South Yorkshire Data Analysis Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Data Analysis skills within the South Yorkshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Data Analysis over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Data Analysis
Location Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bridgwater Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Corby Corsham Coventry Crawley Croydon Docklands, London Dorset Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redcar Rickmansworth Salford Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swansea Swindon Tadworth Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	42	26
Rank change on same period last year	-16
Matching contract IT job ads	1	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	0.505 %	6.452 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£317
% change on same period last year	+6.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	4
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£13.50
Average hourly rate	-	£17.75
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£22.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.94	£19.87
% change on same period last year	+0.36 %
Processes & Methodologies South Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	198	186
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.261 %	0.197 %
Daily rates quoted	57	31
Average minimum daily rate	£334	£271
Average daily rate	£352	£289
% change on same period last year	+22.06 %
Average maximum daily rate	£370	£306
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£374
% change on same period last year	+2.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	35	30
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.53	£23.32
Average hourly rate	£29.43	£24.45
% change on same period last year	+20.34 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.32	£25.58
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.40	£30.19
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
Data Analysis Yorkshire

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.

Data Analysis
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Data Analysis across the South Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Data Analysis
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Data Analysis across the South Yorkshire region.

Data Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Data Analysis across the South Yorkshire region.

Data Analysis
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Data Analysis within the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 4 July 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
Sheffield	-1	1	-	-

Data Analysis Yorkshire

Data Analysis
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire region citing Data 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 Data Analysis.

1 5 (55.56 %) SQL 2 3 (33.33 %) BusinessObjects 2 3 (33.33 %) Business Objects 3 2 (22.22 %) Oracle 3 2 (22.22 %) Datawarehouse 3 2 (22.22 %) Construction 3 2 (22.22 %) Migration 3 2 (22.22 %) Banking 3 2 (22.22 %) BusinessObjects XI 3 2 (22.22 %) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 3 2 (22.22 %) Time Management 4 1 (11.11 %) Business Analysis 4 1 (11.11 %) Incident Management 4 1 (11.11 %) QA 4 1 (11.11 %) User Acceptance Testing

4 1 (11.11 %) BASE24 4 1 (11.11 %) ISO8583 4 1 (11.11 %) Service Management 4 1 (11.11 %) Finance 4 1 (11.11 %) ITIL Certification 4 1 (11.11 %) EFT 4 1 (11.11 %) NHS 4 1 (11.11 %) Project Management 4 1 (11.11 %) C# 4 1 (11.11 %) MS Visio 4 1 (11.11 %) ATM 4 1 (11.11 %) Business Intelligence 4 1 (11.11 %) Microsoft 4 1 (11.11 %) SQL Server 4 1 (11.11 %) VBA

Data Analysis
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire region citing Data 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 Data Analysis. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (11.11 %) .NET 1 1 (11.11 %) XML	Applications 1 1 (11.11 %) MS Office 1 1 (11.11 %) MS Excel 1 1 (11.11 %) MS Visio
Business Applications 1 1 (11.11 %) BASE24	Communications & Networking 1 1 (11.11 %) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (33.33 %) BusinessObjects 2 2 (22.22 %) BusinessObjects XI 2 2 (22.22 %) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 2 2 (22.22 %) Datawarehouse 3 1 (11.11 %) SQL Server 3 1 (11.11 %) MS Access	General 1 2 (22.22 %) Construction 1 2 (22.22 %) Banking 2 1 (11.11 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 5 (55.56 %) Analyst 2 4 (44.44 %) Developer 3 3 (33.33 %) Business Developer 4 2 (22.22 %) Business Objects Developer 4 2 (22.22 %) Data Analyst 5 1 (11.11 %) C# Developer 5 1 (11.11 %) Information Analyst 5 1 (11.11 %) QA Analyst 5 1 (11.11 %) Business Intelligence Developer 5 1 (11.11 %) Quality Analyst 5 1 (11.11 %) Process Analyst 5 1 (11.11 %) Systems Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 1 (11.11 %) EFT 1 1 (11.11 %) NHS
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (22.22 %) Migration 1 2 (22.22 %) Time Management 2 1 (11.11 %) Business Analysis 2 1 (11.11 %) Incident Management 2 1 (11.11 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 1 (11.11 %) ITIL 2 1 (11.11 %) UML 2 1 (11.11 %) Business Intelligence 2 1 (11.11 %) Project Management 2 1 (11.11 %) Service Management	Programming Languages 1 5 (55.56 %) SQL 2 1 (11.11 %) VBA 2 1 (11.11 %) C#
Qualifications 1 1 (11.11 %) ITIL Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (11.11 %) ISO8583 1 1 (11.11 %) QA
Vendors 1 3 (33.33 %) Business Objects 2 2 (22.22 %) Oracle 3 1 (11.11 %) Cognos 3 1 (11.11 %) Microsoft