Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the Analyst role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. 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 9 September 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

LinkAnalyst
Location
3 months to
9 Sep 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank321
Rank change year-on-year
Down-1Down-1
Matching contract IT job ads14160832716002
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK23.51 %21.76 %21.99 %
As % of the Job Titles category25.59 %23.41 %23.74 %
Daily rates quoted756935355803
Average daily rate£425£375£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.33 %-6.250 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£230£200£225
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£550£575
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£300£340
% change year-on-year
+8.330 %-11.76 %
Hourly rates quoted7997551501
Average hourly rate£16.50£17.50£19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.710 %-7.890 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£10.50£10.00£10.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£31.00£37.40£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£15.73£16.23£17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.080 %-7.250 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
553423556767402
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK91.88 %92.94 %92.63 %
Daily rates quoted275771401122240
Average daily rate£420£375£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.00 %-6.250 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£238£210£225
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£550£575
UK excluding London average daily rate£340£325£350
% change year-on-year
+4.610 %-7.140 %
Hourly rates quoted289229395868
Average hourly rate£20.00£20.00£21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
--4.760 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.00£11.00£11.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£40.00£40.00£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£20.00£20.00£20.50
% change year-on-year
--2.430 %

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.

Analyst
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Analyst within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Analyst Demand Trend

Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Analyst within the UK.

Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Analyst within the UK over the 3 months to 9 September 2010.

Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Analyst within the UK.

Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Analyst within the UK over the 3 months to 9 September 2010.

Analyst Hourly Rate Histogram

Analyst
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the UK over the 3 months to 9 September 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandDown-113256£425+13.33 %
LondonDown-18253£475+11.76 %
City of LondonNo change03025£500+11.11 %
South EastUp+11796£350+16.66 %
North WestNo change0714£278+0.90 %
ScotlandNo change0711£299+8.63 %
South WestUp+1654£337+12.33 %
YorkshireDown-1528£325-
BerkshireUp+5507£320-8.57 %
East of EnglandDown-1449£325+8.33 %
West YorkshireDown-1401£325-7.14 %
EdinburghNo change0397£300+23.07 %
SurreyNo change0362£375+20.48 %
East MidlandsNo change0347£340-20.00 %
ManchesterNo change0314£300+13.20 %
West MidlandsDown-1310£338+20.53 %
HampshireUp+2267£363+11.53 %
BuckinghamshireUp+1211£275+22.22 %
BristolDown-1209£305+28.42 %
Canary WharfDown-3209£575+33.72 %
WiltshireUp+3197£373-0.60 %
Milton KeynesUp+2160£275+19.56 %
CheshireDown-1157£288+12.63 %
GlasgowDown-1154£263-19.23 %
ReadingUp+9148£325-7.14 %
LeedsNo change0139£331-10.47 %
EssexNo change0136£260-25.71 %
HalifaxUp+1134£325+11.58 %
BirminghamUp+1120£350+20.17 %
NorthamptonshireDown-1120£425-

Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 September 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

19435 (34.82 %)Finance
27722 (28.50 %)Banking
34507 (16.63 %)Business Analysis
44419 (16.31 %)SQL
54390 (16.20 %)Investment Banking
62211 (8.160 %)Derivative
72194 (8.098 %)Microsoft
82182 (8.053 %)Windows
92106 (7.773 %)Front Office
102004 (7.396 %)MS Excel
111969 (7.267 %)Oracle
121949 (7.193 %)Project Management
131892 (6.983 %)User Acceptance Testing
141884 (6.954 %)Retail
151755 (6.477 %)MS Office
161598 (5.898 %)UNIX
171502 (5.544 %)Migration
181485 (5.481 %)Insurance
191468 (5.418 %)SQL Server
201451 (5.355 %)UML
211426 (5.263 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
221419 (5.237 %)Stakeholder Management
231317 (4.861 %)ITIL
241297 (4.787 %)Back Office
251279 (4.721 %)Fixed Income
261245 (4.595 %)Change Management
271147 (4.233 %)MS Visio
281144 (4.222 %)Data Analysis
291099 (4.056 %)Data Modelling
301092 (4.030 %)Test Scripting

Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 September 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1959 (3.540 %).NET
2776 (2.864 %)XML
3332 (1.225 %)HTML
4246 (0.908 %)ASP.NET
5209 (0.771 %)J2EE
6207 (0.764 %)Web Services
7187 (0.690 %)Middleware
8177 (0.653 %)WebSphere
9153 (0.565 %)Spring
10123 (0.454 %)CSS
11109 (0.402 %)ASP
1298 (0.362 %).NET Framework
1393 (0.343 %)Murex MxML
1489 (0.328 %)XSLT
1566 (0.244 %)FIX Protocol
1661 (0.225 %)Hibernate
1661 (0.225 %)AJAX
1758 (0.214 %)XML Messaging
1855 (0.203 %)EDI
1950 (0.185 %)WinForms
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1563 (2.078 %)SAS
1563 (2.078 %)SharePoint
2324 (1.196 %)MS Exchange
3212 (0.782 %)CMS
4202 (0.746 %)Lotus Notes
5149 (0.550 %)IIS
6114 (0.421 %)Exchange Server 2007
7113 (0.417 %)Exchange Server 2003
888 (0.325 %)Apache
986 (0.317 %)WebLogic
1076 (0.281 %)BizTalk Server
1161 (0.225 %)Tomcat
1252 (0.192 %)MQSeries
1252 (0.192 %)SharePoint Server 2007
1349 (0.181 %)LiveLink
1448 (0.177 %)CICS
1448 (0.177 %)Lotus Domino
1547 (0.173 %)WebSphere MQ
1646 (0.170 %)Office Project Server
1743 (0.159 %)TIBCO EMS
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
12004 (7.396 %)MS Excel
21755 (6.477 %)MS Office
31147 (4.233 %)MS Visio
4646 (2.384 %)MS PowerPoint
5623 (2.299 %)MS Project
6250 (0.923 %)Spreadsheet
792 (0.340 %)SPSS
885 (0.314 %)CA Clarity
930 (0.111 %)MATLAB
1025 (0.092 %)Open Workbench
1119 (0.070 %)Acrobat
128 (0.030 %)Photoshop
137 (0.026 %)FastStats
137 (0.026 %)S-PLUS
146 (0.022 %)Fireworks
155 (0.018 %)DeltaView
164 (0.015 %)InfoPath
173 (0.011 %)OmniGraffle
173 (0.011 %)QuarkXPress
173 (0.011 %)AutoCAD
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1168 (0.620 %)Summit
299 (0.365 %)SAP FI
389 (0.328 %)SAP HR
486 (0.317 %)SAP CO
582 (0.303 %)Dynamics CRM
680 (0.295 %)SAP FI/CO
773 (0.269 %)Endur
871 (0.262 %)Oracle Financials
967 (0.247 %)Oracle EBS
1057 (0.210 %)ION MarketView
1154 (0.199 %)SAP CRM
1251 (0.188 %)SAP SD
1348 (0.177 %)SAP R/3
1447 (0.173 %)Loan IQ
1546 (0.170 %)SAP MM
1546 (0.170 %)SAP Oil and Gas
1546 (0.170 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
1642 (0.155 %)Maximo
1741 (0.151 %)Oracle EBS R12
1741 (0.151 %)ADP Wilco Gloss
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1535 (1.975 %)Internet
2273 (1.008 %)TCP/IP
3259 (0.956 %)Firewall
4236 (0.871 %)LAN
5232 (0.856 %)WAN
6230 (0.849 %)SAN
7185 (0.683 %)VPN
8170 (0.627 %)DNS
9160 (0.591 %)Intranet
10110 (0.406 %)DHCP
1178 (0.288 %)ATM
1264 (0.236 %)VoIP
1352 (0.192 %)Wireless
1448 (0.177 %)SMS
1547 (0.173 %)FTP
1646 (0.170 %)Extranet
1646 (0.170 %)3G
1744 (0.162 %)HTTP
1843 (0.159 %)Network Security
1940 (0.148 %)IP Telephony
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11468 (5.418 %)SQL Server
2836 (3.086 %)Data Warehouse (DWH)
3595 (2.196 %)BusinessObjects
4481 (1.775 %)ETL
5430 (1.587 %)MS Access
6416 (1.535 %)Reference Data
7324 (1.196 %)SQL Server 2005
8300 (1.107 %)SQL Server Integration Services
9229 (0.845 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
10198 (0.731 %)Data Mining
11189 (0.698 %)Data Cleansing
12155 (0.572 %)DB2
13149 (0.550 %)SAP BW
13149 (0.550 %)Oracle 10g
