North West Business Analyst Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Business 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 Business Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Ballymena Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bognor Regis Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Colchester County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Fleetwood Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Grays Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwynedd Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Kirkcaldy Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Renfrew Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stirling Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	23	14
Rank change on same period last year	-9
Matching contract IT job ads	168	276
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.270 %	0.296 %
As % of the category below	5.539 %	6.801 %
Daily rates quoted	62	88
Average minimum daily rate	£325	£339
Average daily rate	£349	£358
% change on same period last year	-2.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£372	£376
UK excluding London average daily rate	£373	£377
% change on same period last year	-1.00 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.22	£33.33
Average hourly rate	£22.88	£33.75
% change on same period last year	-32.19 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.54	£34.17
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.77	£26.84
% change on same period last year	+10.92 %
Job Titles North West
Matching contract IT job ads	3033	4058
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.873 %	4.358 %
Daily rates quoted	676	805
Average minimum daily rate	£320	£326
Average daily rate	£339	£342
% change on same period last year	-0.63 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£357
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£352
% change on same period last year	+0.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	437	479
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.06	£19.41
Average hourly rate	£21.74	£21.18
% change on same period last year	+2.65 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.43	£22.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.10	£24.04
% change on same period last year	-3.88 %
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 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 IT contract jobs citing Business 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 Business Analyst across the North West region over the 3 months to 2 December 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 North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Analyst within the North West region over the 3 months to 2 December 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
Manchester	-2	53	£359	-9.69 %
Cheshire	-9	29	£321	-15.33 %
Lancashire	0	22	£333	+1.89 %
Merseyside	-16	19	£424	+45.76 %
Cumbria	-2	1	£275	-21.42 %

Business Analyst England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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.

1 116 (34.22 %) Business Analysis 2 101 (29.79 %) Finance 3 51 (15.04 %) PRINCE2 4 47 (13.86 %) UML 5 43 (12.68 %) Government 6 41 (12.09 %) Project Management 7 36 (10.62 %) MS Visio 7 36 (10.62 %) Pensions 8 33 (9.735 %) Health 8 33 (9.735 %) Stakeholder Management 9 32 (9.440 %) NHS 10 31 (9.145 %) Oracle 11 30 (8.850 %) Banking 12 27 (7.965 %) Retail 13 24 (7.080 %) Local Government

14 23 (6.785 %) BPR 15 21 (6.195 %) PRINCE 16 20 (5.900 %) MS Office 16 20 (5.900 %) Insurance 17 17 (5.015 %) CRM 18 15 (4.425 %) Business Objects 18 15 (4.425 %) BusinessObjects 18 15 (4.425 %) Systems Analysis 18 15 (4.425 %) Retail Banking 19 14 (4.130 %) Requirements Analysis 19 14 (4.130 %) System Testing 19 14 (4.130 %) Microsoft 19 14 (4.130 %) MS Excel 19 14 (4.130 %) Migration 20 13 (3.835 %) SQL

