Surrey Business Analyst Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Business Analyst role in IT contracts within the Surrey region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Business Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Clevedon Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Grimsby Guernsey Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hastings Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent King's Lynn Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Melton Mowbray Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northumbria Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Pudsey Reading Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark Staines Stevenage Stirling Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	18	20
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	122	137
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.161 %	0.145 %
As % of the category below	6.311 %	6.270 %
Daily rates quoted	38	48
Average minimum daily rate	£346	£357
Average daily rate	£364	£372
% change on same period last year	-1.98 %
Average maximum daily rate	£383	£387
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£374
% change on same period last year	+1.70 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.25	£27.50
Average hourly rate	£23.50	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-21.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.75	£32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.79	£33.85
% change on same period last year	-14.96 %
Job Titles Surrey
Matching contract IT job ads	1933	2185
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.549 %	2.318 %
Daily rates quoted	549	538
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£331
Average daily rate	£345	£349
% change on same period last year	-1.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£366	£368
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	270	266
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.68	£22.01
Average hourly rate	£22.40	£22.84
% change on same period last year	-1.91 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.13	£23.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.28	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
Business Analyst South East

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 Business Analyst across the Surrey 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 Business Analyst across the Surrey region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Business Analyst across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 4 July 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 Business Analyst across the Surrey region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Business Analyst across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Business Analyst within the Surrey 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
Staines	+3	17	£419	+21.37 %
Guildford	+16	13	£307	-20.87 %
Sunbury-on-Thames	-10	6	-	-
Camberley	-	3	£463	-
Chertsey	+2	1	£325	-23.52 %
Woking	-9	1	£300	-10.28 %
Epsom	-	1	-	-

Business Analyst South East

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region that cited Business 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 Business Analyst in their job title.

1 84 (39.25 %) Finance 2 60 (28.04 %) Business Analysis 3 45 (21.03 %) Insurance 4 28 (13.08 %) Banking 5 27 (12.62 %) Oracle 6 26 (12.15 %) Data Analysis 7 25 (11.68 %) SQL 8 21 (9.813 %) GAP Analysis 9 20 (9.346 %) Migration 9 20 (9.346 %) Datawarehouse 10 19 (8.879 %) Project Management 11 18 (8.411 %) PRINCE2 12 17 (7.944 %) BPR 13 15 (7.009 %) ERP 13 15 (7.009 %) Pensions

13 15 (7.009 %) Data Migration 14 14 (6.542 %) UML 14 14 (6.542 %) RUP 14 14 (6.542 %) Investment Banking 15 13 (6.075 %) Asset Management 15 13 (6.075 %) SQL Server 15 13 (6.075 %) Business Intelligence 15 13 (6.075 %) Derivative 16 12 (5.607 %) MS Visio 17 11 (5.140 %) Systems Analysis 17 11 (5.140 %) Change Management 17 11 (5.140 %) Data Mapping 18 10 (4.673 %) Retail 18 10 (4.673 %) Internet 19 9 (4.206 %) Unix

