The first table below looks at the demand for Analytics skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Analytics over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the South West 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Analytics
Rank 93 120 102
Rank change year-on-year
+27 -18
Contract jobs citing Analytics 15 16 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.744% 0.495% 0.707%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.116% 0.726% 1.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 13
Average daily rate £445 £375 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.66% +15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £282 £168 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £534 £435 £390
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
-13.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £16.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year
+96.96% -26.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1344 2204 1843
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 66.63% 68.13% 65.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 843 1360 953
Average daily rate £375 £390 £384
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% +1.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £265 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 110 129
Average hourly rate £29.00 £25.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.00% -23.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £16.00 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.75 £39.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Analytics
England

Analytics
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Analytics across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

South West Analytics Jobs Demand Trend

Analytics
Daily Rate Trend

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

South West Analytics Daily Rate Trend

Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Analytics across the South West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

South West Analytics Daily Rate Histogram

Analytics
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South West Analytics Hourly Rate Trend

Analytics
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analytics within the South West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Bristol +15 4 £364 +12.00%
Dorset - 4 £750 -
Wiltshire -1 3 £450 +38.46%
Somerset +6 1 - -
Devon +2 1 £300 +50.00%
Analytics
England

Analytics
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Analytics 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 Analytics.

1 27 (40.91%) Finance
2 21 (31.82%) Marketing
3 20 (30.30%) Web Analytics
4 15 (22.73%) Business Intelligence
4 15 (22.73%) Security Cleared
5 14 (21.21%) DV Cleared
5 14 (21.21%) C
6 13 (19.70%) Content Management
6 13 (19.70%) Degree
7 12 (18.18%) Data Analytics
7 12 (18.18%) Retail
7 12 (18.18%) SQL
8 11 (16.67%) Oracle
8 11 (16.67%) Web Services
8 11 (16.67%) Banking
9 10 (15.15%) Data Modelling
9 10 (15.15%) Java
9 10 (15.15%) SAS
10 9 (13.64%) Omniture
11 8 (12.12%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (12.12%) E-Commerce
11 8 (12.12%) Linux
11 8 (12.12%) CSS
12 7 (10.61%) UML
12 7 (10.61%) ETL
12 7 (10.61%) Microsoft
12 7 (10.61%) Adobe
12 7 (10.61%) Google
12 7 (10.61%) Google Analytics
12 7 (10.61%) Time Management

