Kent Business Intelligence Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Business Intelligence (BI) skills within the Kent region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Business Intelligence over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Intelligence (BI)
Location Aberdeen Altrincham Andover Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bognor Regis Bolton Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cheshire Chorley City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Docklands, London Dorset Dover East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Fleetwood Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Horsham Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Johnstone Kegworth Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Potters Bar Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Runcorn Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wokingham Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	32	32
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	16	20
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.026 %	0.021 %
As % of the category below	6.957 %	6.849 %
Daily rates quoted	5	9
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£330
Average daily rate	£334	£348
% change on same period last year	-3.98 %
Average maximum daily rate	£344	£366
UK excluding London average daily rate	£408	£407
% change on same period last year	+0.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£9.00	-
Average hourly rate	£9.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£9.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.46	£21.70
% change on same period last year	-14.90 %
Processes & Methodologies Kent
Matching contract IT job ads	230	292
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.370 %	0.314 %
Daily rates quoted	71	67
Average minimum daily rate	£315	£337
Average daily rate	£327	£355
% change on same period last year	-7.80 %
Average maximum daily rate	£339	£373
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£372
% change on same period last year	+2.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	22	39
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.00	£26.99
Average hourly rate	£24.10	£28.80
% change on same period last year	-16.32 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.19	£30.61
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.24	£29.63
% change on same period last year	-4.68 %
Business Intelligence 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 Intelligence
Demand Trend

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

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Business Intelligence across the Kent region over the 3 months to 2 December 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 Kent region.

Business Intelligence
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Intelligence within the Kent region over the 3 months to 2 December 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	-	3	£315	-
Maidstone	-	1	£525	-
Sandwich	-	1	-	-
Canterbury	-	1	-	-

Business Intelligence South East

Business Intelligence
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 (47.83 %) SQL 2 8 (34.78 %) Datawarehouse 3 7 (30.43 %) Cognos 3 7 (30.43 %) NHS 4 6 (26.09 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 4 6 (26.09 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 5 (21.74 %) DTS 5 5 (21.74 %) SQL Server 5 5 (21.74 %) SAP 6 4 (17.39 %) Business Objects 6 4 (17.39 %) BusinessObjects 6 4 (17.39 %) SAP BI 6 4 (17.39 %) Back Office 6 4 (17.39 %) Data Analysis 7 3 (13.04 %) Health

7 3 (13.04 %) SAP BW 7 3 (13.04 %) ETL 7 3 (13.04 %) MS Excel 8 2 (8.696 %) CRM 8 2 (8.696 %) SharePoint 8 2 (8.696 %) SAS 8 2 (8.696 %) MS Visio 8 2 (8.696 %) Crystal Reports 8 2 (8.696 %) Transact-SQL 8 2 (8.696 %) Microsoft 8 2 (8.696 %) SAN 8 2 (8.696 %) Project Management 8 2 (8.696 %) SAP CRM 8 2 (8.696 %) Banking 8 2 (8.696 %) SQL Server 2005

Business Intelligence
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 Platforms 1 2 (8.696 %) SharePoint 1 2 (8.696 %) SAS	Applications 1 3 (13.04 %) MS Excel 2 2 (8.696 %) MS Visio 3 1 (4.348 %) MS Office
Business Applications 1 6 (26.09 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 2 2 (8.696 %) SAP CRM	Communications & Networking 1 2 (8.696 %) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (34.78 %) Datawarehouse 2 6 (26.09 %) SQL Server Integration Services 3 5 (21.74 %) SQL Server 3 5 (21.74 %) DTS 4 4 (17.39 %) BusinessObjects 4 4 (17.39 %) SAP BI 5 3 (13.04 %) SAP BW 5 3 (13.04 %) ETL 6 2 (8.696 %) Crystal Reports 6 2 (8.696 %) SQL Server 2005 7 1 (4.348 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 7 1 (4.348 %) PerformancePoint 7 1 (4.348 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 7 1 (4.348 %) RDBMS 7 1 (4.348 %) DataStage 7 1 (4.348 %) SQL Server 2000	General 1 4 (17.39 %) Back Office 2 3 (13.04 %) Health 3 2 (8.696 %) Banking 4 1 (4.348 %) FMCG
Job Titles 1 11 (47.83 %) Analyst 2 8 (34.78 %) Developer 3 5 (21.74 %) Datawarehouse Developer 4 4 (17.39 %) Support Analyst 4 4 (17.39 %) Information Analyst 4 4 (17.39 %) Business Intelligence Analyst 5 3 (13.04 %) SAP Support Analyst 5 3 (13.04 %) SAP BI Analyst 5 3 (13.04 %) SAP Analyst 5 3 (13.04 %) SAP Support 6 2 (8.696 %) SQL Developer 6 2 (8.696 %) SQL Server Developer 6 2 (8.696 %) Database Developer 6 2 (8.696 %) Consultant 7 1 (4.348 %) Project Manager 7 1 (4.348 %) Business Analyst 7 1 (4.348 %) Report Analyst 7 1 (4.348 %) Data Analyst 7 1 (4.348 %) Change Analyst 7 1 (4.348 %) Cognos Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 7 (30.43 %) NHS
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (17.39 %) Data Analysis 2 2 (8.696 %) CRM 2 2 (8.696 %) Project Management 3 1 (4.348 %) Service Management 3 1 (4.348 %) Change Management 3 1 (4.348 %) Migration 3 1 (4.348 %) Configuration Management 3 1 (4.348 %) Incident Management 3 1 (4.348 %) ITIL	Programming Languages 1 11 (47.83 %) SQL 2 2 (8.696 %) Transact-SQL 3 1 (4.348 %) VBA
Qualifications 1 1 (4.348 %) ITIL Certification	Systems Management 1 1 (4.348 %) ServiceCenter
Vendors 1 7 (30.43 %) Cognos 2 5 (21.74 %) SAP 3 4 (17.39 %) Business Objects 4 2 (8.696 %) Microsoft 5 1 (4.348 %) Teradata