South West Analyst Programmer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Analyst Programmer role in IT contracts within the South West 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 Analyst Programmer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Analyst Programmer
Location Aberdeen Ascot Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Anglia East Ayrshire East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Farnham Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Harrow Hertfordshire Home Counties Kent Kilmarnock Lanarkshire Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lincolnshire London Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell New Malden Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Plymouth Portsmouth Prescot Reading Scotland Sheffield Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Helens Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Thame Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	102	123
Rank change on same period last year	+21
Matching contract IT job ads	40	46
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.053 %	0.046 %
As % of the category below	0.917 %	0.800 %
Daily rates quoted	8	10
Average minimum daily rate	£238	£293
Average daily rate	£278	£306
% change on same period last year	-9.06 %
Average maximum daily rate	£319	£319
UK excluding London average daily rate	£296	£302
% change on same period last year	-1.88 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.00	£40.00
Average hourly rate	£40.00	£40.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.02	£33.97
% change on same period last year	+3.11 %
Job Titles South West
Matching contract IT job ads	4362	5750
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	5.756 %	5.727 %
Daily rates quoted	1402	1536
Average minimum daily rate	£348	£341
Average daily rate	£370	£360
% change on same period last year	+2.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£393	£379
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	578	696
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.34	£24.90
Average hourly rate	£27.23	£26.57
% change on same period last year	+2.47 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.11	£28.24
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.68	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.85 %
Analyst Programmer England

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.

Analyst Programmer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Analyst Programmer across the South West 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 Analyst Programmer across the South West region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Analyst Programmer across the South West region over the 3 months to 20 August 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 Analyst Programmer across the South West region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst Programmer within the South West region over the 3 months to 20 August 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
Wiltshire	+13	20	-	-
Bristol	+18	12	£260	-
Devon	-3	2	£425	+36.87 %
Dorset	-3	1	-	-
Gloucestershire	-2	1	-	-

Analyst Programmer England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region that cited Analyst Programmer 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 Programmer in their job title.

1 34 (50.75 %) SQL 2 25 (37.31 %) .NET 3 21 (31.34 %) C# 4 20 (29.85 %) SQL Server 5 17 (25.37 %) Oracle 6 15 (22.39 %) VB 7 14 (20.90 %) PL/SQL 7 14 (20.90 %) ASP.NET 7 14 (20.90 %) Oracle Forms 7 14 (20.90 %) VB6 8 10 (14.93 %) Finance 8 10 (14.93 %) VB.NET 9 8 (11.94 %) UNIX 9 8 (11.94 %) Oracle 9i 10 7 (10.45 %) SQL Server 2005

10 7 (10.45 %) ASP 10 7 (10.45 %) RDBMS 10 7 (10.45 %) Unit Testing 11 6 (8.955 %) Infor 11 6 (8.955 %) Informix 11 6 (8.955 %) Visual Studio 11 6 (8.955 %) VBA 11 6 (8.955 %) Microsoft 12 5 (7.463 %) Oracle 10g 12 5 (7.463 %) SQL Server 2000 12 5 (7.463 %) AS400 12 5 (7.463 %) Transact-SQL 12 5 (7.463 %) JavaScript 12 5 (7.463 %) RPG 12 5 (7.463 %) C