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region that cited Business 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 Business Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 6 (2.804 %) XML 2 5 (2.336 %) .NET 3 3 (1.402 %) XSLT 4 2 (0.935 %) J2EE 5 1 (0.467 %) ODBC 5 1 (0.467 %) WAP 5 1 (0.467 %) XML Schema	Application Platforms 1 2 (0.935 %) Documentum 2 1 (0.467 %) CMS 2 1 (0.467 %) IIS
Applications 1 12 (5.607 %) MS Visio 2 8 (3.738 %) MS Office 3 7 (3.271 %) MS Excel 4 4 (1.869 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 8 (3.738 %) Eagle PACE 2 7 (3.271 %) WebTrends 3 6 (2.804 %) Oracle ERP 4 2 (0.935 %) Oracle Financials 5 1 (0.467 %) PeopleSoft Financials 5 1 (0.467 %) Microsoft CRM 5 1 (0.467 %) Navision 5 1 (0.467 %) SunGard GMI 5 1 (0.467 %) HiPortfolio 5 1 (0.467 %) Eagle STAR
Communications & Networking 1 10 (4.673 %) Internet 2 3 (1.402 %) SMS 3 1 (0.467 %) SMTP 3 1 (0.467 %) SAN 3 1 (0.467 %) Extranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 20 (9.346 %) Datawarehouse 2 13 (6.075 %) SQL Server 3 6 (2.804 %) EDRMS 4 2 (0.935 %) GIS 4 2 (0.935 %) Oracle 10g 4 2 (0.935 %) Oracle 9i 5 1 (0.467 %) RDBMS 5 1 (0.467 %) Reference Data
Development Applications 1 6 (2.804 %) RequisitePro 2 2 (0.935 %) Rational Rose	General 1 84 (39.25 %) Finance 2 45 (21.03 %) Insurance 3 28 (13.08 %) Banking 4 15 (7.009 %) Pensions 5 14 (6.542 %) Investment Banking 6 10 (4.673 %) Retail 7 9 (4.206 %) Government 8 7 (3.271 %) Health 9 6 (2.804 %) Retail Banking 10 5 (2.336 %) Back Office 10 5 (2.336 %) Education 11 4 (1.869 %) Marketing 12 3 (1.402 %) Pharmaceutical 13 2 (0.935 %) Manufacturing 13 2 (0.935 %) Publishing 13 2 (0.935 %) Billing 13 2 (0.935 %) Construction 14 1 (0.467 %) Financial Institution 14 1 (0.467 %) Electronics 14 1 (0.467 %) Telecoms
Miscellaneous 1 13 (6.075 %) Asset Management 1 13 (6.075 %) Derivative 2 9 (4.206 %) Fund Management 3 6 (2.804 %) Management Information System 3 6 (2.804 %) Fixed Income 4 3 (1.402 %) Equity Derivative 5 1 (0.467 %) Italian Language 5 1 (0.467 %) Social Network 5 1 (0.467 %) NHS	Operating Systems 1 9 (4.206 %) Unix 2 1 (0.467 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 60 (28.04 %) Business Analysis 2 26 (12.15 %) Data Analysis 3 21 (9.813 %) GAP Analysis 4 20 (9.346 %) Migration 5 19 (8.879 %) Project Management 6 18 (8.411 %) PRINCE2 7 17 (7.944 %) BPR 8 15 (7.009 %) ERP 8 15 (7.009 %) Data Migration 9 14 (6.542 %) UML 9 14 (6.542 %) RUP 10 13 (6.075 %) Business Intelligence 11 11 (5.140 %) Change Management 11 11 (5.140 %) Systems Analysis 11 11 (5.140 %) Data Mapping 12 9 (4.206 %) Workflow 13 8 (3.738 %) Logistics 13 8 (3.738 %) Security Cleared 14 7 (3.271 %) SC Cleared 14 7 (3.271 %) Cost-Benefit Analysis	Programming Languages 1 25 (11.68 %) SQL 2 5 (2.336 %) Java
Qualifications 1 6 (2.804 %) Degree 2 4 (1.869 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 2 (0.935 %) Citrix Certification 4 1 (0.467 %) ISEB	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (2.804 %) QA 2 2 (0.935 %) Basel II 3 1 (0.467 %) ISO9000
Vendors 1 27 (12.62 %) Oracle 2 9 (4.206 %) SAP 3 7 (3.271 %) Microsoft 4 4 (1.869 %) Thunderhead 5 3 (1.402 %) Cerner 6 2 (0.935 %) Siebel 6 2 (0.935 %) IBM 7 1 (0.467 %) SunGard 7 1 (0.467 %) Cognos 7 1 (0.467 %) PeopleSoft 7 1 (0.467 %) Baan 7 1 (0.467 %) JD Edwards 7 1 (0.467 %) salesforce.com 7 1 (0.467 %) GoldenSource 7 1 (0.467 %) SimCorp 7 1 (0.467 %) Planview