Yorkshire Business Analysis Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Business Analysis skills within the Yorkshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Business Analysis over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Andover Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London Clevedon Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Feltham Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Halifax Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Home Counties Hounslow Hove Hull Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Pudsey Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Staines Stevenage Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Whyteleafe Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wokingham Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	44	59
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching contract IT job ads	86	79
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.114 %	0.080 %
As % of the category below	5.196 %	4.476 %
Daily rates quoted	15	21
Average minimum daily rate	£354	£306
Average daily rate	£382	£325
% change on same period last year	+17.55 %
Average maximum daily rate	£411	£344
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£368
% change on same period last year	+4.18 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.67	£28.50
Average hourly rate	£25.83	£31.25
% change on same period last year	-17.33 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	£34.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.45	£29.85
% change on same period last year	-1.33 %
Processes & Methodologies Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1655	1765
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.203 %	1.789 %
Daily rates quoted	430	395
Average minimum daily rate	£343	£339
Average daily rate	£364	£358
% change on same period last year	+1.80 %
Average maximum daily rate	£386	£377
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£375
% change on same period last year	+1.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	108	96
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.05	£25.33
Average hourly rate	£26.95	£26.23
% change on same period last year	+2.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.85	£27.13
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.35	£30.17
% change on same period last year	-2.69 %
Business 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.

Business Analysis
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Business Analysis across the Yorkshire 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 Business Analysis across the Yorkshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Business Analysis across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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 Business Analysis across the Yorkshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Business Analysis across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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 Business Analysis within the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
West Yorkshire	+7	53	£379	+25.69 %
North Yorkshire	-10	7	-	-
South Yorkshire	0	2	-	-
East Yorkshire	-	1	-	-

Business Analysis England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region citing Business 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 Business Analysis.

1 84 (38.53 %) Finance 2 40 (18.35 %) PRINCE2 3 27 (12.39 %) UML 3 27 (12.39 %) Project Management 4 26 (11.93 %) NHS 5 24 (11.01 %) Health 6 20 (9.174 %) Insurance 7 17 (7.798 %) GAP Analysis 8 16 (7.339 %) Government 8 16 (7.339 %) Banking 9 15 (6.881 %) SQL Server 10 14 (6.422 %) Business Objects 10 14 (6.422 %) Datawarehouse 10 14 (6.422 %) MS Visio 10 14 (6.422 %) BusinessObjects

10 14 (6.422 %) Workflow 10 14 (6.422 %) Use Case 11 13 (5.963 %) Pensions 12 12 (5.505 %) Retail 12 12 (5.505 %) Data Protection 12 12 (5.505 %) Business Intelligence 12 12 (5.505 %) EDRMS 12 12 (5.505 %) Oracle 13 10 (4.587 %) SQL 13 10 (4.587 %) BPR 13 10 (4.587 %) Data Modelling 13 10 (4.587 %) Stakeholder Management 13 10 (4.587 %) Data Protection Act 14 9 (4.128 %) Freedom of Information 14 9 (4.128 %) Migration

