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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the Business 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 Business Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 9 February 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.

LinkBusiness Analyst
Location
3 months to
9 Feb 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank81414
Rank change year-on-year
Up+6No change0
Matching contract IT job ads460934556505
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK10.53 %7.512 %7.947 %
As % of the Job Titles category11.53 %8.276 %8.553 %
Daily rates quoted241914962899
Average daily rate£450£425£425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.880 %-
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£290£300£300
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£600£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£344£380£375
% change year-on-year
-9.530 %+1.330 %
Hourly rates quoted6342103
Average hourly rate£22.75£30.00£27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-24.16 %+9.090 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£17.65£18.21£20.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£41.90£53.00£70.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£22.00£25.50£26.00
% change year-on-year
-13.72 %-1.920 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
399614174576056
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK91.29 %90.76 %92.92 %
Daily rates quoted178101304622755
Average daily rate£400£375£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.660 %-6.250 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£220£230
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£550£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£350£350
% change year-on-year
-7.140 %-
Hourly rates quoted245839516731
Average hourly rate£18.00£20.84£22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.62 %-5.270 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£10.00£11.00£11.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£38.50£37.50£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£17.50£20.00£21.00
% change year-on-year
-12.50 %-4.760 %

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.

Business Analyst
Demand Trend

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

Business Analyst Demand Trend

Business Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

Business Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Business Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Business Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Business Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Business Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Business Analyst Hourly Rate Histogram

Business 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 Business Analyst within the UK over the 3 months to 9 February 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
EnglandUp+54319£450+5.88 %
LondonUp+13137£500+5.82 %
City of LondonDown-11254£500-
South EastDown-2330£350-11.39 %
ScotlandUp+5226£275-24.65 %
South WestDown-2191£375-11.76 %
YorkshireUp+9168£343-5.84 %
North WestUp+2165£290-17.14 %
EdinburghUp+5143£225-31.29 %
West YorkshireUp+9118£340-15.00 %
ManchesterUp+19103£265-29.80 %
BerkshireUp+398£400+6.66 %
Docklands, LondonUp+597£500+11.11 %
Canary WharfNo change097£513-10.86 %
West MidlandsUp+192£346+7.36 %
East of EnglandUp+1589£350-
East MidlandsUp+187£400+3.22 %
SurreyUp+1268£338-15.62 %
BristolUp+1261£345-16.36 %
LeedsUp+254£345-16.36 %
WiltshireDown-552£400-8.57 %
GlasgowUp+250£300-20.00 %
HertfordshireUp+3842£350-3.44 %
HampshireDown-1739£363-5.84 %
BuckinghamshireUp+637£290-33.71 %
NorthamptonshireNo change037£425-
HalifaxUp+430£250-15.82 %
CheshireDown-330£350+4.47 %
BirminghamUp+1429£353+0.71 %
SwindonDown-626£448+2.28 %

Business Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

13048 (34.83 %)Banking
22966 (33.90 %)Finance
32516 (28.75 %)Business Analysis
41865 (21.31 %)Investment Banking
51226 (14.01 %)Derivative
61024 (11.70 %)Front Office
7791 (9.040 %)SQL
8739 (8.446 %)Project Management
9718 (8.206 %)Retail
10659 (7.531 %)UML
11625 (7.143 %)Back Office
12616 (7.040 %)User Acceptance Testing
13596 (6.811 %)Fixed Income
14594 (6.789 %)Insurance
15583 (6.663 %)Stakeholder Management
16548 (6.263 %)Migration
17500 (5.714 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
18464 (5.303 %)Oracle
19463 (5.291 %)MS Visio
20447 (5.109 %)Equities
21423 (4.834 %)Change Management
22407 (4.651 %)Risk Management
23396 (4.526 %)Retail Banking
24395 (4.514 %)GAP Analysis
25388 (4.434 %)Use Case
26378 (4.320 %)Data Analysis
26378 (4.320 %)Workflow
27377 (4.309 %)Data Modelling
28375 (4.286 %)Credit Risk
29369 (4.217 %)PRINCE2