14139 (0.513 %)RDBMS
15131 (0.484 %)TOAD
15131 (0.484 %)Oracle Reports
16127 (0.469 %)Crystal Reports
16127 (0.469 %)SQL Server 2000
17118 (0.436 %)SQL Server 2008
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1363 (1.340 %)QuickTest Pro
2282 (1.041 %)TestDirector
3184 (0.679 %)LoadRunner
4163 (0.602 %)Selenium
5125 (0.461 %)Visual Studio
6120 (0.443 %)WinRunner
796 (0.354 %)ClearCase
881 (0.299 %)FitNesse
979 (0.292 %)RequisitePro
1071 (0.262 %)JIRA
1169 (0.255 %)Rational Rose
1268 (0.251 %)ClearQuest
1351 (0.188 %)Subversion
1450 (0.185 %)Oracle Forms
1549 (0.181 %)Team Foundation Server
1646 (0.170 %)JUnit
1733 (0.122 %)Ant
1832 (0.118 %)Eclipse
1929 (0.107 %)Axure RP
2026 (0.096 %)TestPartner
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
19435 (34.82 %)Finance
27722 (28.50 %)Banking
34390 (16.20 %)Investment Banking
42106 (7.773 %)Front Office
51884 (6.954 %)Retail
61485 (5.481 %)Insurance
71297 (4.787 %)Back Office
8854 (3.152 %)Retail Banking
9574 (2.119 %)Telecoms
9574 (2.119 %)Government
10546 (2.015 %)Pensions
11495 (1.827 %)Marketing
12401 (1.480 %)Legal
13380 (1.403 %)Financial Institution
14361 (1.332 %)Health
15305 (1.126 %)Education
16292 (1.078 %)Advertising
17255 (0.941 %)General Ledger
18201 (0.742 %)Billing
19191 (0.705 %)Law
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
12211 (8.160 %)Derivative
21426 (5.263 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
31279 (4.721 %)Fixed Income
41032 (3.809 %)Equities
5857 (3.163 %)Credit Risk
6539 (1.989 %)NHS
7516 (1.904 %)Market Risk
8481 (1.775 %)Equity Derivative
9461 (1.701 %)Management Information System
10396 (1.462 %)Credit Derivative
11350 (1.292 %)Interest Rate Derivative
12231 (0.853 %)Mainframe
13221 (0.816 %)Blackberry
14204 (0.753 %)Hedge funds
15167 (0.616 %)Statistics
16138 (0.509 %)Mathematics
17135 (0.498 %)French Language
18126 (0.465 %)Client/Server
19125 (0.461 %)AS400
20100 (0.369 %)FMCG
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
12182 (8.053 %)Windows
21598 (5.898 %)UNIX
3655 (2.418 %)Windows XP
4532 (1.964 %)Linux
5527 (1.945 %)Windows Server 2003
6232 (0.856 %)Solaris
7227 (0.838 %)Windows Server 2008
8207 (0.764 %)Windows 2000
9194 (0.716 %)Windows Vista
10142 (0.524 %)Windows 7
11103 (0.380 %)Windows 2000 Server
1286 (0.317 %)Red Hat Linux
1377 (0.284 %)AIX
1464 (0.236 %)VMS
1552 (0.192 %)Windows NT
1637 (0.137 %)zOS
1721 (0.078 %)HPUX
1820 (0.074 %)Mac OS X
1919 (0.070 %)MVS
2018 (0.066 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
14507 (16.63 %)Business Analysis
21949 (7.193 %)Project Management
31892 (6.983 %)User Acceptance Testing
41502 (5.544 %)Migration
51451 (5.355 %)UML
61419 (5.237 %)Stakeholder Management
71317 (4.861 %)ITIL
81245 (4.595 %)Change Management
91144 (4.222 %)Data Analysis
101099 (4.056 %)Data Modelling
111092 (4.030 %)Test Scripting
12940 (3.469 %)Use Case
13914 (3.373 %)Risk Management
14895 (3.303 %)PRINCE2
15795 (2.934 %)E-Commerce
16767 (2.831 %)Agile Software Development
17763 (2.816 %)CRM
18737 (2.720 %)Workflow
19712 (2.628 %)Business Intelligence
20710 (2.621 %)GAP Analysis
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
