The first table below looks at the demand for the Functional 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 Functional Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Functional Analyst
Rank 458 495 523
Rank change year-on-year
+37 +28
Contract jobs requiring a Functional Analyst 83 70 63
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.179% 0.120% 0.102%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.194% 0.130% 0.109%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 38 28
Average daily rate £403 £369 £394
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.15% -6.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £272 £179 £198
10% offered a daily rate of more than £478 £441 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £339 £372 £338
% change year-on-year
-8.93% +10.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
Average hourly rate £35.44 £30.00 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.13% -33.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £30.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year
- -33.33%
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42697 54001 57544
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.14% 92.51% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24521 29759 31287
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £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 2095 2581 2973
Average hourly rate £18.25 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.35% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.88 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Functional Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Functional Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Functional Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

Functional Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Functional Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Functional Analyst within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Functional Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Functional Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Functional Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Functional 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 Functional Analyst within the UK over the 3 months to 23 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 71 £403 +9.15%
London +38 46 £428 +16.56%
City of London +22 16 £436 +22.09%
Manchester +18 7 £338 +0.74%
North West +16 7 £338 -1.45%
South East +18 6 £350 -7.77%
West Yorkshire +3 6 £450 +20.00%
Yorkshire 0 6 £450 +20.00%
Scotland - 4 £363 -
Bradford - 3 £450 -
Hampshire - 3 £350 -
South West +29 2 £413 -2.94%
East of England +13 2 £230 -
Buckinghamshire +7 2 - -
Edinburgh - 2 £425 -
Berkshire +17 1 - -
Milton Keynes +6 1 - -
Wiltshire +1 1 £413 -2.94%
Swindon -2 1 £413 -2.94%
Leeds -9 1 - -
Farnborough - 1 £411 -
Canary Wharf - 1 £320 -
East Midlands - 1 £225 -
East Anglia - 1 - -
Hertfordshire - 1 £230 -
Derbyshire - 1 £225 -
Slough - 1 - -
Aberdeen - 1 £300 -
Gosport - 1 £350 -
Glasgow - 1 £245 -

Functional Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Functional 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 Functional Analyst in their job title.

1 42 (31.58%) Oracle
2 39 (29.32%) SAP
3 37 (27.82%) Finance
4 24 (18.05%) Test Scripting
5 22 (16.54%) Oracle EBS R12
6 21 (15.79%) Oracle EBS
7 20 (15.04%) SQL
7 20 (15.04%) CRM
8 18 (13.53%) Banking
9 13 (9.774%) Migration
9 13 (9.774%) Siebel
10 12 (9.023%) User Acceptance Testing
11 11 (8.271%) Retail
11 11 (8.271%) Oracle 11i
12 10 (7.519%) Business Intelligence
12 10 (7.519%) HP Quality Center
13 9 (6.767%) FMCG
13 9 (6.767%) Data Migration
13 9 (6.767%) Business Analysis
13 9 (6.767%) ERP
13 9 (6.767%) Java
13 9 (6.767%) SAP CRM
13 9 (6.767%) Validation
14 8 (6.015%) Oracle Reports
14 8 (6.015%) Security Cleared
14 8 (6.015%) Oracle BI EE
14 8 (6.015%) Functional Testing
15 7 (5.263%) Oracle Financials
15 7 (5.263%) .NET
15 7 (5.263%) Back Office

