The first table below looks at the demand for the Business Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the Liverpool region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Business Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Liverpool region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Business Analyst
Rank 18 19 9
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 4 11 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool 2.920% 6.044% 9.877%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.985% 6.358% 10.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 12
Average daily rate £463 £325 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+42.30% -23.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £433 £296 £328
10% offered a daily rate of more than £493 £418 £611
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
-3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £30.00 £26.25
% change year-on-year
+5.00% +14.28%
All Job Titles
Liverpool
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
134 173 153
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool 97.81% 95.05% 94.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 96 87
Average daily rate £325 £300 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £216 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £452
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 17 14
Average hourly rate £11.50 £17.00 £16.61
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-32.35% +2.34%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.87 £9.16 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £100.00 £29.50 £22.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Business Analyst
Merseyside

Business Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Business Analyst across the Liverpool region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Liverpool Business Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Business Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Business Analyst across the Liverpool region.

Liverpool Business Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Business Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Business Analyst across the Liverpool region.

Liverpool Business Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Business Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Liverpool region that cited Business 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 Business Analyst in their job title.

1 3 (30.00%) Finance
1 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (30.00%) Business Analysis
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle
1 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (20.00%) DB2
2 2 (20.00%) SAP
2 2 (20.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) AIX
2 2 (20.00%) HPUX
2 2 (20.00%) Solaris
2 2 (20.00%) Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Informix
2 2 (20.00%) ERP
2 2 (20.00%) IBM
2 2 (20.00%) Sun
2 2 (20.00%) Baan
2 2 (20.00%) JD Edwards
2 2 (20.00%) BPR
2 2 (20.00%) Project Management
2 2 (20.00%) Strategic Planning
2 2 (20.00%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (20.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) Resource Management
2 2 (20.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (20.00%) Systems Analysis
2 2 (20.00%) Computer Science

Business Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Liverpool region that cited Business 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 Business Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (20.00%) .NET
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (20.00%) DB2
1 2 (20.00%) Informix
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (10.00%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
1 2 (20.00%) AIX
1 2 (20.00%) HPUX
1 2 (20.00%) Solaris
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (30.00%) Business Analysis
2 2 (20.00%) ERP
2 2 (20.00%) BPR
2 2 (20.00%) Project Management
2 2 (20.00%) Strategic Planning
2 2 (20.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 2 (20.00%) Resource Management
2 2 (20.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (20.00%) Systems Analysis
2 2 (20.00%) Migration
2 2 (20.00%) Process Management
3 1 (10.00%) Logistics
3 1 (10.00%) B2C
3 1 (10.00%) CRM
3 1 (10.00%) Demand Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Java
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) SAP
2 2 (20.00%) IBM
2 2 (20.00%) Sun
2 2 (20.00%) Baan
2 2 (20.00%) JD Edwards
3 1 (10.00%) Siebel