The first table below looks at the demand for Data Analysis skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Data Analysis 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category.

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
Data Analysis
Rank 90 98 118
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +20
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 1009 1053 999
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 2.097% 1.814% 1.605%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.949% 2.658% 2.383%
Number of daily rates quoted 663 685 620
Average daily rate £418 £389 £438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.39% -11.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £238 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £338
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 42 39
Average hourly rate £20.00 £21.75 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.04% -27.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.45 £15.00 £13.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.38 £38.85 £38.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £21.75 £24.50
% change year-on-year
-8.04% -11.22%
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
34218 39623 41917
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 71.12% 68.27% 67.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 20499 22617 23889
Average daily rate £413 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.12% -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £275 £273
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £580 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 979 1259 1448
Average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.83 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £45.00 £45.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%

Data Analysis
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Data Analysis within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Data Analysis Jobs Demand Trend

Data Analysis
Daily Rate Trend

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

Data Analysis Daily Rate Trend

Data Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Data Analysis within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Data Analysis Daily Rate Histogram

Data Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Data Analysis Hourly Rate Trend

Data Analysis
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Data Analysis within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Data Analysis Hourly Rate Histogram

Data Analysis
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 Data Analysis within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +14 903 £425 +6.25% 218
London +20 602 £450 +5.88% 99
City of London +17 217 £473 +2.71% 38
South East +2 116 £325 -13.33% 42
Scotland -25 68 £314 -7.03% 11
North West +34 41 £250 -31.97% 9
South West +4 41 £375 -0.33% 9
Glasgow -24 40 £295 -12.59% 4
Yorkshire +2 29 £315 -16.00% 12
Surrey +16 28 £325 -18.75% 7
West Yorkshire +8 24 £315 -13.69% 10
East of England +14 23 £400 +33.33% 21
Cheshire +17 22 £238 -37.57% 1
Canary Wharf +10 21 £550 -
Buckinghamshire +7 19 £175 -41.66% 5
West Midlands -5 18 £330 -17.50% 13
Edinburgh +1 17 £413 +17.85% 6
Hampshire -2 17 £550 +48.64% 9
Berkshire -17 17 £350 +2.94% 2
Woking +6 16 £325 +1.56% 3
Leeds -4 15 £320 -10.86% 2
Middlesex +16 12 £275 -21.42% 1
Wiltshire +3 12 £444 +4.41% 3
East Midlands -13 12 £350 +7.69% 9
Hertfordshire +22 11 £334 +17.10% 9
Milton Keynes +11 10 £188 -37.50% 1
Manchester +5 10 £325 +8.33% 5
North East +20 9 £260 -20.00% 2
West Sussex +16 9 £300 -20.00%
Crawley +9 9 £300 -20.00%

Data Analysis
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1 674 (34.56%) SQL
2 617 (31.64%) Finance
3 420 (21.54%) Banking
4 353 (18.10%) Business Analysis
5 314 (16.10%) Data Modelling
6 296 (15.18%) Migration
7 278 (14.26%) MS Excel
8 258 (13.23%) Data Warehouse
9 245 (12.56%) Oracle
10 240 (12.31%) SQL Server
11 238 (12.21%) Business Intelligence
12 233 (11.95%) Data Migration
13 198 (10.15%) Investment Banking
14 190 (9.744%) Stakeholder Management
15 186 (9.538%) Microsoft
16 183 (9.385%) ETL
17 179 (9.179%) VBA
18 162 (8.308%) Project Management
19 143 (7.333%) Data Mining
20 139 (7.128%) SAP
21 137 (7.026%) User Acceptance Testing
22 136 (6.974%) Data Management
23 134 (6.872%) Validation
24 125 (6.410%) Degree
25 118 (6.051%) UML
25 118 (6.051%) Analytics
26 113 (5.795%) SQL Server Reporting Services
27 112 (5.744%) Retail
28 111 (5.692%) Data Mapping
29 107 (5.487%) MS Office

