West Midlands Analyst Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Analyst role in IT contracts within the West Midlands region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Ascot Atherstone Aylesbury Ayr Ayrshire Bacup Banbury Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Beverley Bicester Billingham Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Clapham Colchester Congleton Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Ayrshire East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ellesmere Port Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Filton Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grays Grimsby Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Hartlepool Hastings Havant Hayes Heanor Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverness Inverurie Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kegworth Keighley Kent Kilmarnock King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lanarkshire Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Melton Mowbray Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Pontypool Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Pudsey Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Ayrshire South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Shields South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark Spalding St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Torfaen Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	2	1
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	642	723
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.856 %	0.731 %
As % of the category below	21.66 %	22.87 %
Daily rates quoted	146	147
Average minimum daily rate	£306	£304
Average daily rate	£323	£320
% change on same period last year	+0.92 %
Average maximum daily rate	£340	£337
UK excluding London average daily rate	£334	£329
% change on same period last year	+1.44 %
Hourly rates quoted	80	117
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.77	£19.11
Average hourly rate	£18.12	£20.41
% change on same period last year	-11.21 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.48	£21.72
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.25	£20.80
% change on same period last year	-7.44 %
Job Titles West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	2964	3161
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.951 %	3.198 %
Daily rates quoted	714	687
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£330
Average daily rate	£345	£347
% change on same period last year	-0.64 %
Average maximum daily rate	£366	£364
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	272	428
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.48	£22.43
Average hourly rate	£20.97	£24.24
% change on same period last year	-13.46 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.47	£26.05
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
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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 Analyst across the West Midlands 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 Analyst across the West Midlands region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Analyst across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 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 Analyst across the West Midlands region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Analyst across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 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