Analytics
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Analytics 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 Analytics. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (16.67%) Web Services
2 8 (12.12%) CSS
3 6 (9.091%) HTML
4 3 (4.545%) Regular Expression
4 3 (4.545%) Apache Flex
4 3 (4.545%) jQuery
4 3 (4.545%) BlazeDS
4 3 (4.545%) Spring
4 3 (4.545%) Hibernate
5 2 (3.030%) Cairngorm
5 2 (3.030%) PureMVC
5 2 (3.030%) HTML5
5 2 (3.030%) CSS3
5 2 (3.030%) Parsley
6 1 (1.515%) LINQ
6 1 (1.515%) CodeIgniter
6 1 (1.515%) CakePHP
6 1 (1.515%) MooTools
6 1 (1.515%) RESTful
6 1 (1.515%) Yii
Application Platforms
1 10 (15.15%) SAS
2 5 (7.576%) CMS
3 3 (4.545%) WordPress
3 3 (4.545%) SharePoint
4 2 (3.030%) TeamSite
4 2 (3.030%) IIS
4 2 (3.030%) LiveCycle
4 2 (3.030%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (1.515%) CM System
5 1 (1.515%) Magento
5 1 (1.515%) nginx
5 1 (1.515%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (9.091%) Photoshop
2 5 (7.576%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (4.545%) SPSS
4 2 (3.030%) MS Excel
5 1 (1.515%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 7 (10.61%) Google Analytics
2 4 (6.061%) WebTrends
2 4 (6.061%) Lawson
3 3 (4.545%) SiteCatalyst
4 1 (1.515%) Prophet
4 1 (1.515%) EMB Igloo
4 1 (1.515%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.091%) Internet
2 2 (3.030%) FTP
3 1 (1.515%) Intranet
3 1 (1.515%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.12%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (6.061%) MySQL
3 3 (4.545%) Big Data
4 2 (3.030%) RDBMS
4 2 (3.030%) Star Schema
4 2 (3.030%) OLAP
4 2 (3.030%) Base SAS
4 2 (3.030%) QlikView
5 1 (1.515%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 1 (1.515%) SAS Enterprise Miner
5 1 (1.515%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (3.030%) Maven
1 2 (3.030%) Subversion
2 1 (1.515%) FlexUnit
General
1 27 (40.91%) Finance
2 21 (31.82%) Marketing
3 12 (18.18%) Retail
4 11 (16.67%) Banking
5 3 (4.545%) Retail Banking
5 3 (4.545%) Advertising
6 2 (3.030%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.515%) Electronics
7 1 (1.515%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.515%) Law
7 1 (1.515%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 22 (33.33%) Analyst
2 13 (19.70%) Developer
3 7 (10.61%) Web Analyst
4 6 (9.091%) Web Manager
4 6 (9.091%) Support Analyst
4 6 (9.091%) Help Desk Analyst
4 6 (9.091%) Applications Support
5 5 (7.576%) Coordinator
6 4 (6.061%) Data Modeller
6 4 (6.061%) Software Developer
6 4 (6.061%) Web Production Manager
6 4 (6.061%) Production Manager
7 3 (4.545%) Flex Developer
7 3 (4.545%) Designer
7 3 (4.545%) Data Manager
7 3 (4.545%) Data Analyst
7 3 (4.545%) C++ Developer
8 2 (3.030%) SAS Developer
8 2 (3.030%) Analyst Developer
8 2 (3.030%) Content Editor
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.091%) EPoS
2 4 (6.061%) Reference Data
2 4 (6.061%) Data Integration
2 4 (6.061%) Mathematics
2 4 (6.061%) New Media
3 3 (4.545%) Social Media
4 2 (3.030%) Credit Risk
4 2 (3.030%) Online Banking
4 2 (3.030%) Informatics
5 1 (1.515%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.515%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.515%) Social Network
5 1 (1.515%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.515%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.515%) DTV
5 1 (1.515%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.515%) Statistics
5 1 (1.515%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.12%) Linux
2 4 (6.061%) Windows
3 2 (3.030%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (1.515%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (30.30%) Web Analytics
2 15 (22.73%) Business Intelligence
3 13 (19.70%) Content Management
4 12 (18.18%) Data Analytics
5 10 (15.15%) Data Modelling
6 8 (12.12%) E-Commerce
7 7 (10.61%) UML
7 7 (10.61%) ETL
7 7 (10.61%) Time Management
8 6 (9.091%) Test Scripting
8 6 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
8 6 (9.091%) Software Testing
8 6 (9.091%) Incident Management
8 6 (9.091%) SEO
8 6 (9.091%) Mobile Commerce
8 6 (9.091%) ITIL
9 5 (7.576%) Scrum
9 5 (7.576%) Web Design
10 4 (6.061%) MVC
10 4 (6.061%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 14 (21.21%) C
2 12 (18.18%) SQL
3 10 (15.15%) Java
4 6 (9.091%) C++
4 6 (9.091%) PHP
5 5 (7.576%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.545%) Bash shell
6 3 (4.545%) R
6 3 (4.545%) Python
6 3 (4.545%) Perl
6 3 (4.545%) MATLAB
7 2 (3.030%) VBScript
8 1 (1.515%) PHP5
8 1 (1.515%) C#
Qualifications
1 15 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 14 (21.21%) DV Cleared
3 13 (19.70%) Degree
4 1 (1.515%) APMP
4 1 (1.515%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.515%) Solvency II
Systems Management
1 4 (6.061%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 11 (16.67%) Oracle
2 9 (13.64%) Omniture
3 7 (10.61%) Microsoft
3 7 (10.61%) Adobe
3 7 (10.61%) Google
4 6 (9.091%) ATG
5 4 (6.061%) Kronos
5 4 (6.061%) Palantir
5 4 (6.061%) Fiserv
6 2 (3.030%) Coremetrics
6 2 (3.030%) Sitecore
7 1 (1.515%) Business Objects
7 1 (1.515%) SAP
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