Scotland Business Analysis Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Business Analysis skills within the Scotland 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 Analysis over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Feltham Fife Fleetwood Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Kirkcaldy Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Market Drayton Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rotherham Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	41	54
Rank change on same period last year	+13
Matching contract IT job ads	68	72
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.095 %	0.072 %
As % of the category below	5.753 %	4.898 %
Daily rates quoted	26	12
Average minimum daily rate	£234	£340
Average daily rate	£254	£350
% change on same period last year	-27.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£275	£360
UK excluding London average daily rate	£389	£384
% change on same period last year	+1.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£13.00
Average hourly rate	-	£14.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£16.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.90	£28.94
% change on same period last year	+10.25 %
Processes & Methodologies Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	1182	1470
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.651 %	1.477 %
Daily rates quoted	271	352
Average minimum daily rate	£316	£326
Average daily rate	£340	£343
% change on same period last year	-0.68 %
Average maximum daily rate	£364	£359
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£372
% change on same period last year	+1.69 %
Hourly rates quoted	74	61
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.14	£24.99
Average hourly rate	£25.32	£26.88
% change on same period last year	-5.81 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.50	£28.77
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.30	£30.27
% change on same period last year	-3.20 %
Business Analysis UK

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 Business Analysis across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies 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 Business Analysis across the Scotland region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Business Analysis across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 6 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 Business Analysis across the Scotland 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 Business Analysis within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 6 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
Edinburgh	+19	36	£225	-40.74 %
Glasgow	+2	13	£296	-16.97 %
Aberdeen	+5	6	-	-
Renfrewshire	-	2	-	-
Fife	-	1	-	-
Aberdeenshire	-	1	£350	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Business Analysis 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 Analysis.

1 80 (49.38 %) Finance 2 29 (17.90 %) Stakeholder Management 3 22 (13.58 %) Change Management 3 22 (13.58 %) Pensions 4 20 (12.35 %) GAP Analysis 4 20 (12.35 %) Project Management 5 18 (11.11 %) Data Modelling 6 15 (9.259 %) UML 7 14 (8.642 %) CRM 7 14 (8.642 %) PRINCE2 7 14 (8.642 %) Six Sigma 8 13 (8.025 %) Banking 9 9 (5.556 %) Data Management 9 9 (5.556 %) MS Visio 9 9 (5.556 %) Microsoft

9 9 (5.556 %) User Acceptance Testing 10 8 (4.938 %) Datawarehouse 10 8 (4.938 %) Oracle 10 8 (4.938 %) Systems Analysis 11 7 (4.321 %) Security Management 11 7 (4.321 %) Billing 11 7 (4.321 %) SQL 11 7 (4.321 %) ITIL 11 7 (4.321 %) SharePoint 11 7 (4.321 %) Business Intelligence 11 7 (4.321 %) Use Case 11 7 (4.321 %) Casewise 11 7 (4.321 %) Degree 12 6 (3.704 %) Requirements Analysis 12 6 (3.704 %) Rational Rose

