The first table below looks at the demand for the Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the North East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 Job Titles advertised for the North East 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Analyst
Rank 1 2 2
Rank change year-on-year
+1 0
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 65 92 82
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 23.21% 18.62% 18.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 24.81% 20.35% 20.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 45 37
Average daily rate £338 £305 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.65% -6.15%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £289 £215 £192
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £425 £520
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 10
Average hourly rate £10.00 £12.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% -31.42%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £15.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -
All Job Titles
North East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
262 452 402
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 93.57% 91.50% 91.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 231 180
Average daily rate £300 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £550 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 39 27
Average hourly rate £11.00 £20.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-45.00% +14.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.08 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.25 £35.00 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Analyst
England

Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Analyst across the North East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

North East Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Analyst across the North East region.

North East Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Analyst across the North East region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

North East Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Analyst across the North East region.

North East Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Analyst
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the North East region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Tyne and Wear +1 46 £425 +28.78%
Durham -1 11 £306 +2.08%
Analyst
England

Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East region that cited 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 Analyst in their job title.

1 32 (24.06%) Business Analysis
2 30 (22.56%) Microsoft
3 25 (18.80%) Windows
4 21 (15.79%) ITIL
5 20 (15.04%) Service Management
6 19 (14.29%) Active Directory
7 15 (11.28%) ISEB
8 14 (10.53%) Migration
8 14 (10.53%) Finance
9 13 (9.774%) SQL
9 13 (9.774%) Banking
10 11 (8.271%) CBAP
10 11 (8.271%) Citrix
10 11 (8.271%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (7.519%) Configuration Management
11 10 (7.519%) MS Excel
11 10 (7.519%) Retail
11 10 (7.519%) Agile Software Development
11 10 (7.519%) Retail Banking
12 9 (6.767%) Degree
12 9 (6.767%) Asset Management
12 9 (6.767%) User Acceptance Testing
12 9 (6.767%) Oracle
12 9 (6.767%) MS Office
13 8 (6.015%) Change Management
13 8 (6.015%) SLA
13 8 (6.015%) Windows 7
14 7 (5.263%) Problem Management
14 7 (5.263%) Windows XP
14 7 (5.263%) Business Intelligence

Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East region that cited 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 Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (3.759%) .NET
2 2 (1.504%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.752%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.752%) COM
3 1 (0.752%) DCOM
3 1 (0.752%) CSS
3 1 (0.752%) XML
3 1 (0.752%) ActiveX
3 1 (0.752%) HTML
3 1 (0.752%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 5 (3.759%) MS Exchange
2 3 (2.256%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 2 (1.504%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.504%) Lync
4 1 (0.752%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (0.752%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (0.752%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (7.519%) MS Excel
2 9 (6.767%) MS Office
3 2 (1.504%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.759%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.752%) Taleo
2 1 (0.752%) Oracle HRMS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.008%) SMS
2 2 (1.504%) SAN
2 2 (1.504%) LDAP
2 2 (1.504%) SNMP
2 2 (1.504%) DNS
2 2 (1.504%) SMTP
2 2 (1.504%) FTP
3 1 (0.752%) HTTP
3 1 (0.752%) Broadband
3 1 (0.752%) LAN
3 1 (0.752%) Firewall
3 1 (0.752%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.263%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.511%) Crystal Reports
2 6 (4.511%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (4.511%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (3.759%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (3.008%) SQL Server 2008
5 3 (2.256%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.504%) SQL Server 2005
7 1 (0.752%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
7 1 (0.752%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (0.752%) DTS
7 1 (0.752%) DataStage
7 1 (0.752%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.752%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.752%) GIS
7 1 (0.752%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 1 (0.752%) QADirector
1 1 (0.752%) Selenium
1 1 (0.752%) Visual Studio
1 1 (0.752%) Bugzilla
General
1 14 (10.53%) Finance
2 13 (9.774%) Banking
3 10 (7.519%) Retail
3 10 (7.519%) Retail Banking
4 6 (4.511%) Telecoms
5 2 (1.504%) Marketing
6 1 (0.752%) Billing
6 1 (0.752%) General Ledger
6 1 (0.752%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.759%) CMDB
2 4 (3.008%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.256%) Blackberry
4 2 (1.504%) Clustering
4 2 (1.504%) NHS
4 2 (1.504%) Social Media
5 1 (0.752%) Photography
5 1 (0.752%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 25 (18.80%) Windows
2 8 (6.015%) Windows 7
3 7 (5.263%) Windows XP
4 4 (3.008%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (2.256%) UNIX
6 1 (0.752%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.752%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.752%) AIX
6 1 (0.752%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (24.06%) Business Analysis
2 21 (15.79%) ITIL
3 20 (15.04%) Service Management
4 14 (10.53%) Migration
5 11 (8.271%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (7.519%) Configuration Management
6 10 (7.519%) Agile Software Development
7 9 (6.767%) Asset Management
7 9 (6.767%) User Acceptance Testing
8 8 (6.015%) Change Management
9 7 (5.263%) Problem Management
9 7 (5.263%) Business Intelligence
9 7 (5.263%) CRM
9 7 (5.263%) Project Management
10 6 (4.511%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (4.511%) Enterprise Architecture
10 6 (4.511%) Requirements Analysis
11 5 (3.759%) Test Scripting
11 5 (3.759%) Data Migration
11 5 (3.759%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 13 (9.774%) SQL
2 4 (3.008%) T-SQL
3 3 (2.256%) VBA
3 3 (2.256%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.504%) VB
4 2 (1.504%) VB.NET
4 2 (1.504%) VB6
Qualifications
1 15 (11.28%) ISEB
2 11 (8.271%) CBAP
3 9 (6.767%) Degree
4 3 (2.256%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.504%) MCP
5 2 (1.504%) A+ Certification
5 2 (1.504%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.752%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.752%) BC Cleared
6 1 (0.752%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.752%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.752%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.015%) SLA
2 2 (1.504%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.752%) QA
3 1 (0.752%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 19 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.504%) XenApp
2 2 (1.504%) SRDF
3 1 (0.752%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (3.008%) SCCM
1 4 (3.008%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.752%) Cisco UCCX
2 1 (0.752%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 30 (22.56%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.271%) Citrix
3 9 (6.767%) Oracle
4 6 (4.511%) Cisco
5 5 (3.759%) HP
6 4 (3.008%) TSYS
7 3 (2.256%) Informatica
7 3 (2.256%) Business Objects
8 2 (1.504%) McAfee
8 2 (1.504%) SAP
8 2 (1.504%) Siebel
8 2 (1.504%) Novell
8 2 (1.504%) RightFax
9 1 (0.752%) Northgate
9 1 (0.752%) Kronos
9 1 (0.752%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.752%) IBM
9 1 (0.752%) JBoss
9 1 (0.752%) BT
9 1 (0.752%) VMware
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Our large utilities client is looking for an experienced Business Analysis professional with IT experience, a proven track record across the Business Analysis knowledge areas and an understanding...
Randstad Technologies
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
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We require a minimum standard of technical knowledge and common hardware troubleshooting including PC's, Laptops, Printers and Microsoft Applications... For this role you will need previous experience...
Connectus
Rate: £9 - £11 per hour
Posted: 17 May 2013
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It would also be beneficial but not essential to have experience of VB6, SQL 2008 SSIS, SQL 2000 DTS, VB6 DCOM, VB6 Active-X control development and ASP...
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Rate: Competitive rates on application
Posted: 17 May 2013