North West Senior Analyst Contracts

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

Senior Analyst
Location Amersham Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Hove Inverness Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leek Leicestershire Letchworth Livingston London Lutterworth M4 Corridor Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Osterley Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	100	111
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	27	36
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.038 %	0.036 %
As % of the category below	0.807 %	0.890 %
Daily rates quoted	6	10
Average minimum daily rate	£255	£360
Average daily rate	£278	£375
% change on same period last year	-25.67 %
Average maximum daily rate	£302	£389
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£378
% change on same period last year	-4.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.50	£55.00
Average hourly rate	£31.25	£55.00
% change on same period last year	-43.18 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£55.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.96	£33.58
% change on same period last year	-10.78 %
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 %
Senior 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.

Senior Analyst
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Senior 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 Senior 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 Senior Analyst across the North West region over the 3 months to 10 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 Senior Analyst across the North West region.

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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 Senior 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
Lancashire	+11	6	£270	-1.81 %
Cheshire	+9	4	£275	-38.88 %
Merseyside	-3	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 25 (42.37 %) SQL 2 23 (38.98 %) NHS 3 12 (20.34 %) Oracle 4 11 (18.64 %) Finance 5 9 (15.25 %) SQL Server 6 7 (11.86 %) VBA 6 7 (11.86 %) Health 7 5 (8.475 %) Oracle EBS 7 5 (8.475 %) MS Excel 8 4 (6.780 %) Datawarehouse 8 4 (6.780 %) MS Office 8 4 (6.780 %) Business Intelligence 8 4 (6.780 %) Test Scripting 8 4 (6.780 %) Problem Management 9 3 (5.085 %) Performance Management

9 3 (5.085 %) SQL Server 2000 9 3 (5.085 %) Microsoft 9 3 (5.085 %) Change Management 9 3 (5.085 %) Regression Testing 9 3 (5.085 %) Management Information System 9 3 (5.085 %) E-Commerce 9 3 (5.085 %) Windows 9 3 (5.085 %) MS Access 9 3 (5.085 %) .NET 9 3 (5.085 %) C# 9 3 (5.085 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 9 3 (5.085 %) Business Analysis 10 2 (3.390 %) AJAX 10 2 (3.390 %) SQL Server 2005 10 2 (3.390 %) Information Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 3 (5.085 %) .NET 2 2 (3.390 %) ASP.NET 2 2 (3.390 %) AJAX	Application Platforms 1 1 (1.695 %) SAS 1 1 (1.695 %) CMS 1 1 (1.695 %) Oracle Workflow
Applications 1 5 (8.475 %) MS Excel 2 4 (6.780 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 5 (8.475 %) Oracle EBS 2 1 (1.695 %) Oracle HRMS 2 1 (1.695 %) Oracle Applications 2 1 (1.695 %) Oracle Payroll 2 1 (1.695 %) GraphTalk 2 1 (1.695 %) Oracle iRecruitment 2 1 (1.695 %) Academy Housing 2 1 (1.695 %) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking 1 2 (3.390 %) SMS 1 2 (3.390 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (15.25 %) SQL Server 2 4 (6.780 %) Datawarehouse 3 3 (5.085 %) SQL Server 2000 3 3 (5.085 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 3 3 (5.085 %) MS Access 4 2 (3.390 %) SQL Server 2005 4 2 (3.390 %) Data Cleansing 5 1 (1.695 %) DTS 5 1 (1.695 %) ETL 5 1 (1.695 %) TOAD 5 1 (1.695 %) RDBMS 5 1 (1.695 %) BusinessObjects 5 1 (1.695 %) Oracle 9i
Development Applications 1 1 (1.695 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 11 (18.64 %) Finance 2 7 (11.86 %) Health 3 2 (3.390 %) Government 3 2 (3.390 %) Retail 3 2 (3.390 %) Insurance 4 1 (1.695 %) Pensions 4 1 (1.695 %) Telecoms 4 1 (1.695 %) Banking
Miscellaneous 1 23 (38.98 %) NHS 2 3 (5.085 %) Management Information System 3 2 (3.390 %) Statistics 3 2 (3.390 %) Informatics 3 2 (3.390 %) Computer Science 3 2 (3.390 %) Data Extraction 4 1 (1.695 %) CMDB 4 1 (1.695 %) Mathematics 4 1 (1.695 %) IVR	Operating Systems 1 3 (5.085 %) Windows 2 2 (3.390 %) Windows CE 3 1 (1.695 %) UNIX 3 1 (1.695 %) VMS
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (6.780 %) Business Intelligence 1 4 (6.780 %) Problem Management 1 4 (6.780 %) Test Scripting 2 3 (5.085 %) Business Analysis 2 3 (5.085 %) E-Commerce 2 3 (5.085 %) Change Management 2 3 (5.085 %) Regression Testing 2 3 (5.085 %) Performance Management 3 2 (3.390 %) Test Management 3 2 (3.390 %) Validation 3 2 (3.390 %) Migration 3 2 (3.390 %) EAM 3 2 (3.390 %) CRM 3 2 (3.390 %) Service Management 3 2 (3.390 %) Information Management 3 2 (3.390 %) System Testing 3 2 (3.390 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 2 (3.390 %) Data Migration 3 2 (3.390 %) Data Mapping 4 1 (1.695 %) CTC Cleared	Programming Languages 1 25 (42.37 %) SQL 2 7 (11.86 %) VBA 3 3 (5.085 %) C# 4 2 (3.390 %) Transact-SQL 5 1 (1.695 %) VB 5 1 (1.695 %) VB.NET 5 1 (1.695 %) C++ 5 1 (1.695 %) Java 5 1 (1.695 %) Perl 5 1 (1.695 %) PL/SQL 5 1 (1.695 %) VB6 5 1 (1.695 %) C
Qualifications 1 1 (1.695 %) ISEB 1 1 (1.695 %) CISSP 1 1 (1.695 %) Degree	Systems Management 1 1 (1.695 %) ServiceCenter 1 1 (1.695 %) AssetCenter
Vendors 1 12 (20.34 %) Oracle 2 3 (5.085 %) Microsoft 3 1 (1.695 %) Mapinfo 3 1 (1.695 %) Anite 3 1 (1.695 %) Ab Initio 3 1 (1.695 %) Lagan 3 1 (1.695 %) Northgate 3 1 (1.695 %) Capita 3 1 (1.695 %) Orchard 3 1 (1.695 %) Business Objects