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Business Analysis 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 Analysis. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 5 (3.086 %) .NET 1 5 (3.086 %) ASP.NET 2 4 (2.469 %) XML 3 2 (1.235 %) CSS 3 2 (1.235 %) WebServices 3 2 (1.235 %) HTML 3 2 (1.235 %) ASP 3 2 (1.235 %) AJAX 3 2 (1.235 %) ASP.NET 2.0 4 1 (0.617 %) CAML 4 1 (0.617 %) Microsoft Enterprise Library 4 1 (0.617 %) WCF 4 1 (0.617 %) J2EE 4 1 (0.617 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 7 (4.321 %) SharePoint 2 2 (1.235 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 1 (0.617 %) Lotus Domino 3 1 (0.617 %) LiveLink
Applications 1 9 (5.556 %) MS Visio 2 6 (3.704 %) MS Office 3 5 (3.086 %) MS Project 4 2 (1.235 %) MS PowerPoint 4 2 (1.235 %) MS Excel 5 1 (0.617 %) DOC1 5 1 (0.617 %) Casewise Corporate Modeler Suite 5 1 (0.617 %) InfoPath 5 1 (0.617 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 1 (0.617 %) Oracle Financials 1 1 (0.617 %) PeopleSoft HRMS 1 1 (0.617 %) Oracle EBS 1 1 (0.617 %) Dynamics NAV 1 1 (0.617 %) Dynamics GP 1 1 (0.617 %) SAP Business One 1 1 (0.617 %) AWD 1 1 (0.617 %) Line 100 1 1 (0.617 %) Line 500 1 1 (0.617 %) CODA Dream
Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (4.938 %) Datawarehouse 2 6 (3.704 %) SQL Server 3 4 (2.469 %) BusinessObjects 4 3 (1.852 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 1 (0.617 %) MS Access 5 1 (0.617 %) DB2 5 1 (0.617 %) GIS 5 1 (0.617 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 1 (0.617 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 1 (0.617 %) BusinessObjects XI 5 1 (0.617 %) Reference Data 5 1 (0.617 %) ETL 5 1 (0.617 %) TOAD	Development Applications 1 6 (3.704 %) Rational Rose 2 1 (0.617 %) QuickTest Pro 2 1 (0.617 %) Visual Studio
General 1 80 (49.38 %) Finance 2 22 (13.58 %) Pensions 3 13 (8.025 %) Banking 4 7 (4.321 %) Billing 5 6 (3.704 %) Health 6 5 (3.086 %) Retail 7 4 (2.469 %) Insurance 8 3 (1.852 %) Financial Institution 9 2 (1.235 %) Retail Banking 10 1 (0.617 %) Electronics 10 1 (0.617 %) Telecoms 10 1 (0.617 %) Education 10 1 (0.617 %) Government 10 1 (0.617 %) Investment Banking 10 1 (0.617 %) General Ledger	Job Titles 1 134 (82.72 %) Analyst 2 120 (74.07 %) Business Analyst 3 8 (4.938 %) Consultant 4 7 (4.321 %) Change Analyst 5 6 (3.704 %) Project Manager 6 4 (2.469 %) Junior 6 4 (2.469 %) Developer 6 4 (2.469 %) Project Analyst 7 3 (1.852 %) UML Business Analyst 7 3 (1.852 %) Architect 7 3 (1.852 %) Business Process Analyst 7 3 (1.852 %) Process Analyst 7 3 (1.852 %) CRM Business Analyst 8 2 (1.235 %) PeopleSoft Analyst 8 2 (1.235 %) Financial Business Analyst 8 2 (1.235 %) SharePoint Consultant 8 2 (1.235 %) Senior Consultant 8 2 (1.235 %) Business Consultant 8 2 (1.235 %) Junior Business Analyst 8 2 (1.235 %) Coordinator
Miscellaneous 1 5 (3.086 %) NHS 2 3 (1.852 %) Mainframe 2 3 (1.852 %) Management Information System 2 3 (1.852 %) Derivative 3 2 (1.235 %) Client/Server 3 2 (1.235 %) Economics 3 2 (1.235 %) W3C 4 1 (0.617 %) LIMS 4 1 (0.617 %) Equities 4 1 (0.617 %) SCADA 4 1 (0.617 %) Data Integration	Operating Systems 1 6 (3.704 %) Windows 2 4 (2.469 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 29 (17.90 %) Stakeholder Management 2 22 (13.58 %) Change Management 3 20 (12.35 %) GAP Analysis 3 20 (12.35 %) Project Management 4 18 (11.11 %) Data Modelling 5 15 (9.259 %) UML 6 14 (8.642 %) PRINCE2 6 14 (8.642 %) CRM 6 14 (8.642 %) Six Sigma 7 9 (5.556 %) Data Management 7 9 (5.556 %) User Acceptance Testing 8 8 (4.938 %) Systems Analysis 9 7 (4.321 %) Security Management 9 7 (4.321 %) Business Intelligence 9 7 (4.321 %) ITIL 9 7 (4.321 %) Use Case 10 6 (3.704 %) Requirements Analysis 10 6 (3.704 %) SOA 11 4 (2.469 %) Validation 11 4 (2.469 %) Requirements Management	Programming Languages 1 7 (4.321 %) SQL 2 4 (2.469 %) VB 2 4 (2.469 %) Java 3 3 (1.852 %) C# 4 1 (0.617 %) C 4 1 (0.617 %) VBA
Qualifications 1 7 (4.321 %) Degree 2 1 (0.617 %) ISEB	Vendors 1 9 (5.556 %) Microsoft 2 8 (4.938 %) Oracle 3 7 (4.321 %) Casewise 4 4 (2.469 %) Business Objects 5 2 (1.235 %) PeopleSoft 5 2 (1.235 %) SAP 5 2 (1.235 %) Lagan 6 1 (0.617 %) Epicor 6 1 (0.617 %) Exchequer 6 1 (0.617 %) Lotus 6 1 (0.617 %) CODA 6 1 (0.617 %) JD Edwards 6 1 (0.617 %) Sage 6 1 (0.617 %) ESRI