West Midlands Systems Analysis Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Systems Analysis skills within the West Midlands region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Systems Analysis over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Cheshire Chippenham City of London Darlington Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gwent Halifax Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Liverpool Livingston London Manchester Market Drayton Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Preston Reading Rickmansworth Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire Welwyn West Lothian West Midlands West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	104	107
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	19	33
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.026 %	0.033 %
As % of the category below	1.087 %	1.945 %
Daily rates quoted	7	4
Average minimum daily rate	£289	£205
Average daily rate	£317	£233
% change on same period last year	+36.40 %
Average maximum daily rate	£346	£260
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£334
% change on same period last year	+8.34 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£20.00
Average hourly rate	-	£24.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£29.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.13	£31.85
% change on same period last year	+0.86 %
Processes & Methodologies West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	1748	1697
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.363 %	1.673 %
Daily rates quoted	472	463
Average minimum daily rate	£337	£319
Average daily rate	£362	£340
% change on same period last year	+6.43 %
Average maximum daily rate	£387	£362
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£375
% change on same period last year	+0.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	104	186
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.58	£24.78
Average hourly rate	£27.50	£26.97
% change on same period last year	+1.97 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.42	£29.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.41	£30.41
% change on same period last year	+0.01 %
Systems Analysis 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 Systems Analysis across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies 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 Systems Analysis 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 Systems Analysis 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 Systems Analysis across the West Midlands region.

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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 Systems Analysis 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
Warwickshire	+5	6	£321	-
Birmingham	+12	3	£288	-28.12 %
Shropshire	-7	2	-	-
Staffordshire	-	1	£375	-

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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 citing Systems Analysis also 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 that cited Systems Analysis.

1 29 (53.70 %) Pensions 2 20 (37.04 %) Business Analysis 3 19 (35.19 %) Finance 4 18 (33.33 %) RAD 5 11 (20.37 %) Insurance 6 10 (18.52 %) QA 6 10 (18.52 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 10 (18.52 %) Service Delivery 7 7 (12.96 %) UML 8 6 (11.11 %) Internet 8 6 (11.11 %) Automotive 8 6 (11.11 %) E-Commerce 8 6 (11.11 %) Client/Server 8 6 (11.11 %) EDI 8 6 (11.11 %) SQL

9 5 (9.259 %) Migration 10 4 (7.407 %) Government 10 4 (7.407 %) ASP 10 4 (7.407 %) SSADM 10 4 (7.407 %) Microsoft 11 3 (5.556 %) Project Management 11 3 (5.556 %) PL/SQL 11 3 (5.556 %) UNIX 11 3 (5.556 %) COBOL 11 3 (5.556 %) HTML 11 3 (5.556 %) Oracle 11 3 (5.556 %) SQL Server 12 2 (3.704 %) Local Government 12 2 (3.704 %) Web Development 12 2 (3.704 %) Degree

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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 citing Systems Analysis also 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 that cited Systems Analysis. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 6 (11.11 %) EDI 2 4 (7.407 %) ASP 3 3 (5.556 %) HTML 4 2 (3.704 %) XML 5 1 (1.852 %) XHTML 5 1 (1.852 %) .NET 5 1 (1.852 %) ASP.NET 5 1 (1.852 %) CSS 5 1 (1.852 %) SOAP 5 1 (1.852 %) WebServices 5 1 (1.852 %) XML Schema 5 1 (1.852 %) ASP.NET 2.0	Application Platforms 1 1 (1.852 %) IIS 1 1 (1.852 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 2 (3.704 %) MS Excel 2 1 (1.852 %) MS Visio 2 1 (1.852 %) MS PowerPoint 2 1 (1.852 %) Open Workbench	Business Applications 1 1 (1.852 %) Movex
Communications & Networking 1 6 (11.11 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (5.556 %) SQL Server 2 2 (3.704 %) DB2 2 2 (3.704 %) MS Access 2 2 (3.704 %) Oracle 10g 3 1 (1.852 %) BusinessObjects 3 1 (1.852 %) Data Cleansing 3 1 (1.852 %) Crystal Reports
Development Applications 1 2 (3.704 %) Oracle Forms 2 1 (1.852 %) ClearCase 2 1 (1.852 %) Rational Rose	General 1 29 (53.70 %) Pensions 2 19 (35.19 %) Finance 3 11 (20.37 %) Insurance 4 6 (11.11 %) Automotive 5 4 (7.407 %) Government 6 2 (3.704 %) Manufacturing 6 2 (3.704 %) Local Government 6 2 (3.704 %) Education 7 1 (1.852 %) Back Office 7 1 (1.852 %) Construction 7 1 (1.852 %) Retail 7 1 (1.852 %) FMCG
Job Titles 1 52 (96.30 %) Analyst 2 37 (68.52 %) Business Analyst 3 20 (37.04 %) Systems Analyst 4 7 (12.96 %) Business Systems Analyst 5 3 (5.556 %) Financial Business Analyst 5 3 (5.556 %) Developer 5 3 (5.556 %) Financial Services Business Analyst 6 2 (3.704 %) Financial Analyst 6 2 (3.704 %) Business Consultant 6 2 (3.704 %) Consultant 7 1 (1.852 %) Business Process Analyst 7 1 (1.852 %) Senior Developer 7 1 (1.852 %) Analyst Programmer 7 1 (1.852 %) Programmer 7 1 (1.852 %) Support Analyst 7 1 (1.852 %) Lead Developer 7 1 (1.852 %) Process Analyst 7 1 (1.852 %) Senior Analyst 7 1 (1.852 %) Data Analyst 7 1 (1.852 %) Technical Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 6 (11.11 %) Client/Server 2 2 (3.704 %) Mainframe 2 2 (3.704 %) AS400 3 1 (1.852 %) Equities 3 1 (1.852 %) Mathematics 3 1 (1.852 %) Computer Science 3 1 (1.852 %) Data Conversion
Operating Systems 1 3 (5.556 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 20 (37.04 %) Business Analysis 2 18 (33.33 %) RAD 3 10 (18.52 %) Service Delivery 3 10 (18.52 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 7 (12.96 %) UML 5 6 (11.11 %) E-Commerce 6 5 (9.259 %) Migration 7 4 (7.407 %) SSADM 8 3 (5.556 %) Project Management 9 2 (3.704 %) Data Migration 9 2 (3.704 %) Test Scripting 9 2 (3.704 %) Web Development 9 2 (3.704 %) Data Modelling 10 1 (1.852 %) BPR 10 1 (1.852 %) ERP 10 1 (1.852 %) RUP 10 1 (1.852 %) ITIL 10 1 (1.852 %) Stakeholder Management 10 1 (1.852 %) Agile Software Development 10 1 (1.852 %) Data Analysis
Programming Languages 1 6 (11.11 %) SQL 2 3 (5.556 %) PL/SQL 2 3 (5.556 %) COBOL 3 2 (3.704 %) JavaScript 4 1 (1.852 %) C# 4 1 (1.852 %) Java 4 1 (1.852 %) VB	Qualifications 1 2 (3.704 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 10 (18.52 %) QA 2 2 (3.704 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	Vendors 1 4 (7.407 %) Microsoft 2 3 (5.556 %) Oracle 3 2 (3.704 %) JD Edwards 4 1 (1.852 %) Micro Focus 4 1 (1.852 %) Business Objects