North West Analyst Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Analyst role in IT contracts within the North West 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 Analyst in their job title over the last 3 months to 22 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Alfreton Amersham Andover Avon Aylesbury Bacup Banbury Banstead Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Beverley Bexhill-On-Sea Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Castleford Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Clapham Cleethorpes Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Ayrshire East Grinstead East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grays Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Hartlepool Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highland Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Hungerford Ilford Inverness Inverurie Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Jersey Kegworth Kent Kettering Kilmarnock King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lewisham Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Melton Mowbray Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Moray Motherwell New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Pontypool Poole Portsmouth Preston Pudsey Reading Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South Croydon South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark Spalding St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Strathclyde Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tiverton Tonbridge Torfaen Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallington Walsall Waltham Abbey Walton-on-Thames Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Widnes Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wymondham York Yorkshire	3 months to 22 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	3	3
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	732	508
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.949 %	0.571 %
As % of the category below	18.80 %	15.11 %
Daily rates quoted	216	132
Average minimum daily rate	£289	£275
Average daily rate	£302	£288
% change on same period last year	+5.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£316	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£331
% change on same period last year	+1.81 %
Hourly rates quoted	119	67
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.97	£14.56
Average hourly rate	£20.57	£15.37
% change on same period last year	+33.83 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.16	£16.17
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.08	£20.09
% change on same period last year	-10.04 %
Job Titles North West
Matching contract IT job ads	3894	3362
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	5.048 %	3.778 %
Daily rates quoted	1015	668
Average minimum daily rate	£339	£312
Average daily rate	£359	£325
% change on same period last year	+10.27 %
Average maximum daily rate	£378	£339
UK excluding London average daily rate	£362	£353
% change on same period last year	+2.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	429	319
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.13	£20.94
Average hourly rate	£24.02	£22.31