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 (1.180 %) XML 2 3 (0.885 %) XBRL 3 2 (0.590 %) .NET 4 1 (0.295 %) ASP.NET 4 1 (0.295 %) WebServices 4 1 (0.295 %) ActiveX 4 1 (0.295 %) WebSphere 4 1 (0.295 %) WCF 4 1 (0.295 %) WF 4 1 (0.295 %) ASP.NET 2.0	Application Platforms 1 3 (0.885 %) SharePoint 1 3 (0.885 %) LiveLink 2 2 (0.590 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 1 (0.295 %) Office Project Server 3 1 (0.295 %) BizTalk Server 3 1 (0.295 %) CMS
Applications 1 36 (10.62 %) MS Visio 2 20 (5.900 %) MS Office 3 14 (4.130 %) MS Excel 4 8 (2.360 %) MS PowerPoint 5 5 (1.475 %) MS Project 6 3 (0.885 %) Spreadsheet 7 1 (0.295 %) InfoPath	Business Applications 1 9 (2.655 %) Oracle HRMS 2 5 (1.475 %) VisionPLUS 2 5 (1.475 %) Oracle 11i 2 5 (1.475 %) Oracle EBS 3 2 (0.590 %) Dynamics CRM 4 1 (0.295 %) Cerner Millennium 4 1 (0.295 %) Microsoft CRM 4 1 (0.295 %) SAP HR 4 1 (0.295 %) SAP MM 4 1 (0.295 %) Academy Housing 4 1 (0.295 %) arcHouse
Communications & Networking 1 1 (0.295 %) WAN 1 1 (0.295 %) Intranet 1 1 (0.295 %) IP Telephony	Database & Business Intelligence 1 15 (4.425 %) BusinessObjects 2 10 (2.950 %) SQL Server 3 9 (2.655 %) Datawarehouse 4 8 (2.360 %) Oracle Discoverer 5 4 (1.180 %) Crystal Reports 5 4 (1.180 %) Oracle Reports 5 4 (1.180 %) MS Access 6 3 (0.885 %) DTS 6 3 (0.885 %) EDRMS 7 2 (0.590 %) EDMS 7 2 (0.590 %) Oracle OWB 7 2 (0.590 %) BusinessObjects XI 8 1 (0.295 %) Data Cleansing 8 1 (0.295 %) QlikView 8 1 (0.295 %) SAP BW 8 1 (0.295 %) DataStage 8 1 (0.295 %) SQL Server 2000 8 1 (0.295 %) Data Mining 8 1 (0.295 %) TOAD
Development Applications 1 1 (0.295 %) Flash 1 1 (0.295 %) ClearCase 1 1 (0.295 %) Rational Rose 1 1 (0.295 %) RequisitePro 1 1 (0.295 %) ProC 1 1 (0.295 %) ClearQuest	General 1 101 (29.79 %) Finance 2 43 (12.68 %) Government 3 36 (10.62 %) Pensions 4 33 (9.735 %) Health 5 30 (8.850 %) Banking 6 27 (7.965 %) Retail 7 24 (7.080 %) Local Government 8 20 (5.900 %) Insurance 9 15 (4.425 %) Retail Banking 10 8 (2.360 %) General Ledger 11 7 (2.065 %) Manufacturing 11 7 (2.065 %) Telecoms 12 6 (1.770 %) Front Office 13 5 (1.475 %) Pharmaceutical 14 3 (0.885 %) Back Office 14 3 (0.885 %) Education 14 3 (0.885 %) Electric 14 3 (0.885 %) FMCG 15 2 (0.590 %) Marketing 16 1 (0.295 %) Automotive
Miscellaneous 1 32 (9.440 %) NHS 2 3 (0.885 %) Management Information System 3 1 (0.295 %) Statistics 3 1 (0.295 %) Data Extraction 3 1 (0.295 %) NPfIT 3 1 (0.295 %) EPoS	Operating Systems 1 1 (0.295 %) UNIX 1 1 (0.295 %) Windows 1 1 (0.295 %) VMS
Processes & Methodologies 1 116 (34.22 %) Business Analysis 2 51 (15.04 %) PRINCE2 3 47 (13.86 %) UML 4 41 (12.09 %) Project Management 5 33 (9.735 %) Stakeholder Management 6 23 (6.785 %) BPR 7 21 (6.195 %) PRINCE 8 17 (5.015 %) CRM 9 15 (4.425 %) Systems Analysis 10 14 (4.130 %) Requirements Analysis 10 14 (4.130 %) Migration 10 14 (4.130 %) System Testing 11 13 (3.835 %) Data Analysis 12 12 (3.540 %) Project Planning 12 12 (3.540 %) Data Modelling 13 11 (3.245 %) Business Intelligence 13 11 (3.245 %) SSADM 13 11 (3.245 %) Security Cleared 14 10 (2.950 %) GAP Analysis 15 9 (2.655 %) Risk Management	Programming Languages 1 13 (3.835 %) SQL 2 5 (1.475 %) FoxPro (VFP) 3 4 (1.180 %) C# 3 4 (1.180 %) Java 4 3 (0.885 %) C 5 2 (0.590 %) VBA 5 2 (0.590 %) C++ 5 2 (0.590 %) COBOL 6 1 (0.295 %) Perl 6 1 (0.295 %) VB
Qualifications 1 13 (3.835 %) Degree 2 6 (1.770 %) ISEB 3 5 (1.475 %) PRINCE2 Certification 4 3 (0.885 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 5 1 (0.295 %) ITIL Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (0.590 %) ISO9000 2 1 (0.295 %) SLA 2 1 (0.295 %) QA
Vendors 1 31 (9.145 %) Oracle 2 15 (4.425 %) Business Objects 3 14 (4.130 %) Microsoft 4 11 (3.245 %) SAP 5 6 (1.770 %) Northgate 6 4 (1.180 %) Adobe 7 3 (0.885 %) IBM 8 2 (0.590 %) Orchard 8 2 (0.590 %) Casewise 9 1 (0.295 %) Lagan 9 1 (0.295 %) Capita 9 1 (0.295 %) Siebel 9 1 (0.295 %) Avaya 9 1 (0.295 %) BMC 9 1 (0.295 %) Cerner 9 1 (0.295 %) iSOFT 9 1 (0.295 %) Primavera 9 1 (0.295 %) Telelogic 9 1 (0.295 %) Anite 9 1 (0.295 %) Perforce