The first table below looks at the demand for the Business Data 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 Data Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 22 May 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 currently tracked.

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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Business Data Analyst
Rank 478 523 505
Rank change year-on-year
+45 -18
Contract jobs requiring a Business Data Analyst 56 63 81
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.119% 0.106% 0.135%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.129% 0.115% 0.145%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 44 56
Average daily rate £410 £400 £533
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.50% -24.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £294 £300 £338
10% offered a daily rate of more than £524 £576 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £300 £350
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
Average hourly rate £19.75 £20.43 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.30% -11.19%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.75 £16.85 £23.00
% change year-on-year
+17.21% -26.73%
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
43445 54854 55821
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.19% 92.53% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 24929 30221 30365
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2155 2623 2895
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Business Data Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Business Data Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Business Data Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

Business Data Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Business Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Business Data Analyst within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Business Data Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Business Data Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Business Data Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Business Data Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Business Data Analyst within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Business Data Analyst Hourly Rate Histogram

Business Data Analyst
Top 26 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Data Analyst within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank 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
England +47 50 £410 +2.50%
London +23 36 £430 +4.24%
City of London +4 9 £463 -7.50%
South East +18 8 £350 -16.16%
Scotland -15 5 £313 +19.04%
Edinburgh - 3 - -
Surrey - 3 £350 -
Glasgow -19 2 £313 +19.04%
Midlands - 2 £525 -
East Midlands - 2 £275 -
East of England +14 1 - -
Yorkshire 0 1 - -
Canary Wharf -3 1 £500 -16.66%
Farnborough - 1 £250 -
Docklands, London - 1 £450 -
West Yorkshire - 1 - -
Guildford - 1 £350 -
Middlesex - 1 £290 -
Kent - 1 - -
Hampshire - 1 £250 -
Essex - 1 - -
East Sussex - 1 £350 -
Weybridge - 1 £350 -
Chertsey - 1 £350 -
Brighton - 1 £350 -
Brentwood - 1 - -

Business Data Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Business Data 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 Data Analyst in their job title.

1 53 (50.96%) Data Analysis
2 42 (40.38%) Finance
3 29 (27.88%) Business Analysis
3 29 (27.88%) SQL
4 26 (25.00%) Migration
5 22 (21.15%) Banking
5 22 (21.15%) Data Mapping
6 21 (20.19%) Data Migration
6 21 (20.19%) Data Modelling
7 16 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
8 15 (14.42%) ETL
8 15 (14.42%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (14.42%) Data Management
8 15 (14.42%) GAP Analysis
9 13 (12.50%) Data Cleansing
10 12 (11.54%) Retail
10 12 (11.54%) UML
11 10 (9.615%) Marketing
12 9 (8.654%) SAP
12 9 (8.654%) Oracle
12 9 (8.654%) CRM
12 9 (8.654%) Microsoft
13 8 (7.692%) MS Excel
13 8 (7.692%) Siebel
13 8 (7.692%) Investment Banking
14 7 (6.731%) Data Transformation
14 7 (6.731%) SharePoint
14 7 (6.731%) SAS
14 7 (6.731%) SSADM
15 6 (5.769%) VBA

Business Data Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Business Data 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 Data Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (0.962%) MapReduce
1 1 (0.962%) COM
Application Platforms
1 7 (6.731%) SharePoint
1 7 (6.731%) SAS
2 1 (0.962%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (0.962%) Apache Pig
2 1 (0.962%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (7.692%) MS Excel
2 5 (4.808%) MS PowerPoint
2 5 (4.808%) MS Office
3 2 (1.923%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.962%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.962%) MS Project
4 1 (0.962%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.923%) Taleo
1 2 (1.923%) Eagle PACE
2 1 (0.962%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.962%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.962%) SAP SD
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.885%) HTTP
2 1 (0.962%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (14.42%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (4.808%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.846%) Data Mining
3 4 (3.846%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (2.885%) Base SAS
4 3 (2.885%) SAP Data Services
4 3 (2.885%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.923%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.923%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (1.923%) BODI
5 2 (1.923%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
5 2 (1.923%) QlikView
6 1 (0.962%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.962%) Spotfire
6 1 (0.962%) Xcelsius
6 1 (0.962%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.962%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (0.962%) HBase
6 1 (0.962%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.962%) Mahout
Development Applications
1 2 (1.923%) Talend Open Studio
2 1 (0.962%) LSMW
General
1 42 (40.38%) Finance
2 22 (21.15%) Banking
3 12 (11.54%) Retail
4 10 (9.615%) Marketing
5 8 (7.692%) Investment Banking
6 4 (3.846%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.846%) Retail Banking
7 3 (2.885%) Legal
8 2 (1.923%) Advertising
8 2 (1.923%) Automotive
9 1 (0.962%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.962%) International Banking
9 1 (0.962%) Billing
9 1 (0.962%) Games
9 1 (0.962%) Front Office
9 1 (0.962%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.962%) Publishing
9 1 (0.962%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.962%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.846%) Reference Data
2 3 (2.885%) Data Extraction
3 2 (1.923%) NHS
3 2 (1.923%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.923%) Digital Media
3 2 (1.923%) IIBA
3 2 (1.923%) Credit Risk
4 1 (0.962%) Mathematics
4 1 (0.962%) Computer Science
4 1 (0.962%) CMDB
4 1 (0.962%) Smart Meter
4 1 (0.962%) SaaS
4 1 (0.962%) Data Integration
4 1 (0.962%) Statistics
4 1 (0.962%) Equities
4 1 (0.962%) Fixed Income
4 1 (0.962%) EPoS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (50.96%) Data Analysis
2 29 (27.88%) Business Analysis
3 26 (25.00%) Migration
4 22 (21.15%) Data Mapping
5 21 (20.19%) Data Migration
5 21 (20.19%) Data Modelling
6 16 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
7 15 (14.42%) ETL
7 15 (14.42%) Data Management
7 15 (14.42%) GAP Analysis
8 13 (12.50%) Data Cleansing
9 12 (11.54%) UML
10 9 (8.654%) CRM
11 7 (6.731%) Data Transformation
11 7 (6.731%) SSADM
12 6 (5.769%) PRINCE2
12 6 (5.769%) Project Management
12 6 (5.769%) Scrum
12 6 (5.769%) Asset Management
12 6 (5.769%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 29 (27.88%) SQL
2 6 (5.769%) VBA
3 2 (1.923%) T-SQL
4 1 (0.962%) VB
4 1 (0.962%) C
Qualifications
1 5 (4.808%) ISEB
2 4 (3.846%) Degree
3 3 (2.885%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.923%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.962%) CIMA
5 1 (0.962%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.769%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.923%) ISO 9000
3 1 (0.962%) QA
3 1 (0.962%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.962%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 9 (8.654%) SAP
1 9 (8.654%) Oracle
1 9 (8.654%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.692%) Siebel
3 5 (4.808%) Business Objects
4 4 (3.846%) Teradata
5 3 (2.885%) Avaloq
6 2 (1.923%) Salesforce.com
6 2 (1.923%) Informatica
6 2 (1.923%) Cognos
6 2 (1.923%) Vermilion
6 2 (1.923%) Talend
7 1 (0.962%) Microgen
7 1 (0.962%) Twitter
7 1 (0.962%) Progress
7 1 (0.962%) Hyperion
7 1 (0.962%) SunGard
7 1 (0.962%) IBM
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