The first table below looks at the demand for the Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the Swindon region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Swindon 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Analyst
Rank 2 2 2
Rank change year-on-year
0 0
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 74 82 89
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 21.14% 24.26% 24.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 22.63% 26.37% 26.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 62 66
Average daily rate £370 £312 £398
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.58% -21.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £303 £193 £306
10% offered a daily rate of more than £430 £415 £490
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 1
Average hourly rate £14.50 £15.50 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.45% +3.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £15.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -
All Job Titles
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
327 311 333
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 93.43% 92.01% 91.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 203 197
Average daily rate £420 £363 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.86% -9.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £211 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £475 £504
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 10 17
Average hourly rate £14.00 £16.00 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% -41.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.50 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £25.00 £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Analyst
Wiltshire

Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Analyst across the Swindon region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Swindon Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

Swindon Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Analyst across the Swindon region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Swindon Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Swindon Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon region that cited 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 Analyst in their job title.

1 110 (74.83%) Finance
2 56 (38.10%) Banking
3 35 (23.81%) Retail
4 31 (21.09%) Retail Banking
5 30 (20.41%) Microsoft
6 29 (19.73%) Change Management
7 26 (17.69%) Stakeholder Management
7 26 (17.69%) MS Project
8 23 (15.65%) Change Control
9 22 (14.97%) GAP Analysis
10 19 (12.93%) Business Transformation
11 16 (10.88%) Requirements Analysis
12 15 (10.20%) BPR
12 15 (10.20%) SQL
13 14 (9.524%) SSADM
13 14 (9.524%) DSDM
13 14 (9.524%) UML
13 14 (9.524%) ERP
13 14 (9.524%) MS Visio
14 13 (8.844%) Data Modelling
14 13 (8.844%) Business Intelligence
15 12 (8.163%) MS Excel
16 11 (7.483%) MS Office
16 11 (7.483%) Basel II
16 11 (7.483%) User Acceptance Testing
17 10 (6.803%) Business Analysis
17 10 (6.803%) HP Quality Center
17 10 (6.803%) Basel III
17 10 (6.803%) Data Extraction
17 10 (6.803%) Project Management

Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon region that cited 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 Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (5.442%) SAP MI
2 1 (0.680%) HTML
2 1 (0.680%) .NET
2 1 (0.680%) ASP.NET
2 1 (0.680%) Web Services
2 1 (0.680%) Middleware
2 1 (0.680%) AppFabric
2 1 (0.680%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 5 (3.401%) SAS
2 4 (2.721%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.361%) eRoom
3 2 (1.361%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 2 (1.361%) IBM Notes
4 1 (0.680%) MS Exchange
4 1 (0.680%) IIS
4 1 (0.680%) Exchange Server 2000
4 1 (0.680%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 26 (17.69%) MS Project
2 14 (9.524%) MS Visio
3 12 (8.163%) MS Excel
4 11 (7.483%) MS Office
5 7 (4.762%) MS PowerPoint
6 1 (0.680%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 6 (4.082%) SAP BPC
2 5 (3.401%) SAP ERP
3 3 (2.041%) PeopleSoft HRMS
3 3 (2.041%) FRx
3 3 (2.041%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 2 (1.361%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.680%) Oracle Payroll
5 1 (0.680%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.680%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.361%) Intranet
1 2 (1.361%) Internet
2 1 (0.680%) WLAN
2 1 (0.680%) DHCP
2 1 (0.680%) HTTP
2 1 (0.680%) DNS
2 1 (0.680%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.680%) SAN
2 1 (0.680%) Firewall
2 1 (0.680%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.442%) SAP BW
2 5 (3.401%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.041%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.041%) Crystal Reports
3 3 (2.041%) BusinessObjects XI
3 3 (2.041%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (1.361%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (1.361%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (0.680%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.680%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.680%) SQL Server 2000
5 1 (0.680%) SAP BI
5 1 (0.680%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (0.680%) SQL Server Analysis Services
General
1 110 (74.83%) Finance
2 56 (38.10%) Banking
3 35 (23.81%) Retail
4 31 (21.09%) Retail Banking
5 5 (3.401%) Back Office
5 5 (3.401%) Marketing
5 5 (3.401%) General Ledger
6 1 (0.680%) Local Government
6 1 (0.680%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.803%) Data Extraction
2 5 (3.401%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.361%) Blackberry
4 1 (0.680%) Mainframe
4 1 (0.680%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.680%) FMCG
4 1 (0.680%) Online Banking
4 1 (0.680%) Informatics
4 1 (0.680%) Computer Science
4 1 (0.680%) CMDB
4 1 (0.680%) Credit Risk
4 1 (0.680%) Economics
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.122%) Windows
2 2 (1.361%) Windows 7
2 2 (1.361%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (1.361%) Windows XP
3 1 (0.680%) UNIX
3 1 (0.680%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (19.73%) Change Management
2 26 (17.69%) Stakeholder Management
3 23 (15.65%) Change Control
4 22 (14.97%) GAP Analysis
5 19 (12.93%) Business Transformation
6 16 (10.88%) Requirements Analysis
7 15 (10.20%) BPR
8 14 (9.524%) SSADM
8 14 (9.524%) DSDM
8 14 (9.524%) UML
8 14 (9.524%) ERP
9 13 (8.844%) Data Modelling
9 13 (8.844%) Business Intelligence
10 11 (7.483%) User Acceptance Testing
11 10 (6.803%) Business Analysis
11 10 (6.803%) Project Management
11 10 (6.803%) Validation
12 7 (4.762%) Migration
12 7 (4.762%) Root Cause Analysis
13 6 (4.082%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 15 (10.20%) SQL
2 9 (6.122%) VBA
3 1 (0.680%) T-SQL
3 1 (0.680%) VB
Qualifications
1 10 (6.803%) ISEB
2 5 (3.401%) Degree
3 4 (2.721%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.041%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (1.361%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.680%) MCSA
6 1 (0.680%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.680%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.483%) Basel II
2 10 (6.803%) Basel III
3 9 (6.122%) Solvency II
4 8 (5.442%) SLA
5 4 (2.721%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.361%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.361%) MiFID
6 2 (1.361%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.680%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.680%) QA
System Software
1 9 (6.122%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.680%) Xen
Systems Management
1 10 (6.803%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (1.361%) Backup Exec
3 1 (0.680%) Tivoli
3 1 (0.680%) ARCserve
3 1 (0.680%) Norton AntiVirus
3 1 (0.680%) SCCM
Vendors
1 30 (20.41%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.122%) Business Objects
2 9 (6.122%) SAP
3 8 (5.442%) HP
4 7 (4.762%) Epicor
5 4 (2.721%) PeopleSoft
6 3 (2.041%) Cognos
7 2 (1.361%) Omniture
7 2 (1.361%) Sophos
7 2 (1.361%) Lotus
7 2 (1.361%) Symantec
7 2 (1.361%) McAfee
7 2 (1.361%) CheckPoint
7 2 (1.361%) Dell
7 2 (1.361%) Adobe
7 2 (1.361%) Oracle
8 1 (0.680%) Cisco
8 1 (0.680%) BMC
8 1 (0.680%) Novell
8 1 (0.680%) VMware