Analyst Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region that cited Analyst Programmer 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 Programmer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 25 (37.31 %) .NET 2 14 (20.90 %) ASP.NET 3 7 (10.45 %) ASP 4 4 (5.970 %) WinForms 5 3 (4.478 %) XML 6 2 (2.985 %) WebServices 6 2 (2.985 %) Windows SharePoint Services 6 2 (2.985 %) ASP.NET 2.0 7 1 (1.493 %) WebSphere 7 1 (1.493 %) .NET Framework 7 1 (1.493 %) WCF 7 1 (1.493 %) JNI 7 1 (1.493 %) XSLT 7 1 (1.493 %) HTML 7 1 (1.493 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 2 (2.985 %) SharePoint 2 1 (1.493 %) TPMS 2 1 (1.493 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 1 (1.493 %) WebSphere Application Server
Applications 1 4 (5.970 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 1 (1.493 %) Summit 1 1 (1.493 %) BPCS
Communications & Networking 1 4 (5.970 %) Intranet 2 1 (1.493 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 20 (29.85 %) SQL Server 2 8 (11.94 %) Oracle 9i 3 7 (10.45 %) SQL Server 2005 3 7 (10.45 %) RDBMS 4 6 (8.955 %) Informix 5 5 (7.463 %) Oracle 10g 5 5 (7.463 %) SQL Server 2000 5 5 (7.463 %) Crystal Reports 6 4 (5.970 %) Oracle Reports 7 2 (2.985 %) MS Access 7 2 (2.985 %) DTS 8 1 (1.493 %) UniData 8 1 (1.493 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 8 1 (1.493 %) Datawarehouse 8 1 (1.493 %) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications 1 14 (20.90 %) Oracle Forms 2 6 (8.955 %) Visual Studio 3 4 (5.970 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 3 (4.478 %) Oracle Designer/2000 5 2 (2.985 %) PVCS 6 1 (1.493 %) Synon 6 1 (1.493 %) COOL2E	General 1 10 (14.93 %) Finance 2 3 (4.478 %) Banking 3 2 (2.985 %) Investment Banking 3 2 (2.985 %) Insurance 3 2 (2.985 %) Telecoms 3 2 (2.985 %) Electric 4 1 (1.493 %) Government 4 1 (1.493 %) Construction 4 1 (1.493 %) Billing
Miscellaneous 1 5 (7.463 %) AS400 2 4 (5.970 %) Equities 3 1 (1.493 %) Fat Client 3 1 (1.493 %) Client/Server 3 1 (1.493 %) N-Tier 3 1 (1.493 %) NHS 3 1 (1.493 %) Thin Client	Operating Systems 1 8 (11.94 %) UNIX 2 4 (5.970 %) OpenVMS 2 4 (5.970 %) Windows 3 2 (2.985 %) VMS 3 2 (2.985 %) Linux 4 1 (1.493 %) VME
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (10.45 %) Unit Testing 2 5 (7.463 %) OO 3 4 (5.970 %) Test Scripting 3 4 (5.970 %) Software Testing 4 3 (4.478 %) Security Cleared 4 3 (4.478 %) Data Modelling 5 2 (2.985 %) OOP 5 2 (2.985 %) OOA/OOD 6 1 (1.493 %) Stakeholder Management 6 1 (1.493 %) Requirements Analysis 6 1 (1.493 %) Project Planning 6 1 (1.493 %) Stress Testing 6 1 (1.493 %) Business Analysis 6 1 (1.493 %) UML 6 1 (1.493 %) ERP 6 1 (1.493 %) SOA	Programming Languages 1 34 (50.75 %) SQL 2 21 (31.34 %) C# 3 15 (22.39 %) VB 4 14 (20.90 %) PL/SQL 4 14 (20.90 %) VB6 5 10 (14.93 %) VB.NET 6 6 (8.955 %) VBA 7 5 (7.463 %) Transact-SQL 7 5 (7.463 %) JavaScript 7 5 (7.463 %) RPG 7 5 (7.463 %) C 8 3 (4.478 %) Java 8 3 (4.478 %) VBScript 9 2 (2.985 %) C++ 10 1 (1.493 %) UniBasic 10 1 (1.493 %) COBOL 10 1 (1.493 %) Delphi
Qualifications 1 4 (5.970 %) ISEB 1 4 (5.970 %) Degree 2 1 (1.493 %) Microsoft Certification	System Software 1 1 (1.493 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 17 (25.37 %) Oracle 2 6 (8.955 %) Infor 2 6 (8.955 %) Microsoft 3 4 (5.970 %) HP 3 4 (5.970 %) Compaq 4 1 (1.493 %) LANSA 4 1 (1.493 %) ICL 4 1 (1.493 %) Sybase 4 1 (1.493 %) IBM 4 1 (1.493 %) Citrix 4 1 (1.493 %) Borland