Merseyside Information Analyst Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Information Analyst role in IT contracts within the Merseyside 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 Information 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 Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Colchester Coventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ellesmere Port England Essex Gloucestershire Hampshire Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Preston Reading Salford Scarborough Scotland Shropshire Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swindon Tadworth Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Wigan Wiltshire Windsor York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	26	41
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching contract IT job ads	10	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	2.809 %	1.422 %
Daily rates quoted	4	0
Average minimum daily rate	£220	-
Average daily rate	£220	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£220	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£252	£276
% change on same period last year	-8.86 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£14.25
Average hourly rate	£25.00	£16.13
% change on same period last year	+55.03 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.00	£18.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.52	£21.42
% change on same period last year	+5.14 %
Job Titles Merseyside
Matching contract IT job ads	356	422
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.470 %	0.420 %
Daily rates quoted	102	134
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£295
Average daily rate	£340	£311
% change on same period last year	+9.47 %
Average maximum daily rate	£357	£327
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.32 %
Hourly rates quoted	47	55
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.66	£19.90
Average hourly rate	£20.60	£21.66
% change on same period last year	-4.88 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.55	£23.42
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.60	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-8.13 %
Information 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 Information Analyst across the Merseyside 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 Information Analyst across the Merseyside region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Information Analyst across the Merseyside 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 Information Analyst across the Merseyside 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 Information Analyst within the Merseyside 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
Liverpool	+16	10	£220	-
Birkenhead	-	1	-	-

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Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside region that cited Information 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 Information Analyst in their job title.

1 13 (72.22 %) SQL 2 9 (50.00 %) Crystal Reports 2 9 (50.00 %) Business Objects 2 9 (50.00 %) BusinessObjects 2 9 (50.00 %) Data Analysis 2 9 (50.00 %) Pensions 2 9 (50.00 %) Degree 3 7 (38.89 %) NHS 4 6 (33.33 %) Business Intelligence 4 6 (33.33 %) Oracle 5 5 (27.78 %) Oracle Reports 6 3 (16.67 %) Performance Management 6 3 (16.67 %) Finance 6 3 (16.67 %) Stakeholder Management 7 1 (5.556 %) Statistics

7 1 (5.556 %) Oracle Discoverer 7 1 (5.556 %) Benchmarking

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside region that cited Information 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 Information Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (50.00 %) Crystal Reports 1 9 (50.00 %) BusinessObjects 2 5 (27.78 %) Oracle Reports 3 1 (5.556 %) Oracle Discoverer	General 1 9 (50.00 %) Pensions 2 3 (16.67 %) Finance
Miscellaneous 1 7 (38.89 %) NHS 2 1 (5.556 %) Statistics	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (50.00 %) Data Analysis 2 6 (33.33 %) Business Intelligence 3 3 (16.67 %) Performance Management 3 3 (16.67 %) Stakeholder Management 4 1 (5.556 %) Benchmarking
Programming Languages 1 13 (72.22 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 9 (50.00 %) Degree
Vendors 1 9 (50.00 %) Business Objects 2 6 (33.33 %) Oracle