Birmingham	0	163	£312	-1.27 %
Warwickshire	+1	99	£319	+26.02 %
Coventry	+1	69	£359	+17.00 %
Shropshire	-1	62	£351	+28.47 %
Wolverhampton	+7	23	£233	+16.25 %
Staffordshire	-11	18	£235	-44.78 %
Solihull	+1	12	£275	+22.22 %
Dudley	0	10	£278	-
Worcestershire	-7	10	£232	-20.11 %
Herefordshire	-6	8	£363	+15.81 %
Walsall	+7	4	-	-
West Bromwich	-	2	£375	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region that cited 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 Analyst in their job title.

1 209 (15.83 %) Finance 2 205 (15.53 %) SQL 3 190 (14.39 %) Pensions 4 152 (11.52 %) Windows 5 128 (9.697 %) Oracle 6 123 (9.318 %) Business Analysis 7 119 (9.015 %) MS Excel 8 118 (8.939 %) Microsoft 8 118 (8.939 %) NHS 9 104 (7.879 %) Migration 10 93 (7.045 %) MS Office 11 88 (6.667 %) Government 12 86 (6.515 %) ITIL 13 84 (6.364 %) Active Directory 14 81 (6.136 %) Data Migration

15 78 (5.909 %) User Acceptance Testing 16 71 (5.379 %) UML 17 66 (5.000 %) SQL Server 18 64 (4.848 %) Windows XP 19 62 (4.697 %) Test Scripting 20 60 (4.545 %) PL/SQL 21 55 (4.167 %) UNIX 21 55 (4.167 %) ISEB 22 54 (4.091 %) Project Management 23 53 (4.015 %) Health 24 52 (3.939 %) PRINCE2 25 49 (3.712 %) Systems Analysis 26 47 (3.561 %) Insurance 26 47 (3.561 %) Security Cleared 27 43 (3.258 %) Business Objects

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region that cited 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 Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 33 (2.500 %) .NET 2 24 (1.818 %) XML 3 21 (1.591 %) EDI 4 17 (1.288 %) HTML 5 16 (1.212 %) J2EE 6 13 (0.985 %) ASP 7 12 (0.909 %) ASP.NET 8 11 (0.833 %) CSS 9 10 (0.758 %) WebSphere 10 8 (0.606 %) WebServices 11 7 (0.530 %) RSS 12 6 (0.455 %) AJAX 13 5 (0.379 %) ASP.NET 2.0 13 5 (0.379 %) Hibernate 13 5 (0.379 %) Spring 13 5 (0.379 %) JSF 13 5 (0.379 %) Middleware 13 5 (0.379 %) Struts 14 4 (0.303 %) ADO.NET 14 4 (0.303 %) JSP	Application Platforms 1 39 (2.955 %) MS Exchange 2 29 (2.197 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 20 (1.515 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 14 (1.061 %) Lotus Notes 5 10 (0.758 %) SharePoint 6 9 (0.682 %) SharePoint Server 2007 7 8 (0.606 %) Exchange Server 5.5 7 8 (0.606 %) WebLogic 7 8 (0.606 %) IIS 8 6 (0.455 %) SAS 9 5 (0.379 %) Apache 9 5 (0.379 %) Tuxedo 10 3 (0.227 %) Lotus Domino 10 3 (0.227 %) GroupWise 11 2 (0.152 %) OpenEdge 11 2 (0.152 %) CICS 11 2 (0.152 %) NetWeaver 11 2 (0.152 %) MQSeries 11 2 (0.152 %) Tomcat 11 2 (0.152 %) LiveLink
Applications 1 119 (9.015 %) MS Excel 2 93 (7.045 %) MS Office 3 40 (3.030 %) MS Project 4 28 (2.121 %) MS PowerPoint 5 23 (1.742 %) CA Clarity 6 19 (1.439 %) MS Visio 7 17 (1.288 %) Spreadsheet 8 7 (0.530 %) SPSS 9 2 (0.152 %) DeltaView 10 1 (0.076 %) InfoPath 10 1 (0.076 %) Open Workbench	Business Applications 1 7 (0.530 %) Nortel Periphonics 2 4 (0.303 %) Movex 3 3 (0.227 %) Great Plains 3 3 (0.227 %) SAP SD 3 3 (0.227 %) assyst 4 2 (0.152 %) Dynamics GP 4 2 (0.152 %) SoftGrid 4 2 (0.152 %) Remedy ITSM 4 2 (0.152 %) Remedy AR System 4 2 (0.152 %) Oracle Financials 4 2 (0.152 %) Oracle EBS 5 1 (0.076 %) Oracle 11i 5 1 (0.076 %) SAP FI 5 1 (0.076 %) Oracle HRMS 5 1 (0.076 %) SAP FI/CO 5 1 (0.076 %) MAXIMO 5 1 (0.076 %) Teamcenter 5 1 (0.076 %) SAP CO 5 1 (0.076 %) SAP Business One
