Lancashire Business Analysis Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Business Analysis skills within the Lancashire 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 Analysis over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Analysis
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Andover Aylesbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Clevedon Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Feltham Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Home Counties Hove Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Pudsey Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rotherham Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wokingham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	30	28
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	8	23
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.023 %
As % of the category below	4.819 %	6.389 %
Daily rates quoted	5	6
Average minimum daily rate	£310	£324
Average daily rate	£320	£337
% change on same period last year	-5.09 %
Average maximum daily rate	£329	£349
UK excluding London average daily rate	£383	£375
% change on same period last year	+2.29 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	8
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£33.48
Average hourly rate	-	£34.85
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£36.23
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.38	£29.40
% change on same period last year	+3.33 %
Processes & Methodologies Lancashire
Matching contract IT job ads	166	360
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.219 %	0.359 %
Daily rates quoted	38	86
Average minimum daily rate	£369	£347
Average daily rate	£388	£358
% change on same period last year	+8.40 %
Average maximum daily rate	£407	£368
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£377
% change on same period last year	+0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	33	40
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.45	£24.81
Average hourly rate	£24.93	£27.59
% change on same period last year	-9.64 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.41	£30.37
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.30	£30.18
% change on same period last year	+0.42 %
Business Analysis North West

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 Analysis
Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Business Analysis across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

Business Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Business Analysis across the Lancashire 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 Analysis within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 21 August 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
Preston	+1	2	£313	-
Newton-le-Willows	-	2	-	-
Blackpool	-	1	-	-

Business Analysis North West

Business Analysis
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 6 (42.86 %) Government 2 5 (35.71 %) QMS 2 5 (35.71 %) BPR 3 3 (21.43 %) Pensions 3 3 (21.43 %) Finance 4 2 (14.29 %) Local Government 4 2 (14.29 %) Project Planning 4 2 (14.29 %) Oracle 5 1 (7.143 %) MS Office 5 1 (7.143 %) JDBC 5 1 (7.143 %) JSP 5 1 (7.143 %) Servlets 5 1 (7.143 %) UNIX 5 1 (7.143 %) UML 5 1 (7.143 %) Oracle Reports

5 1 (7.143 %) Oracle 9i 5 1 (7.143 %) Oracle 10g 5 1 (7.143 %) Intranet 5 1 (7.143 %) Project Management 5 1 (7.143 %) HTML 5 1 (7.143 %) Java 5 1 (7.143 %) SQL 5 1 (7.143 %) Quality Management 5 1 (7.143 %) SC Cleared 5 1 (7.143 %) Security Cleared 5 1 (7.143 %) Stakeholder Management 5 1 (7.143 %) Oracle Applications

Business Analysis
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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.

Application Development 1 1 (7.143 %) JDBC 1 1 (7.143 %) JSP 1 1 (7.143 %) Servlets 1 1 (7.143 %) HTML	Applications 1 1 (7.143 %) MS Office
Business Applications 1 1 (7.143 %) Oracle Applications	Communications & Networking 1 1 (7.143 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (7.143 %) Oracle Reports 1 1 (7.143 %) Oracle 9i 1 1 (7.143 %) Oracle 10g	General 1 6 (42.86 %) Government 2 3 (21.43 %) Pensions 2 3 (21.43 %) Finance 3 2 (14.29 %) Local Government
Job Titles 1 6 (42.86 %) Business Analyst 1 6 (42.86 %) Analyst 2 2 (14.29 %) Project Manager 3 1 (7.143 %) Consultant 3 1 (7.143 %) Applications Support 3 1 (7.143 %) Oracle Applications Support 3 1 (7.143 %) Functional Consultant	Operating Systems 1 1 (7.143 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (35.71 %) QMS 1 5 (35.71 %) BPR 2 2 (14.29 %) Project Planning 3 1 (7.143 %) UML 3 1 (7.143 %) Project Management 3 1 (7.143 %) Quality Management 3 1 (7.143 %) SC Cleared 3 1 (7.143 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (7.143 %) Stakeholder Management	Programming Languages 1 1 (7.143 %) Java 1 1 (7.143 %) SQL
Vendors 1 2 (14.29 %) Oracle