Scotland Data Analysis Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Data 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 job ads that have cited Data Analysis over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bridgwater Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Corby Corsham Coventry Crawley Croydon Docklands, London Dorset Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redcar Rickmansworth Salford Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swansea Swindon Tadworth Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	83	59
Rank change on same period last year	-24
Matching contract IT job ads	20	79
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.026 %	0.084 %
As % of the category below	1.754 %	5.100 %
Daily rates quoted	3	20
Average minimum daily rate	£233	£263
Average daily rate	£252	£273
% change on same period last year	-7.81 %
Average maximum daily rate	£270	£283
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£317
% change on same period last year	+6.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£10.00	£26.92
Average hourly rate	£11.25	£28.62
% change on same period last year	-60.69 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£12.50	£30.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.94	£19.87
% change on same period last year	+0.36 %
Processes & Methodologies Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	1140	1549
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.503 %	1.643 %
Daily rates quoted	282	319
Average minimum daily rate	£307	£322
Average daily rate	£328	£336
% change on same period last year	-2.52 %
Average maximum daily rate	£349	£351
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£374
% change on same period last year	+2.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	58	84
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.58	£22.77
Average hourly rate	£21.09	£24.32
% change on same period last year	-13.25 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.61	£25.86
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.40	£30.19
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
Data 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.

Data Analysis
Demand Trend

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

Data Analysis
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Data Analysis across the Scotland region.

Data Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Data Analysis across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

Data Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Data Analysis across the Scotland region.

Data Analysis
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Data Analysis across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 4 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 job ads citing Data Analysis within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 4 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
Glasgow	-14	11	£252	-1.55 %
Edinburgh	-20	6	-	-
South Lanarkshire	-	1	-	-

Data Analysis UK

Data Analysis
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Data 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 Data Analysis.

1 13 (34.21 %) Finance 2 10 (26.32 %) Banking 3 8 (21.05 %) SQL 3 8 (21.05 %) VB 4 7 (18.42 %) Datawarehouse 5 6 (15.79 %) Java 5 6 (15.79 %) Oracle 5 6 (15.79 %) MS Excel 5 6 (15.79 %) Statistics 6 5 (13.16 %) Data Management 6 5 (13.16 %) ETL 7 4 (10.53 %) RDBMS 7 4 (10.53 %) Sybase 7 4 (10.53 %) MS Office 7 4 (10.53 %) Business Analysis

8 3 (7.895 %) Statistical Analysis 8 3 (7.895 %) Fund Management 8 3 (7.895 %) User Acceptance Testing 8 3 (7.895 %) Investment Management 8 3 (7.895 %) Business Objects 8 3 (7.895 %) Data Modelling 8 3 (7.895 %) BusinessObjects 8 3 (7.895 %) ERwin 9 2 (5.263 %) Financial Institution 9 2 (5.263 %) Migration 9 2 (5.263 %) GIS 9 2 (5.263 %) ArcGIS 9 2 (5.263 %) ArcIMS 9 2 (5.263 %) Project Management 9 2 (5.263 %) Business Intelligence

Data Analysis
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Data 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 Data Analysis. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (2.632 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 2 (5.263 %) SAS 1 2 (5.263 %) ArcGIS 1 2 (5.263 %) ArcIMS 1 2 (5.263 %) ArcSDE
Applications 1 6 (15.79 %) MS Excel 2 4 (10.53 %) MS Office 3 1 (2.632 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 1 (2.632 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (18.42 %) Datawarehouse 2 5 (13.16 %) ETL 3 4 (10.53 %) RDBMS 4 3 (7.895 %) BusinessObjects 5 2 (5.263 %) GIS 5 2 (5.263 %) Data Mining 5 2 (5.263 %) SQL Server 6 1 (2.632 %) MS Access 6 1 (2.632 %) Oracle 10g 6 1 (2.632 %) TOAD 6 1 (2.632 %) Oracle OWB 6 1 (2.632 %) Data Cleansing 6 1 (2.632 %) DataStage	Development Applications 1 3 (7.895 %) ERwin
General 1 13 (34.21 %) Finance 2 10 (26.32 %) Banking 3 2 (5.263 %) Pensions 3 2 (5.263 %) Financial Institution 4 1 (2.632 %) Online Banking 4 1 (2.632 %) Retail 4 1 (2.632 %) Health	Job Titles 1 27 (71.05 %) Analyst 2 16 (42.11 %) Business Analyst 3 8 (21.05 %) Data Analyst 4 5 (13.16 %) Developer 5 3 (7.895 %) VB Developer 5 3 (7.895 %) SQL Developer 6 2 (5.263 %) Project Manager 6 2 (5.263 %) Junior 6 2 (5.263 %) Business Systems Analyst 6 2 (5.263 %) Systems Analyst 6 2 (5.263 %) Banking Business Analyst 6 2 (5.263 %) Junior Analyst 6 2 (5.263 %) GIS Technician 7 1 (2.632 %) Data Migration Analyst 7 1 (2.632 %) Project Officer 7 1 (2.632 %) Oracle Analyst 7 1 (2.632 %) Junior Data Analyst 7 1 (2.632 %) Investment Banking Business Analyst 7 1 (2.632 %) Business Developer 7 1 (2.632 %) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous 1 6 (15.79 %) Statistics 2 3 (7.895 %) Fund Management 3 1 (2.632 %) Data Extraction 3 1 (2.632 %) Management Information System	Operating Systems 1 1 (2.632 %) Unix 1 1 (2.632 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (13.16 %) Data Management 2 4 (10.53 %) Business Analysis 3 3 (7.895 %) Statistical Analysis 3 3 (7.895 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 3 (7.895 %) Investment Management 3 3 (7.895 %) Data Modelling 4 2 (5.263 %) Business Intelligence 4 2 (5.263 %) Project Management 4 2 (5.263 %) PRINCE2 4 2 (5.263 %) Migration 4 2 (5.263 %) Dimensional Modelling 4 2 (5.263 %) Data Migration 5 1 (2.632 %) Content Management 5 1 (2.632 %) Systems Analysis 5 1 (2.632 %) Information Security 5 1 (2.632 %) CRM 5 1 (2.632 %) E-Commerce 5 1 (2.632 %) Change Management 5 1 (2.632 %) Identity Management	Programming Languages 1 8 (21.05 %) SQL 1 8 (21.05 %) VB 2 6 (15.79 %) Java 3 2 (5.263 %) PL/SQL 4 1 (2.632 %) VBA
Qualifications 1 1 (2.632 %) PRINCE2 Certification 1 1 (2.632 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.632 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 1 1 (2.632 %) QA
Vendors 1 6 (15.79 %) Oracle 2 4 (10.53 %) Sybase 3 3 (7.895 %) Business Objects 4 2 (5.263 %) Microsoft 5 1 (2.632 %) Informatica 5 1 (2.632 %) Minitab 5 1 (2.632 %) Casewise