Wales Business Analyst Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Business Analyst role in IT contracts within the Wales region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Business Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Clevedon Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Grimsby Guernsey Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hastings Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent King's Lynn Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Melton Mowbray Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northumbria Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Pudsey Reading Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark Staines Stevenage Stirling Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	22	37
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching contract IT job ads	48	22
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.063 %	0.023 %
As % of the category below	5.687 %	3.034 %
Daily rates quoted	19	7
Average minimum daily rate	£304	£360
Average daily rate	£335	£374
% change on same period last year	-10.56 %
Average maximum daily rate	£366	£389
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£374
% change on same period last year	+1.70 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.79	£33.85
% change on same period last year	-14.96 %
Job Titles Wales
Matching contract IT job ads	844	725
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.113 %	0.769 %
Daily rates quoted	229	172
Average minimum daily rate	£358	£349
Average daily rate	£392	£376
% change on same period last year	+4.05 %
Average maximum daily rate	£425	£404
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	122	64
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.51	£21.50
Average hourly rate	£25.60	£22.38
% change on same period last year	+14.34 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.69	£23.26
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.28	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
Business Analyst UK

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Business Analyst across the Wales region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Business Analyst across the Wales region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Business Analyst across the Wales region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Business Analyst within the Wales region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
South Wales	+16	46	£332	-11.16 %
West Wales	-	1	£375	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region that cited 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 Business Analyst in their job title.

1 45 (42.06 %) UML 2 38 (35.51 %) Business Analysis 3 27 (25.23 %) Government 3 27 (25.23 %) Finance 4 24 (22.43 %) Use Case 5 19 (17.76 %) Data Modelling 6 17 (15.89 %) BPMN 7 15 (14.02 %) DoDAF 7 15 (14.02 %) TOGAF 7 15 (14.02 %) BPR 8 14 (13.08 %) E-business 8 14 (13.08 %) Enterprise Architecture 9 12 (11.21 %) Systems Analysis 9 12 (11.21 %) Insurance 10 10 (9.346 %) Banking

11 9 (8.411 %) RequisitePro 11 9 (8.411 %) MS Excel 12 7 (6.542 %) MS Visio 13 6 (5.607 %) Requirements Management 13 6 (5.607 %) Zachman Framework 13 6 (5.607 %) Security Cleared 13 6 (5.607 %) SLA 14 5 (4.673 %) RUP 14 5 (4.673 %) Borland 14 5 (4.673 %) Service Management 14 5 (4.673 %) Change Management 14 5 (4.673 %) Data Analysis 15 4 (3.738 %) Pensions 15 4 (3.738 %) CaliberRM 15 4 (3.738 %) Education

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region that cited 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 Business Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (1.869 %) XML 2 1 (0.935 %) XSL 2 1 (0.935 %) XSLT 2 1 (0.935 %) HTML 2 1 (0.935 %) .NET 2 1 (0.935 %) CSS 2 1 (0.935 %) WebServices	Application Platforms 1 1 (0.935 %) Apache 1 1 (0.935 %) ColdFusion
Applications 1 9 (8.411 %) MS Excel 2 7 (6.542 %) MS Visio 3 2 (1.869 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 1 (0.935 %) SAP MM
Communications & Networking 1 4 (3.738 %) GSM	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (3.738 %) Datawarehouse 2 1 (0.935 %) BusinessObjects 2 1 (0.935 %) BusinessObjects XI
Development Applications 1 9 (8.411 %) RequisitePro 2 4 (3.738 %) CaliberRM 3 2 (1.869 %) Rational Rose 4 1 (0.935 %) ClearCase 4 1 (0.935 %) ClearQuest	General 1 27 (25.23 %) Government 1 27 (25.23 %) Finance 2 12 (11.21 %) Insurance 3 10 (9.346 %) Banking 4 4 (3.738 %) Education 4 4 (3.738 %) Pensions 5 3 (2.804 %) Retail 5 3 (2.804 %) Billing 6 1 (0.935 %) Local Government 6 1 (0.935 %) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous 1 2 (1.869 %) Management Information System	Processes & Methodologies 1 45 (42.06 %) UML 2 38 (35.51 %) Business Analysis 3 24 (22.43 %) Use Case 4 19 (17.76 %) Data Modelling 5 17 (15.89 %) BPMN 6 15 (14.02 %) DoDAF 6 15 (14.02 %) TOGAF 6 15 (14.02 %) BPR 7 14 (13.08 %) E-business 7 14 (13.08 %) Enterprise Architecture 8 12 (11.21 %) Systems Analysis 9 6 (5.607 %) Zachman Framework 9 6 (5.607 %) Requirements Management 9 6 (5.607 %) Security Cleared 10 5 (4.673 %) Data Analysis 10 5 (4.673 %) Service Management 10 5 (4.673 %) Change Management 10 5 (4.673 %) RUP 11 4 (3.738 %) OO 12 3 (2.804 %) Project Management
Programming Languages 1 3 (2.804 %) SQL 2 1 (0.935 %) C 2 1 (0.935 %) Java	Qualifications 1 1 (0.935 %) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (5.607 %) SLA 2 1 (0.935 %) QA	Vendors 1 5 (4.673 %) Borland 2 4 (3.738 %) SAP 3 3 (2.804 %) Cognos 4 2 (1.869 %) Oracle 5 1 (0.935 %) Business Objects 5 1 (0.935 %) Altova 5 1 (0.935 %) IBM 5 1 (0.935 %) Microsoft