Manchester Business Analysis Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Business Analysis skills within the Manchester region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Business Analysis over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Analysis
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Andover Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London Clevedon Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Feltham Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Halifax Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Home Counties Hounslow Hove Hull Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Pudsey Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Staines Stevenage Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Whyteleafe Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wokingham Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	61	42
Rank change on same period last year	-19
Matching contract IT job ads	20	27
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.027 %	0.027 %
As % of the category below	3.063 %	5.625 %
Daily rates quoted	2	11
Average minimum daily rate	£295	£355
Average daily rate	£304	£371
% change on same period last year	-18.20 %
Average maximum daily rate	£313	£388
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£369
% change on same period last year	+4.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.45	£29.85
% change on same period last year	-1.33 %
Processes & Methodologies Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	653	480
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.870 %	0.486 %
Daily rates quoted	137	123
Average minimum daily rate	£328	£336
Average daily rate	£345	£357
% change on same period last year	-3.37 %
Average maximum daily rate	£361	£377
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	77	26
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.60	£20.57
Average hourly rate	£25.38	£22.79
% change on same period last year	+11.37 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.16	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
Business Analysis 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.

Business Analysis
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Business Analysis across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Business Analysis
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Business Analysis across the Manchester region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Business Analysis across the Manchester 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 Business Analysis across the Manchester region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Analysis within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Wigan	-	2	-	-

Business Analysis North West

Business Analysis
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Business Analysis also 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 that cited Business Analysis.

1 12 (28.57 %) Finance 1 12 (28.57 %) PRINCE2 1 12 (28.57 %) UML 1 12 (28.57 %) Insurance 2 8 (19.05 %) Health 3 7 (16.67 %) Stakeholder Management 4 6 (14.29 %) Pensions 5 4 (9.524 %) Requirements Analysis 5 4 (9.524 %) Project Planning 5 4 (9.524 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 4 (9.524 %) Banking 5 4 (9.524 %) Systems Analysis 5 4 (9.524 %) BPR 6 3 (7.143 %) Project Management 6 3 (7.143 %) CRM

6 3 (7.143 %) SQL 6 3 (7.143 %) SAP 6 3 (7.143 %) Back Office 6 3 (7.143 %) Data Mapping 6 3 (7.143 %) SAP Implementation 7 2 (4.762 %) Data Cleansing 7 2 (4.762 %) Data Extraction 7 2 (4.762 %) QA 7 2 (4.762 %) Release Management 7 2 (4.762 %) Data Analysis 7 2 (4.762 %) Oracle 7 2 (4.762 %) PRINCE2 Certification 7 2 (4.762 %) EPoS 7 2 (4.762 %) NHS 8 1 (2.381 %) Mainframe

Business Analysis
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Business Analysis also 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 that cited Business Analysis. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (2.381 %) WebServices	Business Applications 1 1 (2.381 %) Oracle Applications
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (4.762 %) Data Cleansing	Development Applications 1 1 (2.381 %) Rational Rose
General 1 12 (28.57 %) Finance 1 12 (28.57 %) Insurance 2 8 (19.05 %) Health 3 6 (14.29 %) Pensions 4 4 (9.524 %) Banking 5 3 (7.143 %) Back Office 6 1 (2.381 %) Online Banking 6 1 (2.381 %) Legal 6 1 (2.381 %) Education 6 1 (2.381 %) Government	Job Titles 1 34 (80.95 %) Analyst 2 29 (69.05 %) Business Analyst 3 4 (9.524 %) Data Analyst 4 3 (7.143 %) SAP Business Analyst 4 3 (7.143 %) Architect 5 2 (4.762 %) Systems Analyst 5 2 (4.762 %) Senior Analyst 5 2 (4.762 %) Financial Business Analyst 5 2 (4.762 %) Insurance Business Analyst 5 2 (4.762 %) Business Architect 5 2 (4.762 %) Senior Data Analyst 5 2 (4.762 %) Financial Services Business Analyst 6 1 (2.381 %) Business Data Analyst 6 1 (2.381 %) SAP Analyst 6 1 (2.381 %) SQL Developer 6 1 (2.381 %) Web Analyst 6 1 (2.381 %) Performance Analyst 6 1 (2.381 %) Business Systems Analyst 6 1 (2.381 %) Project Manager 6 1 (2.381 %) Developer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (4.762 %) EPoS 1 2 (4.762 %) NHS 1 2 (4.762 %) Data Extraction 2 1 (2.381 %) Mainframe 2 1 (2.381 %) NPfIT	Operating Systems 1 1 (2.381 %) UNIX 1 1 (2.381 %) AIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (28.57 %) PRINCE2 1 12 (28.57 %) UML 2 7 (16.67 %) Stakeholder Management 3 4 (9.524 %) Systems Analysis 3 4 (9.524 %) Requirements Analysis 3 4 (9.524 %) Project Planning 3 4 (9.524 %) BPR 3 4 (9.524 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 3 (7.143 %) SAP Implementation 4 3 (7.143 %) Data Mapping 4 3 (7.143 %) Project Management 4 3 (7.143 %) CRM 5 2 (4.762 %) Release Management 5 2 (4.762 %) Data Analysis 6 1 (2.381 %) Test Management 6 1 (2.381 %) Security Cleared 6 1 (2.381 %) Cost-Benefit Analysis 6 1 (2.381 %) Requirements Management 6 1 (2.381 %) Data Modelling 6 1 (2.381 %) Data Management	Programming Languages 1 3 (7.143 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 2 (4.762 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 1 (2.381 %) CIMA 2 1 (2.381 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (4.762 %) QA
Vendors 1 3 (7.143 %) SAP 2 2 (4.762 %) Oracle 3 1 (2.381 %) Siebel