Scotland Financial Business Analyst Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Financial 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 job ads that have cited Financial Business Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Financial Business Analyst
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Bracknell Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Halifax Hampshire Hertfordshire Ilford Ipswich Leamington Spa Leicester Leicestershire London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Milton Keynes North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Poole Reading Romford Scotland South East South West Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley UK Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	97	126
Rank change on same period last year	+29
Matching contract IT job ads	6	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	0.244 %	0.179 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£250	£300
Average daily rate	£250	£400
% change on same period last year	-37.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£250	£500
UK excluding London average daily rate	£370	£389
% change on same period last year	-5.01 %
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	-	£50.50
% change on same period last year	-
Job Titles Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	2460	3356
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.244 %	3.560 %
Daily rates quoted	520	638
Average minimum daily rate	£305	£307
Average daily rate	£328	£322
% change on same period last year	+1.68 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£337
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	159	214
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.75	£18.40
Average hourly rate	£20.37	£19.54
% change on same period last year	+4.26 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.00	£20.68
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.28	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
Financial 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.

Financial Business Analyst
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Financial 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 Financial Business Analyst across the Scotland region.

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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 Financial Business Analyst 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	+13	5	£250	-

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Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region that cited Financial 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 Financial Business Analyst in their job title.

1 15 (100.00 %) Finance 2 4 (26.67 %) Business Analysis 2 4 (26.67 %) MS Visio 3 3 (20.00 %) UML 4 2 (13.33 %) Systems Analysis 4 2 (13.33 %) Pensions 5 1 (6.667 %) Validation 5 1 (6.667 %) Stakeholder Management 5 1 (6.667 %) Six Sigma 5 1 (6.667 %) BPR 5 1 (6.667 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 5 1 (6.667 %) Mainframe 5 1 (6.667 %) Java 5 1 (6.667 %) SQL 5 1 (6.667 %) MS Project

5 1 (6.667 %) MS Office 5 1 (6.667 %) Lean Six Sigma 5 1 (6.667 %) Wealth Management

Financial Business Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region that cited Financial 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 Financial Business Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 4 (26.67 %) MS Visio 2 1 (6.667 %) MS Project 2 1 (6.667 %) MS Office	General 1 15 (100.00 %) Finance 2 2 (13.33 %) Pensions
Miscellaneous 1 1 (6.667 %) Mainframe	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (26.67 %) Business Analysis 2 3 (20.00 %) UML 3 2 (13.33 %) Systems Analysis 4 1 (6.667 %) Lean Six Sigma 4 1 (6.667 %) Wealth Management 4 1 (6.667 %) Six Sigma 4 1 (6.667 %) BPR 4 1 (6.667 %) Validation 4 1 (6.667 %) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages 1 1 (6.667 %) Java 1 1 (6.667 %) SQL	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (6.667 %) Sarbanes-Oxley