Scotland Business Analyst Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Business Analyst role in IT contracts within the Scotland 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 Business Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Clevedon Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Grimsby Guernsey Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hastings Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent King's Lynn Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Melton Mowbray Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northumbria Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Pudsey Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	6	16
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	272	208
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.363 %	0.210 %
As % of the category below	11.67 %	6.073 %
Daily rates quoted	100	56
Average minimum daily rate	£277	£305
Average daily rate	£302	£326
% change on same period last year	-7.12 %
Average maximum daily rate	£328	£347
UK excluding London average daily rate	£376	£375
% change on same period last year	+0.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.50	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£36.63	£30.00
% change on same period last year	+22.08 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.75	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.75	£33.31
% change on same period last year	-7.67 %
Job Titles Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	2331	3425
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.107 %	3.465 %
Daily rates quoted	514	666
Average minimum daily rate	£297	£306
Average daily rate	£320	£321
% change on same period last year	-0.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£344	£337
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	140	196
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.18	£18.21
Average hourly rate	£22.27	£19.26
% change on same period last year	+15.61 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.36	£20.31
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
Business Analyst 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 Analyst across the Scotland 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 Business Analyst 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 Analyst across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 Analyst across the Scotland region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Analyst within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 25 July 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	+6	139	£264	-19.36 %
Glasgow	+10	64	£317	-7.25 %
West Lothian	-4	5	£383	+53.33 %
Aberdeen	+4	4	£286	-
Dundee	+4	3	-	-
Renfrewshire	-	3	-	-
Fife	+4	1	£450	+63.63 %
Stirling	+10	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region that cited Business 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 Business Analyst in their job title.

1 242 (42.83 %) Finance 2 131 (23.19 %) Business Analysis 3 97 (17.17 %) Pensions 4 68 (12.04 %) Stakeholder Management 5 56 (9.912 %) Banking 6 52 (9.204 %) CRM 7 42 (7.434 %) UML 8 41 (7.257 %) Oracle 9 39 (6.903 %) Data Modelling 10 35 (6.195 %) GAP Analysis 11 33 (5.841 %) PRINCE2 12 32 (5.664 %) Project Management 12 32 (5.664 %) User Acceptance Testing 13 31 (5.487 %) Systems Analysis 14 26 (4.602 %) SQL

15 22 (3.894 %) MS Visio 15 22 (3.894 %) Use Case 16 20 (3.540 %) Asset Management 16 20 (3.540 %) Change Management 17 19 (3.363 %) Datawarehouse 18 18 (3.186 %) Requirements Analysis 18 18 (3.186 %) Casewise 19 17 (3.009 %) UNIX 20 15 (2.655 %) Six Sigma 20 15 (2.655 %) Financial Institution 21 14 (2.478 %) BusinessObjects 21 14 (2.478 %) Rational Rose 21 14 (2.478 %) Business Objects 21 14 (2.478 %) Lagan 21 14 (2.478 %) Investment Banking