Data Analysis
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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
1 100 (5.128%) .NET
2 70 (3.590%) XML
3 38 (1.949%) HTML
4 29 (1.487%) CSS
5 28 (1.436%) WPF
6 25 (1.282%) Silverlight
7 22 (1.128%) ASP.NET
8 19 (0.974%) Web Services
9 18 (0.923%) jQuery
9 18 (0.923%) MapReduce
10 16 (0.821%) HTML5
11 14 (0.718%) Hibernate
12 11 (0.564%) CSS3
12 11 (0.564%) JAXB
12 11 (0.564%) XSLT
12 11 (0.564%) ASP
13 10 (0.513%) MDX
13 10 (0.513%) XSD
13 10 (0.513%) Middleware
14 9 (0.462%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 85 (4.359%) SAS
2 68 (3.487%) SharePoint
3 19 (0.974%) Apache Pig
4 14 (0.718%) Apache
4 14 (0.718%) SharePoint 2010
5 10 (0.513%) IBM Notes
6 8 (0.410%) CMS
7 5 (0.256%) Documentum
7 5 (0.256%) Oracle Application Server
8 4 (0.205%) SharePoint Server
8 4 (0.205%) WebLogic
8 4 (0.205%) IIS
9 3 (0.154%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.154%) ESB
9 3 (0.154%) MS Project Server
9 3 (0.154%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (0.154%) Mule
10 2 (0.103%) Amazon AWS
10 2 (0.103%) Force.com
10 2 (0.103%) Progress Apama
Applications
1 278 (14.26%) MS Excel
2 107 (5.487%) MS Office
3 86 (4.410%) MS PowerPoint
3 86 (4.410%) MS Visio
4 39 (2.000%) MS Project
5 16 (0.821%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (0.718%) SPSS
7 10 (0.513%) Photoshop
7 10 (0.513%) Fireworks
8 8 (0.410%) FastStats
9 3 (0.154%) PowerPivot
10 2 (0.103%) Open Workbench
10 2 (0.103%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.051%) S-PLUS
11 1 (0.051%) Stata
Business Applications
1 19 (0.974%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.923%) Oracle EBS
3 15 (0.769%) SAP SD
4 9 (0.462%) Summit
4 9 (0.462%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 9 (0.462%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.410%) Google Analytics
5 8 (0.410%) SAP PP
6 6 (0.308%) SAP MM
7 5 (0.256%) WebTrends
7 5 (0.256%) Adaptiv
7 5 (0.256%) Taleo
8 4 (0.205%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.205%) Maximo
8 4 (0.205%) Oracle Financials
8 4 (0.205%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.154%) SiteCatalyst
9 3 (0.154%) Oracle Retail
9 3 (0.154%) SAP WM
9 3 (0.154%) PeopleSoft Financials
Communications & Networking
1 28 (1.436%) SAN
2 19 (0.974%) HTTP
3 14 (0.718%) Internet
4 11 (0.564%) Intranet
5 10 (0.513%) Broadband
6 9 (0.462%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (0.410%) ADSL
8 6 (0.308%) LTE
8 6 (0.308%) Firewall
8 6 (0.308%) 2G
8 6 (0.308%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.308%) VPN
9 5 (0.256%) 3G
9 5 (0.256%) HTTPS
10 4 (0.205%) WAN
10 4 (0.205%) SMTP
10 4 (0.205%) SSL
10 4 (0.205%) BGP
11 3 (0.154%) LAN
11 3 (0.154%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 258 (13.23%) Data Warehouse
2 240 (12.31%) SQL Server
3 143 (7.333%) Data Mining
4 113 (5.795%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 104 (5.333%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 84 (4.308%) MS Access
7 70 (3.590%) SQL Server 2008
8 51 (2.615%) QlikView
8 51 (2.615%) Big Data
9 45 (2.308%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 42 (2.154%) SQL Server 2005
