The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term IIBA in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited IIBA 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 terms in our Miscellaneous 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA)
Rank 523 568 562
Rank change year-on-year
+45 -6
Contract jobs citing IIBA 11 18 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.023% 0.030% 0.040%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.088% 0.124% 0.142%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 16 24
Average daily rate £489 £394 £530
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+24.12% -25.70%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
12464 14541 16939
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 26.45% 24.53% 28.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7498 8526 10051
Average daily rate £425 £425 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -19.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £243 £250 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 545 681 721
Average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -2.17%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £46.05 £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.66
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -12.31%

IIBA
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing IIBA within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

IIBA Jobs Demand Trend

IIBA
Daily Rate Trend

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

IIBA Daily Rate Trend

IIBA
Daily Rate Histogram

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

IIBA Daily Rate Histogram

IIBA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

IIBA Hourly Rate Trend

IIBA
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IIBA 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 +49 11 £489 +24.12%
London +25 7 £550 +29.41%
City of London +7 5 £545 +48.29%
East of England +15 1 £325 +30.00%
North West +7 1 - -
South East - 1 £438 -
Yorkshire - 1 £375 -
North Yorkshire - 1 £375 -
Essex - 1 £325 -
Berkshire - 1 £438 -
York - 1 £375 -
Manchester - 1 - -

IIBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing IIBA 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 IIBA.

1 27 (90.00%) Business Analysis
2 25 (83.33%) ISEB
3 17 (56.67%) Finance
4 10 (33.33%) UML
5 8 (26.67%) Banking
5 8 (26.67%) CBAP
6 7 (23.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (23.33%) PRINCE2
7 6 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (20.00%) Change Management
7 6 (20.00%) Systems Analysis
7 6 (20.00%) Security Cleared
7 6 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 6 (20.00%) BPMN
8 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
8 5 (16.67%) Wiki
8 5 (16.67%) Requirements Engineering
8 5 (16.67%) Confluence
8 5 (16.67%) Investment Banking
8 5 (16.67%) Derivative
8 5 (16.67%) Requirements Management
8 5 (16.67%) Back Office
8 5 (16.67%) Fixed Income
8 5 (16.67%) Validation
8 5 (16.67%) Project Management
8 5 (16.67%) GAP Analysis
9 4 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (13.33%) Data Modelling
9 4 (13.33%) Telecoms

IIBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing IIBA 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 IIBA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 5 (16.67%) Confluence
2 1 (3.333%) Lync
Applications
1 3 (10.00%) MS Visio
1 3 (10.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (6.667%) MS Project
3 1 (3.333%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (3.333%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.333%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (3.333%) RequisitePro
General
1 17 (56.67%) Finance
2 8 (26.67%) Banking
3 5 (16.67%) Investment Banking
3 5 (16.67%) Back Office
4 4 (13.33%) Telecoms
5 2 (6.667%) Legal
6 1 (3.333%) Law
6 1 (3.333%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 30 (100.00%) Business Analyst
1 30 (100.00%) Analyst
2 6 (20.00%) Business Systems Analyst
2 6 (20.00%) Systems Analyst
3 5 (16.67%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
4 4 (13.33%) Senior Business Analyst
4 4 (13.33%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (10.00%) NHS Business Analyst
6 2 (6.667%) UML Business Analyst
6 2 (6.667%) Data Analyst
6 2 (6.667%) Business Data Analyst
7 1 (3.333%) Business Solution Architect
7 1 (3.333%) Technical Analyst
7 1 (3.333%) Business Architect
7 1 (3.333%) Security Analyst
7 1 (3.333%) Lead Business Analyst
7 1 (3.333%) Technical Business Analyst
7 1 (3.333%) IT Business Analyst
7 1 (3.333%) Architect
7 1 (3.333%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (16.67%) Wiki
2 5 (16.67%) Derivative
2 5 (16.67%) Fixed Income
3 3 (10.00%) NHS
4 2 (6.667%) Smart Meter
5 1 (3.333%) Equities
5 1 (3.333%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.333%) Windows 7
1 1 (3.333%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (90.00%) Business Analysis
2 10 (33.33%) UML
3 7 (23.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (23.33%) PRINCE2
4 6 (20.00%) Change Management
4 6 (20.00%) Systems Analysis
4 6 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 6 (20.00%) BPMN
5 5 (16.67%) Requirements Engineering
5 5 (16.67%) Requirements Management
5 5 (16.67%) Validation
5 5 (16.67%) Project Management
5 5 (16.67%) GAP Analysis
6 4 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (13.33%) Data Modelling
6 4 (13.33%) Data Analysis
6 4 (13.33%) Test Scripting
7 3 (10.00%) Performance Improvement
7 3 (10.00%) SOA
8 2 (6.667%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (83.33%) ISEB
2 8 (26.67%) CBAP
3 6 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
5 3 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.333%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 4 (13.33%) Civica
2 2 (6.667%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.667%) Oracle
3 1 (3.333%) IBM
3 1 (3.333%) Citrix
3 1 (3.333%) Remedy
London
As the Business Analyst you must be have proven experience in business analysis processes improvement, implementing best practices, using established frameworks such as CMMI Capability Maturity Model Integration...
OCC Computing
Rate: £45k - 57k per year
Posted: 23 April 2013