Scotland Data Analyst Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Data 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 Data Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Data Analyst
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Andover Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bolton Bracknell Brentford Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Darlington Derby Derbyshire Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dover Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gwent Halifax Hampshire Harlow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hounslow Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicestershire Lewes Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newport Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Ryde Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	75	107
Rank change on same period last year	+32
Matching contract IT job ads	18	17
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.029 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	0.949 %	0.543 %
Daily rates quoted	2	4
Average minimum daily rate	£265	£224
Average daily rate	£278	£224
% change on same period last year	+24.02 %
Average maximum daily rate	£290	£224
UK excluding London average daily rate	£310	£315
% change on same period last year	-1.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£55.00	£20.67
Average hourly rate	£62.50	£23.33
% change on same period last year	+167.85 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£70.00	£26.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.30	£19.22
% change on same period last year	+0.41 %
Job Titles Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	1897	3133
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.048 %	3.365 %
Daily rates quoted	429	610
Average minimum daily rate	£312	£317
Average daily rate	£335	£332
% change on same period last year	+0.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£358	£348
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£352
% change on same period last year	+0.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	166	273
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.72	£18.41
Average hourly rate	£22.91	£19.62
% change on same period last year	+16.76 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.10	£20.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.10	£24.04
% change on same period last year	-3.88 %
Data 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.

Data Analyst
Demand Trend

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

Data Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

Data Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Data Analyst 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 Data Analyst within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 2 December 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	+23	7	£278	-20.71 %
Glasgow	+13	2	-	-
Aberdeen	-	2	-	-

Data Analyst UK

Data Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region that cited Data 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 Data Analyst in their job title.

1 13 (32.50 %) Migration 2 12 (30.00 %) Finance 2 12 (30.00 %) Data Analysis 2 12 (30.00 %) Informatica 2 12 (30.00 %) Data Migration 3 11 (27.50 %) Data Mapping 4 10 (25.00 %) Oracle 5 9 (22.50 %) SQL 5 9 (22.50 %) Data Cleansing 6 7 (17.50 %) UML 6 7 (17.50 %) ETL 7 6 (15.00 %) Data Modelling 8 5 (12.50 %) CRM 8 5 (12.50 %) Pensions 9 4 (10.00 %) SOA

9 4 (10.00 %) Business Intelligence 9 4 (10.00 %) ERwin 9 4 (10.00 %) GIS 9 4 (10.00 %) Retail 10 3 (7.500 %) Billing 10 3 (7.500 %) Banking 10 3 (7.500 %) Manufacturing 10 3 (7.500 %) Project Management 10 3 (7.500 %) RDBMS 10 3 (7.500 %) Oracle 10g 10 3 (7.500 %) MS Excel 10 3 (7.500 %) Chordiant 10 3 (7.500 %) PL/SQL 10 3 (7.500 %) Aquila 10 3 (7.500 %) Auditing

Data Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region that cited Data 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 Data Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (5.000 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 2 (5.000 %) SharePoint 1 2 (5.000 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 1 (2.500 %) Smallworld
Applications 1 3 (7.500 %) MS Excel 2 1 (2.500 %) MS Visio 2 1 (2.500 %) Spreadsheet	Communications & Networking 1 2 (5.000 %) Ethernet 1 2 (5.000 %) SNMP 1 2 (5.000 %) OSPF 1 2 (5.000 %) BGP 1 2 (5.000 %) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (22.50 %) Data Cleansing 2 7 (17.50 %) ETL 3 4 (10.00 %) GIS 4 3 (7.500 %) RDBMS 4 3 (7.500 %) Oracle 10g 5 2 (5.000 %) SQL Server 5 2 (5.000 %) Oracle 9i 5 2 (5.000 %) MS Access 6 1 (2.500 %) TOAD 6 1 (2.500 %) BusinessObjects	Development Applications 1 4 (10.00 %) ERwin
General 1 12 (30.00 %) Finance 2 5 (12.50 %) Pensions 3 4 (10.00 %) Retail 4 3 (7.500 %) Billing 4 3 (7.500 %) Manufacturing 4 3 (7.500 %) Banking 4 3 (7.500 %) Auditing 5 2 (5.000 %) Chemicals 5 2 (5.000 %) Pharmaceutical 5 2 (5.000 %) Health 6 1 (2.500 %) Government 6 1 (2.500 %) Retail Banking	Miscellaneous 1 2 (5.000 %) Data Extraction 2 1 (2.500 %) Statistics
Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (32.50 %) Migration 2 12 (30.00 %) Data Analysis 2 12 (30.00 %) Data Migration 3 11 (27.50 %) Data Mapping 4 7 (17.50 %) UML 5 6 (15.00 %) Data Modelling 6 5 (12.50 %) CRM 7 4 (10.00 %) SOA 7 4 (10.00 %) Business Intelligence 8 3 (7.500 %) Project Management 9 2 (5.000 %) Agile Software Development 9 2 (5.000 %) Data Management 10 1 (2.500 %) Statistical Analysis 10 1 (2.500 %) Project Planning 10 1 (2.500 %) Financial Modelling 10 1 (2.500 %) Stakeholder Management	Programming Languages 1 9 (22.50 %) SQL 2 3 (7.500 %) PL/SQL 3 2 (5.000 %) Java 4 1 (2.500 %) VBA
Qualifications 1 2 (5.000 %) CCNP 1 2 (5.000 %) CCDP 1 2 (5.000 %) Cisco Certification 1 2 (5.000 %) ACCA 2 1 (2.500 %) Degree	Vendors 1 12 (30.00 %) Informatica 2 10 (25.00 %) Oracle 3 3 (7.500 %) Chordiant 3 3 (7.500 %) Aquila 4 2 (5.000 %) Cisco 4 2 (5.000 %) Ab Initio 5 1 (2.500 %) Cincom 5 1 (2.500 %) Casewise 5 1 (2.500 %) Business Objects