Business Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1165 (1.886 %)XML
2113 (1.291 %).NET
331 (0.354 %)XML Messaging
429 (0.331 %)XML Schema
526 (0.297 %)FpML
526 (0.297 %)WebSphere
625 (0.286 %)Web Services
718 (0.206 %)Middleware
817 (0.194 %)ASP.NET
817 (0.194 %)WinForms
916 (0.183 %)HTML
1014 (0.160 %)J2EE
1113 (0.149 %)XSL
1212 (0.137 %)Spring
1310 (0.114 %)CSS
1310 (0.114 %)MDX
1310 (0.114 %)WebCenter
1310 (0.114 %)Murex MxML
148 (0.091 %)RSS
157 (0.080 %)ASP
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1119 (1.360 %)SharePoint
262 (0.709 %)CMS
348 (0.549 %)SAS
427 (0.309 %)SharePoint Server 2007
524 (0.274 %)Documentum
610 (0.114 %)LiveLink
78 (0.091 %)IIS
78 (0.091 %)MTS
78 (0.091 %)EPiServer
86 (0.069 %)Lotus Notes
95 (0.057 %)Rendezvous
95 (0.057 %)TeamSite
95 (0.057 %)MS Exchange
95 (0.057 %)WebLogic
95 (0.057 %)Oracle Workflow
104 (0.046 %)WebSphere Application Server
104 (0.046 %)WebSphere Process Server
113 (0.034 %)Drupal
113 (0.034 %)ColdFusion
113 (0.034 %)MQSeries
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1463 (5.291 %)MS Visio
2259 (2.960 %)MS Excel
3180 (2.057 %)MS Office
4125 (1.429 %)MS PowerPoint
5113 (1.291 %)MS Project
669 (0.789 %)Spreadsheet
744 (0.503 %)CA Clarity
86 (0.069 %)Casewise Corporate Modeler Suite
92 (0.023 %)InfoPath
101 (0.011 %)FastStats
101 (0.011 %)SPSS
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
194 (1.074 %)Endur
293 (1.063 %)Summit
343 (0.491 %)SAP HR
434 (0.389 %)Dynamics CRM
532 (0.366 %)Loan IQ
628 (0.320 %)Oracle Financials
722 (0.251 %)Algo Collateral
821 (0.240 %)Eagle PACE
920 (0.229 %)RMDS
920 (0.229 %)ION MarketView
1019 (0.217 %)SAP CRM
1118 (0.206 %)SAP FI
1118 (0.206 %)VisionPLUS
1118 (0.206 %)SAP CO
1217 (0.194 %)Microsoft CRM
1217 (0.194 %)SAP FI/CO
1316 (0.183 %)SAP Oil and Gas
1415 (0.171 %)SAP SD
1415 (0.171 %)Oracle EBS
1513 (0.149 %)Oracle EBS R12
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1125 (1.429 %)Internet
234 (0.389 %)Intranet
314 (0.160 %)BSS
413 (0.149 %)Extranet
510 (0.114 %)ATM
510 (0.114 %)VPN
510 (0.114 %)Ethernet
510 (0.114 %)FTP
69 (0.103 %)VoIP
78 (0.091 %)Broadband
87 (0.080 %)IP Telephony
87 (0.080 %)SAN
96 (0.069 %)CTI
96 (0.069 %)VLAN
105 (0.057 %)LAN
105 (0.057 %)SDH
114 (0.046 %)WAN
114 (0.046 %)3G
123 (0.034 %)DMZ
123 (0.034 %)DNS
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1240 (2.743 %)Datawarehouse
2168 (1.920 %)BusinessObjects
3163 (1.863 %)SQL Server
4103 (1.177 %)Reference Data
577 (0.880 %)ETL
645 (0.514 %)MS Access
733 (0.377 %)Oracle 8/8i
832 (0.366 %)Data Cleansing
930 (0.343 %)Essbase
930 (0.343 %)SQL Server 2005
1028 (0.320 %)SQL Server Integration Services
1127 (0.309 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1226 (0.297 %)Oracle BI EE
1325 (0.286 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1424 (0.274 %)TOAD
1523 (0.263 %)Data Mart
1622 (0.251 %)Oracle Reports
1719 (0.217 %)OLAP
1818 (0.206 %)Data Mining
1818 (0.206 %)EDRMS
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
157 (0.651 %)RequisitePro
251 (0.583 %)Rational Rose
319 (0.217 %)TestDirector
413 (0.149 %)Visual Studio
512 (0.137 %)FitNesse
611 (0.126 %)JIRA
710 (0.114 %)Eclipse
710 (0.114 %)ERwin
89 (0.103 %)ClearCase
97 (0.080 %)Team Foundation Server
105 (0.057 %)ClearQuest
105 (0.057 %)Oracle Forms
114 (0.046 %)XDE
122 (0.023 %)WinRunner
122 (0.023 %)QARun
131 (0.011 %)Subversion
131 (0.011 %)Visual Studio Team System
131 (0.011 %)Selenium
131 (0.011 %)ARTiSAN
131 (0.011 %)Telon
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
13048 (34.83 %)Banking
22966 (33.90 %)Finance
31865 (21.31 %)Investment Banking
41024 (11.70 %)Front Office
5718 (8.206 %)Retail
6625 (7.143 %)Back Office
7594 (6.789 %)Insurance
8396 (4.526 %)Retail Banking
9297 (3.394 %)Government
10158 (1.806 %)Pensions
11150 (1.714 %)Telecoms
12134 (1.531 %)Marketing
13125 (1.429 %)Financial Institution
14123 (1.406 %)Legal
15119 (1.360 %)General Ledger
16107 (1.223 %)Health
1780 (0.914 %)Local Government
1867 (0.766 %)Education
1960 (0.686 %)Construction