Business Analysis
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region citing Business 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 Business Analysis. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 8 (3.670 %) .NET 2 4 (1.835 %) Java EE 3 2 (0.917 %) XML 3 2 (0.917 %) XML Schema 4 1 (0.459 %) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 6 (2.752 %) SharePoint 2 1 (0.459 %) SAS 2 1 (0.459 %) CMS 2 1 (0.459 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 14 (6.422 %) MS Visio 2 7 (3.211 %) MS Office 3 6 (2.752 %) MS Excel 3 6 (2.752 %) MS Project 4 4 (1.835 %) MS PowerPoint 5 1 (0.459 %) CA Clarity	Business Applications 1 1 (0.459 %) Navision 1 1 (0.459 %) SAP FI 1 1 (0.459 %) CODA-Financials 1 1 (0.459 %) BASE24 1 1 (0.459 %) SAP FI/CO 1 1 (0.459 %) SAP CO 1 1 (0.459 %) VisionPLUS 1 1 (0.459 %) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking 1 4 (1.835 %) Internet 2 2 (0.917 %) ATM 3 1 (0.459 %) Wireless	Database & Business Intelligence 1 15 (6.881 %) SQL Server 2 14 (6.422 %) Datawarehouse 2 14 (6.422 %) BusinessObjects 3 12 (5.505 %) EDRMS 4 7 (3.211 %) BusinessObjects XI 5 5 (2.294 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 5 (2.294 %) SQL Server 2005 5 5 (2.294 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 4 (1.835 %) OLAP 7 3 (1.376 %) Oracle Reports 8 2 (0.917 %) MS Access 8 2 (0.917 %) Crystal Reports 8 2 (0.917 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 8 2 (0.917 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 8 2 (0.917 %) Oracle 10g 9 1 (0.459 %) Data Cleansing 9 1 (0.459 %) SAP BW 9 1 (0.459 %) SQL Server 7 9 1 (0.459 %) SQL Server 2000 9 1 (0.459 %) DTS
Development Applications 1 5 (2.294 %) Rational Rose 2 2 (0.917 %) RequisitePro 2 2 (0.917 %) ClearQuest 2 2 (0.917 %) ClearCase	General 1 84 (38.53 %) Finance 2 24 (11.01 %) Health 3 20 (9.174 %) Insurance 4 16 (7.339 %) Banking 4 16 (7.339 %) Government 5 13 (5.963 %) Pensions 6 12 (5.505 %) Retail 7 7 (3.211 %) Education 8 4 (1.835 %) Multimedia 8 4 (1.835 %) Marketing 9 3 (1.376 %) Retail Banking 9 3 (1.376 %) Financial Institution 10 2 (0.917 %) Telecoms 10 2 (0.917 %) Law 10 2 (0.917 %) Legal 10 2 (0.917 %) Manufacturing 10 2 (0.917 %) Billing 10 2 (0.917 %) Electric 10 2 (0.917 %) Local Government 10 2 (0.917 %) International Banking
Job Titles 1 174 (79.82 %) Analyst 2 169 (77.52 %) Business Analyst 3 22 (10.09 %) Project Manager 4 16 (7.339 %) Developer 5 13 (5.963 %) Financial Business Analyst 5 13 (5.963 %) Financial Services Business Analyst 6 10 (4.587 %) Business Developer 7 8 (3.670 %) Business Objects Developer 8 6 (2.752 %) Systems Analyst 9 5 (2.294 %) Consultant 9 5 (2.294 %) Business Systems Analyst 9 5 (2.294 %) Business Objects Analyst 10 4 (1.835 %) Developer Analyst 10 4 (1.835 %) Business Manager 10 4 (1.835 %) Architect 10 4 (1.835 %) Solutions Architect 10 4 (1.835 %) Development Manager 11 3 (1.376 %) SQL Developer 11 3 (1.376 %) Senior Business Analyst 11 3 (1.376 %) Senior Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 26 (11.93 %) NHS 2 10 (4.587 %) Data Protection Act 3 9 (4.128 %) Freedom of Information 4 8 (3.670 %) Freedom of Information Act 5 6 (2.752 %) E-Learning 6 4 (1.835 %) Management Information System 7 3 (1.376 %) SCORM 7 3 (1.376 %) IVR 8 2 (0.917 %) NPfIT 8 2 (0.917 %) EFT 8 2 (0.917 %) Statistics 9 1 (0.459 %) EPoS 9 1 (0.459 %) PDA
Operating Systems 1 1 (0.459 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 40 (18.35 %) PRINCE2 2 27 (12.39 %) UML 2 27 (12.39 %) Project Management 3 17 (7.798 %) GAP Analysis 4 14 (6.422 %) Workflow 4 14 (6.422 %) Use Case 5 12 (5.505 %) Data Protection 5 12 (5.505 %) Business Intelligence 6 10 (4.587 %) Data Modelling 6 10 (4.587 %) BPR 6 10 (4.587 %) Stakeholder Management 7 9 (4.128 %) Migration 8 8 (3.670 %) Document Management 8 8 (3.670 %) Systems Analysis 8 8 (3.670 %) PRINCE 8 8 (3.670 %) CRM 8 8 (3.670 %) Security Cleared 8 8 (3.670 %) User Acceptance Testing 9 7 (3.211 %) RUP 10 6 (2.752 %) Data Analysis
Programming Languages 1 10 (4.587 %) SQL 2 9 (4.128 %) Java 3 4 (1.835 %) Transact-SQL 4 1 (0.459 %) VB 4 1 (0.459 %) VBA 4 1 (0.459 %) VB6 4 1 (0.459 %) C#	Qualifications 1 5 (2.294 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 2 4 (1.835 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 4 (1.835 %) Degree 3 2 (0.917 %) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (1.835 %) QA 2 1 (0.459 %) ISO8583	Vendors 1 14 (6.422 %) Business Objects 2 12 (5.505 %) Oracle 3 4 (1.835 %) SAP 3 4 (1.835 %) Microsoft 4 3 (1.376 %) Casewise 5 1 (0.459 %) Cognos 5 1 (0.459 %) Hyperion 5 1 (0.459 %) Lotus 5 1 (0.459 %) CODA 5 1 (0.459 %) JD Edwards