The first table below looks at the demand for Data Analysis skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Data Analysis over the 3 months to 23 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the North West 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Analysis
Rank 78 97 94
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -3
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 40 32 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 1.706% 1.025% 1.064%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.404% 1.662% 1.639%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 20 17
Average daily rate £226 £300 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-24.66% +3.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £140 £138 £243
10% offered a daily rate of more than £348 £450 £580
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £348
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +0.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 5
Average hourly rate £13.25 £13.42 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.26% -0.59%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.00 £21.75 £21.79
% change year-on-year
+5.74% -0.18%
All Processes & Methodologies
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1664 1925 2014
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 70.99% 61.66% 64.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 821 991 1044
Average daily rate £350 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £238 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 84 96
Average hourly rate £21.00 £18.25 £20.30
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.06% -10.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.25 £13.35 £12.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £52.47 £37.50 £38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Data Analysis
England

Data Analysis
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Data Analysis across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

North West Data Analysis Jobs Demand Trend

Data Analysis
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West Data Analysis Daily Rate Trend

Data Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Data Analysis across the North West region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

North West Data Analysis Daily Rate Histogram

Data Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West Data Analysis Hourly Rate Trend

Data Analysis
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Analysis within the North West region over the 3 months to 23 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
Cheshire +21 21 £238 +26.93%
Manchester +5 10 £325 +8.33%
Merseyside +4 2 £120 -60.00%
Lancashire +14 1 - -
Data Analysis
England

Data Analysis
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Data Analysis also 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 that cited Data Analysis.

1 20 (35.09%) Finance
2 14 (24.56%) SQL
3 13 (22.81%) Windows
4 12 (21.05%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (21.05%) Migration
5 11 (19.30%) Citrix
6 9 (15.79%) Banking
7 8 (14.04%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (12.28%) Business Analysis
8 7 (12.28%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (12.28%) MS Excel
8 7 (12.28%) XenApp
9 6 (10.53%) Data Modelling
10 5 (8.772%) NHS
10 5 (8.772%) SAP
10 5 (8.772%) .NET
10 5 (8.772%) C
10 5 (8.772%) SQL Server
10 5 (8.772%) AppSense
10 5 (8.772%) Validation
10 5 (8.772%) Application Packaging
11 4 (7.018%) XPath
11 4 (7.018%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (7.018%) WCF
11 4 (7.018%) QlikView
11 4 (7.018%) XenDesktop
11 4 (7.018%) Windows 7
11 4 (7.018%) HTML5
11 4 (7.018%) Web Application Development
11 4 (7.018%) MVC

