The first table below looks at the demand for the Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 Job Titles advertised for the Reading 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Analyst
Rank 5 8 10
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 107 102 121
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 12.81% 9.148% 11.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.08% 9.922% 13.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 41 47
Average daily rate £373 £330 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.87% +10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £185 £120 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £575 £364
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 16
Average hourly rate £17.50 £12.89 £11.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+35.76% +9.70%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.30 £10.75 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.70 £20.30 £31.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £15.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -
All Job Titles
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
760 1028 917
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 91.02% 92.20% 88.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 347 409
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 61 42
Average hourly rate £18.00 £15.58 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.56% +24.60%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.70 £11.50 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £22.60 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Analyst
Berkshire

Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Analyst across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Reading Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Analyst across the Reading region.

Reading Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Analyst across the Reading region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Reading Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Analyst across the Reading region.

Reading Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region that cited 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 Analyst in their job title.

1 53 (27.75%) Finance
2 39 (20.42%) Microsoft
3 36 (18.85%) Windows
4 34 (17.80%) SQL
5 31 (16.23%) MS Excel
6 29 (15.18%) Active Directory
7 26 (13.61%) MS Office
8 22 (11.52%) Project Management
9 21 (10.99%) Business Analysis
10 20 (10.47%) Security Cleared
11 19 (9.948%) ITIL
12 17 (8.901%) Migration
12 17 (8.901%) Windows XP
13 16 (8.377%) VMware
13 16 (8.377%) Windows 7
14 15 (7.853%) Telecoms
14 15 (7.853%) GIS
14 15 (7.853%) HP
15 14 (7.330%) TCP/IP
15 14 (7.330%) Business Intelligence
15 14 (7.330%) LAN
15 14 (7.330%) SC Cleared
16 13 (6.806%) Windows Server 2008
16 13 (6.806%) Analytics
16 13 (6.806%) Java
16 13 (6.806%) VPN
16 13 (6.806%) ISEB
16 13 (6.806%) Citrix
17 12 (6.283%) Internet
17 12 (6.283%) WAN

Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region that cited 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 Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (5.759%) .NET
2 6 (3.141%) Apache CXF
2 6 (3.141%) Spring
2 6 (3.141%) Hibernate
3 5 (2.618%) Struts
3 5 (2.618%) Struts2
3 5 (2.618%) jQuery
4 4 (2.094%) WebSphere
4 4 (2.094%) ArcObjects
5 3 (1.571%) Web Services
5 3 (1.571%) MDX
6 2 (1.047%) soapUI
6 2 (1.047%) REST
6 2 (1.047%) XML
6 2 (1.047%) SOAP
6 2 (1.047%) Middleware
7 1 (0.524%) ADO.NET
7 1 (0.524%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.524%) J2EE
7 1 (0.524%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 7 (3.665%) Apache
1 7 (3.665%) Tomcat
1 7 (3.665%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.618%) ArcGIS
2 5 (2.618%) Lotus Notes
2 5 (2.618%) Oracle Spatial
3 4 (2.094%) MS Exchange
4 3 (1.571%) CICS
4 3 (1.571%) SAS
4 3 (1.571%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.524%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.524%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.524%) Lotus Domino
5 1 (0.524%) IIS
5 1 (0.524%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (0.524%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (0.524%) Force.com
5 1 (0.524%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 31 (16.23%) MS Excel
2 26 (13.61%) MS Office
3 7 (3.665%) MS PowerPoint
4 5 (2.618%) MS Visio
5 3 (1.571%) SPSS
6 2 (1.047%) Open Workbench
7 1 (0.524%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 5 (2.618%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.571%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.047%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 2 (1.047%) Prophet
4 1 (0.524%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.524%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.524%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.524%) Agresso
4 1 (0.524%) SiteCatalyst
4 1 (0.524%) SyteLine
4 1 (0.524%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.330%) TCP/IP
1 14 (7.330%) LAN
2 13 (6.806%) VPN
3 12 (6.283%) Internet
3 12 (6.283%) WAN
4 8 (4.188%) Ethernet
5 5 (2.618%) Firewall
5 5 (2.618%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (2.094%) Network Security
6 4 (2.094%) SAN
7 3 (1.571%) DNS
7 3 (1.571%) ATM
8 2 (1.047%) ADSL
8 2 (1.047%) DHCP
8 2 (1.047%) IP Telephony
9 1 (0.524%) BSS
9 1 (0.524%) HTTP
9 1 (0.524%) LDAP
9 1 (0.524%) PBX
9 1 (0.524%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.853%) GIS
2 8 (4.188%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.188%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (3.665%) DB2
4 4 (2.094%) Oracle 11g
4 4 (2.094%) OLAP
4 4 (2.094%) Data Mining
4 4 (2.094%) Oracle 10g
4 4 (2.094%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.047%) DbVisualizer
5 2 (1.047%) MS Access
5 2 (1.047%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (1.047%) Star Schema
6 1 (0.524%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.524%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 6 (3.141%) Maven
1 6 (3.141%) JUnit
1 6 (3.141%) Eclipse
2 3 (1.571%) Subversion
2 3 (1.571%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.047%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (1.047%) Axure RP
4 1 (0.524%) ERwin
4 1 (0.524%) QuickTest Pro
4 1 (0.524%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.524%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.524%) QADirector
4 1 (0.524%) Selenium
General
1 53 (27.75%) Finance
2 15 (7.853%) Telecoms
3 4 (2.094%) Banking
3 4 (2.094%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (1.047%) Marketing
4 2 (1.047%) Retail
4 2 (1.047%) Automotive
5 1 (0.524%) Games
5 1 (0.524%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.524%) Publishing
5 1 (0.524%) Billing
5 1 (0.524%) French Language
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.759%) Management Information System
2 8 (4.188%) Blackberry
3 7 (3.665%) CESG
4 5 (2.618%) Statistics
5 4 (2.094%) RMADS
5 4 (2.094%) Photography
6 3 (1.571%) Clustering
6 3 (1.571%) Mainframe
6 3 (1.571%) Client/Server
6 3 (1.571%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.047%) Data Extraction
7 2 (1.047%) Computer Science
7 2 (1.047%) NHS
7 2 (1.047%) Handset
8 1 (0.524%) NPfIT
8 1 (0.524%) STB
8 1 (0.524%) DTV
8 1 (0.524%) Chip and PIN
8 1 (0.524%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.524%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 36 (18.85%) Windows
2 17 (8.901%) Windows XP
3 16 (8.377%) Windows 7
4 13 (6.806%) Windows Server 2008
5 9 (4.712%) Windows Server 2003
6 6 (3.141%) Mac OS X
6 6 (3.141%) Linux
7 3 (1.571%) MVS
7 3 (1.571%) UNIX
8 2 (1.047%) Apple iOS
8 2 (1.047%) HPUX
8 2 (1.047%) VMS
8 2 (1.047%) Windows 2000
8 2 (1.047%) SUSE
9 1 (0.524%) Windows NT
9 1 (0.524%) Windows Vista
9 1 (0.524%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (11.52%) Project Management
2 21 (10.99%) Business Analysis
3 19 (9.948%) ITIL
4 17 (8.901%) Migration
5 14 (7.330%) Business Intelligence
6 13 (6.806%) Analytics
7 12 (6.283%) ETL
8 11 (5.759%) Data Migration
9 10 (5.236%) System Testing
9 10 (5.236%) Information Security
10 8 (4.188%) CRM
10 8 (4.188%) Agile Software Development
11 7 (3.665%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (3.665%) PRINCE2
11 7 (3.665%) Incident Management
11 7 (3.665%) Resource Management
11 7 (3.665%) Test Scripting
12 6 (3.141%) User Acceptance Testing
12 6 (3.141%) Security Architecture
12 6 (3.141%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 34 (17.80%) SQL
2 13 (6.806%) Java
3 7 (3.665%) C#
4 6 (3.141%) Shell Script
4 6 (3.141%) Python
5 4 (2.094%) PL/SQL
6 3 (1.571%) JCL
6 3 (1.571%) T-SQL
6 3 (1.571%) VBA
6 3 (1.571%) COBOL
6 3 (1.571%) ALGOL
7 2 (1.047%) Groovy
7 2 (1.047%) C
8 1 (0.524%) C++
8 1 (0.524%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 20 (10.47%) Security Cleared
2 14 (7.330%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.806%) ISEB
4 9 (4.712%) Degree
5 3 (1.571%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.571%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.047%) MCP
6 2 (1.047%) MCSE
6 2 (1.047%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.524%) CISA
7 1 (0.524%) CISM
7 1 (0.524%) ECDL
7 1 (0.524%) CISSP
7 1 (0.524%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.524%) CCNP
7 1 (0.524%) CCNA
7 1 (0.524%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 1 (0.524%) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.712%) PCI DSS
2 8 (4.188%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.141%) SLA
4 3 (1.571%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.571%) QA
5 1 (0.524%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.524%) COBIT
System Software
1 29 (15.18%) Active Directory
2 9 (4.712%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.665%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (1.047%) VMware Server
4 2 (1.047%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (3.665%) Unicenter
1 7 (3.665%) SCCM
2 5 (2.618%) HP Quality Center
3 4 (2.094%) Tivoli
4 3 (1.571%) HP UCMDB
5 1 (0.524%) MIIS
Vendors
1 39 (20.42%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.377%) VMware
3 15 (7.853%) HP
4 13 (6.806%) Citrix
5 11 (5.759%) Remedy
5 11 (5.759%) CA
6 10 (5.236%) Oracle
7 8 (4.188%) FrontRange
8 7 (3.665%) Royalblue
9 6 (3.141%) Lotus
10 5 (2.618%) ESRI
10 5 (2.618%) SAP
11 4 (2.094%) Cisco
11 4 (2.094%) IBM
11 4 (2.094%) MicroStrategy
11 4 (2.094%) Ab Initio
12 3 (1.571%) Metastorm
12 3 (1.571%) Serena
12 3 (1.571%) Micro Focus
12 3 (1.571%) Unisys
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