North West Information Analyst Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Information 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 Information Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Information Analyst
Location Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bridgwater Buckinghamshire Chelmsford Cheshire City of London Clevedon Coventry Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dover Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastbourne Edinburgh England Essex Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Preston Reading Romford Scarborough Scotland Shropshire Somerset South Coast South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Swindon Tadworth Tamworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Windsor Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	58	98
Rank change on same period last year	+40
Matching contract IT job ads	76	48
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.107 %	0.049 %
As % of the category below	2.277 %	1.184 %
Daily rates quoted	26	4
Average minimum daily rate	£200	£159
Average daily rate	£205	£175
% change on same period last year	+16.89 %
Average maximum daily rate	£209	£191
UK excluding London average daily rate	£256	£243
% change on same period last year	+5.37 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.14	£17.20
Average hourly rate	£20.01	£18.50
% change on same period last year	+8.15 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.87	£19.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.48	£21.08
% change on same period last year	+1.92 %
Job Titles North West
Matching contract IT job ads	3337	4053
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.719 %	4.103 %
Daily rates quoted	775	824
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£320
Average daily rate	£341	£338
% change on same period last year	+0.99 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£356
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.18 %
Hourly rates quoted	472	453
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.58	£20.29
Average hourly rate	£23.36	£21.91
% change on same period last year	+6.65 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.14	£23.52
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.71	£25.14
% change on same period last year	-5.69 %
Information 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 Information 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 Information 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 Information Analyst across the North West region over the 3 months to 13 October 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 Information 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 Information Analyst across the North West region over the 3 months to 13 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 Information Analyst within the North West region over the 3 months to 13 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	+6	19	£171	+113.28 %
Lancashire	+19	16	£218	-
Cheshire	+25	15	£187	-
Merseyside	+3	13	£207	+58.97 %

Information Analyst England

Information Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited Information 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 Information Analyst in their job title.

1 111 (80.43 %) NHS 2 58 (42.03 %) SQL 3 23 (16.67 %) MS Excel 4 19 (13.77 %) VBA 5 15 (10.87 %) Health 6 14 (10.14 %) Data Analysis 7 13 (9.420 %) Crystal Reports 7 13 (9.420 %) Business Objects 7 13 (9.420 %) BusinessObjects 8 12 (8.696 %) Business Intelligence 8 12 (8.696 %) Oracle 9 11 (7.971 %) SQL Server 10 10 (7.246 %) Datawarehouse 10 10 (7.246 %) Pensions 11 9 (6.522 %) Degree

12 8 (5.797 %) MS Access 12 8 (5.797 %) Oracle Reports 13 6 (4.348 %) Finance 13 6 (4.348 %) Performance Management 13 6 (4.348 %) Microsoft 13 6 (4.348 %) MS Office 14 5 (3.623 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 15 4 (2.899 %) Management Information System 15 4 (2.899 %) Informatics 16 3 (2.174 %) Oracle 8/8i 16 3 (2.174 %) Business Analysis 16 3 (2.174 %) Migration 16 3 (2.174 %) Stakeholder Management 16 3 (2.174 %) Information Management 17 2 (1.449 %) Validation

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited Information 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 Information Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 23 (16.67 %) MS Excel 2 6 (4.348 %) MS Office 3 2 (1.449 %) SPSS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 13 (9.420 %) Crystal Reports 1 13 (9.420 %) BusinessObjects 2 11 (7.971 %) SQL Server 3 10 (7.246 %) Datawarehouse 4 8 (5.797 %) MS Access 4 8 (5.797 %) Oracle Reports 5 5 (3.623 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 3 (2.174 %) Oracle 8/8i 7 2 (1.449 %) TOAD 7 2 (1.449 %) Oracle Discoverer 7 2 (1.449 %) GIS 8 1 (0.725 %) SQL Server 2005
General 1 15 (10.87 %) Health 2 10 (7.246 %) Pensions 3 6 (4.348 %) Finance 4 1 (0.725 %) Government 4 1 (0.725 %) Local Government 4 1 (0.725 %) Back Office	Miscellaneous 1 111 (80.43 %) NHS 2 4 (2.899 %) Management Information System 2 4 (2.899 %) Informatics 3 1 (0.725 %) Data Extraction 3 1 (0.725 %) Statistics
Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (10.14 %) Data Analysis 2 12 (8.696 %) Business Intelligence 3 6 (4.348 %) Performance Management 4 3 (2.174 %) Business Analysis 4 3 (2.174 %) Information Management 4 3 (2.174 %) Migration 4 3 (2.174 %) Stakeholder Management 5 2 (1.449 %) Benchmarking 5 2 (1.449 %) Project Management 5 2 (1.449 %) Validation 6 1 (0.725 %) Data Migration 6 1 (0.725 %) Document Management 6 1 (0.725 %) Technical Architecture 6 1 (0.725 %) Service Delivery 6 1 (0.725 %) Data Management 6 1 (0.725 %) CRM 6 1 (0.725 %) Data Modelling	Programming Languages 1 58 (42.03 %) SQL 2 19 (13.77 %) VBA 3 2 (1.449 %) C 4 1 (0.725 %) Transact-SQL
Qualifications 1 9 (6.522 %) Degree	Vendors 1 13 (9.420 %) Business Objects 2 12 (8.696 %) Oracle 3 6 (4.348 %) Microsoft 4 2 (1.449 %) Mapinfo 4 2 (1.449 %) Cognos 5 1 (0.725 %) ESRI