South West Report Analyst Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Report Analyst 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 Report Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 8 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford City of London Corsham County Antrim Coventry Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England England Essex Exeter Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Leeds London Luton Manchester Middlesex Midlands North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottinghamshire Poole Reading Rugby Shropshire South Coast South East South Wales South West Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swindon Tadworth Telford UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	133	159
Rank change on same period last year	+26
Matching contract IT job ads	12	16
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.016 %
As % of the category below	0.277 %	0.269 %
Daily rates quoted	6	3
Average minimum daily rate	£209	£233
Average daily rate	£238	£291
% change on same period last year	-18.19 %
Average maximum daily rate	£267	£348
UK excluding London average daily rate	£310	£306
% change on same period last year	+1.37 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£20.00
Average hourly rate	-	£23.25
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£26.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.25	£19.65
% change on same period last year	+13.23 %
Job Titles South West
Matching contract IT job ads	4328	5948
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	5.866 %	5.889 %
Daily rates quoted	1331	1547
Average minimum daily rate	£349	£342
Average daily rate	£370	£361
% change on same period last year	+2.54 %
Average maximum daily rate	£391	£379
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£356
% change on same period last year	-0.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	586	737
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.65	£25.53
Average hourly rate	£27.46	£27.14
% change on same period last year	+1.17 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.28	£28.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.78	£25.65
% change on same period last year	-7.28 %
Report Analyst 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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Report Analyst 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 Report Analyst 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 Report Analyst across the South West region over the 3 months to 8 September 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 Report Analyst across the South West 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 Report Analyst within the South West region over the 3 months to 8 September 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	+6	5	£234	-
Bristol	+5	2	-	-
Dorset	+3	2	-	-
Devon	+16	1	£250	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region that cited Report Analyst 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 Report Analyst in their job title.

1 10 (55.56 %) SQL 2 6 (33.33 %) Business Objects 2 6 (33.33 %) BusinessObjects 3 4 (22.22 %) Finance 3 4 (22.22 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 3 4 (22.22 %) SQL Server 3 4 (22.22 %) MS Excel 4 3 (16.67 %) Cognos 4 3 (16.67 %) Transact-SQL 4 3 (16.67 %) VB 4 3 (16.67 %) CA Clarity 4 3 (16.67 %) Telecoms 5 2 (11.11 %) Microsoft 5 2 (11.11 %) Niku 5 2 (11.11 %) Change Management

5 2 (11.11 %) Management Information System 5 2 (11.11 %) CA 5 2 (11.11 %) MicroStrategy 5 2 (11.11 %) SQL Server 2005 5 2 (11.11 %) Crystal Reports 5 2 (11.11 %) MS Access 5 2 (11.11 %) Visual Studio 5 2 (11.11 %) Information Management 5 2 (11.11 %) Open Workbench 5 2 (11.11 %) Data Extraction 5 2 (11.11 %) Security Cleared 6 1 (5.556 %) SC Cleared 6 1 (5.556 %) SAP 6 1 (5.556 %) Datawarehouse 6 1 (5.556 %) DTS

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region that cited Report Analyst 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 Report Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 4 (22.22 %) MS Excel 2 3 (16.67 %) CA Clarity 3 2 (11.11 %) Open Workbench 4 1 (5.556 %) FreeHand 4 1 (5.556 %) MS Project 4 1 (5.556 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 1 (5.556 %) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (33.33 %) BusinessObjects 2 4 (22.22 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 2 4 (22.22 %) SQL Server 3 2 (11.11 %) Crystal Reports 3 2 (11.11 %) MS Access 3 2 (11.11 %) SQL Server 2005 4 1 (5.556 %) BusinessObjects XI 4 1 (5.556 %) Data Cleansing 4 1 (5.556 %) Datawarehouse 4 1 (5.556 %) DTS	Development Applications 1 2 (11.11 %) Visual Studio
General 1 4 (22.22 %) Finance 2 3 (16.67 %) Telecoms 3 1 (5.556 %) Retail	Miscellaneous 1 2 (11.11 %) Management Information System 1 2 (11.11 %) Data Extraction 2 1 (5.556 %) NHS 2 1 (5.556 %) Statistics
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (11.11 %) Change Management 1 2 (11.11 %) Information Management 1 2 (11.11 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (5.556 %) Business Intelligence 2 1 (5.556 %) Data Migration 2 1 (5.556 %) SC Cleared 2 1 (5.556 %) Migration	Programming Languages 1 10 (55.56 %) SQL 2 3 (16.67 %) Transact-SQL 2 3 (16.67 %) VB 3 1 (5.556 %) VBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (5.556 %) QA	Vendors 1 6 (33.33 %) Business Objects 2 3 (16.67 %) Cognos 3 2 (11.11 %) Microsoft 3 2 (11.11 %) CA 3 2 (11.11 %) MicroStrategy 3 2 (11.11 %) Niku 4 1 (5.556 %) SAP 4 1 (5.556 %) Oracle