West Midlands Project Analyst Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Project 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 Project Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Alderley Edge Basildon Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Coventry Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Kent Leeds Lincolnshire Liverpool London Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Norwich Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South West South Yorkshire Stevenage Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley UK Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	111	111
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	13	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	0.428 %	0.456 %
Daily rates quoted	4	4
Average minimum daily rate	£338	£154
Average daily rate	£347	£158
% change on same period last year	+120.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£356	£161
UK excluding London average daily rate	£298	£296
% change on same period last year	+0.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£47.00	£14.00
Average hourly rate	£55.00	£15.75
% change on same period last year	+249.20 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£63.00	£17.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.42	£24.55
% change on same period last year	-0.52 %
Job Titles West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	3034	3290
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.044 %	3.282 %
Daily rates quoted	763	750
Average minimum daily rate	£322	£320
Average daily rate	£343	£341
% change on same period last year	+0.54 %
Average maximum daily rate	£364	£362
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£355
% change on same period last year	+0.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	295	471
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.62	£21.77
Average hourly rate	£21.13	£23.44
% change on same period last year	-9.83 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.64	£25.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.79	£25.66
% change on same period last year	-7.31 %
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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 Project 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 Project 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 Project Analyst across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 29 August 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 Project Analyst across the West Midlands 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 jobs citing Project Analyst within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 29 August 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
Shropshire	-9	2	£325	-
Warwickshire	+6	2	£350	+86.66 %
Coventry	-7	2	-	-
Wolverhampton	-	2	-	-
Birmingham	+14	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region that cited Project 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 Project Analyst in their job title.

1 7 (36.84 %) PRINCE2 2 6 (31.58 %) MS Project 3 5 (26.32 %) Project Management 4 4 (21.05 %) Business Analysis 4 4 (21.05 %) Finance 5 3 (15.79 %) Project Planning 5 3 (15.79 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 6 2 (10.53 %) WFM 6 2 (10.53 %) CA Clarity 6 2 (10.53 %) Resource Management 6 2 (10.53 %) Change Management 6 2 (10.53 %) E-business 6 2 (10.53 %) PDA 6 2 (10.53 %) Pensions 6 2 (10.53 %) Insurance

6 2 (10.53 %) MS Office 6 2 (10.53 %) SQL 6 2 (10.53 %) Lotus Notes 6 2 (10.53 %) MS Excel 6 2 (10.53 %) Datawarehouse 6 2 (10.53 %) ERP 6 2 (10.53 %) Business Intelligence 6 2 (10.53 %) PRINCE2 Certification 6 2 (10.53 %) Lotus 6 2 (10.53 %) Sage 7 1 (5.263 %) BPR 7 1 (5.263 %) Configuration Management 7 1 (5.263 %) CISSP 7 1 (5.263 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 7 1 (5.263 %) Asset Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region that cited Project 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 Project Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 2 (10.53 %) Lotus Notes	Applications 1 6 (31.58 %) MS Project 2 2 (10.53 %) MS Office 2 2 (10.53 %) MS Excel 2 2 (10.53 %) CA Clarity
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (10.53 %) Datawarehouse 2 1 (5.263 %) Data Cleansing	General 1 4 (21.05 %) Finance 2 2 (10.53 %) Insurance 2 2 (10.53 %) Pensions 3 1 (5.263 %) Education
Miscellaneous 1 2 (10.53 %) PDA	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (36.84 %) PRINCE2 2 5 (26.32 %) Project Management 3 4 (21.05 %) Business Analysis 4 3 (15.79 %) Project Planning 5 2 (10.53 %) WFM 5 2 (10.53 %) Resource Management 5 2 (10.53 %) Change Management 5 2 (10.53 %) E-business 5 2 (10.53 %) ERP 5 2 (10.53 %) Business Intelligence 6 1 (5.263 %) BPR 6 1 (5.263 %) Configuration Management 6 1 (5.263 %) Risk Management 6 1 (5.263 %) Information Security 6 1 (5.263 %) Asset Management
Programming Languages 1 2 (10.53 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 3 (15.79 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 2 2 (10.53 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 1 (5.263 %) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (5.263 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 1 1 (5.263 %) PCI DSS	Vendors 1 2 (10.53 %) Lotus 1 2 (10.53 %) Sage