Functional Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Functional 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 Functional Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (5.263%) .NET
2 5 (3.759%) XML
3 3 (2.256%) XML Messaging
4 2 (1.504%) HTML
4 2 (1.504%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.752%) soapUI
5 1 (0.752%) Murex MxML
5 1 (0.752%) EDI
5 1 (0.752%) CSS
5 1 (0.752%) JSP
5 1 (0.752%) Web Services
5 1 (0.752%) XSLT
5 1 (0.752%) J2EE
5 1 (0.752%) Web Dynpro
Application Platforms
1 2 (1.504%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.752%) LiveSite
2 1 (0.752%) SAS
2 1 (0.752%) TeamSite
2 1 (0.752%) Apache
2 1 (0.752%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.752%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (0.752%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.752%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 22 (16.54%) Oracle EBS R12
2 21 (15.79%) Oracle EBS
3 11 (8.271%) Oracle 11i
4 9 (6.767%) SAP CRM
5 7 (5.263%) Oracle Financials
6 6 (4.511%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 6 (4.511%) SAP EHS
7 5 (3.759%) Oracle Payroll
8 4 (3.008%) Oracle Retail
8 4 (3.008%) Oracle HRMS
8 4 (3.008%) Oracle Applications
8 4 (3.008%) SAP FI
8 4 (3.008%) Misys Equation
8 4 (3.008%) Oracle ASCP
9 3 (2.256%) SAP CO
9 3 (2.256%) JDE OneWorld
10 2 (1.504%) SAP FI/CO
10 2 (1.504%) SAP SD
10 2 (1.504%) SAP MM
10 2 (1.504%) SAP SCM
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.008%) CTI
2 3 (2.256%) HTTP
3 1 (0.752%) Wireshark
3 1 (0.752%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.752%) SSL
3 1 (0.752%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.752%) LDAP
3 1 (0.752%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.015%) Oracle Reports
1 8 (6.015%) Oracle BI EE
2 4 (3.008%) Oracle Discoverer
3 3 (2.256%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.256%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (2.256%) SQLPlus
3 3 (2.256%) SAP BI
4 2 (1.504%) Oracle 10g
4 2 (1.504%) MySQL
4 2 (1.504%) Oracle 11g
5 1 (0.752%) QlikView
5 1 (0.752%) Data Mart
5 1 (0.752%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.752%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (0.752%) DB2
5 1 (0.752%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.752%) IDOL
Development Applications
1 5 (3.759%) JIRA
2 2 (1.504%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (1.504%) Selenium
3 1 (0.752%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (0.752%) Rational Functional Tester
3 1 (0.752%) OpenDeploy
3 1 (0.752%) QuickTest Pro
3 1 (0.752%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.752%) ClearQuest
General
1 37 (27.82%) Finance
2 18 (13.53%) Banking
3 11 (8.271%) Retail
4 7 (5.263%) Back Office
4 7 (5.263%) Manufacturing
5 6 (4.511%) Investment Banking
6 5 (3.759%) French Language
6 5 (3.759%) Marketing
7 4 (3.008%) Private Banking
7 4 (3.008%) Retail Banking
8 3 (2.256%) Dutch Language
8 3 (2.256%) General Ledger
9 2 (1.504%) Front Office
9 2 (1.504%) Legal
10 1 (0.752%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.752%) Publishing
10 1 (0.752%) Law
10 1 (0.752%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.767%) FMCG
2 4 (3.008%) Client/Server
3 3 (2.256%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (2.256%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.504%) AS400
4 2 (1.504%) Derivative
4 2 (1.504%) Online Banking
4 2 (1.504%) Freedom of Information
4 2 (1.504%) iSeries
4 2 (1.504%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.504%) Freedom of Information Act
5 1 (0.752%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.752%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.752%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.752%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.759%) UNIX
2 2 (1.504%) Windows
3 1 (0.752%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (0.752%) Windows XP
3 1 (0.752%) Linux
3 1 (0.752%) Windows 2000
3 1 (0.752%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (18.05%) Test Scripting
2 20 (15.04%) CRM
3 13 (9.774%) Migration
4 12 (9.023%) User Acceptance Testing
5 10 (7.519%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (6.767%) Data Migration
6 9 (6.767%) Business Analysis
6 9 (6.767%) ERP
6 9 (6.767%) Validation
7 8 (6.015%) Functional Testing
8 6 (4.511%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (4.511%) Service Delivery
9 5 (3.759%) Integration Testing
9 5 (3.759%) Use Case
9 5 (3.759%) SAP Implementation
9 5 (3.759%) Supply Chain Management
9 5 (3.759%) B2B
9 5 (3.759%) BPR
9 5 (3.759%) Regression Testing
9 5 (3.759%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 20 (15.04%) SQL
2 9 (6.767%) Java
3 5 (3.759%) PL/SQL
4 3 (2.256%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.504%) RPG
5 2 (1.504%) C#
6 1 (0.752%) C
6 1 (0.752%) COBOL
6 1 (0.752%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (6.015%) Security Cleared
2 6 (4.511%) ISEB
3 5 (3.759%) ISTQB
4 4 (3.008%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.008%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.504%) Degree
6 1 (0.752%) CCAB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.256%) QA
2 2 (1.504%) SLA
3 1 (0.752%) GAAP
System Software
1 1 (0.752%) Nmap
Systems Management
1 10 (7.519%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.752%) Nessus
Vendors
1 42 (31.58%) Oracle
2 39 (29.32%) SAP
3 13 (9.774%) Siebel
4 6 (4.511%) JD Edwards
5 5 (3.759%) HP
6 4 (3.008%) Remedy
6 4 (3.008%) Misys
7 3 (2.256%) Business Objects
8 2 (1.504%) Sybase
8 2 (1.504%) Microsoft
8 2 (1.504%) Murex
8 2 (1.504%) Avaloq
9 1 (0.752%) ArcSight
9 1 (0.752%) Cognos
9 1 (0.752%) Interwoven
9 1 (0.752%) Hyperion
9 1 (0.752%) PeopleSoft
9 1 (0.752%) Primavera
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Rate: £350 per day
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