The first table below looks at the demand for Business Intelligence skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Business Intelligence over the 3 months to 21 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Manchester 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Business Intelligence (BI)
Rank 36 30 48
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +18
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 40 61 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 4.237% 4.692% 2.577%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.970% 7.376% 3.963%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 34 14
Average daily rate £345 £400 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.75% +10.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £225 £243
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £700 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £23.25 £33.13
% change year-on-year
+72.04% -29.81%
All Processes & Methodologies
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
670 827 656
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 70.97% 63.62% 65.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 418 299
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £230 £191
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 38 37
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -2.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.01 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £79.00 £37.00 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Business Intelligence
North West

Business Intelligence
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Business Intelligence across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Manchester Business Intelligence Jobs Demand Trend

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester Business Intelligence Daily Rate Trend

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Business Intelligence across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Manchester Business Intelligence Daily Rate Histogram

Business Intelligence
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester Business Intelligence Hourly Rate Trend

Business Intelligence
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Business Intelligence 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 Intelligence.

1 46 (43.40%) Data Warehouse
2 36 (33.96%) SQL
3 33 (31.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 32 (30.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 30 (28.30%) SQL Server
6 28 (26.42%) ETL
6 28 (26.42%) Finance
7 27 (25.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 22 (20.75%) T-SQL
9 20 (18.87%) SQL Server 2008
10 19 (17.92%) SAP
11 18 (16.98%) Oracle
12 16 (15.09%) OLAP
13 15 (14.15%) CRM
14 14 (13.21%) Oracle BI EE
15 12 (11.32%) MDX
15 12 (11.32%) SQL Server 2005
15 12 (11.32%) Microsoft
16 11 (10.38%) NHS
16 11 (10.38%) Business Objects
16 11 (10.38%) QlikView
17 10 (9.434%) Oracle 11g
17 10 (9.434%) Cognos
17 10 (9.434%) Data Modelling
18 9 (8.491%) Kimball Methodology
19 8 (7.547%) PerformancePoint
19 8 (7.547%) Migration
19 8 (7.547%) SAP BW
19 8 (7.547%) Informatica
19 8 (7.547%) .NET

Business Intelligence
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Business Intelligence 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 Intelligence. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (11.32%) MDX
2 8 (7.547%) .NET
3 3 (2.830%) OLE
4 2 (1.887%) HTML
5 1 (0.943%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.943%) COM
5 1 (0.943%) CSS
5 1 (0.943%) Web Services
5 1 (0.943%) ODBC
5 1 (0.943%) SAP Basis
5 1 (0.943%) SAP XI
5 1 (0.943%) WCF
5 1 (0.943%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 7 (6.604%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.717%) WebLogic
3 4 (3.774%) SAS
4 3 (2.830%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (0.943%) IIS
5 1 (0.943%) CMS
5 1 (0.943%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 3 (2.830%) MS Excel
1 3 (2.830%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 6 (5.660%) SAP CRM
2 3 (2.830%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (1.887%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.943%) SAP R/3
4 1 (0.943%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.943%) Visualfiles
4 1 (0.943%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.943%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.943%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.943%) SAP FSCM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.943%) LDAP
1 1 (0.943%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (43.40%) Data Warehouse
2 33 (31.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 32 (30.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 30 (28.30%) SQL Server
5 27 (25.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 20 (18.87%) SQL Server 2008
7 16 (15.09%) OLAP
8 14 (13.21%) Oracle BI EE
9 12 (11.32%) SQL Server 2005
10 11 (10.38%) QlikView
11 10 (9.434%) Oracle 11g
12 8 (7.547%) PerformancePoint
12 8 (7.547%) SAP BW
13 6 (5.660%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
13 6 (5.660%) Star Schema
14 5 (4.717%) Oracle Reports
14 5 (4.717%) PowerCenter
14 5 (4.717%) Oracle 10g
14 5 (4.717%) Microsoft Analysis Services
15 4 (3.774%) Base SAS
Development Applications
1 2 (1.887%) Visual Studio
General
1 28 (26.42%) Finance
2 6 (5.660%) Retail
3 4 (3.774%) Banking
4 3 (2.830%) Marketing
5 2 (1.887%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.943%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (0.943%) Law
6 1 (0.943%) Legal
6 1 (0.943%) Publishing
6 1 (0.943%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.943%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 50 (47.17%) Developer
2 22 (20.75%) Consultant
3 21 (19.81%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 18 (16.98%) Analyst
5 10 (9.434%) SAP Consultant
6 9 (8.491%) SQL Developer
6 9 (8.491%) Business Analyst
6 9 (8.491%) OBIEE Developer
7 8 (7.547%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 7 (6.604%) Architect
8 7 (6.604%) OBIEE Consultant
9 6 (5.660%) Data Warehouse Developer
10 5 (4.717%) CRM Consultant
10 5 (4.717%) Business Intelligence Consultant
10 5 (4.717%) Report Developer
11 4 (3.774%) Cognos Developer
11 4 (3.774%) SQL Server Developer
11 4 (3.774%) Data Manager
11 4 (3.774%) Data Warehouse Consultant
11 4 (3.774%) SAP CRM Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.38%) NHS
2 6 (5.660%) Replication
3 4 (3.774%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.830%) Clustering
5 2 (1.887%) CMDB
5 2 (1.887%) Computer Science
5 2 (1.887%) Data Integration
5 2 (1.887%) PMI
6 1 (0.943%) Data Extraction
6 1 (0.943%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.830%) UNIX
2 1 (0.943%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (26.42%) ETL
2 15 (14.15%) CRM
3 10 (9.434%) Data Modelling
4 9 (8.491%) Kimball Methodology
5 8 (7.547%) Migration
6 7 (6.604%) Business Analysis
7 6 (5.660%) Data Analysis
7 6 (5.660%) Unit Testing
7 6 (5.660%) Integration Testing
7 6 (5.660%) Analytics
7 6 (5.660%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (5.660%) Six Sigma
8 5 (4.717%) Project Management
8 5 (4.717%) Dimensional Modelling
9 4 (3.774%) Data Migration
10 3 (2.830%) E-Commerce
10 3 (2.830%) Programme Management
10 3 (2.830%) Workflow
10 3 (2.830%) ERD
10 3 (2.830%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 36 (33.96%) SQL
2 22 (20.75%) T-SQL
3 6 (5.660%) JavaScript
4 5 (4.717%) VB.NET
4 5 (4.717%) VBA
5 4 (3.774%) Shell Script
6 3 (2.830%) C#
7 2 (1.887%) Bourne shell
7 2 (1.887%) Bash shell
7 2 (1.887%) Korn
7 2 (1.887%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.887%) C
8 1 (0.943%) ABAP
8 1 (0.943%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (3.774%) Degree
2 2 (1.887%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (1.887%) PMI Certification
3 1 (0.943%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.830%) QA
2 2 (1.887%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (0.943%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 19 (17.92%) SAP
2 18 (16.98%) Oracle
3 12 (11.32%) Microsoft
4 11 (10.38%) Business Objects
5 10 (9.434%) Cognos
6 8 (7.547%) Informatica
7 5 (4.717%) Siebel
8 3 (2.830%) Sage
9 2 (1.887%) Sybase
10 1 (0.943%) Dell
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