14419 (16.31 %)SQL
2916 (3.381 %)C
3902 (3.329 %)Java
4688 (2.539 %)VBA
5629 (2.322 %)C#
6426 (1.572 %)VB
7334 (1.233 %)Perl
7334 (1.233 %)PL/SQL
8291 (1.074 %)C++
9268 (0.989 %)Shell Script
10250 (0.923 %)T-SQL
11223 (0.823 %)JavaScript
12173 (0.639 %)VBScript
13131 (0.484 %)VB.NET
14129 (0.476 %)COBOL
1581 (0.299 %)Python
1678 (0.288 %)JCL
1770 (0.258 %)RPG
1869 (0.255 %)VB6
1966 (0.244 %)SAS Macro
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1991 (3.658 %)Degree
2890 (3.285 %)ISEB
3776 (2.864 %)Security Cleared
4469 (1.731 %)SC Cleared
5321 (1.185 %)Microsoft Certification
6191 (0.705 %)CIMA
7185 (0.683 %)MCSE
8157 (0.579 %)ACCA
9143 (0.528 %)PRINCE2 Certification
10127 (0.469 %)Cisco Certification
11126 (0.465 %)MCP
12122 (0.450 %)ISTQB
13115 (0.424 %)ITIL Certification
14102 (0.376 %)DV Cleared
1583 (0.306 %)PMI Certification
1677 (0.284 %)CCNA
1763 (0.233 %)ISEB Practitioner
1850 (0.185 %)CCNP
1947 (0.173 %)CISSP
2043 (0.159 %)MCSA
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1870 (3.211 %)QA
2379 (1.399 %)SLA
3308 (1.137 %)Basel II
4168 (0.620 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
559 (0.218 %)MiFID
648 (0.177 %)COBIT
744 (0.162 %)ISO/IEC 27001
832 (0.118 %)PCI DSS
924 (0.089 %)ISO 9001
1015 (0.055 %)GAAP
1114 (0.052 %)BS7799
128 (0.030 %)IAS 39
128 (0.030 %)ISO 8583
136 (0.022 %)HL7
145 (0.018 %)EFQM
145 (0.018 %)TickIT
154 (0.015 %)GxP
163 (0.011 %)COSO
163 (0.011 %)GCP
172 (0.007 %)BS25999
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1990 (3.654 %)Active Directory
2162 (0.598 %)VMware Infrastructure
376 (0.281 %)VMware ESX
451 (0.188 %)XenApp
542 (0.155 %)vSphere
633 (0.122 %)Citrix Presentation Server
727 (0.100 %)Terminal Services
727 (0.100 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
727 (0.100 %)Oracle RAC
826 (0.096 %)ISA Server
921 (0.078 %)Terminal Server
1020 (0.074 %)SRDF
1119 (0.070 %)MSMQ
1217 (0.063 %)Hyper-V
1313 (0.048 %)RACF
1412 (0.044 %)XenServer
1412 (0.044 %)XenDesktop
159 (0.033 %)Veritas Volume Manager
159 (0.033 %)MetaFrame
159 (0.033 %)Snort
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1792 (2.923 %)HP Quality Center
295 (0.351 %)AutoSys
394 (0.347 %)OpenView
487 (0.321 %)SCCM
578 (0.288 %)Tivoli
674 (0.273 %)Control-M
767 (0.247 %)NetBackup
862 (0.229 %)SCOM
956 (0.207 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
1050 (0.185 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
1149 (0.181 %)BMC PATROL
1229 (0.107 %)TIBCO Hawk
1327 (0.100 %)MOM
1426 (0.096 %)WSUS
1521 (0.078 %)CiscoWorks
1521 (0.078 %)MSI
1617 (0.063 %)Netcool
1617 (0.063 %)Backup Exec
1716 (0.059 %)Legato
1815 (0.055 %)OpenView Configuration Management
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
12194 (8.098 %)Microsoft
21969 (7.267 %)Oracle
31084 (4.001 %)SAP
4643 (2.373 %)HP
5595 (2.196 %)Business Objects
6521 (1.923 %)Citrix
7416 (1.535 %)Sybase
8407 (1.502 %)Murex
9380 (1.403 %)IBM
10375 (1.384 %)Reuters
11352 (1.299 %)Bloomberg
12349 (1.288 %)VMware
13342 (1.262 %)Remedy
14311 (1.148 %)Cisco
15257 (0.949 %)Cognos
16218 (0.805 %)Lotus
17207 (0.764 %)Fidessa
18180 (0.664 %)Calypso
19168 (0.620 %)Siebel
20151 (0.557 %)Salesforce.com