% change on same period last year	+7.68 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.91	£23.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.44	£25.37
% change on same period last year	-7.60 %
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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Analyst across the North West 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 contract IT jobs ads citing Analyst across the North West region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Analyst across the North West region over the past 3 months.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Analyst across the North West region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Analyst across the North West region over the past 3 months.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the North West region over the past 3 months.

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
Manchester	+1	224	£285	-11.34 %
Cheshire	-2	172	£246	-17.23 %
Lancashire	+3	87	£340	+21.47 %
Merseyside	-4	56	£330	+39.22 %
Cumbria	0	3	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the North West region citing Analyst also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Analyst.

1 378 (25.96 %) Finance 2 167 (11.47 %) Windows 3 162 (11.13 %) SQL 4 161 (11.06 %) NHS 5 160 (10.99 %) MS Office 6 157 (10.78 %) Microsoft 7 149 (10.23 %) MS Excel 8 118 (8.104 %) Business Analysis 9 113 (7.761 %) Oracle 10 105 (7.212 %) Banking 11 101 (6.937 %) Government 11 101 (6.937 %) ITIL 12 92 (6.319 %) Retail 13 76 (5.220 %) Data Analysis 14 71 (4.876 %) Migration

15 70 (4.808 %) SQL Server 16 66 (4.533 %) Project Management 17 61 (4.190 %) Windows 2000 18 59 (4.052 %) Health 19 58 (3.984 %) Pensions 20 53 (3.640 %) Stakeholder Management 21 51 (3.503 %) Service Delivery 21 51 (3.503 %) Windows XP 22 50 (3.434 %) Insurance 23 48 (3.297 %) UML 24 47 (3.228 %) MS Visio 25 45 (3.091 %) Telecoms 26 44 (3.022 %) Active Directory 26 44 (3.022 %) BusinessObjects 26 44 (3.022 %) Business Objects

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the North West region citing Analyst also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Analyst. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 39 (2.679 %) .NET 2 21 (1.442 %) ASP.NET 2 21 (1.442 %) XML 3 8 (0.549 %) Middleware 3 8 (0.549 %) HTML 4 6 (0.412 %) EDI 4 6 (0.412 %) WinForms 5 5 (0.343 %) XSLT 5 5 (0.343 %) WebSphere 6 4 (0.275 %) WebServices 7 3 (0.206 %) XHTML 7 3 (0.206 %) ASP 8 2 (0.137 %) ASP.NET 2.0 8 2 (0.137 %) .NET Framework 8 2 (0.137 %) CSS 8 2 (0.137 %) J2EE 8 2 (0.137 %) EDIFACT 9 1 (0.069 %) AJAX 9 1 (0.069 %) SAP Basis 9 1 (0.069 %) SOAP	Application Platforms 1 40 (2.747 %) MS Exchange 2 17 (1.168 %) Lotus Notes 3 15 (1.030 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 14 (0.962 %) SAS 5 10 (0.687 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 9 (0.618 %) SharePoint 7 6 (0.412 %) SharePoint Server 2007 7 6 (0.412 %) CICS 8 5 (0.343 %) Portal Infranet 8 5 (0.343 %) IIS 9 3 (0.206 %) CMS 9 3 (0.206 %) Lotus Domino 10 2 (0.137 %) Exchange Server 5.5 10 2 (0.137 %) Apache 10 2 (0.137 %) Tomcat 10 2 (0.137 %) Papyrus 10 2 (0.137 %) DOC1 11 1 (0.069 %) MQSI 11 1 (0.069 %) Oracle Application Server 11 1 (0.069 %) ArcIMS
