West Midlands Information Analyst Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Information 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 Information Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Berkshire Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bournemouth Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cheshire City of London Colchester Coventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh Ellesmere Port England Essex Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Preston Reading Romford Salford Scarborough Scotland Shropshire Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swindon Tadworth Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	67	95
Rank change on same period last year	+28
Matching contract IT job ads	58	45
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.078 %	0.044 %
As % of the category below	1.933 %	1.344 %
Daily rates quoted	10	0
Average minimum daily rate	£260	-
Average daily rate	£273	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£287	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£254	£276
% change on same period last year	-8.12 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	21
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.00	£18.06
Average hourly rate	£24.50	£20.95
% change on same period last year	+16.96 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.00	£23.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.77	£21.45
% change on same period last year	+6.12 %
Job Titles West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	3001	3349
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.057 %	3.303 %
Daily rates quoted	750	771
Average minimum daily rate	£322	£326
Average daily rate	£343	£348
% change on same period last year	-1.41 %
Average maximum daily rate	£364	£370
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£355
% change on same period last year	-0.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	296	469
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.60	£21.33
Average hourly rate	£21.09	£23.00
% change on same period last year	-8.30 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.58	£24.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.85	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.14 %
Information Analyst England

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 Information 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 Information 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 Information Analyst across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 5 September 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 Information 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 Information Analyst across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Information Analyst within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 5 September 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	+14	8	£251	-
Warwickshire	+9	5	£215	-
Shropshire	-13	2	£450	-
Staffordshire	-13	1	-	-
Coventry	-1	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region that cited Information 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 Information Analyst in their job title.

1 80 (75.47 %) NHS 2 42 (39.62 %) SQL 3 34 (32.08 %) Health 4 28 (26.42 %) MS Excel 5 24 (22.64 %) SQL Server 6 13 (12.26 %) MS Access 7 8 (7.547 %) Transact-SQL 8 7 (6.604 %) VBA 8 7 (6.604 %) MS Office 8 7 (6.604 %) SQL Server 2000 8 7 (6.604 %) Microsoft 8 7 (6.604 %) SQL Server 2005 8 7 (6.604 %) Spreadsheet 9 6 (5.660 %) MS PowerPoint 9 6 (5.660 %) SQL Server Reporting Services

9 6 (5.660 %) BusinessObjects 9 6 (5.660 %) Business Objects 10 5 (4.717 %) Datawarehouse 11 4 (3.774 %) Business Intelligence 11 4 (3.774 %) Degree 11 4 (3.774 %) Government 12 3 (2.830 %) Finance 12 3 (2.830 %) Information Security 12 3 (2.830 %) Informatics 12 3 (2.830 %) Data Analysis 12 3 (2.830 %) Statistics 12 3 (2.830 %) Statistical Analysis 12 3 (2.830 %) GIS 13 2 (1.887 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 13 2 (1.887 %) Sarbanes-Oxley

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region that cited Information 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 Information Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (0.943 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 2 (1.887 %) SharePoint 2 1 (0.943 %) SAS
Applications 1 28 (26.42 %) MS Excel 2 7 (6.604 %) MS Office 2 7 (6.604 %) Spreadsheet 3 6 (5.660 %) MS PowerPoint 4 1 (0.943 %) SPSS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 24 (22.64 %) SQL Server 2 13 (12.26 %) MS Access 3 7 (6.604 %) SQL Server 2000 3 7 (6.604 %) SQL Server 2005 4 6 (5.660 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 6 (5.660 %) BusinessObjects 5 5 (4.717 %) Datawarehouse 6 3 (2.830 %) GIS 7 2 (1.887 %) Crystal Reports 8 1 (0.943 %) RDBMS 8 1 (0.943 %) OLAP 8 1 (0.943 %) SQL Server Integration Services 8 1 (0.943 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 8 1 (0.943 %) Data Cleansing
General 1 34 (32.08 %) Health 2 4 (3.774 %) Government 3 3 (2.830 %) Finance	Miscellaneous 1 80 (75.47 %) NHS 2 3 (2.830 %) Statistics 2 3 (2.830 %) Informatics 3 1 (0.943 %) RMADS 3 1 (0.943 %) Data Extraction 3 1 (0.943 %) AS400
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (3.774 %) Business Intelligence 2 3 (2.830 %) Data Analysis 2 3 (2.830 %) Statistical Analysis 2 3 (2.830 %) Information Security 3 2 (1.887 %) Validation 4 1 (0.943 %) Migration 4 1 (0.943 %) ITIL 4 1 (0.943 %) CRM 4 1 (0.943 %) Service Management 4 1 (0.943 %) Balanced Scorecard 4 1 (0.943 %) Risk Management 4 1 (0.943 %) Information Management 4 1 (0.943 %) Performance Management 4 1 (0.943 %) Data Migration 4 1 (0.943 %) Data Protection 4 1 (0.943 %) SC Cleared 4 1 (0.943 %) Security Cleared	Programming Languages 1 42 (39.62 %) SQL 2 8 (7.547 %) Transact-SQL 3 7 (6.604 %) VBA 4 1 (0.943 %) VB6 4 1 (0.943 %) C 4 1 (0.943 %) VB 4 1 (0.943 %) VB.NET
Qualifications 1 4 (3.774 %) Degree 2 2 (1.887 %) CISSP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (1.887 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 1 2 (1.887 %) PCI DSS
Systems Management 1 2 (1.887 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 7 (6.604 %) Microsoft 2 6 (5.660 %) Business Objects