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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the Senior 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 Senior Business Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 19 March 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.

LinkSenior Business Analyst
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank193260308
Rank change year-on-year
Up+67Up+48
Matching contract IT job ads389186340
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.805 %0.472 %0.414 %
As % of the Job Titles category0.880 %0.515 %0.445 %
Daily rates quoted21897182
Average daily rate£500£475£525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.260 %-9.520 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£375£367£400
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£625£640£700
UK excluding London average daily rate£450£425£450
% change year-on-year
+5.880 %-5.550 %
Hourly rates quoted003
Average hourly rate--£70.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate---
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
441973611776460
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK91.49 %91.56 %93.02 %
Daily rates quoted201431156723643
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£213£238
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£550£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£338£350
% change year-on-year
-3.700 %-3.570 %
Hourly rates quoted252830286720
Average hourly rate£20.00£20.00£22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
--9.090 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£10.00£10.67£11.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£38.00£37.50£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£18.00£20.00£22.00
% change year-on-year
-10.00 %-9.090 %

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.

Senior Business Analyst
Demand Trend

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

Senior Business Analyst Demand Trend

Senior Business Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

Senior Business Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Senior Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Senior Business Analyst within the UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

Senior Business Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Senior Business Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Senior Business Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Senior 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 Senior Business Analyst within the UK over the 3 months to 19 March 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+74370£500+5.26 %
LondonUp+62304£513-2.38 %
City of LondonDown-2174£550+17.33 %
East MidlandsUp+719£450+5.88 %
NorthamptonshireUp+818£450+5.88 %
ScotlandDown-317£425+17.24 %
South EastDown-115£450+1.40 %
South WestDown-915£450-8.16 %
NorthamptonUp+314£450+5.88 %
EdinburghDown-814£425-
WiltshireUp+612£450-8.16 %
SwindonUp+711£450-8.16 %
Canary WharfDown-2110£450-
BerkshireUp+149£450+1.40 %
HertfordshireUp+207£325-4.05 %
East of EnglandUp+167£325-4.05 %
Docklands, LondonNo change07£458-20.43 %
YorkshireDown-65£450+10.76 %
ReadingUp+34£465+4.78 %
MiddlesexDown-43£475+5.55 %
North WestDown-73£350+7.69 %
West YorkshireDown-223£450+10.76 %
StevenageNew entry-3£325-
PaddingtonNew entry-3£473-
HampshireDown-92£400-14.66 %
AberdeenNew entry-2--
ManchesterNew entry-2£153-
WatfordNew entry-2--
MidlandsUp+51£375-6.25 %
CrawleyDown-41--

Senior Business Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Senior 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 Senior Business Analyst in their job title.

1270 (40.12 %)Banking
2260 (38.63 %)Finance
3173 (25.71 %)Business Analysis
4165 (24.52 %)Investment Banking
5127 (18.87 %)Front Office
6119 (17.68 %)Derivative
785 (12.63 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
872 (10.70 %)Project Management
967 (9.955 %)E-Commerce
967 (9.955 %)Fixed Income
1063 (9.361 %)Equities
1161 (9.064 %)Stakeholder Management
1161 (9.064 %)UML
1256 (8.321 %)Migration
1354 (8.024 %)SQL
1452 (7.727 %)Retail
1550 (7.429 %)Back Office
1550 (7.429 %)GAP Analysis
1649 (7.281 %)User Acceptance Testing
1744 (6.538 %)Change Management
1838 (5.646 %)Data Modelling
1937 (5.498 %)QA
1937 (5.498 %)Retail Banking
2034 (5.052 %)Oracle
2034 (5.052 %)Asset Management
2034 (5.052 %)Insurance
2131 (4.606 %)Requirements Analysis
2229 (4.309 %)Data Analysis
2328 (4.160 %)MS Visio
2426 (3.863 %)Risk Management