Applications 1 160 (10.99 %) MS Office 2 149 (10.23 %) MS Excel 3 47 (3.228 %) MS Visio 4 21 (1.442 %) MS Project 5 19 (1.305 %) MS PowerPoint 6 5 (0.343 %) CATIA 7 4 (0.275 %) SPSS 8 3 (0.206 %) PrintSoft PReS 9 2 (0.137 %) CA Clarity 10 1 (0.069 %) InfoPath 10 1 (0.069 %) ArcView 10 1 (0.069 %) PageMaker 10 1 (0.069 %) CorelDRAW 10 1 (0.069 %) QuarkXPress	Business Applications 1 21 (1.442 %) Oracle EBS 2 17 (1.168 %) Oracle 11i 3 7 (0.481 %) Oracle Financials 4 6 (0.412 %) Oracle ERP 5 5 (0.343 %) Hyperion Enterprise 5 5 (0.343 %) Teamcenter 6 3 (0.206 %) Oracle CRM 6 3 (0.206 %) SAP HR 6 3 (0.206 %) Navision 7 2 (0.137 %) ProfileStage 7 2 (0.137 %) JDE OneWorld 8 1 (0.069 %) Pivotal CRM 8 1 (0.069 %) VisionPLUS 8 1 (0.069 %) GraphTalk 8 1 (0.069 %) SAP CO 8 1 (0.069 %) e-Work 8 1 (0.069 %) BASE24 8 1 (0.069 %) SAP FI/CO 8 1 (0.069 %) Oracle Applications 8 1 (0.069 %) Fidessa
Communications & Networking 1 20 (1.374 %) TCP/IP 2 17 (1.168 %) LAN 3 15 (1.030 %) VoIP 3 15 (1.030 %) WAN 4 14 (0.962 %) Firewall 5 12 (0.824 %) Internet 6 8 (0.549 %) DNS 6 8 (0.549 %) PBX 7 6 (0.412 %) VPN 8 5 (0.343 %) Intrusion Detection 8 5 (0.343 %) WINS 8 5 (0.343 %) FTP 8 5 (0.343 %) SMS 9 4 (0.275 %) ISDN 9 4 (0.275 %) DHCP 10 3 (0.206 %) HTTP 10 3 (0.206 %) 3G 10 3 (0.206 %) Intranet 10 3 (0.206 %) Network Security 11 2 (0.137 %) Cisco ICM	Database & Business Intelligence 1 70 (4.808 %) SQL Server 2 44 (3.022 %) BusinessObjects 3 38 (2.610 %) Datawarehouse 4 36 (2.473 %) MS Access 5 19 (1.305 %) Crystal Reports 6 16 (1.099 %) SQL Server 2005 7 15 (1.030 %) SQL Server 2000 8 13 (0.893 %) SQL Server 7 9 12 (0.824 %) DataStage 9 12 (0.824 %) ETL 10 11 (0.755 %) TOAD 11 8 (0.549 %) DB2 11 8 (0.549 %) Oracle Reports 12 7 (0.481 %) GIS 13 6 (0.412 %) Data Cleansing 13 6 (0.412 %) OLAP 13 6 (0.412 %) Data Mining 14 5 (0.343 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 14 5 (0.343 %) Oracle 8/8i 14 5 (0.343 %) Oracle 9i
Development Applications 1 22 (1.511 %) TestDirector 2 9 (0.618 %) MSI 2 9 (0.618 %) LoadRunner 3 7 (0.481 %) QuickTest Pro 4 6 (0.412 %) ERwin 5 4 (0.275 %) WinRunner 6 3 (0.206 %) VSS/SourceSafe 6 3 (0.206 %) JIRA 7 2 (0.137 %) Oracle Forms 7 2 (0.137 %) Visual Studio 7 2 (0.137 %) Rational Rose 8 1 (0.069 %) Subversion 8 1 (0.069 %) Eclipse 8 1 (0.069 %) ClearCase 8 1 (0.069 %) ClearQuest 8 1 (0.069 %) VisualAge Generator 8 1 (0.069 %) Oracle APEX	General 1 378 (25.96 %) Finance 2 105 (7.212 %) Banking 3 101 (6.937 %) Government 4 92 (6.319 %) Retail 5 59 (4.052 %) Health 6 58 (3.984 %) Pensions 7 50 (3.434 %) Insurance 8 45 (3.091 %) Telecoms 9 44 (3.022 %) Retail Banking 10 27 (1.854 %) Education 11 25 (1.717 %) Pharmaceutical 11 25 (1.717 %) Billing 11 25 (1.717 %) Local Government 12 18 (1.236 %) Marketing 13 16 (1.099 %) Legal 14 13 (0.893 %) Back Office 15 12 (0.824 %) Construction 16 9 (0.618 %) Financial Institution 17 8 (0.549 %) General Ledger 18 7 (0.481 %) International Banking
Miscellaneous 1 161 (11.06 %) NHS 2 30 (2.060 %) French Language 3 26 (1.786 %) Mainframe 4 24 (1.648 %) Italian Language 5 20 (1.374 %) Management Information System 6 18 (1.236 %) Dutch Language 7 16 (1.099 %) German Language 7 16 (1.099 %) Spanish Language 8 13 (0.893 %) Asset Management 8 13 (0.893 %) Data Integration 9 12 (0.824 %) Statistics 10 11 (0.755 %) Informatics 10 11 (0.755 %) IBM Mainframe 11 10 (0.687 %) Danish Language 12 9 (0.618 %) N-Tier 12 9 (0.618 %) Finnish Language 13 8 (0.549 %) Swedish