Manchester Business Analyst Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Business Analyst role in IT contracts within the Manchester 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 Business Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Aylesbury Banbury Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Clevedon Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Grimsby Guernsey Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hastings Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Jersey Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Lothian Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northumbria Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Osterley Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Pudsey Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	25	17
Rank change on same period last year	-8
Matching contract IT job ads	64	65
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.084 %	0.065 %
As % of the category below	5.745 %	6.179 %
Daily rates quoted	14	29
Average minimum daily rate	£335	£366
Average daily rate	£357	£376
% change on same period last year	-5.27 %
Average maximum daily rate	£378	£387
UK excluding London average daily rate	£373	£381
% change on same period last year	-2.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.25	£24.17
Average hourly rate	£28.88	£26.50
% change on same period last year	+8.96 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.50	£28.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.95	£33.14
% change on same period last year	-3.56 %
Job Titles Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	1114	1052
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.470 %	1.048 %
Daily rates quoted	204	209
Average minimum daily rate	£312	£325
Average daily rate	£330	£346
% change on same period last year	-4.81 %
Average maximum daily rate	£347	£368
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.32 %
Hourly rates quoted	148	129
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.43	£17.79
Average hourly rate	£21.21	£19.54
% change on same period last year	+8.54 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.99	£21.29
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.60	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-8.13 %
Business 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 Business Analyst across the Manchester 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 Business Analyst 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 Analyst across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 21 August 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 Analyst across the Manchester region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Business Analyst across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

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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 Analyst within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 21 August 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	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 44 (32.12 %) Finance 2 32 (23.36 %) Business Analysis 3 20 (14.60 %) Retail 4 18 (13.14 %) Banking 5 17 (12.41 %) Insurance 5 17 (12.41 %) UML 6 16 (11.68 %) PRINCE2 7 15 (10.95 %) Health 7 15 (10.95 %) Pensions 8 12 (8.759 %) Retail Banking 9 11 (8.029 %) Migration 9 11 (8.029 %) Stakeholder Management 9 11 (8.029 %) Government 9 11 (8.029 %) MS Visio 10 10 (7.299 %) MS Excel

11 8 (5.839 %) Oracle 11 8 (5.839 %) Project Management 11 8 (5.839 %) Local Government 11 8 (5.839 %) Requirements Analysis 12 7 (5.109 %) BPR 12 7 (5.109 %) NHS 13 6 (4.380 %) SAP 13 6 (4.380 %) Telecoms 13 6 (4.380 %) Project Planning 13 6 (4.380 %) General Ledger 14 5 (3.650 %) Systems Analysis 14 5 (3.650 %) User Acceptance Testing 14 5 (3.650 %) GAP Analysis 14 5 (3.650 %) Back Office 14 5 (3.650 %) MS Office

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 1 (0.730 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 1 (0.730 %) SAS
Applications 1 11 (8.029 %) MS Visio 2 10 (7.299 %) MS Excel 3 5 (3.650 %) MS Office 4 2 (1.460 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 3 (2.190 %) Oracle EBS 2 1 (0.730 %) VisionPLUS 2 1 (0.730 %) Oracle HRMS 2 1 (0.730 %) Oracle Applications 2 1 (0.730 %) Cognos Business Intelligence
Communications & Networking 1 1 (0.730 %) RTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (2.920 %) BusinessObjects 2 3 (2.190 %) Datawarehouse 3 2 (1.460 %) Oracle 9i 3 2 (1.460 %) SAP BW 4 1 (0.730 %) DataStage 4 1 (0.730 %) Oracle Discoverer 4 1 (0.730 %) Oracle Reports
Development Applications 1 2 (1.460 %) Rational Rose 2 1 (0.730 %) ClearQuest 2 1 (0.730 %) RequisitePro	General 1 44 (32.12 %) Finance 2 20 (14.60 %) Retail 3 18 (13.14 %) Banking 4 17 (12.41 %) Insurance 5 15 (10.95 %) Health 5 15 (10.95 %) Pensions 6 12 (8.759 %) Retail Banking 7 11 (8.029 %) Government 8 8 (5.839 %) Local Government 9 6 (4.380 %) Telecoms 9 6 (4.380 %) General Ledger 10 5 (3.650 %) Back Office 11 4 (2.920 %) Education 12 1 (0.730 %) Billing 12 1 (0.730 %) Legal
Miscellaneous 1 7 (5.109 %) NHS 2 2 (1.460 %) EPoS 2 2 (1.460 %) Management Information System 3 1 (0.730 %) Informatics 3 1 (0.730 %) Chip and PIN	Processes & Methodologies 1 32 (23.36 %) Business Analysis 2 17 (12.41 %) UML 3 16 (11.68 %) PRINCE2 4 11 (8.029 %) Migration 4 11 (8.029 %) Stakeholder Management 5 8 (5.839 %) Project Management 5 8 (5.839 %) Requirements Analysis 6 7 (5.109 %) BPR 7 6 (4.380 %) Project Planning 8 5 (3.650 %) Systems Analysis 8 5 (3.650 %) User Acceptance Testing 8 5 (3.650 %) GAP Analysis 9 4 (2.920 %) CRM 10 3 (2.190 %) SAP Implementation 10 3 (2.190 %) Change Management 10 3 (2.190 %) Six Sigma 10 3 (2.190 %) Business Intelligence 10 3 (2.190 %) ITIL 11 2 (1.460 %) Service Delivery 11 2 (1.460 %) Use Case
Programming Languages 1 3 (2.190 %) SQL 2 2 (1.460 %) PL/SQL	Qualifications 1 3 (2.190 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 2 (1.460 %) Citrix Certification 2 2 (1.460 %) Degree 3 1 (0.730 %) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.730 %) MiFID 1 1 (0.730 %) QA 1 1 (0.730 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 1 1 (0.730 %) SLA	Vendors 1 8 (5.839 %) Oracle 2 6 (4.380 %) SAP 3 4 (2.920 %) Business Objects 4 3 (2.190 %) Cognos 5 2 (1.460 %) IBM 6 1 (0.730 %) Casewise 6 1 (0.730 %) Exstream 6 1 (0.730 %) Teradata 6 1 (0.730 %) Citrix 6 1 (0.730 %) Microsoft 6 1 (0.730 %) Siebel