Midlands Business Analyst Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Business Analyst role in IT contracts within the Midlands 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	17	10
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	90	128
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.120 %	0.129 %
As % of the category below	7.212 %	7.451 %
Daily rates quoted	21	22
Average minimum daily rate	£362	£357
Average daily rate	£383	£373
% change on same period last year	+2.87 %
Average maximum daily rate	£405	£388
UK excluding London average daily rate	£376	£375
% change on same period last year	+0.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.50	£25.92
Average hourly rate	£24.59	£26.61
% change on same period last year	-7.56 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.69	£27.29
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.75	£33.31
% change on same period last year	-7.67 %
Job Titles Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	1248	1718
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.663 %	1.738 %
Daily rates quoted	256	287
Average minimum daily rate	£361	£375
Average daily rate	£388	£398
% change on same period last year	-2.56 %
Average maximum daily rate	£414	£420
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	50	109
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.01	£30.46
Average hourly rate	£24.03	£31.49
% change on same period last year	-23.68 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.06	£32.53
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
Business Analyst England

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 Midlands 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 Midlands 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 Midlands 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 Analyst across the Midlands 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 Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 35 (20.83 %) Finance 2 26 (15.48 %) Pensions 3 23 (13.69 %) Business Analysis 4 19 (11.31 %) Oracle 5 13 (7.738 %) Data Analysis 5 13 (7.738 %) Project Management 6 12 (7.143 %) Datawarehouse 7 11 (6.548 %) SQL 8 10 (5.952 %) Use Case 9 9 (5.357 %) Insurance 9 9 (5.357 %) UML 10 8 (4.762 %) Change Management 11 7 (4.167 %) Construction 11 7 (4.167 %) Electric 11 7 (4.167 %) Migration

11 7 (4.167 %) Workflow 11 7 (4.167 %) SAP 11 7 (4.167 %) CA Clarity 12 6 (3.571 %) Systems Analysis 12 6 (3.571 %) Requirements Management 12 6 (3.571 %) Requirements Analysis 12 6 (3.571 %) Configuration Management 12 6 (3.571 %) Intranet 12 6 (3.571 %) Internet 12 6 (3.571 %) EDRMS 12 6 (3.571 %) Stakeholder Management 12 6 (3.571 %) Government 13 5 (2.976 %) Education 13 5 (2.976 %) Telecoms 13 5 (2.976 %) Management Information System

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 (0.595 %) EDI 1 1 (0.595 %) Application Packaging	Application Platforms 1 5 (2.976 %) SAS 2 2 (1.190 %) SharePoint 3 1 (0.595 %) NetWeaver
Applications 1 7 (4.167 %) CA Clarity 2 5 (2.976 %) MS Visio 3 3 (1.786 %) MS Project 4 1 (0.595 %) MS Excel 4 1 (0.595 %) Casewise Corporate Modeler Suite 4 1 (0.595 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 2 (1.190 %) Oracle EBS 1 2 (1.190 %) JDE OneWorld 2 1 (0.595 %) SAP HR 2 1 (0.595 %) Oracle HRMS 2 1 (0.595 %) Oracle ERP 2 1 (0.595 %) SAP CRM 2 1 (0.595 %) VisionPLUS 2 1 (0.595 %) ResourceLink
Communications & Networking 1 6 (3.571 %) Intranet 1 6 (3.571 %) Internet 2 3 (1.786 %) Wireless	Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (7.143 %) Datawarehouse 2 6 (3.571 %) EDRMS 3 3 (1.786 %) SQL Server 3 3 (1.786 %) Oracle Reports 3 3 (1.786 %) Oracle 8/8i 3 3 (1.786 %) BusinessObjects 4 2 (1.190 %) OLAP 4 2 (1.190 %) SQL Server 2005 5 1 (0.595 %) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 5 1 (0.595 %) Data Cleansing 5 1 (0.595 %) MS Access
Development Applications 1 2 (1.190 %) ClearCase 1 2 (1.190 %) RequisitePro 2 1 (0.595 %) ClearQuest 2 1 (0.595 %) PVCS	General 1 35 (20.83 %) Finance 2 26 (15.48 %) Pensions 3 9 (5.357 %) Insurance 4 7 (4.167 %) Construction 4 7 (4.167 %) Electric 5 6 (3.571 %) Government 6 5 (2.976 %) Education 6 5 (2.976 %) Retail 6 5 (2.976 %) Telecoms 7 4 (2.381 %) Manufacturing 7 4 (2.381 %) Automotive 8 3 (1.786 %) Health 8 3 (1.786 %) Banking 8 3 (1.786 %) Local Government 9 2 (1.190 %) Billing 9 2 (1.190 %) Publishing 9 2 (1.190 %) Back Office 10 1 (0.595 %) Financial Institution 10 1 (0.595 %) Retail Banking 10 1 (0.595 %) International Banking
Miscellaneous 1 5 (2.976 %) NHS 1 5 (2.976 %) Mainframe 1 5 (2.976 %) Management Information System 2 4 (2.381 %) Statistics 2 4 (2.381 %) IBM Mainframe 3 2 (1.190 %) EPoS 4 1 (0.595 %) PACS 4 1 (0.595 %) NPfIT	Operating Systems 1 5 (2.976 %) UNIX 2 1 (0.595 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 23 (13.69 %) Business Analysis 2 13 (7.738 %) Data Analysis 2 13 (7.738 %) Project Management 3 10 (5.952 %) Use Case 4 9 (5.357 %) UML 5 8 (4.762 %) Change Management 6 7 (4.167 %) Workflow 6 7 (4.167 %) Migration 7 6 (3.571 %) Stakeholder Management 7 6 (3.571 %) Requirements Management 7 6 (3.571 %) Requirements Analysis 7 6 (3.571 %) Configuration Management 7 6 (3.571 %) Systems Analysis 8 5 (2.976 %) Data Migration 8 5 (2.976 %) Logistics 8 5 (2.976 %) PRINCE2 8 5 (2.976 %) Business Intelligence 9 4 (2.381 %) RUP 9 4 (2.381 %) Data Modelling 10 3 (1.786 %) BPR	Programming Languages 1 11 (6.548 %) SQL 2 5 (2.976 %) PL/SQL 3 4 (2.381 %) COBOL 4 1 (0.595 %) C
Qualifications 1 2 (1.190 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.595 %) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors 1 19 (11.31 %) Oracle 2 7 (4.167 %) SAP 3 4 (2.381 %) JD Edwards 3 4 (2.381 %) IBM 3 4 (2.381 %) Microsoft 4 3 (1.786 %) Business Objects 5 2 (1.190 %) PeopleSoft 5 2 (1.190 %) Pegasus 5 2 (1.190 %) Chordiant 6 1 (0.595 %) Siebel 6 1 (0.595 %) iSOFT 6 1 (0.595 %) Micro Focus 6 1 (0.595 %) Casewise