The first table below looks at the demand for the Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the Livingston region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Livingston 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Analyst
Rank 3 3 1
Rank change year-on-year
0 -2
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 7 8 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Livingston 15.22% 19.51% 36.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.56% 22.86% 43.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 7
Average daily rate £350 £275 £415
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+27.27% -33.73%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £17.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £15.38 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-8.94% +2.50%
All Job Titles
Livingston
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
45 35 51
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Livingston 97.83% 85.37% 85.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 19 28
Average daily rate £400 £313 £415
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+28.00% -24.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £273 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £434 £380 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 2
Average hourly rate £7.50 £12.00 £16.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-37.50% -26.15%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Analyst
West Lothian

Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Livingston Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

Livingston Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Livingston Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Livingston region that cited 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 Analyst in their job title.

1 5 (31.25%) SQL
1 5 (31.25%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (25.00%) Billing
2 4 (25.00%) Business Analysis
2 4 (25.00%) Business Objects
2 4 (25.00%) Windows
2 4 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (25.00%) Waterfall
3 3 (18.75%) CRM
3 3 (18.75%) Degree
3 3 (18.75%) Data Analysis
3 3 (18.75%) VMware
4 2 (12.50%) Clustering
4 2 (12.50%) Supply Chain Management
4 2 (12.50%) Velocity
4 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (12.50%) Data Modelling
4 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
4 2 (12.50%) EMC
4 2 (12.50%) DNS
4 2 (12.50%) Change Management
4 2 (12.50%) Migration
4 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (12.50%) Scrum
4 2 (12.50%) Incident Management
4 2 (12.50%) Requirements Management
4 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement

Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Livingston region that cited 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 Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (12.50%) Velocity
2 1 (6.250%) RESTful
2 1 (6.250%) XML
2 1 (6.250%) XML Schema
2 1 (6.250%) JSON
Applications
1 1 (6.250%) MS Office
1 1 (6.250%) MS Excel
1 1 (6.250%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (6.250%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (6.250%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (6.250%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.250%) Ant
1 1 (6.250%) QuickTest Pro
1 1 (6.250%) Maven
1 1 (6.250%) Selenium
1 1 (6.250%) FitNesse
1 1 (6.250%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (6.250%) Cucumber
1 1 (6.250%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (25.00%) Billing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Clustering
2 1 (6.250%) Open Source
2 1 (6.250%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (6.250%) Windows 7
3 1 (6.250%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (25.00%) Business Analysis
2 4 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (25.00%) Waterfall
3 3 (18.75%) CRM
3 3 (18.75%) Data Analysis
4 2 (12.50%) Supply Chain Management
4 2 (12.50%) Incident Management
4 2 (12.50%) Requirements Management
4 2 (12.50%) Data Modelling
4 2 (12.50%) Change Management
4 2 (12.50%) Migration
4 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (12.50%) Scrum
4 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (6.250%) User Stories
5 1 (6.250%) BDD
5 1 (6.250%) Workflow
5 1 (6.250%) ITIL
5 1 (6.250%) UML
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) SQL
2 1 (6.250%) VBA
2 1 (6.250%) XPath
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
2 1 (6.250%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.250%) QA
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (6.250%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Business Objects
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) VMware
3 2 (12.50%) EMC
4 1 (6.250%) Netezza
4 1 (6.250%) HP
4 1 (6.250%) Cognos
4 1 (6.250%) IBM
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