2055 (0.629 %)Private Banking
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11226 (14.01 %)Derivative
2596 (6.811 %)Fixed Income
3500 (5.714 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
4447 (5.109 %)Equities
5375 (4.286 %)Credit Risk
6331 (3.783 %)Equity Derivative
7297 (3.394 %)Market Risk
8246 (2.811 %)Interest Rate Derivative
9180 (2.057 %)Credit Derivative
10150 (1.714 %)NHS
11139 (1.589 %)Management Information System
1253 (0.606 %)FMCG
1339 (0.446 %)Swaptions
1431 (0.354 %)Mathematics
1529 (0.331 %)Mainframe
1627 (0.309 %)Data Integration
1725 (0.286 %)AS400
1824 (0.274 %)IVR
1923 (0.263 %)EPoS
2015 (0.171 %)Client/Server
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1138 (1.577 %)UNIX
277 (0.880 %)Windows
325 (0.286 %)Linux
48 (0.091 %)AIX
56 (0.069 %)Windows Server 2008
65 (0.057 %)Windows Vista
65 (0.057 %)Solaris
73 (0.034 %)Windows XP
82 (0.023 %)Windows Server 2003
82 (0.023 %)Windows 7
91 (0.011 %)Windows Mobile
91 (0.011 %)Ubuntu
91 (0.011 %)Red Hat Linux
91 (0.011 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
91 (0.011 %)zOS
91 (0.011 %)Windows NT
91 (0.011 %)Debian
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
12516 (28.75 %)Business Analysis
2739 (8.446 %)Project Management
3659 (7.531 %)UML
4616 (7.040 %)User Acceptance Testing
5583 (6.663 %)Stakeholder Management
6548 (6.263 %)Migration
7423 (4.834 %)Change Management
8407 (4.651 %)Risk Management
9395 (4.514 %)GAP Analysis
10388 (4.434 %)Use Case
11378 (4.320 %)Data Analysis
11378 (4.320 %)Workflow
12377 (4.309 %)Data Modelling
13369 (4.217 %)PRINCE2
14297 (3.394 %)E-Commerce
15289 (3.303 %)Business Intelligence
16278 (3.177 %)Systems Analysis
17262 (2.994 %)Asset Management
18258 (2.949 %)CRM
19231 (2.640 %)BPR
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1791 (9.040 %)SQL
2200 (2.286 %)C
3151 (1.726 %)Java
494 (1.074 %)C#
585 (0.971 %)VBA
651 (0.583 %)C++
744 (0.503 %)VB
838 (0.434 %)PL/SQL
924 (0.274 %)T-SQL
1013 (0.149 %)VB.NET
118 (0.091 %)Shell Script
127 (0.080 %)ABAP
136 (0.069 %)PHP
136 (0.069 %)COBOL
145 (0.057 %)VB6
145 (0.057 %)JavaScript
153 (0.034 %)Apex Code
153 (0.034 %)Perl
162 (0.023 %)Delphi
162 (0.023 %)RPG
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1191 (2.183 %)Degree
2154 (1.760 %)Security Cleared
3124 (1.417 %)ISEB
464 (0.731 %)SC Cleared
549 (0.560 %)CIMA
549 (0.560 %)PRINCE2 Certification
639 (0.446 %)ACCA
730 (0.343 %)DV Cleared
820 (0.229 %)ITIL Certification
916 (0.183 %)CTC Cleared
1015 (0.171 %)PMI Certification
1113 (0.149 %)CBAP
1211 (0.126 %)CFA
138 (0.091 %)BC Cleared
147 (0.080 %)MBA
155 (0.057 %)PhD
164 (0.046 %)PMP
173 (0.034 %)MCTS
173 (0.034 %)CIW
173 (0.034 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1187 (2.137 %)QA
2135 (1.543 %)Basel II
374 (0.846 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
426 (0.297 %)MiFID
522 (0.251 %)PCI DSS
621 (0.240 %)SLA
713 (0.149 %)GAAP
88 (0.091 %)ISO9001
92 (0.023 %)EFQM
92 (0.023 %)ISO27001
92 (0.023 %)IAS 39
101 (0.011 %)SNOMED CT
101 (0.011 %)COBIT
101 (0.011 %)ISO17799
101 (0.011 %)21 CFR Part 11
101 (0.011 %)GxP
101 (0.011 %)TickIT
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
16 (0.069 %)Active Directory
25 (0.057 %)AquaLogic
31 (0.011 %)OpenLDAP
31 (0.011 %)Postfix
31 (0.011 %)Terminal Services
31 (0.011 %)RACF
31 (0.011 %)Samba
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
16 (0.069 %)HP Quality Center
23 (0.034 %)BMC PATROL
32 (0.023 %)AutoSys
32 (0.023 %)SCOM
41 (0.011 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
41 (0.011 %)Netcool
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1464 (5.303 %)Oracle
2303 (3.463 %)SAP
3280 (3.200 %)Microsoft
4168 (1.920 %)Business Objects
5113 (1.291 %)OpenLink
699 (1.131 %)Sybase
798 (1.120 %)Calypso
889 (1.017 %)Cognos
987 (0.994 %)Murex
1059 (0.674 %)Bloomberg
1158 (0.663 %)Charles River
1257 (0.651 %)Sophis
1352 (0.594 %)Siebel
1450 (0.571 %)Salesforce.com
1546 (0.526 %)TIBCO
1645 (0.514 %)Reuters
1645 (0.514 %)IBM
1743 (0.491 %)Fidessa
1833 (0.377 %)Remedy
1932 (0.366 %)GoldenSource