Somerset Business Analysis Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Business Analysis skills within the Somerset region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Business Analysis over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Analysis
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Feltham Fife Fleetwood Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Jersey Kent Kirkcaldy Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Market Drayton Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rotherham Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Staffordshire Staines Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	41	41
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	1	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	0.441 %	1.384 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£390	£383
% change on same period last year	+1.68 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£10.00
Average hourly rate	-	£10.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£10.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.99	£28.79
% change on same period last year	+7.62 %
Processes & Methodologies Somerset
Matching contract IT job ads	227	289
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.320 %	0.292 %
Daily rates quoted	52	51
Average minimum daily rate	£325	£321
Average daily rate	£351	£343
% change on same period last year	+2.49 %
Average maximum daily rate	£377	£365
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£370
% change on same period last year	+1.87 %
Hourly rates quoted	80	98
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.28	£27.70
Average hourly rate	£31.58	£29.79
% change on same period last year	+6.02 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.88	£31.87
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.44	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-1.89 %
Business Analysis South West

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 Business Analysis across the Somerset region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies 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 Business Analysis across the Somerset region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset region citing Business 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 Business Analysis.

1 5 (62.50 %) Retail 1 5 (62.50 %) MS Visio 2 4 (50.00 %) SAP 2 4 (50.00 %) PRINCE2 2 4 (50.00 %) RAD 2 4 (50.00 %) CRM 2 4 (50.00 %) Project Management 3 3 (37.50 %) SAP CRM 3 3 (37.50 %) Scrum 3 3 (37.50 %) Pensions 3 3 (37.50 %) Health 3 3 (37.50 %) ERP 4 1 (12.50 %) Law 4 1 (12.50 %) Legal 4 1 (12.50 %) Requirements Analysis

4 1 (12.50 %) Retail Banking 4 1 (12.50 %) COBIT 4 1 (12.50 %) PCI DSS 4 1 (12.50 %) Banking 4 1 (12.50 %) TOGAF 4 1 (12.50 %) Information Management 4 1 (12.50 %) Casewise 4 1 (12.50 %) Data Security 4 1 (12.50 %) Management Information System 4 1 (12.50 %) Finance 4 1 (12.50 %) SharePoint 4 1 (12.50 %) UML 4 1 (12.50 %) ITIL 4 1 (12.50 %) Data Modelling 4 1 (12.50 %) SOA

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset region citing Business 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 Business Analysis. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (12.50 %) SharePoint	Applications 1 5 (62.50 %) MS Visio
Business Applications 1 3 (37.50 %) SAP CRM	Communications & Networking 1 1 (12.50 %) DSL
General 1 5 (62.50 %) Retail 2 3 (37.50 %) Pensions 2 3 (37.50 %) Health 3 1 (12.50 %) Law 3 1 (12.50 %) Legal 3 1 (12.50 %) Banking 3 1 (12.50 %) Retail Banking 3 1 (12.50 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 7 (87.50 %) Business Analyst 1 7 (87.50 %) Analyst 2 1 (12.50 %) Technical Project Manager 2 1 (12.50 %) Business Process Analyst 2 1 (12.50 %) Process Analyst 2 1 (12.50 %) Technical Manager 2 1 (12.50 %) Technical Lead 2 1 (12.50 %) CRM Business Analyst 2 1 (12.50 %) Lead Project Manager 2 1 (12.50 %) Project Manager
Miscellaneous 1 1 (12.50 %) Management Information System	Operating Systems 1 1 (12.50 %) VMS
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (50.00 %) RAD 1 4 (50.00 %) CRM 1 4 (50.00 %) PRINCE2 1 4 (50.00 %) Project Management 2 3 (37.50 %) ERP 2 3 (37.50 %) Scrum 3 1 (12.50 %) TOGAF 3 1 (12.50 %) Information Management 3 1 (12.50 %) Requirements Analysis 3 1 (12.50 %) ITIL 3 1 (12.50 %) Data Modelling 3 1 (12.50 %) SOA 3 1 (12.50 %) Data Security 3 1 (12.50 %) UML	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (12.50 %) COBIT 1 1 (12.50 %) PCI DSS
Vendors 1 4 (50.00 %) SAP 2 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft 2 1 (12.50 %) Sun 2 1 (12.50 %) HP 2 1 (12.50 %) Apple 2 1 (12.50 %) Casewise