The first table below looks at the demand for the Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the Slough region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Slough region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Analyst
Rank 16 4 3
Rank change year-on-year
-12 -1
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 25 34 66
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough 10.50% 17.35% 21.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.06% 18.58% 22.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 24 37
Average daily rate £358 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £125 £194 £179
10% offered a daily rate of more than £468 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
Average hourly rate £22.50 £11.00 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+104.54% -31.25%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £15.38 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-8.94% +2.50%
All Job Titles
Slough
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
226 183 292
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough 94.96% 93.37% 94.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 102 137
Average daily rate £338 £450 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% +50.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £133 £250 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 3 41
Average hourly rate £35.00 £14.40 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+143.05% -66.11%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Analyst
Berkshire

Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Analyst across the Slough region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Slough Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

Slough Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Analyst across the Slough region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Slough Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Analyst across the Slough region.

Slough Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Slough region that cited 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 Analyst in their job title.

1 29 (44.62%) Telecoms
2 17 (26.15%) Business Analysis
3 12 (18.46%) Microsoft
4 10 (15.38%) Finance
4 10 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (13.85%) SQL
6 8 (12.31%) Windows
7 7 (10.77%) MS Office
8 6 (9.231%) Oracle
8 6 (9.231%) Advertising
8 6 (9.231%) Migration
8 6 (9.231%) Change Management
8 6 (9.231%) Marketing
8 6 (9.231%) Waterfall
9 5 (7.692%) Smart Meter
9 5 (7.692%) Degree
9 5 (7.692%) GAP Analysis
9 5 (7.692%) .NET
9 5 (7.692%) SAP
9 5 (7.692%) ITIL
9 5 (7.692%) MS Excel
9 5 (7.692%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (7.692%) Citrix
9 5 (7.692%) Windows XP
10 4 (6.154%) TCP/IP
10 4 (6.154%) SharePoint
10 4 (6.154%) Lotus
10 4 (6.154%) Project Management
10 4 (6.154%) Cognos
10 4 (6.154%) Oracle 8/8i

Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Slough region that cited 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 Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (7.692%) .NET
2 3 (4.615%) XML
2 3 (4.615%) HTML
3 2 (3.077%) CSS
3 2 (3.077%) Web Services
4 1 (1.538%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.538%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 4 (6.154%) IBM Notes
1 4 (6.154%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.615%) CMS
2 3 (4.615%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 7 (10.77%) MS Office
2 5 (7.692%) MS Excel
3 4 (6.154%) MS PowerPoint
3 4 (6.154%) MS Project
4 3 (4.615%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.538%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 1 (1.538%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.538%) SAP CRM
1 1 (1.538%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.154%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.077%) Internet
2 2 (3.077%) WAN
3 1 (1.538%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.538%) VPN
3 1 (1.538%) DNS
3 1 (1.538%) LAN
3 1 (1.538%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.692%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (6.154%) Oracle 8/8i
3 2 (3.077%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.538%) OLAP
4 1 (1.538%) TOAD
4 1 (1.538%) DataStage
4 1 (1.538%) Siebel EIM
4 1 (1.538%) Oracle BI EE
General
1 29 (44.62%) Telecoms
2 10 (15.38%) Finance
3 6 (9.231%) Advertising
3 6 (9.231%) Marketing
4 3 (4.615%) Retail
4 3 (4.615%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.077%) French Language
5 2 (3.077%) Italian Language
6 1 (1.538%) Spanish Language
6 1 (1.538%) German Language
6 1 (1.538%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.538%) Automotive
6 1 (1.538%) Billing
6 1 (1.538%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.692%) Smart Meter
2 4 (6.154%) Computer Science
3 3 (4.615%) AS400
3 3 (4.615%) iPad
3 3 (4.615%) iSeries
4 2 (3.077%) FMCG
5 1 (1.538%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.538%) Statistics
5 1 (1.538%) CMDB
5 1 (1.538%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.538%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.31%) Windows
2 5 (7.692%) Windows XP
3 4 (6.154%) Windows 7
4 1 (1.538%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (1.538%) Windows Vista
4 1 (1.538%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (26.15%) Business Analysis
2 10 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (9.231%) Change Management
3 6 (9.231%) Migration
3 6 (9.231%) Waterfall
4 5 (7.692%) GAP Analysis
4 5 (7.692%) ITIL
5 4 (6.154%) Project Management
6 3 (4.615%) Data Migration
6 3 (4.615%) User Stories
6 3 (4.615%) Scrum
7 2 (3.077%) Agile Software Development
7 2 (3.077%) Data Management
7 2 (3.077%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (3.077%) Service Management
7 2 (3.077%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (3.077%) CRM
8 1 (1.538%) ERP
8 1 (1.538%) SOA
8 1 (1.538%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 9 (13.85%) SQL
2 4 (6.154%) JavaScript
3 3 (4.615%) RPG
4 2 (3.077%) PL/SQL
4 2 (3.077%) C#
4 2 (3.077%) Java
4 2 (3.077%) VBA
5 1 (1.538%) XPath
5 1 (1.538%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.538%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (7.692%) Degree
2 1 (1.538%) MCP
2 1 (1.538%) MCSE
2 1 (1.538%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (1.538%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (1.538%) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.077%) SLA
2 1 (1.538%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.538%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (4.615%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (3.077%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 12 (18.46%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.231%) Oracle
3 5 (7.692%) SAP
3 5 (7.692%) Citrix
4 4 (6.154%) Cognos
4 4 (6.154%) Lotus
5 3 (4.615%) Remedy
5 3 (4.615%) Teradata
6 1 (1.538%) JD Edwards
6 1 (1.538%) Salesforce.com
6 1 (1.538%) Siebel
6 1 (1.538%) Cisco
6 1 (1.538%) BMC
6 1 (1.538%) Empirix
6 1 (1.538%) Informatica
6 1 (1.538%) MicroStrategy
Slough, Berkshire
Prepare (or assist in preparation of) one or more (as required) the draft requirement documents such as BRD, FS (Use case and BR) and Workflow diagrams for review...
SEC Recruitment Limited
Rate: £270 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
Slough, Berkshire
Educated to degree level or demonstrate experience to such... System test scripting and execution... Good MS office skills including Visio macro writing in excel, SQL... Presentation skills using...
TD Group
Rate: Excellent Rate
Posted: 17 June 2013
Slough, Berkshire
Key Skills Ability to working within a highly skilled Agile Scrum team. Generating and prioritising Scrum backlogs. Define business requirements - working with the business to create epics and...
Randstad Technologies
Rate: £450 - £480 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
Slough, Berkshire
JUNIOR SYSTEMS ANALYST ICT/non-ICT projects/Requirements Definition/Functional Specification/process models/entity relationship/diagrams/Visio/SQL... System test scripting and execution... Good MS office skills including...
TD Group
Rate: Excellent rates will be paid to the right candidate.
Posted: 14 June 2013
Slough, Berkshire
Good understanding & knowledge of IT infrastructure, including Windows Client & server technologies, Citrix and thin client technologies. Understanding of LAN/WAN technologies. An understanding of Lotus Notes Messaging... Microsoft,...
TD Group
Rate: Excellent rates will be paid to the right candidate.
Posted: 14 June 2013