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region that cited Business 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 Business Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (0.354 %) WebSphere 2 1 (0.177 %) .NET 2 1 (0.177 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 5 (0.885 %) SharePoint 2 2 (0.354 %) SAS 3 1 (0.177 %) LiveLink 3 1 (0.177 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 22 (3.894 %) MS Visio 2 11 (1.947 %) MS Project 3 9 (1.593 %) MS Office 4 8 (1.416 %) MS PowerPoint 5 4 (0.708 %) MS Excel 6 1 (0.177 %) Casewise Corporate Modeler Suite	Business Applications 1 6 (1.062 %) Oracle Financials 2 4 (0.708 %) Oracle EBS 3 2 (0.354 %) SimCorp Dimension 3 2 (0.354 %) HiPortfolio 3 2 (0.354 %) SAP Oil and Gas 4 1 (0.177 %) Salerio 4 1 (0.177 %) Oracle ERP 4 1 (0.177 %) Oracle Applications 4 1 (0.177 %) PeopleSoft HRMS
Communications & Networking 1 1 (0.177 %) VPN 1 1 (0.177 %) Internet 1 1 (0.177 %) Firewall	Database & Business Intelligence 1 19 (3.363 %) Datawarehouse 2 14 (2.478 %) BusinessObjects 3 6 (1.062 %) Oracle 9i 4 4 (0.708 %) RDBMS 5 3 (0.531 %) ETL 5 3 (0.531 %) Data Cleansing 6 2 (0.354 %) Reference Data 6 2 (0.354 %) BODI 6 2 (0.354 %) BusinessObjects XI 6 2 (0.354 %) TOAD 6 2 (0.354 %) Crystal Reports 7 1 (0.177 %) Oracle 8/8i 7 1 (0.177 %) MS Access 7 1 (0.177 %) SQL Server 7 1 (0.177 %) DataStage
Development Applications 1 14 (2.478 %) Rational Rose 2 7 (1.239 %) JDeveloper 3 1 (0.177 %) ERwin	General 1 242 (42.83 %) Finance 2 97 (17.17 %) Pensions 3 56 (9.912 %) Banking 4 15 (2.655 %) Financial Institution 5 14 (2.478 %) Investment Banking 6 13 (2.301 %) Insurance 7 10 (1.770 %) Retail 7 10 (1.770 %) Back Office 8 8 (1.416 %) Billing 8 8 (1.416 %) Health 9 7 (1.239 %) Front Office 9 7 (1.239 %) Government 10 4 (0.708 %) General Ledger 11 3 (0.531 %) Retail Banking 12 2 (0.354 %) Electric 13 1 (0.177 %) Local Government 13 1 (0.177 %) Education 13 1 (0.177 %) Law 13 1 (0.177 %) Legal 13 1 (0.177 %) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous 1 12 (2.124 %) Derivative 2 9 (1.593 %) LIMS 3 8 (1.416 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 3 8 (1.416 %) Management Information System 4 6 (1.062 %) Mainframe 5 3 (0.531 %) NHS 5 3 (0.531 %) Equities 6 2 (0.354 %) Credit Derivative 6 2 (0.354 %) Statistics 7 1 (0.177 %) Credit Risk 7 1 (0.177 %) IBM Mainframe 7 1 (0.177 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 17 (3.009 %) UNIX 2 7 (1.239 %) Windows 3 1 (0.177 %) AIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 131 (23.19 %) Business Analysis 2 68 (12.04 %) Stakeholder Management 3 52 (9.204 %) CRM 4 42 (7.434 %) UML 5 39 (6.903 %) Data Modelling 6 35 (6.195 %) GAP Analysis 7 33 (5.841 %) PRINCE2 8 32 (5.664 %) Project Management 8 32 (5.664 %) User Acceptance Testing 9 31 (5.487 %) Systems Analysis 10 22 (3.894 %) Use Case 11 20 (3.540 %) Asset Management 11 20 (3.540 %) Change Management 12 18 (3.186 %) Requirements Analysis 13 15 (2.655 %) Six Sigma 14 13 (2.301 %) Data Analysis 15 11 (1.947 %) Investment Management 15 11 (1.947 %) BPR 15 11 (1.947 %) Business Intelligence 15 11 (1.947 %) ERP	Programming Languages 1 26 (4.602 %) SQL 2 9 (1.593 %) Java 3 2 (0.354 %) PL/SQL 4 1 (0.177 %) C 4 1 (0.177 %) VB 4 1 (0.177 %) VB.NET 4 1 (0.177 %) VBA 4 1 (0.177 %) SQR
Qualifications 1 9 (1.593 %) Degree 2 3 (0.531 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 1 (0.177 %) ITIL Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (0.885 %) GAMP 1 5 (0.885 %) GMP 1 5 (0.885 %) GLP 1 5 (0.885 %) Basel II 2 4 (0.708 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 3 2 (0.354 %) QA 4 1 (0.177 %) ISO27001 4 1 (0.177 %) SLA
Vendors 1 41 (7.257 %) Oracle 2 18 (3.186 %) Casewise 3 14 (2.478 %) Lagan 3 14 (2.478 %) Business Objects 4 10 (1.770 %) Microsoft 5 6 (1.062 %) SAP 5 6 (1.062 %) Charles River 6 3 (0.531 %) PeopleSoft 6 3 (0.531 %) IBM 7 2 (0.354 %) SimCorp 7 2 (0.354 %) MAPICS 7 2 (0.354 %) Anite 8 1 (0.177 %) CheckFree 8 1 (0.177 %) LatentZero 8 1 (0.177 %) ICL 8 1 (0.177 %) Capita 8 1 (0.177 %) thinkFolio 8 1 (0.177 %) JD Edwards 8 1 (0.177 %) Mercator 8 1 (0.177 %) Siemens