Leeds Data Analyst Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Data Analyst role in IT contracts within the Leeds 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Data Analyst
Location Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire City of London Colchester Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Dartford Docklands, London Dorset Dunstable East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Home Counties Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Salford Scotland Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	57	50
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	21	21
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.028 %	0.021 %
As % of the category below	1.845 %	2.081 %
Daily rates quoted	11	1
Average minimum daily rate	£305	£300
Average daily rate	£324	£350
% change on same period last year	-7.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£344	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£306
% change on same period last year	+10.00 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.70	£17.50
Average hourly rate	£22.70	£18.75
% change on same period last year	+21.06 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.70	£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.09	£20.19
% change on same period last year	-10.39 %
Job Titles Leeds
Matching contract IT job ads	1138	1009
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.517 %	1.021 %
Daily rates quoted	292	194
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£312
Average daily rate	£344	£332
% change on same period last year	+3.52 %
Average maximum daily rate	£363	£352
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	54	74
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.29	£22.09
Average hourly rate	£24.13	£23.54
% change on same period last year	+2.51 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.97	£24.99
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
Data Analyst West Yorkshire

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 Analyst
Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Data Analyst across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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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 Leeds region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 21 (52.50 %) SQL 2 13 (32.50 %) MS Excel 3 12 (30.00 %) MS Access 3 12 (30.00 %) NHS 3 12 (30.00 %) Finance 4 10 (25.00 %) Oracle 4 10 (25.00 %) Crystal Reports 5 9 (22.50 %) ITIL 6 8 (20.00 %) Data Analysis 7 7 (17.50 %) Law 7 7 (17.50 %) Legal 8 6 (15.00 %) Quality Management 8 6 (15.00 %) SQL Server 9 5 (12.50 %) MS Office 9 5 (12.50 %) UNIX

9 5 (12.50 %) Project Management 9 5 (12.50 %) Datawarehouse 9 5 (12.50 %) Health 10 4 (10.00 %) IBM 10 4 (10.00 %) Microsoft 10 4 (10.00 %) Basel II 10 4 (10.00 %) SAS 10 4 (10.00 %) XML 11 3 (7.500 %) Oracle Reports 11 3 (7.500 %) VB 11 3 (7.500 %) Banking 11 3 (7.500 %) Retail 11 3 (7.500 %) Business Analysis 11 3 (7.500 %) Government 11 3 (7.500 %) Retail Banking

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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.

Application Development 1 4 (10.00 %) XML 2 1 (2.500 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 4 (10.00 %) SAS
Applications 1 13 (32.50 %) MS Excel 2 5 (12.50 %) MS Office 3 2 (5.000 %) Spreadsheet	Communications & Networking 1 1 (2.500 %) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (30.00 %) MS Access 2 10 (25.00 %) Crystal Reports 3 6 (15.00 %) SQL Server 4 5 (12.50 %) Datawarehouse 5 3 (7.500 %) Oracle Reports 6 2 (5.000 %) Reference Data 6 2 (5.000 %) GIS 7 1 (2.500 %) SQL Server 2005 7 1 (2.500 %) SQL Server Integration Services 7 1 (2.500 %) Data Cleansing 7 1 (2.500 %) DTS 7 1 (2.500 %) TOAD 7 1 (2.500 %) BusinessObjects 7 1 (2.500 %) SQL Server 2000	General 1 12 (30.00 %) Finance 2 7 (17.50 %) Law 2 7 (17.50 %) Legal 3 5 (12.50 %) Health 4 3 (7.500 %) Retail Banking 4 3 (7.500 %) Government 4 3 (7.500 %) Banking 4 3 (7.500 %) Retail 5 1 (2.500 %) Insurance
Miscellaneous 1 12 (30.00 %) NHS 2 1 (2.500 %) AS400 2 1 (2.500 %) Informatics 2 1 (2.500 %) Data Integration	Operating Systems 1 5 (12.50 %) UNIX 2 1 (2.500 %) Windows 2 1 (2.500 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (22.50 %) ITIL 2 8 (20.00 %) Data Analysis 3 6 (15.00 %) Quality Management 4 5 (12.50 %) Project Management 5 3 (7.500 %) Business Analysis 6 2 (5.000 %) Statistical Analysis 6 2 (5.000 %) Data Management 6 2 (5.000 %) Data Migration 6 2 (5.000 %) Data Validation 6 2 (5.000 %) Validation 6 2 (5.000 %) Migration 7 1 (2.500 %) Programme Management 7 1 (2.500 %) GAP Analysis 7 1 (2.500 %) PRINCE2 7 1 (2.500 %) Data Modelling 7 1 (2.500 %) Business Intelligence 7 1 (2.500 %) Data Mapping 7 1 (2.500 %) System Testing	Programming Languages 1 21 (52.50 %) SQL 2 3 (7.500 %) VB 3 2 (5.000 %) VBA 4 1 (2.500 %) Shell Script 4 1 (2.500 %) Transact-SQL
Qualifications 1 2 (5.000 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (10.00 %) Basel II
Vendors 1 10 (25.00 %) Oracle 2 4 (10.00 %) IBM 2 4 (10.00 %) Microsoft 3 2 (5.000 %) Teradata 4 1 (2.500 %) Business Objects 4 1 (2.500 %) Sun 4 1 (2.500 %) Compuware 4 1 (2.500 %) HP 4 1 (2.500 %) Lawson 4 1 (2.500 %) Reuters