Senior Business Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Senior 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 Senior Business Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
113 (1.932 %)XML
28 (1.189 %).NET
35 (0.743 %)FIXML
35 (0.743 %)Flash
43 (0.446 %)LAMP
52 (0.297 %)XSD
52 (0.297 %)XSLT
52 (0.297 %)SOAP
52 (0.297 %)WebSphere
52 (0.297 %)FIX Protocol
61 (0.149 %)MDX
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
116 (2.377 %)SharePoint
26 (0.892 %)SAS
35 (0.743 %)SharePoint Server 2007
35 (0.743 %)CMS
35 (0.743 %)IIS
43 (0.446 %)Drupal
52 (0.297 %)Apache
52 (0.297 %)Documentum
52 (0.297 %)ESB
61 (0.149 %)WebSphere Process Server
61 (0.149 %)MQSI
61 (0.149 %)WebSphere Application Server
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
128 (4.160 %)MS Visio
221 (3.120 %)MS Excel
317 (2.526 %)CA Clarity
412 (1.783 %)MS PowerPoint
412 (1.783 %)Spreadsheet
511 (1.634 %)MS Project
69 (1.337 %)MS Office
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
111 (1.634 %)Loan IQ
210 (1.486 %)Summit
38 (1.189 %)Endur
45 (0.743 %)SimCorp Dimension
53 (0.446 %)Capstone
53 (0.446 %)Findur
53 (0.446 %)Murex MxG2000
62 (0.297 %)PeopleSoft HRMS
62 (0.297 %)BusinessWorks
62 (0.297 %)Microsoft CRM
62 (0.297 %)Decalog
62 (0.297 %)SAP CRM
62 (0.297 %)Oracle EBS
62 (0.297 %)Tesseract
62 (0.297 %)Minerva
62 (0.297 %)Sentinel
62 (0.297 %)Dynamics CRM
62 (0.297 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
62 (0.297 %)Thomson PORTIA
71 (0.149 %)Eagle PACE
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
19 (1.337 %)Internet
26 (0.892 %)FTP
26 (0.892 %)Intranet
32 (0.297 %)SMTP
41 (0.149 %)xDSL
41 (0.149 %)Extranet
41 (0.149 %)Ethernet
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
121 (3.120 %)Datawarehouse
214 (2.080 %)Reference Data
37 (1.040 %)SQL Server
46 (0.892 %)ETL
54 (0.594 %)Oracle Reports
54 (0.594 %)BusinessObjects
62 (0.297 %)MySQL
62 (0.297 %)RDBMS
62 (0.297 %)Data Cleansing
71 (0.149 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
71 (0.149 %)QlikView
71 (0.149 %)SQL Server Integration Services
71 (0.149 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
71 (0.149 %)Essbase
71 (0.149 %)EDMS
71 (0.149 %)SAP BW
71 (0.149 %)DataStage
71 (0.149 %)Data Mining
71 (0.149 %)TOAD
71 (0.149 %)MS Access
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
14 (0.594 %)TestDirector
22 (0.297 %)Oracle Forms
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1270 (40.12 %)Banking
2260 (38.63 %)Finance
3165 (24.52 %)Investment Banking
4127 (18.87 %)Front Office
552 (7.727 %)Retail
650 (7.429 %)Back Office
737 (5.498 %)Retail Banking
834 (5.052 %)Insurance
918 (2.675 %)Financial Institution
1016 (2.377 %)Pensions
1113 (1.932 %)Construction
1212 (1.783 %)Government
1212 (1.783 %)Corporate Banking
1310 (1.486 %)General Ledger
1310 (1.486 %)Telecoms
149 (1.337 %)Private Banking
155 (0.743 %)Marketing
155 (0.743 %)Education
164 (0.594 %)Legal
164 (0.594 %)Local Government
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1119 (17.68 %)Derivative
285 (12.63 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
367 (9.955 %)Fixed Income
463 (9.361 %)Equities
523 (3.418 %)Interest Rate Derivative
621 (3.120 %)Equity Derivative
718 (2.675 %)Credit Derivative
718 (2.675 %)Market Risk
815 (2.229 %)Credit Risk
98 (1.189 %)Swaptions
107 (1.040 %)IVR
115 (0.743 %)Client/Server
124 (0.594 %)Mathematics
133 (0.446 %)Video on Demand
133 (0.446 %)Wiki
133 (0.446 %)Blog
133 (0.446 %)Data Protection Act
133 (0.446 %)Management Information System
133 (0.446 %)PMI
142 (0.297 %)NHS
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
17 (1.040 %)UNIX
22 (0.297 %)Windows
22 (0.297 %)Linux
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1173 (25.71 %)Business Analysis
272 (10.70 %)Project Management
367 (9.955 %)E-Commerce
461 (9.064 %)Stakeholder Management
461 (9.064 %)UML
556 (8.321 %)Migration
650 (7.429 %)GAP Analysis
749 (7.281 %)User Acceptance Testing
844 (6.538 %)Change Management
938 (5.646 %)Data Modelling
1034 (5.052 %)Asset Management
1131 (4.606 %)Requirements Analysis
1229 (4.309 %)Data Analysis
1326 (3.863 %)Risk Management
1424 (3.566 %)PRINCE2
1424 (3.566 %)Use Case
1523 (3.418 %)SSADM
1622 (3.269 %)Six Sigma
1622 (3.269 %)Business Process Improvement
1721 (3.120 %)Investment Management
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
154 (8.024 %)SQL
28 (1.189 %)VBA
37 (1.040 %)VB
37 (1.040 %)C#
37 (1.040 %)C++
45 (0.743 %)C
54 (0.594 %)Java
63 (0.446 %)PL/SQL
72 (0.297 %)PHP
81 (0.149 %)T-SQL
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
116 (2.377 %)Degree
29 (1.337 %)ISEB
34 (0.594 %)PMI Certification
43 (0.446 %)Security Cleared
52 (0.297 %)CIMA
52 (0.297 %)CFA
52 (0.297 %)ISTQB
52 (0.297 %)SC Cleared
52 (0.297 %)CTC Cleared
61 (0.149 %)DV Cleared
61 (0.149 %)ISEB Practitioner
61 (0.149 %)PRINCE2 Certification
61 (0.149 %)ITIL Certification
61 (0.149 %)PMP
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
137 (5.498 %)QA
29 (1.337 %)Basel II
35 (0.743 %)MiFID
44 (0.594 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
52 (0.297 %)GAAP
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
134 (5.052 %)Oracle
219 (2.823 %)SAP
311 (1.634 %)OpenLink
311 (1.634 %)Calypso
49 (1.337 %)Sophis
58 (1.189 %)Microsoft
67 (1.040 %)Murex
76 (0.892 %)IBM
76 (0.892 %)Microgen
85 (0.743 %)thinkFolio
85 (0.743 %)SimCorp
85 (0.743 %)Nortel
85 (0.743 %)Avaya
85 (0.743 %)Genesys
85 (0.743 %)Informatica
85 (0.743 %)Cognos
85 (0.743 %)Chordiant
94 (0.594 %)Business Objects
94 (0.594 %)GoldenSource
103 (0.446 %)Charles River