Language 13 8 (0.549 %) EPoS 13 8 (0.549 %) Blackberry 14 7 (0.481 %) Data Extraction	Operating Systems 1 167 (11.47 %) Windows 2 61 (4.190 %) Windows 2000 3 51 (3.503 %) Windows XP 4 41 (2.816 %) Unix 5 36 (2.473 %) Windows NT 6 17 (1.168 %) AIX 7 11 (0.755 %) NetWare 8 10 (0.687 %) Linux 9 8 (0.549 %) Windows Server 2003 10 6 (0.412 %) Solaris 11 1 (0.069 %) zOS 11 1 (0.069 %) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies 1 118 (8.104 %) Business Analysis 2 101 (6.937 %) ITIL 3 76 (5.220 %) Data Analysis 4 71 (4.876 %) Migration 5 66 (4.533 %) Project Management 6 53 (3.640 %) Stakeholder Management 7 51 (3.503 %) Service Delivery 8 48 (3.297 %) UML 9 43 (2.953 %) Change Management 10 40 (2.747 %) CRM 10 40 (2.747 %) Service Management 11 39 (2.679 %) Data Modelling 12 37 (2.541 %) Test Scripting 13 34 (2.335 %) GAP Analysis 14 31 (2.129 %) Business Intelligence 14 31 (2.129 %) Security Cleared 15 30 (2.060 %) BPR 16 29 (1.992 %) User Acceptance Testing 16 29 (1.992 %) Problem Management 17 27 (1.854 %) Use Case	Programming Languages 1 162 (11.13 %) SQL 2 24 (1.648 %) VB 3 18 (1.236 %) Java 4 15 (1.030 %) C# 5 14 (0.962 %) C 6 10 (0.687 %) COBOL 6 10 (0.687 %) VBA 7 9 (0.618 %) C++ 8 8 (0.549 %) VB.NET 9 6 (0.412 %) REXX 9 6 (0.412 %) PL/SQL 10 5 (0.343 %) ABAP 10 5 (0.343 %) Transact-SQL 11 4 (0.275 %) JCL 11 4 (0.275 %) VBScript 12 3 (0.206 %) VB6 13 2 (0.137 %) SAS Macro 13 2 (0.137 %) Shell Script 13 2 (0.137 %) JavaScript 13 2 (0.137 %) Progress 4GL
Qualifications 1 22 (1.511 %) ISEB 2 17 (1.168 %) Degree 3 11 (0.755 %) Microsoft Certification 4 10 (0.687 %) ITIL Certification 5 8 (0.549 %) Citrix Certification 5 8 (0.549 %) MCSE 6 6 (0.412 %) CISSP 7 5 (0.343 %) PRINCE2 Certification 8 3 (0.206 %) MCP 9 1 (0.069 %) ISEB Practitioner 9 1 (0.069 %) MCSA 9 1 (0.069 %) MCSD 9 1 (0.069 %) CIMA 9 1 (0.069 %) ECDL 9 1 (0.069 %) Siebel Certification 9 1 (0.069 %) Avaya Certification 9 1 (0.069 %) ISTQB	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 23 (1.580 %) SLA 2 14 (0.962 %) QA 3 9 (0.618 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 4 (0.275 %) ISO27001 4 4 (0.275 %) BS7799 5 2 (0.137 %) Basel II 6 1 (0.069 %) ISO9000 6 1 (0.069 %) COBIT 6 1 (0.069 %) MiFID
System Software 1 44 (3.022 %) Active Directory 2 10 (0.687 %) MetaFrame 2 10 (0.687 %) Terminal Server 3 3 (0.206 %) Squid 4 2 (0.137 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 5 1 (0.069 %) Backup Exec 5 1 (0.069 %) VMware ESX 5 1 (0.069 %) ISA Server	Systems Management 1 14 (0.962 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 12 (0.824 %) AutoSys 3 10 (0.687 %) ZENworks 4 4 (0.275 %) Tivoli 4 4 (0.275 %) OpenView 5 3 (0.206 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 6 2 (0.137 %) ServiceCenter 7 1 (0.069 %) Norton AntiVirus 7 1 (0.069 %) BMC PATROL 7 1 (0.069 %) Legato 7 1 (0.069 %) WSUS 7 1 (0.069 %) AssetCenter
Vendors 1 157 (10.78 %) Microsoft 2 113 (7.761 %) Oracle 3 44 (3.022 %) Business Objects 4 36 (2.473 %) SAP 5 32 (2.198 %) IBM 6 27 (1.854 %) Citrix 7 24 (1.648 %) Cisco 8 17 (1.168 %) Lotus 9 15 (1.030 %) Informatica 10 14 (0.962 %) Hyperion 11 12 (0.824 %) HP 12 11 (0.755 %) Mitel 12 11 (0.755 %) CA 13 9 (0.618 %) Remedy 14 8 (0.549 %) Cognos 14 8 (0.549 %) Siebel 15 6 (0.412 %) BT 16 5 (0.343 %) Casewise 16 5 (0.343 %) Baan 17 4 (0.275 %) CheckPoint