North West Data Analyst Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Data 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 Data Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Data Analyst
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bolton Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Cirencester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dover Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gwent Hampshire Harlow Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicestershire Lewes Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Ryde Salford Salisbury Scotland Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Staines Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Telford Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	76	101
Rank change on same period last year	+25
Matching contract IT job ads	51	46
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.072 %	0.046 %
As % of the category below	1.525 %	1.137 %
Daily rates quoted	7	5
Average minimum daily rate	£246	£216
Average daily rate	£273	£234
% change on same period last year	+16.80 %
Average maximum daily rate	£301	£252
UK excluding London average daily rate	£336	£298
% change on same period last year	+12.90 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.22	£14.29
Average hourly rate	£16.51	£15.82
% change on same period last year	+4.32 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.79	£17.36
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.31	£20.06
% change on same period last year	-13.69 %
Job Titles North West
Matching contract IT job ads	3344	4045
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.708 %	4.088 %
Daily rates quoted	783	827
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£320
Average daily rate	£341	£338
% change on same period last year	+0.96 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£356
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	467	456
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.62	£20.30
Average hourly rate	£23.40	£21.94
% change on same period last year	+6.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.19	£23.58
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.76	£25.22
% change on same period last year	-5.77 %
Data 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.

Data Analyst
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Data Analyst across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Data Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Data Analyst across the North West region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

Data Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Data Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Data Analyst across the North West region over the 3 months to 10 October 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 Data Analyst within the North West region over the 3 months to 10 October 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	17	£400	+77.77 %
Merseyside	0	9	£375	-
Cheshire	+13	9	£212	-15.33 %
Lancashire	+2	2	£175	-25.53 %

Data Analyst England

Data Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited Data 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 Data Analyst in their job title.

1 40 (35.09 %) SQL 2 30 (26.32 %) NHS 3 25 (21.93 %) Data Analysis 4 18 (15.79 %) Finance 5 13 (11.40 %) Migration 6 12 (10.53 %) Business Objects 6 12 (10.53 %) Microsoft 6 12 (10.53 %) BusinessObjects 7 11 (9.649 %) MS Excel 7 11 (9.649 %) Datawarehouse 7 11 (9.649 %) Oracle 7 11 (9.649 %) Data Migration 8 9 (7.895 %) MS Access 9 8 (7.018 %) Business Intelligence 9 8 (7.018 %) SQL Server

9 8 (7.018 %) Crystal Reports 9 8 (7.018 %) Data Extraction 9 8 (7.018 %) MS PowerPoint 9 8 (7.018 %) Health 10 7 (6.140 %) Government 10 7 (6.140 %) Data Mapping 10 7 (6.140 %) Hyperion 11 6 (5.263 %) Hyperion Planning 11 6 (5.263 %) Cognos 11 6 (5.263 %) Pharmaceutical 11 6 (5.263 %) Statistical Analysis 11 6 (5.263 %) Data Management 12 5 (4.386 %) Banking 12 5 (4.386 %) Marketing 12 5 (4.386 %) Business Analysis

Data Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited Data 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 Data Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (0.877 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 4 (3.509 %) SAS
Applications 1 11 (9.649 %) MS Excel 2 8 (7.018 %) MS PowerPoint 3 4 (3.509 %) Spreadsheet 4 2 (1.754 %) MS Project 4 2 (1.754 %) CATIA 5 1 (0.877 %) SPSS	Business Applications 1 6 (5.263 %) Hyperion Planning 2 4 (3.509 %) Hyperion Enterprise 2 4 (3.509 %) ProfileStage 3 2 (1.754 %) SAP Payroll 3 2 (1.754 %) Microsoft CRM 3 2 (1.754 %) SAP HR 3 2 (1.754 %) Teamcenter 4 1 (0.877 %) BASE24
Communications & Networking 1 1 (0.877 %) LAN 1 1 (0.877 %) WAN 1 1 (0.877 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (10.53 %) BusinessObjects 2 11 (9.649 %) Datawarehouse 3 9 (7.895 %) MS Access 4 8 (7.018 %) SQL Server 4 8 (7.018 %) Crystal Reports 5 5 (4.386 %) OLAP 5 5 (4.386 %) ETL 6 4 (3.509 %) Data Cleansing 6 4 (3.509 %) QualityStage 7 3 (2.632 %) SQL Server 2000 7 3 (2.632 %) GIS 8 2 (1.754 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 8 2 (1.754 %) Oracle Reports 9 1 (0.877 %) DTS 9 1 (0.877 %) DataStage
Development Applications 1 3 (2.632 %) LSMW 2 1 (0.877 %) ERwin	General 1 18 (15.79 %) Finance 2 8 (7.018 %) Health 3 7 (6.140 %) Government 4 6 (5.263 %) Pharmaceutical 5 5 (4.386 %) Marketing 5 5 (4.386 %) Banking 6 3 (2.632 %) Retail 6 3 (2.632 %) Pensions 6 3 (2.632 %) Education 7 2 (1.754 %) Insurance 8 1 (0.877 %) Local Government 8 1 (0.877 %) Electric 8 1 (0.877 %) Manufacturing 8 1 (0.877 %) Back Office 8 1 (0.877 %) Construction
Miscellaneous 1 30 (26.32 %) NHS 2 8 (7.018 %) Data Extraction 3 4 (3.509 %) Management Information System 4 1 (0.877 %) Statistics 4 1 (0.877 %) Informatics 4 1 (0.877 %) NPfIT	Operating Systems 1 1 (0.877 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 25 (21.93 %) Data Analysis 2 13 (11.40 %) Migration 3 11 (9.649 %) Data Migration 4 8 (7.018 %) Business Intelligence 5 7 (6.140 %) Data Mapping 6 6 (5.263 %) Statistical Analysis 6 6 (5.263 %) Data Management 7 5 (4.386 %) Business Analysis 8 3 (2.632 %) CRM 9 2 (1.754 %) ERP 9 2 (1.754 %) Data Modelling 9 2 (1.754 %) ITIL 9 2 (1.754 %) Project Management 9 2 (1.754 %) Service Management 9 2 (1.754 %) Risk Management 9 2 (1.754 %) OO 9 2 (1.754 %) PDM 9 2 (1.754 %) Performance Management 9 2 (1.754 %) ETRM 10 1 (0.877 %) Incident Management	Programming Languages 1 40 (35.09 %) SQL 2 4 (3.509 %) C 2 4 (3.509 %) VBA 3 2 (1.754 %) C++ 4 1 (0.877 %) VB
Qualifications 1 3 (2.632 %) Oracle Certification 2 1 (0.877 %) CCIP 2 1 (0.877 %) Cisco Certification	System Software 1 2 (1.754 %) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors 1 12 (10.53 %) Business Objects 1 12 (10.53 %) Microsoft 2 11 (9.649 %) Oracle 3 7 (6.140 %) Hyperion 4 6 (5.263 %) Cognos 5 5 (4.386 %) SAP 6 4 (3.509 %) Ascential 6 4 (3.509 %) Remedy 7 2 (1.754 %) Baan 7 2 (1.754 %) VMware 7 2 (1.754 %) Teradata 8 1 (0.877 %) ESRI 8 1 (0.877 %) HP 8 1 (0.877 %) IBM