11 41 (2.103%) OLAP
12 34 (1.744%) Hadoop
13 32 (1.641%) RDBMS
14 28 (1.436%) BusinessObjects XI
14 28 (1.436%) Star Schema
14 28 (1.436%) BusinessObjects
15 26 (1.333%) Crystal Reports
16 24 (1.231%) Oracle BI EE
16 24 (1.231%) DB2
Development Applications
1 43 (2.205%) ERwin
2 14 (0.718%) JIRA
3 12 (0.615%) LSMW
4 10 (0.513%) Team Foundation Server
5 8 (0.410%) Eclipse
6 7 (0.359%) Ant
6 7 (0.359%) Visual Studio
6 7 (0.359%) Subversion
6 7 (0.359%) Microsoft Blend
7 5 (0.256%) ClearCase
7 5 (0.256%) Git (software)
8 4 (0.205%) TestDirector
8 4 (0.205%) MSI
8 4 (0.205%) Axure RP
9 3 (0.154%) Balsamiq Mockups
9 3 (0.154%) Rational Rose
9 3 (0.154%) Maven
9 3 (0.154%) StarTeam
10 2 (0.103%) Selenium
10 2 (0.103%) Oracle APEX
General
1 617 (31.64%) Finance
2 420 (21.54%) Banking
3 198 (10.15%) Investment Banking
4 112 (5.744%) Retail
5 88 (4.513%) Marketing
6 64 (3.282%) Telecoms
7 44 (2.256%) Front Office
8 37 (1.897%) Retail Banking
9 36 (1.846%) Back Office
10 25 (1.282%) Financial Institution
11 23 (1.179%) Legal
12 17 (0.872%) Publishing
13 15 (0.769%) Games
13 15 (0.769%) Private Banking
13 15 (0.769%) French Language
14 14 (0.718%) Military
15 12 (0.615%) Manufacturing
16 11 (0.564%) Advertising
16 11 (0.564%) Pharmaceutical
17 10 (0.513%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 1206 (61.85%) Analyst
2 607 (31.13%) Business Analyst
3 455 (23.33%) Data Analyst
4 233 (11.95%) Developer
5 133 (6.821%) Architect
6 91 (4.667%) Data Architect
7 90 (4.615%) Consultant
8 70 (3.590%) Business Data Analyst
9 68 (3.487%) Senior Analyst
10 53 (2.718%) Systems Analyst
11 52 (2.667%) Technical Analyst
11 52 (2.667%) Project Manager
12 50 (2.564%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
13 48 (2.462%) Technical Business Analyst
14 47 (2.410%) SQL Developer
15 46 (2.359%) Risk Analyst
16 44 (2.256%) Senior Business Analyst
17 40 (2.051%) Banking Business Analyst
18 38 (1.949%) SAP Analyst
19 37 (1.897%) Business Intelligence Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 84 (4.308%) Derivative
2 80 (4.103%) Management Information System
2 80 (4.103%) Credit Risk
3 73 (3.744%) Reference Data
4 66 (3.385%) Market Risk
5 54 (2.769%) Data Extraction
6 53 (2.718%) Equities
7 42 (2.154%) Computer Science
8 39 (2.000%) Mathematics
8 39 (2.000%) Data Integration
9 36 (1.846%) Statistics
10 35 (1.795%) Visualisation
10 35 (1.795%) NHS
11 32 (1.641%) FMCG
12 29 (1.487%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 24 (1.231%) Fixed Income
14 18 (0.923%) Physics
15 15 (0.769%) Clustering
15 15 (0.769%) Mainframe
16 14 (0.718%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 80 (4.103%) Windows
2 78 (4.000%) UNIX
3 29 (1.487%) Linux
4 15 (0.769%) Solaris
5 14 (0.718%) Windows 7
6 5 (0.256%) Windows Server 2003
7 4 (0.205%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.205%) Windows 8
8 3 (0.154%) Windows CE
8 3 (0.154%) HPUX
9 1 (0.051%) Windows XP
9 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 353 (18.10%) Business Analysis
2 314 (16.10%) Data Modelling
3 296 (15.18%) Migration
4 238 (12.21%) Business Intelligence
5 233 (11.95%) Data Migration
6 190 (9.744%) Stakeholder Management