Data Analysis
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Data Analysis also 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 that cited Data Analysis. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (8.772%) .NET
1 5 (8.772%) Application Packaging
2 4 (7.018%) WCF
2 4 (7.018%) HTML5
2 4 (7.018%) Servlets
2 4 (7.018%) Web Services
2 4 (7.018%) MFC
2 4 (7.018%) ASP.NET
2 4 (7.018%) XSL
2 4 (7.018%) XSLT
3 3 (5.263%) CSS
3 3 (5.263%) jQuery
3 3 (5.263%) JSON
4 1 (1.754%) Middleware
4 1 (1.754%) XML
4 1 (1.754%) XSD
4 1 (1.754%) REST
4 1 (1.754%) RESTful
4 1 (1.754%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 2 (3.509%) SharePoint
1 2 (3.509%) SAS
2 1 (1.754%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (12.28%) MS Excel
2 3 (5.263%) MS Visio
3 2 (3.509%) MS PowerPoint
3 2 (3.509%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.754%) MS Project
4 1 (1.754%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (5.263%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.754%) SAP SD
2 1 (1.754%) Visualfiles
2 1 (1.754%) SAP BPC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (21.05%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (8.772%) SQL Server
3 4 (7.018%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (7.018%) QlikView
3 4 (7.018%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (7.018%) SAP BW
4 3 (5.263%) SQLite
5 2 (3.509%) SAP Data Services
5 2 (3.509%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (3.509%) Star Schema
6 1 (1.754%) SQL Server 2000
6 1 (1.754%) DTS
6 1 (1.754%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.754%) OLAP
6 1 (1.754%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (1.754%) IBM InfoSphere
6 1 (1.754%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (1.754%) Base SAS
6 1 (1.754%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 4 (7.018%) MSI
2 1 (1.754%) ERwin
2 1 (1.754%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 20 (35.09%) Finance
2 9 (15.79%) Banking
3 2 (3.509%) Marketing
3 2 (3.509%) Publishing
4 1 (1.754%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.754%) Retail
4 1 (1.754%) Law
4 1 (1.754%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.754%) Financial Institution
4 1 (1.754%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.754%) Retail Banking
4 1 (1.754%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (59.65%) Analyst
2 13 (22.81%) Business Analyst
3 10 (17.54%) Developer
4 8 (14.04%) Data Analyst
5 5 (8.772%) Consultant
6 4 (7.018%) Architect
6 4 (7.018%) Web Developer
7 3 (5.263%) .NET Web Developer
7 3 (5.263%) Problem Analyst
7 3 (5.263%) Web Applications Developer
7 3 (5.263%) Data Modeller
7 3 (5.263%) .NET Developer
7 3 (5.263%) SAP Consultant
7 3 (5.263%) Applications Developer
7 3 (5.263%) SAP Analyst
7 3 (5.263%) .NET Applications Developer
8 2 (3.509%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 2 (3.509%) Build Engineer
8 2 (3.509%) Senior Information Analyst
8 2 (3.509%) Senior Data Modeller
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.772%) NHS
2 3 (5.263%) Data Extraction
2 3 (5.263%) Computer Science
3 2 (3.509%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.754%) Smartcard
4 1 (1.754%) Replication
4 1 (1.754%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.754%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.754%) Social Media
4 1 (1.754%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 13 (22.81%) Windows
2 4 (7.018%) Windows 7
2 4 (7.018%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (5.263%) Windows CE
4 1 (1.754%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (21.05%) Migration
2 8 (14.04%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (12.28%) Business Analysis
3 7 (12.28%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (10.53%) Data Modelling
5 5 (8.772%) Validation
6 4 (7.018%) Web Application Development
6 4 (7.018%) MVC
6 4 (7.018%) Agile Software Development
6 4 (7.018%) ETL
7 3 (5.263%) Information Management
7 3 (5.263%) Workflow
7 3 (5.263%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (5.263%) Incident Management
7 3 (5.263%) Web Development
8 2 (3.509%) System Testing
8 2 (3.509%) Data Migration
8 2 (3.509%) Data Cleansing
8 2 (3.509%) Data Architecture
8 2 (3.509%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 14 (24.56%) SQL
2 5 (8.772%) C
3 4 (7.018%) XPath
3 4 (7.018%) C#
3 4 (7.018%) C++
4 3 (5.263%) Java
4 3 (5.263%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.509%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.754%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 4 (7.018%) PhD
2 3 (5.263%) Degree
3 1 (1.754%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (1.754%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.263%) Solvency II
2 2 (3.509%) QA
2 2 (3.509%) SLA
3 1 (1.754%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.754%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.754%) COBIT
System Software
1 7 (12.28%) XenApp
2 4 (7.018%) XenDesktop
2 4 (7.018%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 3 (5.263%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (19.30%) Citrix
2 5 (8.772%) SAP
2 5 (8.772%) AppSense
3 3 (5.263%) Remedy
3 3 (5.263%) BMC
4 2 (3.509%) Twitter
4 2 (3.509%) Oracle
4 2 (3.509%) IBM
5 1 (1.754%) HP
5 1 (1.754%) Cognos
5 1 (1.754%) Teradata
5 1 (1.754%) Facebook
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