Scotland Systems Analyst Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Systems 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 Systems Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

System Analyst
Location Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Coventry Crawley Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rotherham Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Staines Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	72	88
Rank change on same period last year	+16
Matching contract IT job ads	29	40
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.041 %	0.040 %
As % of the category below	1.330 %	1.165 %
Daily rates quoted	3	4
Average minimum daily rate	£275	£278
Average daily rate	£295	£278
% change on same period last year	+6.30 %
Average maximum daily rate	£315	£278
UK excluding London average daily rate	£346	£353
% change on same period last year	-2.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£9.00	£33.50
Average hourly rate	£9.00	£34.00
% change on same period last year	-73.52 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£9.00	£34.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.95	£31.11
% change on same period last year	-13.35 %
Job Titles Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	2180	3434
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.069 %	3.470 %
Daily rates quoted	475	665
Average minimum daily rate	£293	£308
Average daily rate	£317	£324
% change on same period last year	-2.36 %
Average maximum daily rate	£340	£341
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	171	239
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.78	£19.35
Average hourly rate	£23.00	£20.53
% change on same period last year	+12.04 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.22	£21.71
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.76	£25.22
% change on same period last year	-5.77 %
Systems 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 Systems 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 Systems 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 Systems Analyst across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 10 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 Systems 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 Systems Analyst within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 10 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
Glasgow	+24	14	£303	+15.60 %
Edinburgh	+6	13	£280	-
Renfrewshire	-	1	-	-
Dundee	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region that cited Systems 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 Systems Analyst in their job title.

1 37 (48.68 %) Finance 2 25 (32.89 %) Systems Analysis 3 15 (19.74 %) Oracle 4 14 (18.42 %) SQL 5 8 (10.53 %) PRINCE2 6 7 (9.211 %) Data Mapping 7 6 (7.895 %) Agile Software Development 7 6 (7.895 %) Stakeholder Management 7 6 (7.895 %) CRM 7 6 (7.895 %) RDBMS 7 6 (7.895 %) Microsoft 8 5 (6.579 %) Java 9 4 (5.263 %) Pensions 9 4 (5.263 %) Misys Midas 9 4 (5.263 %) Clustering

9 4 (5.263 %) UNIX 9 4 (5.263 %) Windows 9 4 (5.263 %) HTML 9 4 (5.263 %) HP 9 4 (5.263 %) Active Directory 9 4 (5.263 %) SAN 9 4 (5.263 %) Windows Server 2003 9 4 (5.263 %) Mainframe 10 3 (3.947 %) McAfee Security 10 3 (3.947 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 10 3 (3.947 %) Back Office 10 3 (3.947 %) OpenView 10 3 (3.947 %) Novell 10 3 (3.947 %) VERITAS 10 3 (3.947 %) Lotus

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region that cited Systems 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 Systems Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 4 (5.263 %) HTML 2 3 (3.947 %) XHTML 3 1 (1.316 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 3 (3.947 %) Lotus Notes 2 2 (2.632 %) CICS 3 1 (1.316 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (1.316 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 2 (2.632 %) MS Office 1 2 (2.632 %) MS Excel 1 2 (2.632 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 4 (5.263 %) Misys Midas 2 1 (1.316 %) SimCorp Dimension
Communications & Networking 1 4 (5.263 %) SAN 2 1 (1.316 %) Intranet 2 1 (1.316 %) DHCP 2 1 (1.316 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (1.316 %) DNS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (7.895 %) RDBMS 2 2 (2.632 %) SQL Server 2 2 (2.632 %) DB2 3 1 (1.316 %) Oracle Reports 3 1 (1.316 %) Oracle 8/8i 3 1 (1.316 %) Ingres
Development Applications 1 2 (2.632 %) Oracle APEX	General 1 37 (48.68 %) Finance 2 4 (5.263 %) Pensions 3 3 (3.947 %) Banking 3 3 (3.947 %) Back Office 4 1 (1.316 %) Telecoms 4 1 (1.316 %) Government
Miscellaneous 1 4 (5.263 %) Mainframe 1 4 (5.263 %) Clustering 2 1 (1.316 %) VSAM 2 1 (1.316 %) Taxonomies 2 1 (1.316 %) Welsh Language 2 1 (1.316 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 4 (5.263 %) UNIX 1 4 (5.263 %) Windows 1 4 (5.263 %) Windows Server 2003 2 3 (3.947 %) HPUX 3 1 (1.316 %) Windows XP 3 1 (1.316 %) MVS 3 1 (1.316 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 25 (32.89 %) Systems Analysis 2 8 (10.53 %) PRINCE2 3 7 (9.211 %) Data Mapping 4 6 (7.895 %) CRM 4 6 (7.895 %) Stakeholder Management 4 6 (7.895 %) Agile Software Development 5 3 (3.947 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 2 (2.632 %) System Testing 6 2 (2.632 %) Investment Management 6 2 (2.632 %) RAD 6 2 (2.632 %) ERP 6 2 (2.632 %) Data Modelling 6 2 (2.632 %) Business Intelligence 7 1 (1.316 %) E-business 7 1 (1.316 %) Migration 7 1 (1.316 %) RUP 7 1 (1.316 %) UML 7 1 (1.316 %) E-Commerce 7 1 (1.316 %) ITIL	Programming Languages 1 14 (18.42 %) SQL 2 5 (6.579 %) Java 3 3 (3.947 %) JavaScript 3 3 (3.947 %) COBOL 3 3 (3.947 %) DHTML 4 2 (2.632 %) JCL 5 1 (1.316 %) Shell Script
Qualifications 1 3 (3.947 %) MCSE 1 3 (3.947 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (1.316 %) PRINCE2 Certification	System Software 1 4 (5.263 %) Active Directory 2 3 (3.947 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (1.316 %) Terminal Server
Systems Management 1 3 (3.947 %) OpenView 1 3 (3.947 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 15 (19.74 %) Oracle 2 6 (7.895 %) Microsoft 3 4 (5.263 %) HP 4 3 (3.947 %) Citrix 4 3 (3.947 %) Novell 4 3 (3.947 %) VERITAS 4 3 (3.947 %) Lotus 4 3 (3.947 %) McAfee Security 4 3 (3.947 %) VMware 4 3 (3.947 %) Lagan 4 3 (3.947 %) Aquila 5 2 (2.632 %) Adobe 5 2 (2.632 %) Sybase 6 1 (1.316 %) SAP 6 1 (1.316 %) Cisco 6 1 (1.316 %) IBM 6 1 (1.316 %) JD Edwards 6 1 (1.316 %) SimCorp