Lancashire Data Analysis Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Data 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 Data Analysis over the 3 months to 8 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Data Analysis
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bradford Brentwood Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London Crawley Croydon Docklands, London Dorset Dunstable East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Lancashire Leeds Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newport North East North West Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Redditch Renfrew Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Ryde Scotland Sheffield Shefford Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staines Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Trowbridge UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	28	34
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching contract IT job ads	5	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.010 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	3.472 %	3.984 %
Daily rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum daily rate	£200	£442
Average daily rate	£200	£442
% change on same period last year	-54.71 %
Average maximum daily rate	£200	£442
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£372
% change on same period last year	-8.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£16.25
Average hourly rate	£21.05	£18.19
% change on same period last year	+15.71 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.09	£20.13
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.12	£18.64
% change on same period last year	+24.04 %
Processes & Methodologies Lancashire
Matching contract IT job ads	144	251
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.289 %	0.314 %
Daily rates quoted	35	52
Average minimum daily rate	£326	£325
Average daily rate	£343	£341
% change on same period last year	+0.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£356
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	26	41
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.71	£22.88
Average hourly rate	£22.21	£25.62
% change on same period last year	-13.29 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.71	£28.36
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.65	£28.89
% change on same period last year	-4.31 %
Data 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.

Data Analysis
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Data 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 Data 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 Data Analysis across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 8 January 2009.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Data Analysis across the Lancashire region.

Data Analysis
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Data Analysis across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 8 January 2009.

Data Analysis
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Analysis within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 8 January 2009. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Blackpool	-1	3	-	-

Data Analysis North West

Data Analysis
Top 6 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire region citing Data 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 Data Analysis.

1 4 (80.00 %) NHS 2 2 (40.00 %) iSOFT 2 2 (40.00 %) MS Excel 2 2 (40.00 %) MS Visio 3 1 (20.00 %) Oracle 3 1 (20.00 %) Oracle EBS

Data Analysis
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire region citing Data 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 Data Analysis. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 2 (40.00 %) MS Excel 1 2 (40.00 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 1 (20.00 %) Oracle EBS
Job Titles 1 2 (40.00 %) Analyst 2 1 (20.00 %) Data Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 4 (80.00 %) NHS
Vendors 1 2 (40.00 %) iSOFT 2 1 (20.00 %) Oracle