The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Systems Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the West Midlands region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Analyst
Rank 85 88 90
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Analyst 12 17 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.736% 0.756% 0.523%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.797% 0.817% 0.567%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 4
Average daily rate £325 £303 £329
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.43% -7.98%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £375
% change year-on-year
-1.51% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £28.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.00 £22.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
+24.44% +28.57%
All Job Titles
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1506 2081 1765
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 92.34% 92.53% 92.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 679 951 794
Average daily rate £325 £325 £325
90% offered a daily rate of more than £209 £217 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £460 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 165 156
Average hourly rate £20.00 £15.56 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.53% -13.55%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.00 £10.99
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.80 £33.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Systems Analyst
England

Systems Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Systems Analyst across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

West Midlands Systems Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Systems Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Systems Analyst across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands Systems Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Systems Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Systems Analyst across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands Systems Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Systems Analyst
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Analyst within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Birmingham +16 7 £388 +28.09%
Warwickshire -6 3 £325 -13.33%
Worcestershire -10 3 £325 +54.76%
Coventry 0 2 - -
Systems Analyst
England

Systems Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region that cited Systems 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 Systems Analyst in their job title.

1 21 (47.73%) Finance
2 13 (29.55%) SQL
3 12 (27.27%) Oracle
4 11 (25.00%) SQL Server
5 8 (18.18%) ITIL
5 8 (18.18%) Windows
5 8 (18.18%) LAN
5 8 (18.18%) WAN
5 8 (18.18%) TCP/IP
5 8 (18.18%) Active Directory
5 8 (18.18%) Service Delivery
5 8 (18.18%) Change Management
5 8 (18.18%) VMware
5 8 (18.18%) Resource Management
5 8 (18.18%) Windows Server 2008
5 8 (18.18%) xDSL
6 7 (15.91%) MS Exchange
6 7 (15.91%) Terminal Services
6 7 (15.91%) Windows Server 2003
6 7 (15.91%) DNS
6 7 (15.91%) DHCP
6 7 (15.91%) MS Excel
7 6 (13.64%) UML
7 6 (13.64%) Microsoft
7 6 (13.64%) JD Edwards
7 6 (13.64%) Agresso
7 6 (13.64%) System Testing
8 5 (11.36%) QA
8 5 (11.36%) Systems Analysis
8 5 (11.36%) Business Analysis

Systems Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region that cited Systems 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 Systems Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (6.818%) J2EE
1 3 (6.818%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 7 (15.91%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 7 (15.91%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (13.64%) Agresso
2 4 (9.091%) Cognos Controller
3 2 (4.545%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (4.545%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (4.545%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (4.545%) Dynamics GP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (18.18%) LAN
1 8 (18.18%) WAN
1 8 (18.18%) TCP/IP
1 8 (18.18%) xDSL
2 7 (15.91%) DNS
2 7 (15.91%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.273%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (6.818%) QuickTest Pro
1 3 (6.818%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (4.545%) Selenium
3 1 (2.273%) JIRA
General
1 21 (47.73%) Finance
2 2 (4.545%) Automotive
3 1 (2.273%) Manufacturing
3 1 (2.273%) Aerospace
3 1 (2.273%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.091%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.273%) Semantic Web
2 1 (2.273%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 8 (18.18%) Windows
1 8 (18.18%) Windows Server 2008
2 7 (15.91%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (6.818%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (18.18%) ITIL
1 8 (18.18%) Service Delivery
1 8 (18.18%) Change Management
1 8 (18.18%) Resource Management
2 6 (13.64%) UML
2 6 (13.64%) System Testing
3 5 (11.36%) Systems Analysis
3 5 (11.36%) Business Analysis
3 5 (11.36%) OO
4 4 (9.091%) RAD
4 4 (9.091%) SSADM
4 4 (9.091%) DSDM
4 4 (9.091%) Workflow
4 4 (9.091%) Data Management
4 4 (9.091%) Analytics
5 3 (6.818%) Software Testing
5 3 (6.818%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (6.818%) Integration Testing
5 3 (6.818%) Migration
5 3 (6.818%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 13 (29.55%) SQL
2 3 (6.818%) Shell Script
2 3 (6.818%) VB
2 3 (6.818%) COBOL
3 1 (2.273%) C
3 1 (2.273%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (6.818%) ISEB
2 2 (4.545%) CIMA
2 2 (4.545%) ACCA
3 1 (2.273%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.273%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.273%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.273%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (2.273%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.36%) QA
2 4 (9.091%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 7 (15.91%) Terminal Services
3 3 (6.818%) VMware Server
Vendors
1 12 (27.27%) Oracle
2 8 (18.18%) VMware
3 6 (13.64%) Microsoft
3 6 (13.64%) JD Edwards
4 4 (9.091%) Cognos
4 4 (9.091%) IBM
5 1 (2.273%) Cisco
5 1 (2.273%) Business Objects
5 1 (2.273%) SAP
Coventry, West Midlands (County)
Day to day administration for a number of Business Systems including Microstrategy, CedAr, Basware/EDI, Bank Rec, Auditworks, On-Line banking, Access databases and maintenance of the data...
Celesio
Rate: Competitve salary package
Posted: 30 April 2013