Swindon Data Analysis Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Data Analysis skills within the Swindon 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.

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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	39	41
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	14	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.018 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	4.416 %	3.727 %
Daily rates quoted	9	7
Average minimum daily rate	£397	£358
Average daily rate	£435	£397
% change on same period last year	+9.46 %
Average maximum daily rate	£472	£436
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£317
% change on same period last year	+6.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£42.50	-
Average hourly rate	£46.25	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£50.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.94	£19.87
% change on same period last year	+0.36 %
Processes & Methodologies Swindon
Matching contract IT job ads	317	322
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.418 %	0.342 %
Daily rates quoted	150	103
Average minimum daily rate	£398	£372
Average daily rate	£432	£406
% change on same period last year	+6.63 %
Average maximum daily rate	£467	£439
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£374
% change on same period last year	+2.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	26	25
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.70	£28.07
Average hourly rate	£33.00	£30.32
% change on same period last year	+8.85 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.30	£32.56
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.40	£30.19
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
Data Analysis Wiltshire

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 Data Analysis across the Swindon region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies 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 Data Analysis across the Swindon region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Data Analysis across the Swindon 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 Data Analysis across the Swindon region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 28 (77.78 %) Migration 2 27 (75.00 %) Data Migration 3 25 (69.44 %) Data Modelling 3 25 (69.44 %) Finance 4 24 (66.67 %) CA Clarity 4 24 (66.67 %) Requirements Analysis 4 24 (66.67 %) UML 4 24 (66.67 %) SSADM 4 24 (66.67 %) DSDM 4 24 (66.67 %) GAP Analysis 5 23 (63.89 %) Banking 5 23 (63.89 %) Business Analysis 6 17 (47.22 %) Retail 6 17 (47.22 %) Retail Banking 7 11 (30.56 %) Marketing

8 7 (19.44 %) APACS 8 7 (19.44 %) Back Office 9 6 (16.67 %) Citrix Certification 9 6 (16.67 %) UMTS 10 5 (13.89 %) SQL Server 11 4 (11.11 %) BPR 11 4 (11.11 %) SQL Server 2005 11 4 (11.11 %) Degree 11 4 (11.11 %) Education 12 3 (8.333 %) Health 12 3 (8.333 %) Data Management 12 3 (8.333 %) MS PowerPoint 12 3 (8.333 %) Data Extraction 12 3 (8.333 %) Mathematics 12 3 (8.333 %) SQL Server 2000

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 (2.778 %) .NET	Applications 1 24 (66.67 %) CA Clarity 2 3 (8.333 %) MS Office 2 3 (8.333 %) MS Excel 2 3 (8.333 %) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications 1 2 (5.556 %) Oracle EBS	Communications & Networking 1 6 (16.67 %) UMTS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (13.89 %) SQL Server 2 4 (11.11 %) SQL Server 2005 3 3 (8.333 %) BusinessObjects 3 3 (8.333 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (2.778 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 4 1 (2.778 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 1 (2.778 %) SQL Server Integration Services 4 1 (2.778 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 4 1 (2.778 %) DB2 4 1 (2.778 %) Data Mining	General 1 25 (69.44 %) Finance 2 23 (63.89 %) Banking 3 17 (47.22 %) Retail 3 17 (47.22 %) Retail Banking 4 11 (30.56 %) Marketing 5 7 (19.44 %) Back Office 6 4 (11.11 %) Education 7 3 (8.333 %) Telecoms 7 3 (8.333 %) Health 8 1 (2.778 %) Government
Job Titles 1 32 (88.89 %) Analyst 2 27 (75.00 %) Business Analyst 3 16 (44.44 %) Banking Business Analyst 4 6 (16.67 %) Financial Services Business Analyst 4 6 (16.67 %) Financial Business Analyst 5 4 (11.11 %) Data Analyst 6 3 (8.333 %) Technical Analyst 6 3 (8.333 %) Technical Business Analyst 6 3 (8.333 %) Data Migration Analyst 7 1 (2.778 %) Senior SAP Consultant 7 1 (2.778 %) SAP Consultant 7 1 (2.778 %) Tester 7 1 (2.778 %) Senior Consultant 7 1 (2.778 %) Consultant 7 1 (2.778 %) Senior Business Analyst 7 1 (2.778 %) Senior Analyst 7 1 (2.778 %) Migration Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 7 (19.44 %) APACS 2 3 (8.333 %) Statistics 2 3 (8.333 %) Mathematics 2 3 (8.333 %) Data Extraction 3 2 (5.556 %) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies 1 28 (77.78 %) Migration 2 27 (75.00 %) Data Migration 3 25 (69.44 %) Data Modelling 4 24 (66.67 %) GAP Analysis 4 24 (66.67 %) UML 4 24 (66.67 %) SSADM 4 24 (66.67 %) DSDM 4 24 (66.67 %) Requirements Analysis 5 23 (63.89 %) Business Analysis 6 4 (11.11 %) BPR 7 3 (8.333 %) ERP 7 3 (8.333 %) Data Management 8 2 (5.556 %) Data Mapping 8 2 (5.556 %) Project Management 8 2 (5.556 %) Validation	Programming Languages 1 2 (5.556 %) SQL 2 1 (2.778 %) VB 2 1 (2.778 %) VB.NET 2 1 (2.778 %) VB6
Qualifications 1 6 (16.67 %) Citrix Certification 2 4 (11.11 %) Degree	Vendors 1 3 (8.333 %) Business Objects 1 3 (8.333 %) Microsoft 2 2 (5.556 %) Oracle 2 2 (5.556 %) SAP