7 183 (9.385%) ETL
8 162 (8.308%) Project Management
9 137 (7.026%) User Acceptance Testing
10 136 (6.974%) Data Management
11 134 (6.872%) Validation
12 118 (6.051%) UML
12 118 (6.051%) Analytics
13 111 (5.692%) Data Mapping
14 104 (5.333%) CRM
15 85 (4.359%) ITIL
15 85 (4.359%) Data Architecture
16 83 (4.256%) Risk Management
17 72 (3.692%) Agile Software Development
18 71 (3.641%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 674 (34.56%) SQL
2 179 (9.179%) VBA
3 83 (4.256%) T-SQL
4 77 (3.949%) Java
5 63 (3.231%) VB
6 57 (2.923%) C#
7 56 (2.872%) Python
8 39 (2.000%) PL/SQL
9 37 (1.897%) Perl
10 35 (1.795%) C
11 31 (1.590%) C++
12 27 (1.385%) XPath
13 26 (1.333%) JavaScript
14 17 (0.872%) VB.NET
15 15 (0.769%) R
15 15 (0.769%) Shell Script
15 15 (0.769%) Jython
16 12 (0.615%) Scala
16 12 (0.615%) MATLAB
16 12 (0.615%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 125 (6.410%) Degree
2 75 (3.846%) Security Cleared
3 53 (2.718%) SC Cleared
4 26 (1.333%) ISEB
5 21 (1.077%) NCDA
6 17 (0.872%) DV Cleared
7 16 (0.821%) PhD
8 14 (0.718%) PMI Certification
9 10 (0.513%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 9 (0.462%) CISSP
11 8 (0.410%) CISA
12 7 (0.359%) PMP
13 6 (0.308%) CISM
13 6 (0.308%) CRISC
14 5 (0.256%) Oracle Certification
15 4 (0.205%) CIMA
15 4 (0.205%) OCP
15 4 (0.205%) ACCA
15 4 (0.205%) APMP
16 3 (0.154%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (3.077%) Data Quality
2 59 (3.026%) QA
3 30 (1.538%) SLA
4 27 (1.385%) Basel II
5 24 (1.231%) Basel III
6 18 (0.923%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 15 (0.769%) Solvency II
8 7 (0.359%) FATCA
8 7 (0.359%) ISO 9001
8 7 (0.359%) COBIT
8 7 (0.359%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.256%) ISO 14001
10 4 (0.205%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.154%) MiFID
12 2 (0.103%) TickIT
13 1 (0.051%) GAMP
13 1 (0.051%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 16 (0.821%) Active Directory
2 14 (0.718%) EMC RecoverPoint
3 7 (0.359%) XenApp
4 4 (0.205%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (0.205%) XenDesktop
4 4 (0.205%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (0.154%) Oracle RMAN
5 3 (0.154%) VMware ESX
5 3 (0.154%) vSphere
6 2 (0.103%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 31 (1.590%) HP Quality Center
2 29 (1.487%) EMC NetWorker
3 26 (1.333%) NetBackup
4 9 (0.462%) SCOM
5 6 (0.308%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 5 (0.256%) Data Guard
7 4 (0.205%) Control-M
8 3 (0.154%) BMC PATROL
8 3 (0.154%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 3 (0.154%) SCCM
9 2 (0.103%) Unicenter
9 2 (0.103%) Tivoli Identity Manager
9 2 (0.103%) Splunk
Vendors
1 245 (12.56%) Oracle
2 186 (9.538%) Microsoft
3 139 (7.128%) SAP
4 86 (4.410%) Business Objects
5 46 (2.359%) Informatica
6 41 (2.103%) Teradata
7 40 (2.051%) EMC
8 39 (2.000%) Siebel
9 37 (1.897%) IBM
10 36 (1.846%) Cognos
11 25 (1.282%) HP
12 24 (1.231%) NetApp
13 23 (1.179%) Salesforce.com
14 22 (1.128%) Cadis
15 16 (0.821%) Remedy
16 14 (0.718%) Citrix
16 14 (0.718%) Veritas
17 13 (0.667%) Primavera
18 12 (0.615%) Google
19 11 (0.564%) BMC
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