South Wales Systems Analysis Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Systems 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 Systems Analysis over the 3 months to 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Andover Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chippenham City of London Croydon Darlington Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Huntingdon Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Manchester Market Drayton Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Preston Reading Rickmansworth Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stirling Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	41	40
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	10	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.014 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	2.475 %	2.770 %
Daily rates quoted	3	4
Average minimum daily rate	£367	£350
Average daily rate	£400	£425
% change on same period last year	-5.88 %
Average maximum daily rate	£433	£500
UK excluding London average daily rate	£364	£345
% change on same period last year	+5.36 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.00	£40.00
Average hourly rate	£17.00	£40.00
% change on same period last year	-57.50 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.00	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.97	£32.17
% change on same period last year	-13.04 %
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 %
Systems 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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Systems 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 Systems Analysis across the South Wales region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Systems Analysis across the South Wales region over the 3 months to 15 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 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 Systems 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
Gwent	-	4	-	-
Cardiff	-5	2	£400	+14.28 %
Newport	-8	1	-	-

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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 Systems 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 Systems Analysis.

1 13 (61.90 %) SQL 2 7 (33.33 %) ETL 2 7 (33.33 %) UML 2 7 (33.33 %) Datawarehouse 2 7 (33.33 %) Use Case 3 6 (28.57 %) SQL Server 4 5 (23.81 %) VB 4 5 (23.81 %) Data Modelling 4 5 (23.81 %) Government 4 5 (23.81 %) SQL Server 2005 5 4 (19.05 %) Web Development 5 4 (19.05 %) Business Analysis 5 4 (19.05 %) SC Cleared 5 4 (19.05 %) Security Cleared 6 3 (14.29 %) Data Extraction

6 3 (14.29 %) Risk Analysis 6 3 (14.29 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 3 (14.29 %) StarTeam 6 3 (14.29 %) Requirements Management 6 3 (14.29 %) Rational Rose 6 3 (14.29 %) Business Intelligence 6 3 (14.29 %) RequisitePro 6 3 (14.29 %) Management Information System 6 3 (14.29 %) RUP 6 3 (14.29 %) OO 7 2 (9.524 %) Data Mining 7 2 (9.524 %) BPR 7 2 (9.524 %) E-business 7 2 (9.524 %) BPMN 8 1 (4.762 %) DoDAF

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales region citing Systems 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 Systems Analysis. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (4.762 %) HTML 1 1 (4.762 %) .NET 1 1 (4.762 %) CSS 1 1 (4.762 %) ActiveX	Applications 1 1 (4.762 %) Photoshop
Communications & Networking 1 1 (4.762 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (33.33 %) Datawarehouse 1 7 (33.33 %) ETL 2 6 (28.57 %) SQL Server 3 5 (23.81 %) SQL Server 2005 4 3 (14.29 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 2 (9.524 %) Data Mining 6 1 (4.762 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 3 (14.29 %) Rational Rose 1 3 (14.29 %) RequisitePro 1 3 (14.29 %) StarTeam 2 1 (4.762 %) Flash	General 1 5 (23.81 %) Government
Job Titles 1 14 (66.67 %) Analyst 2 8 (38.10 %) Systems Analyst 3 5 (23.81 %) Business Analyst 4 4 (19.05 %) Data Analyst 5 3 (14.29 %) Systems Architect 5 3 (14.29 %) Consultant 5 3 (14.29 %) Architect 5 3 (14.29 %) Business Systems Analyst 6 2 (9.524 %) Solutions Architect 7 1 (4.762 %) Web Developer 7 1 (4.762 %) Trainer 7 1 (4.762 %) Developer	Miscellaneous 1 3 (14.29 %) Management Information System 1 3 (14.29 %) Data Extraction
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (33.33 %) UML 1 7 (33.33 %) Use Case 2 5 (23.81 %) Data Modelling 3 4 (19.05 %) SC Cleared 3 4 (19.05 %) Security Cleared 3 4 (19.05 %) Business Analysis 3 4 (19.05 %) Web Development 4 3 (14.29 %) Risk Analysis 4 3 (14.29 %) Business Intelligence 4 3 (14.29 %) OO 4 3 (14.29 %) RUP 4 3 (14.29 %) Requirements Management 5 2 (9.524 %) BPR 5 2 (9.524 %) E-business 5 2 (9.524 %) BPMN 6 1 (4.762 %) DoDAF 6 1 (4.762 %) TOGAF 6 1 (4.762 %) OOA/OOD	Programming Languages 1 13 (61.90 %) SQL 2 5 (23.81 %) VB 3 1 (4.762 %) VB6 3 1 (4.762 %) Clipper 3 1 (4.762 %) Transact-SQL 3 1 (4.762 %) VBScript 3 1 (4.762 %) PHP