South Wales Business Analysis Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Business Analysis skills within the South Wales 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 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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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 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 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 Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	50	46
Rank change on same period last year	-4
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	0.248 %	1.108 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£250	£300
Average daily rate	£250	£350
% change on same period last year	-28.57 %
Average maximum daily rate	£250	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£389	£383
% change on same period last year	+1.62 %
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	£31.00	£30.36
% change on same period last year	+2.10 %
Processes & Methodologies South Wales
Matching contract IT job ads	404	361
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.576 %	0.373 %
Daily rates quoted	150	68
Average minimum daily rate	£332	£409
Average daily rate	£351	£445
% change on same period last year	-21.17 %
Average maximum daily rate	£369	£481
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£370
% change on same period last year	+1.93 %
Hourly rates quoted	64	66
Average minimum hourly rate	£36.98	£21.92
Average hourly rate	£38.12	£24.10
% change on same period last year	+58.16 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.27	£26.29
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.30	£29.76
% change on same period last year	-1.54 %
Business Analysis Wales

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.

Business Analysis
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Business Analysis across the South Wales 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 South Wales 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 South Wales 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 Business Analysis within the South Wales region over the 3 months to 15 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
Cardiff	-1	1	£250	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 19 (63.33 %) UML 2 14 (46.67 %) Data Modelling 2 14 (46.67 %) Government 2 14 (46.67 %) Use Case 3 7 (23.33 %) BPMN 3 7 (23.33 %) E-business 3 7 (23.33 %) TOGAF 3 7 (23.33 %) DoDAF 3 7 (23.33 %) Enterprise Architecture 3 7 (23.33 %) RequisitePro 3 7 (23.33 %) BPR 4 6 (20.00 %) RUP 5 5 (16.67 %) ISEB 5 5 (16.67 %) Health 5 5 (16.67 %) Education

6 4 (13.33 %) Requirements Analysis 6 4 (13.33 %) Systems Analysis 6 4 (13.33 %) Information Management 6 4 (13.33 %) Management Information System 6 4 (13.33 %) NHS 7 3 (10.00 %) OO 7 3 (10.00 %) SSADM 7 3 (10.00 %) Data Analysis 7 3 (10.00 %) Degree 7 3 (10.00 %) SNOMED CT 8 1 (3.333 %) DSDM 8 1 (3.333 %) BusinessObjects 8 1 (3.333 %) OOA/OOD 8 1 (3.333 %) Business Objects 8 1 (3.333 %) MS Office

Business Analysis
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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.

Applications 1 1 (3.333 %) MS Office	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (3.333 %) BusinessObjects 1 1 (3.333 %) BusinessObjects XI
Development Applications 1 7 (23.33 %) RequisitePro	General 1 14 (46.67 %) Government 2 5 (16.67 %) Health 2 5 (16.67 %) Education 3 1 (3.333 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 30 (100.00 %) Business Analyst 1 30 (100.00 %) Analyst 2 4 (13.33 %) Business Systems Analyst 2 4 (13.33 %) Systems Analyst 3 2 (6.667 %) Systems Architect 3 2 (6.667 %) Business Architect 3 2 (6.667 %) Architect 4 1 (3.333 %) SAP Business Analyst 4 1 (3.333 %) UML Business Analyst 4 1 (3.333 %) Excel Specialist 4 1 (3.333 %) Business Process Analyst 4 1 (3.333 %) Process Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 4 (13.33 %) NHS 1 4 (13.33 %) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies 1 19 (63.33 %) UML 2 14 (46.67 %) Data Modelling 2 14 (46.67 %) Use Case 3 7 (23.33 %) DoDAF 3 7 (23.33 %) Enterprise Architecture 3 7 (23.33 %) BPR 3 7 (23.33 %) E-business 3 7 (23.33 %) TOGAF 3 7 (23.33 %) BPMN 4 6 (20.00 %) RUP 5 4 (13.33 %) Systems Analysis 5 4 (13.33 %) Information Management 5 4 (13.33 %) Requirements Analysis 6 3 (10.00 %) Data Analysis 6 3 (10.00 %) OO 6 3 (10.00 %) SSADM 7 1 (3.333 %) OOA/OOD 7 1 (3.333 %) PRINCE2 7 1 (3.333 %) DSDM 7 1 (3.333 %) Requirements Management	Qualifications 1 5 (16.67 %) ISEB 2 3 (10.00 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (10.00 %) SNOMED CT 2 1 (3.333 %) QA	Vendors 1 1 (3.333 %) Business Objects 1 1 (3.333 %) SAP