Middlesex Business Analyst Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Business Analyst role in IT contracts within the Middlesex 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Analyst
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Aylesbury Banbury 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 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 Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent King's Lynn Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Melton Mowbray 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 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 Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton 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 Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	13	12
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	44	45
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.059 %	0.046 %
As % of the category below	8.397 %	6.808 %
Daily rates quoted	15	9
Average minimum daily rate	£332	£340
Average daily rate	£350	£360
% change on same period last year	-2.70 %
Average maximum daily rate	£367	£380
UK excluding London average daily rate	£376	£375
% change on same period last year	+0.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£42.00	£28.00
Average hourly rate	£42.00	£31.50
% change on same period last year	+33.33 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£42.00	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.75	£33.31
% change on same period last year	-7.67 %
Job Titles Middlesex
Matching contract IT job ads	524	661
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.698 %	0.669 %
Daily rates quoted	132	147
Average minimum daily rate	£317	£282
Average daily rate	£338	£301
% change on same period last year	+12.24 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£320
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	41	59
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.36	£24.34
Average hourly rate	£25.55	£25.16
% change on same period last year	+1.55 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.75	£25.98
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
Business Analyst South East

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 Analyst
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Business Analyst across the Middlesex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Business Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Business Analyst across the Middlesex region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Business Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Business Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 23 (30.26 %) Business Analysis 2 16 (21.05 %) Finance 3 15 (19.74 %) Data Modelling 4 13 (17.11 %) Pharmaceutical 5 12 (15.79 %) SQL 5 12 (15.79 %) Oracle 5 12 (15.79 %) Project Management 5 12 (15.79 %) Logistics 6 11 (14.47 %) Migration 7 9 (11.84 %) Data Migration 8 8 (10.53 %) Business Intelligence 9 7 (9.211 %) LIMS 9 7 (9.211 %) Datawarehouse 9 7 (9.211 %) MS Excel 10 6 (7.895 %) SAP

10 6 (7.895 %) Microsoft 10 6 (7.895 %) Manufacturing 11 5 (6.579 %) Systems Analysis 11 5 (6.579 %) Insurance 11 5 (6.579 %) Information Management 11 5 (6.579 %) Banking 11 5 (6.579 %) Use Case 11 5 (6.579 %) BPR 11 5 (6.579 %) Internet 11 5 (6.579 %) ERP 11 5 (6.579 %) Java 11 5 (6.579 %) UNIX 12 4 (5.263 %) Apache 12 4 (5.263 %) JavaScript 12 4 (5.263 %) HTML

Business Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 4 (5.263 %) HTML 1 4 (5.263 %) J2EE 1 4 (5.263 %) AJAX 2 3 (3.947 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 4 (5.263 %) Apache 2 1 (1.316 %) Documentum 2 1 (1.316 %) SAS
Applications 1 7 (9.211 %) MS Excel 2 3 (3.947 %) MS Office 3 2 (2.632 %) MS Project 3 2 (2.632 %) MS Visio 4 1 (1.316 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 1 (1.316 %) Oracle Financials 1 1 (1.316 %) Oracle 11i 1 1 (1.316 %) Oracle HRMS 1 1 (1.316 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 5 (6.579 %) Internet 2 1 (1.316 %) HTTPS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (9.211 %) Datawarehouse 2 2 (2.632 %) SQL Server 2 2 (2.632 %) DB2 2 2 (2.632 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (1.316 %) Data Cleansing 3 1 (1.316 %) Crystal Reports 3 1 (1.316 %) Data Mining 3 1 (1.316 %) RDBMS
General 1 16 (21.05 %) Finance 2 13 (17.11 %) Pharmaceutical 3 6 (7.895 %) Manufacturing 4 5 (6.579 %) Banking 4 5 (6.579 %) Insurance 5 2 (2.632 %) Billing 5 2 (2.632 %) Investment Banking 5 2 (2.632 %) Telecoms 5 2 (2.632 %) Health 5 2 (2.632 %) Automotive 6 1 (1.316 %) Education 6 1 (1.316 %) Financial Institution 6 1 (1.316 %) Games 6 1 (1.316 %) Retail 6 1 (1.316 %) Auditing	Miscellaneous 1 7 (9.211 %) LIMS 2 3 (3.947 %) AS400 3 2 (2.632 %) Credit Risk 3 2 (2.632 %) Management Information System 4 1 (1.316 %) Client/Server 4 1 (1.316 %) iDTV 4 1 (1.316 %) Web 2.0 4 1 (1.316 %) Wiki
Operating Systems 1 5 (6.579 %) UNIX 2 2 (2.632 %) Windows 2 2 (2.632 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 23 (30.26 %) Business Analysis 2 15 (19.74 %) Data Modelling 3 12 (15.79 %) Project Management 3 12 (15.79 %) Logistics 4 11 (14.47 %) Migration 5 9 (11.84 %) Data Migration 6 8 (10.53 %) Business Intelligence 7 5 (6.579 %) ERP 7 5 (6.579 %) BPR 7 5 (6.579 %) Use Case 7 5 (6.579 %) Systems Analysis 7 5 (6.579 %) Information Management 8 4 (5.263 %) Web Development 8 4 (5.263 %) GAP Analysis 8 4 (5.263 %) Change Management 8 4 (5.263 %) Stakeholder Management 8 4 (5.263 %) Scrum 8 4 (5.263 %) Agile Software Development 8 4 (5.263 %) PRINCE2 9 3 (3.947 %) UML
Programming Languages 1 12 (15.79 %) SQL 2 5 (6.579 %) Java 3 4 (5.263 %) JavaScript 4 3 (3.947 %) RPG 4 3 (3.947 %) VB 5 2 (2.632 %) VB.NET 6 1 (1.316 %) VBA	Qualifications 1 2 (2.632 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Vendors 1 12 (15.79 %) Oracle 2 6 (7.895 %) SAP 2 6 (7.895 %) Microsoft 3 2 (2.632 %) Hyperion 3 2 (2.632 %) Cognos 3 2 (2.632 %) IBM 4 1 (1.316 %) Siebel 4 1 (1.316 %) Pegasus 4 1 (1.316 %) Sage