Communications & Networking 1 28 (2.121 %) TCP/IP 2 27 (2.045 %) VPN 3 26 (1.970 %) Firewall 4 25 (1.894 %) Internet 5 15 (1.136 %) LAN 5 15 (1.136 %) WAN 6 12 (0.909 %) DNS 7 10 (0.758 %) DHCP 8 9 (0.682 %) LDAP 8 9 (0.682 %) Symposium 8 9 (0.682 %) Nortel Meridian 9 7 (0.530 %) NGN 9 7 (0.530 %) Intranet 10 6 (0.455 %) Broadband 10 6 (0.455 %) IP Telephony 11 5 (0.379 %) VLAN 12 4 (0.303 %) VoIP 12 4 (0.303 %) SSL 12 4 (0.303 %) CTI 13 3 (0.227 %) ISDN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 66 (5.000 %) SQL Server 2 43 (3.258 %) BusinessObjects 3 34 (2.576 %) Crystal Reports 4 30 (2.273 %) MS Access 4 30 (2.273 %) Datawarehouse 5 14 (1.061 %) GIS 6 13 (0.985 %) Oracle 10g 6 13 (0.985 %) SQL Server 2000 7 10 (0.758 %) SQL Server 2005 8 9 (0.682 %) SQLPlus 8 9 (0.682 %) Oracle 9i 9 8 (0.606 %) Oracle Reports 9 8 (0.606 %) RDBMS 9 8 (0.606 %) Oracle OWB 10 7 (0.530 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 10 7 (0.530 %) Data Cleansing 11 6 (0.455 %) EDRMS 11 6 (0.455 %) BusinessObjects XI 12 5 (0.379 %) ETL 12 5 (0.379 %) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications 1 13 (0.985 %) Rational Rose 2 12 (0.909 %) ClearCase 3 9 (0.682 %) TestDirector 4 8 (0.606 %) QuickTest Pro 5 7 (0.530 %) ClearQuest 5 7 (0.530 %) RequisitePro 6 6 (0.455 %) ERwin 7 5 (0.379 %) JDeveloper 8 4 (0.303 %) Oracle Forms 9 3 (0.227 %) WinRunner 9 3 (0.227 %) LoadRunner 10 2 (0.152 %) Synon 10 2 (0.152 %) Rational Robot 10 2 (0.152 %) PVCS 11 1 (0.076 %) VSS/SourceSafe 11 1 (0.076 %) Dreamweaver 11 1 (0.076 %) MSI 11 1 (0.076 %) WebSpeed	General 1 209 (15.83 %) Finance 2 190 (14.39 %) Pensions 3 88 (6.667 %) Government 4 53 (4.015 %) Health 5 47 (3.561 %) Insurance 6 27 (2.045 %) Retail 7 26 (1.970 %) Banking 7 26 (1.970 %) Education 8 23 (1.742 %) Automotive 9 14 (1.061 %) Manufacturing 10 13 (0.985 %) Telecoms 11 10 (0.758 %) Legal 11 10 (0.758 %) Marketing 12 9 (0.682 %) Local Government 12 9 (0.682 %) Law 12 9 (0.682 %) Electric 13 8 (0.606 %) General Ledger 14 7 (0.530 %) Back Office 15 6 (0.455 %) Auditing 16 5 (0.379 %) Construction
Miscellaneous 1 118 (8.939 %) NHS 2 15 (1.136 %) AS400 3 14 (1.061 %) Mainframe 4 10 (0.758 %) Management Information System 5 9 (0.682 %) Client/Server 5 9 (0.682 %) Data Conversion 6 8 (0.606 %) Blackberry 7 7 (0.530 %) Web 2.0 7 7 (0.530 %) Data Integration 7 7 (0.530 %) Mathematics 8 6 (0.455 %) Statistics 9 5 (0.379 %) IBM Mainframe 9 5 (0.379 %) RMADS 9 5 (0.379 %) PDA 10 4 (0.303 %) IVR 10 4 (0.303 %) CMDB 11 3 (0.227 %) Computer Science 11 3 (0.227 %) Taxonomies 11 3 (0.227 %) Clustering 12 2 (0.152 %) Equities	Operating Systems 1 152 (11.52 %) Windows 2 64 (4.848 %) Windows XP 3 55 (4.167 %) UNIX 4 30 (2.273 %) Windows 2000 5 25 (1.894 %) Windows Server 2003 6 20 (1.515 %) Windows NT 7 9 (0.682 %) Solaris 8 7 (0.530 %) Linux 9 5 (0.379 %) AIX 9 5 (0.379 %) HPUX 10 3 (0.227 %) VMS 10 3 (0.227 %) NetWare 11 2 (0.152 %) Windows Mobile 12 1 (0.076 %) zOS 12 1 (0.076 %) MVS 12 1 (0.076 %) Tru64 12 1 (0.076 %) SUSE 12 1 (0.076 %) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies 1 123 (9.318 %) Business Analysis 2 104 (7.879 %) Migration 3 86 (6.515 %) ITIL 4 81 (6.136 %) Data Migration 5 78 (5.909 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 71 (5.379 %) UML 7 62 (4.697 %) Test Scripting 8 54 (4.091 %) Project Management 9 52 (3.939 %) PRINCE2 10 49 (3.712 %) Systems Analysis 11 47 (3.561 %) Security Cleared 12 35 (2.652 %) Use Case 13 29 (2.197 %) RAD 14 27 (2.045 %) E-Commerce 14 27 (2.045 %) System Testing 15 24 (1.818 %) SSADM 16 23 (1.742 %) Business Intelligence 16 23 (1.742 %) Service Delivery 16 23 (1.742 %) Data Analysis 17 20 (1.515 %) GAP Analysis	Programming Languages 1 205 (15.53 %) SQL 2 60 (4.545 %) PL/SQL 3 36 (2.727 %) VB 4 23 (1.742 %) Java 5 18 (1.364 %) VBA 6 15 (1.136 %) Transact-SQL 6 15 (1.136 %) COBOL 7 12 (0.909 %) JavaScript 8 11 (0.833 %) C 9 9 (0.682 %) C# 9 9 (0.682 %) RPG 9 9 (0.682 %) VB.NET 10 8 (0.606 %) VBScript 10 8 (0.606 %) VB6 11 6 (0.455 %) Progress 4GL 12 5 (0.379 %) Shell Script 13 4 (0.303 %) JCL 14 3 (0.227 %) C++ 14 3 (0.227 %) Perl 15 2 (0.152 %) PHP
Qualifications 1 55 (4.167 %) ISEB 2 15 (1.136 %) Degree 3 12 (0.909 %) Cisco Certification 4 11 (0.833 %) ITIL Certification 5 10 (0.758 %) Microsoft Certification 6 9 (0.682 %) PRINCE2 Certification 7 7 (0.530 %) MCP 7 7 (0.530 %) MCSE 8 6 (0.455 %) CCNP 8 6 (0.455 %) CCNA 9 5 (0.379 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 10 2 (0.152 %) MCDST 10 2 (0.152 %) CCDA 10 2 (0.152 %) CCDP 10 2 (0.152 %) MCSA 10 2 (0.152 %) Citrix Certification 10 2 (0.152 %) CISSP 11 1 (0.076 %) CCSA 11 1 (0.076 %) CCSE 11 1 (0.076 %) MOS	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 24 (1.818 %) QA 2 22 (1.667 %) SLA 3 15 (1.136 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 9 (0.682 %) ISO27001 5 4 (0.303 %) COBIT 6 2 (0.152 %) ISO9001 6 2 (0.152 %) PCI DSS 7 1 (0.076 %) ISO17799 7 1 (0.076 %) BS15000 7 1 (0.076 %) EFQM
System Software 1 84 (6.364 %) Active Directory 2 6 (0.455 %) Terminal Server 3 5 (0.379 %) MetaFrame 4 4 (0.303 %) VMware Infrastructure 5 3 (0.227 %) Citrix Presentation Server 6 2 (0.152 %) Terminal Services 7 1 (0.076 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 7 1 (0.076 %) NetBackup 7 1 (0.076 %) Backup Exec 7 1 (0.076 %) Oracle RMAN 7 1 (0.076 %) NDS	Systems Management 1 6 (0.455 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 3 (0.227 %) OpenView Configuration Management 2 3 (0.227 %) OpenView 2 3 (0.227 %) Tivoli 2 3 (0.227 %) DameWare 3 1 (0.076 %) WSUS 3 1 (0.076 %) HP Data Protector 3 1 (0.076 %) Tivoli NetView 3 1 (0.076 %) CONTROL-M 3 1 (0.076 %) MAILsweeper
Vendors 1 128 (9.697 %) Oracle 2 118 (8.939 %) Microsoft 3 43 (3.258 %) Business Objects 4 41 (3.106 %) SAP 5 28 (2.121 %) Citrix 6 26 (1.970 %) Cisco 7 22 (1.667 %) IBM 8 21 (1.591 %) Remedy 9 20 (1.515 %) HP 10 15 (1.136 %) Nortel 10 15 (1.136 %) Lotus 11 10 (0.758 %) Juniper 12 9 (0.682 %) Progress 12 9 (0.682 %) Sun 12 9 (0.682 %) JD Edwards 12 9 (0.682 %) Agresso 13 8 (0.606 %) Blue Coat 14 7 (0.530 %) Novell 15 6 (0.455 %) CA 15 6 (0.455 %) CheckPoint