36 %
Average maximum daily rate	£346	£308
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	70	104
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.57	£23.92
Average hourly rate	£21.14	£26.16
% change on same period last year	-19.19 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.70	£28.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
Business Analyst South East

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 Analyst
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Business Analyst across the Kent 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 Business Analyst across the Kent region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Business Analyst across the Kent region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Business Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Analyst within the Kent region over the 3 months to 25 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
Dover	-	10	£405	-
Chatham	-	3	£381	-
Maidstone	-6	2	£400	-
Tunbridge Wells	+2	2	£325	-27.77 %

Business Analyst South East

Business Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region that cited Business 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 Business Analyst in their job title.

1 21 (40.38 %) Finance 2 13 (25.00 %) UML 3 12 (23.08 %) Migration 4 11 (21.15 %) Business Analysis 4 11 (21.15 %) RUP 5 8 (15.38 %) Java 5 8 (15.38 %) Logistics 6 7 (13.46 %) Use Case 7 6 (11.54 %) MS Visio 8 5 (9.615 %) NHS 8 5 (9.615 %) Insurance 8 5 (9.615 %) Requirements Analysis 8 5 (9.615 %) Health 9 4 (7.692 %) Project Management 9 4 (7.692 %) CRM

10 3 (5.769 %) User Acceptance Testing 10 3 (5.769 %) Data Cleansing 10 3 (5.769 %) Data Migration 10 3 (5.769 %) Workflow 10 3 (5.769 %) Unified Process 10 3 (5.769 %) Document Management 11 2 (3.846 %) Systems Analysis 11 2 (3.846 %) MS PowerPoint 11 2 (3.846 %) Pensions 11 2 (3.846 %) Business Development 11 2 (3.846 %) Legal 11 2 (3.846 %) Validation 11 2 (3.846 %) Electric 11 2 (3.846 %) BPR 11 2 (3.846 %) RequisitePro

Business Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region that cited Business 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 Business Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (3.846 %) J2EE 2 1 (1.923 %) EDI	Application Platforms 1 2 (3.846 %) SAS 2 1 (1.923 %) Lotus Domino 2 1 (1.923 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 6 (11.54 %) MS Visio 2 2 (3.846 %) MS PowerPoint 2 2 (3.846 %) MS Office 3 1 (1.923 %) MS Excel 3 1 (1.923 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 1 (1.923 %) Cerner Millennium
Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.923 %) SAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (5.769 %) Data Cleansing 2 1 (1.923 %) RDBMS 2 1 (1.923 %) SAP BW 2 1 (1.923 %) EDRMS
Development Applications 1 2 (3.846 %) RequisitePro	General 1 21 (40.38 %) Finance 2 5 (9.615 %) Insurance 2 5 (9.615 %) Health 3 2 (3.846 %) Legal 3 2 (3.846 %) Pensions 3 2 (3.846 %) Electric 4 1 (1.923 %) Marketing 4 1 (1.923 %) Banking 4 1 (1.923 %) Retail
Miscellaneous 1 5 (9.615 %) NHS 2 1 (1.923 %) LIMS 2 1 (1.923 %) Management Information System 2 1 (1.923 %) Biology	Operating Systems 1 1 (1.923 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (25.00 %) UML 2 12 (23.08 %) Migration 3 11 (21.15 %) RUP 3 11 (21.15 %) Business Analysis 4 8 (15.38 %) Logistics 5 7 (13.46 %) Use Case 6 5 (9.615 %) Requirements Analysis 7 4 (7.692 %) CRM 7 4 (7.692 %) Project Management 8 3 (5.769 %) Unified Process 8 3 (5.769 %) Workflow 8 3 (5.769 %) Document Management 8 3 (5.769 %) User Acceptance Testing 8 3 (5.769 %) Data Migration 9 2 (3.846 %) Business Development 9 2 (3.846 %) Systems Analysis 9 2 (3.846 %) Validation 9 2 (3.846 %) Change Management 9 2 (3.846 %) GAP Analysis 9 2 (3.846 %) BPR	Programming Languages 1 8 (15.38 %) Java 2 1 (1.923 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 1 (1.923 %) Degree	Vendors 1 2 (3.846 %) Microsoft 2 1 (1.923 %) Cerner 2 1 (1.923 %) iSOFT 2 1 (1.923 %) Fujitsu 2 1 (1.923 %) Oracle 2 1 (1.923 %) SAP