Reading Business Intelligence Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Business Intelligence (BI) skills within the Reading region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Business Intelligence over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Intelligence (BI)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Channel Islands Cheshire Chester Chorley City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Gatwick Glasgow Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Inverness Ipswich Jersey Johnstone Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Reading Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Strathclyde Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Whyteleafe Wiltshire Windsor Woking York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	51	51
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	21	22
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.028 %	0.022 %
As % of the category below	3.578 %	3.543 %
Daily rates quoted	7	6
Average minimum daily rate	£361	£383
Average daily rate	£377	£417
% change on same period last year	-9.40 %
Average maximum daily rate	£394	£450
UK excluding London average daily rate	£414	£405
% change on same period last year	+2.02 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.11	£39.27
% change on same period last year	-25.86 %
Processes & Methodologies Reading
Matching contract IT job ads	587	621
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.782 %	0.628 %
Daily rates quoted	187	207
Average minimum daily rate	£322	£340
Average daily rate	£347	£374
% change on same period last year	-7.37 %
Average maximum daily rate	£371	£408
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	37	50
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.78	£32.63
Average hourly rate	£31.99	£34.25
% change on same period last year	-6.60 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.19	£35.87
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
Business Intelligence Berkshire

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.

Business Intelligence
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Business Intelligence across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Trend

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

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Business Intelligence across the Reading region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Business Intelligence
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Business Intelligence
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Business Intelligence 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 Business Intelligence.

1 30 (61.22 %) Datawarehouse 2 13 (26.53 %) Telecoms 3 12 (24.49 %) MicroStrategy 4 10 (20.41 %) SAP 5 8 (16.33 %) SQL 5 8 (16.33 %) Migration 6 7 (14.29 %) Finance 6 7 (14.29 %) Oracle 6 7 (14.29 %) Data Modelling 7 6 (12.24 %) Data Architecture 8 5 (10.20 %) Technical Architecture 8 5 (10.20 %) DB2 8 5 (10.20 %) NetWeaver 8 5 (10.20 %) SAP BI 9 4 (8.163 %) XML

9 4 (8.163 %) MS Visio 9 4 (8.163 %) Oracle 9i 9 4 (8.163 %) IBM 9 4 (8.163 %) Knowledge Management 9 4 (8.163 %) Enterprise Architecture 9 4 (8.163 %) WebSphere 9 4 (8.163 %) SAP XI 9 4 (8.163 %) Risk Assessment 10 3 (6.122 %) WPS 10 3 (6.122 %) Marketing 10 3 (6.122 %) Oracle RAC 10 3 (6.122 %) ETL 10 3 (6.122 %) UNIX 10 3 (6.122 %) SQL Server 11 2 (4.082 %) PL/SQL

