Lancashire Data Analyst Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Data Analyst role in IT contracts within the Lancashire 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 Data Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 8 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Data Analyst
Location Aberdeen Andover Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chelmsford Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorset Dover East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hampshire Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Runcorn Ryde Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall 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	37
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching contract IT job ads	5	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.010 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	1.953 %	1.711 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£200	£100
Average daily rate	£200	£150
% change on same period last year	+33.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£200	£200
UK excluding London average daily rate	£308	£320
% change on same period last year	-3.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.19	£15.75
Average hourly rate	£22.07	£16.44
% change on same period last year	+34.25 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.94	£17.13
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.82	£16.79
% change on same period last year	+18.04 %
Job Titles Lancashire
Matching contract IT job ads	256	409
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.513 %	0.512 %
Daily rates quoted	57	85
Average minimum daily rate	£296	£298
Average daily rate	£316	£316
% change on same period last year	-0.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£336	£335
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£357
% change on same period last year	-2.03 %
Hourly rates quoted	57	82
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.19	£19.68
Average hourly rate	£22.05	£21.85
% change on same period last year	+0.87 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.90	£24.03
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.16	£23.50
% change on same period last year	-1.47 %
Data Analyst 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.

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Demand Trend

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

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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 Analyst across the Lancashire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

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

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Analyst 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
Preston	+3	3	-	-
Blackpool	0	1	-	-

Data Analyst North West

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Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire region that cited Data 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 Data Analyst in their job title.

1 4 (57.14 %) MS Excel 2 3 (42.86 %) MS Access 2 3 (42.86 %) SQL Server 3 2 (28.57 %) Education 3 2 (28.57 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 3 2 (28.57 %) NHS 3 2 (28.57 %) Spreadsheet 4 1 (14.29 %) iSOFT 4 1 (14.29 %) Internet 4 1 (14.29 %) Data Analysis 4 1 (14.29 %) Insurance 4 1 (14.29 %) Local Government 4 1 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2005 4 1 (14.29 %) Marketing 4 1 (14.29 %) Mathematics

4 1 (14.29 %) Government 4 1 (14.29 %) Windows 4 1 (14.29 %) SQL 4 1 (14.29 %) VBA 4 1 (14.29 %) Datawarehouse 4 1 (14.29 %) MS Visio 4 1 (14.29 %) Business Intelligence 4 1 (14.29 %) Microsoft

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire region that cited Data 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 Data Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 4 (57.14 %) MS Excel 2 2 (28.57 %) Spreadsheet 3 1 (14.29 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 1 (14.29 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (42.86 %) SQL Server 1 3 (42.86 %) MS Access 2 2 (28.57 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 3 1 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (14.29 %) Datawarehouse	General 1 2 (28.57 %) Education 2 1 (14.29 %) Government 2 1 (14.29 %) Insurance 2 1 (14.29 %) Local Government 2 1 (14.29 %) Marketing
Miscellaneous 1 2 (28.57 %) NHS 2 1 (14.29 %) Mathematics	Operating Systems 1 1 (14.29 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (14.29 %) Business Intelligence 1 1 (14.29 %) Data Analysis	Programming Languages 1 1 (14.29 %) SQL 1 1 (14.29 %) VBA
Vendors 1 1 (14.29 %) Microsoft 1 1 (14.29 %) iSOFT