Lancashire Information Analyst Contracts

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

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Location Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Dorchester Dorset Dover Dudley East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Hampshire Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Luton Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Norwich Oxfordshire Reading Salford Scarborough Scotland Somerset South Coast South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Taunton Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington West Midlands West Yorkshire Wigan Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	27	41
Rank change on same period last year	+14
Matching contract IT job ads	6	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	2.344 %	0.733 %
Daily rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum daily rate	£180	£157
Average daily rate	£190	£178
% change on same period last year	+6.54 %
Average maximum daily rate	£200	£200
UK excluding London average daily rate	£246	£219
% change on same period last year	+12.04 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.67	£20.00
Average hourly rate	£28.30	£22.50
% change on same period last year	+25.77 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.94	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.09	£18.33
% change on same period last year	+9.61 %
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 %
Information 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 Information 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 Information 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 Information 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 Information 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 Information 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
Blackpool	+1	2	£190	-

Information Analyst North West

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Top 15 Related IT Skills

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

1 17 (77.27 %) NHS 2 13 (59.09 %) SQL 2 13 (59.09 %) VBA 3 9 (40.91 %) SQL Server 4 6 (27.27 %) MS Excel 5 5 (22.73 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 2 (9.091 %) Health 6 2 (9.091 %) Migration 6 2 (9.091 %) ISEB 7 1 (4.545 %) DTS 7 1 (4.545 %) .NET 7 1 (4.545 %) Transact-SQL 7 1 (4.545 %) HOOD 7 1 (4.545 %) SQL Server 2005 7 1 (4.545 %) SQL Server Integration Services

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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 Information 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 Information Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (4.545 %) .NET	Applications 1 6 (27.27 %) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (40.91 %) SQL Server 2 5 (22.73 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 3 1 (4.545 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (4.545 %) SQL Server Integration Services 3 1 (4.545 %) DTS	General 1 2 (9.091 %) Health
Miscellaneous 1 17 (77.27 %) NHS	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (9.091 %) Migration 2 1 (4.545 %) HOOD
Programming Languages 1 13 (59.09 %) SQL 1 13 (59.09 %) VBA 2 1 (4.545 %) Transact-SQL	Qualifications 1 2 (9.091 %) ISEB