Business Intelligence
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Business Intelligence 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 Business Intelligence. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 4 (8.163 %) XML 1 4 (8.163 %) SAP XI 1 4 (8.163 %) WebSphere 2 1 (2.041 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 5 (10.20 %) NetWeaver 2 3 (6.122 %) WPS 3 1 (2.041 %) IIS
Applications 1 4 (8.163 %) MS Visio 2 2 (4.082 %) SPSS 2 2 (4.082 %) MS Excel 3 1 (2.041 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 2 (4.082 %) SAP R/3 2 1 (2.041 %) SAP PM 2 1 (2.041 %) Singl.eView
Communications & Networking 1 1 (2.041 %) Intranet 1 1 (2.041 %) Internet 1 1 (2.041 %) Extranet 1 1 (2.041 %) BSS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 30 (61.22 %) Datawarehouse 2 5 (10.20 %) DB2 2 5 (10.20 %) SAP BI 3 4 (8.163 %) Oracle 9i 4 3 (6.122 %) ETL 4 3 (6.122 %) SQL Server 5 2 (4.082 %) Oracle 10g 5 2 (4.082 %) SAP BW 5 2 (4.082 %) DataStage 5 2 (4.082 %) QualityStage 6 1 (2.041 %) BusinessObjects 6 1 (2.041 %) DB2 UDB 6 1 (2.041 %) Oracle 11g 6 1 (2.041 %) BusinessObjects XI 6 1 (2.041 %) RDBMS 6 1 (2.041 %) Snowflake Schema 6 1 (2.041 %) Star Schema 6 1 (2.041 %) MS Access 6 1 (2.041 %) OLAP 6 1 (2.041 %) Oracle Reports
Development Applications 1 2 (4.082 %) ERwin 2 1 (2.041 %) ProC 2 1 (2.041 %) TestDirector	General 1 13 (26.53 %) Telecoms 2 7 (14.29 %) Finance 3 3 (6.122 %) Marketing 4 2 (4.082 %) Insurance 5 1 (2.041 %) Government 5 1 (2.041 %) Manufacturing 5 1 (2.041 %) Advertising 5 1 (2.041 %) Retail 5 1 (2.041 %) Billing
Job Titles 1 13 (26.53 %) Consultant 2 7 (14.29 %) Business Consultant 3 6 (12.24 %) Datawarehouse Consultant 4 5 (10.20 %) DBA 4 5 (10.20 %) Project Manager 4 5 (10.20 %) Technical Lead 5 4 (8.163 %) Analyst 6 3 (6.122 %) Developer 6 3 (6.122 %) Oracle DBA 6 3 (6.122 %) Data Modeller 7 2 (4.082 %) MicroStrategy Consultant 7 2 (4.082 %) Data Analyst 7 2 (4.082 %) Tester 8 1 (2.041 %) Programme Manager 8 1 (2.041 %) Business Analyst 8 1 (2.041 %) Systems Analyst 8 1 (2.041 %) Technical Architect 8 1 (2.041 %) Business Developer 8 1 (2.041 %) Architect 8 1 (2.041 %) Administrator	Miscellaneous 1 2 (4.082 %) Replication 1 2 (4.082 %) Data Integration 2 1 (2.041 %) Clustering 2 1 (2.041 %) Data Extraction
Operating Systems 1 3 (6.122 %) UNIX 2 1 (2.041 %) AIX 2 1 (2.041 %) HPUX 2 1 (2.041 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (16.33 %) Migration 2 7 (14.29 %) Data Modelling 3 6 (12.24 %) Data Architecture 4 5 (10.20 %) Technical Architecture 5 4 (8.163 %) Risk Assessment 5 4 (8.163 %) Knowledge Management 5 4 (8.163 %) Enterprise Architecture 6 2 (4.082 %) Requirements Management 6 2 (4.082 %) Data Analysis 6 2 (4.082 %) RUP 6 2 (4.082 %) Configuration Management 6 2 (4.082 %) Project Management 6 2 (4.082 %) Load Balancing 6 2 (4.082 %) Multivariate Analysis 7 1 (2.041 %) Release Management 7 1 (2.041 %) SAP Implementation 7 1 (2.041 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 1 (2.041 %) Test Scripting 7 1 (2.041 %) Performance Management 7 1 (2.041 %) SC Cleared
Programming Languages 1 8 (16.33 %) SQL 2 2 (4.082 %) PL/SQL 3 1 (2.041 %) Shell Script 3 1 (2.041 %) C 3 1 (2.041 %) Java	Qualifications 1 2 (4.082 %) Degree
System Software 1 3 (6.122 %) Oracle RAC 2 2 (4.082 %) Oracle RMAN	Systems Management 1 1 (2.041 %) Tivoli 1 1 (2.041 %) CA SiteMinder
Vendors 1 12 (24.49 %) MicroStrategy 2 10 (20.41 %) SAP 3 7 (14.29 %) Oracle 4 4 (8.163 %) IBM 5 2 (4.082 %) Microsoft 5 2 (4.082 %) Cognos 5 2 (4.082 %) Epiphany 6 1 (2.041 %) Netezza 6 1 (2.041 %) Business Objects 6 1 (2.041 %) Informatica 6 1 (2.041 %) Intec 6 1 (2.041 %) Ab Initio