Yorkshire Business Analyst Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Business Analyst role in IT contracts within the Yorkshire 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 Business Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Analyst
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Clevedon Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Grimsby Guernsey Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hastings Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent King's Lynn Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Melton Mowbray Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northumbria Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Pudsey Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark Staines Stevenage Stirling Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	14	8
Rank change on same period last year	-6
Matching contract IT job ads	284	348
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.378 %	0.353 %
As % of the category below	9.699 %	10.17 %
Daily rates quoted	78	115
Average minimum daily rate	£343	£326
Average daily rate	£359	£345
% change on same period last year	+4.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£375	£363
UK excluding London average daily rate	£376	£375
% change on same period last year	+0.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£42.50
Average hourly rate	£32.50	£45.00
% change on same period last year	-27.77 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.75	£33.47
% change on same period last year	-8.12 %
Job Titles Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	2928	3421
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.898 %	3.468 %
Daily rates quoted	629	624
Average minimum daily rate	£321	£314
Average daily rate	£339	£333
% change on same period last year	+1.90 %
Average maximum daily rate	£357	£351
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£352
% change on same period last year	+1.32 %
Hourly rates quoted	286	293
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.55	£23.17
Average hourly rate	£23.34	£24.48
% change on same period last year	-4.64 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.13	£25.79
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.50	£25.85
% change on same period last year	-9.09 %
Business 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.

Business Analyst
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Business Analyst across the Yorkshire 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 Business Analyst 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 Analyst 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 Analyst across the Yorkshire 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 Business Analyst 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	-4	156	£360	+12.72 %
North Yorkshire	-5	35	£363	-5.61 %
South Yorkshire	+7	16	£335	+7.19 %

Business Analyst England

Business Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region that cited Business 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 Business Analyst in their job title.

1 256 (39.14 %) Finance 2 169 (25.84 %) Business Analysis 3 89 (13.61 %) UML 4 69 (10.55 %) NHS 5 66 (10.09 %) PRINCE2 6 61 (9.327 %) Insurance 7 59 (9.021 %) Retail 8 57 (8.716 %) Health 9 55 (8.410 %) BPR 10 54 (8.257 %) Use Case 11 45 (6.881 %) Stakeholder Management 12 43 (6.575 %) Banking 13 41 (6.269 %) GAP Analysis 14 40 (6.116 %) Systems Analysis 15 39 (5.963 %) MS Visio

16 38 (5.810 %) Migration 16 38 (5.810 %) Pensions 17 36 (5.505 %) Project Management 18 35 (5.352 %) Data Modelling 19 30 (4.587 %) Oracle 20 23 (3.517 %) SAP 20 23 (3.517 %) RUP 21 22 (3.364 %) EDRMS 21 22 (3.364 %) User Acceptance Testing 22 21 (3.211 %) Security Cleared 23 20 (3.058 %) Marketing 23 20 (3.058 %) Document Management 24 19 (2.905 %) Requirements Analysis 24 19 (2.905 %) Data Protection 24 19 (2.905 %) BusinessObjects

Business Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region that cited Business 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 Business Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 14 (2.141 %) .NET 2 7 (1.070 %) XML 3 3 (0.459 %) Java EE 3 3 (0.459 %) HTML 4 2 (0.306 %) ASP.NET 2.0 4 2 (0.306 %) XML Schema 4 2 (0.306 %) CSS 4 2 (0.306 %) WebServices 4 2 (0.306 %) ASP 5 1 (0.153 %) ASP.NET 5 1 (0.153 %) J2EE 5 1 (0.153 %) CORBA 5 1 (0.153 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 16 (2.446 %) SharePoint 2 4 (0.612 %) Documentum 3 3 (0.459 %) SAS 4 2 (0.306 %) CMS 4 2 (0.306 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 1 (0.153 %) IIS 5 1 (0.153 %) Tuxedo
Applications 1 39 (5.963 %) MS Visio 2 10 (1.529 %) MS Project 2 10 (1.529 %) MS Office 3 8 (1.223 %) MS Excel 4 5 (0.765 %) CA Clarity 5 1 (0.153 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 1 (0.153 %) SAP MM 1 1 (0.153 %) CODA-Financials 1 1 (0.153 %) Summit 1 1 (0.153 %) VisionPLUS 1 1 (0.153 %) ResourceLink
Communications & Networking 1 5 (0.765 %) Internet 2 4 (0.612 %) ATM 3 1 (0.153 %) CTI 3 1 (0.153 %) Intranet 3 1 (0.153 %) Wireless	Database & Business Intelligence 1 22 (3.364 %) EDRMS 2 19 (2.905 %) BusinessObjects 3 16 (2.446 %) Datawarehouse 4 14 (2.141 %) SQL Server 5 4 (0.612 %) BusinessObjects XI 6 2 (0.306 %) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 6 2 (0.306 %) SQL Server 2005 6 2 (0.306 %) MS Access 6 2 (0.306 %) ETL 7 1 (0.153 %) TOAD 7 1 (0.153 %) Oracle Discoverer 7 1 (0.153 %) Oracle 10g 7 1 (0.153 %) DB2 7 1 (0.153 %) OLAP 7 1 (0.153 %) Oracle Reports 7 1 (0.153 %) Oracle 8/8i 7 1 (0.153 %) MySQL 7 1 (0.153 %) SAP BW
Development Applications 1 6 (0.917 %) Rational Rose 2 3 (0.459 %) ClearCase 3 2 (0.306 %) RequisitePro 3 2 (0.306 %) ClearQuest	General 1 256 (39.14 %) Finance 2 61 (9.327 %) Insurance 3 59 (9.021 %) Retail 4 57 (8.716 %) Health 5 43 (6.575 %) Banking 6 38 (5.810 %) Pensions 7 20 (3.058 %) Marketing 8 17 (2.599 %) Retail Banking 9 16 (2.446 %) Government 10 12 (1.835 %) Telecoms 11 11 (1.682 %) Electric 11 11 (1.682 %) Billing 12 7 (1.070 %) Legal 12 7 (1.070 %) Back Office 13 5 (0.765 %) Education 14 4 (0.612 %) Financial Institution 15 3 (0.459 %) Construction 15 3 (0.459 %) International Banking 16 1 (0.153 %) Local Government 16 1 (0.153 %) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous 1 69 (10.55 %) NHS 2 18 (2.752 %) Data Protection Act 3 17 (2.599 %) Freedom of Information 4 16 (2.446 %) Freedom of Information Act 5 14 (2.141 %) IVR 6 7 (1.070 %) Client/Server 7 6 (0.917 %) EPoS 8 5 (0.765 %) NPfIT 9 3 (0.459 %) E-Learning 9 3 (0.459 %) EFT 10 2 (0.306 %) Blackberry 10 2 (0.306 %) Management Information System 10 2 (0.306 %) PDA 11 1 (0.153 %) Statistics 11 1 (0.153 %) Psychology 11 1 (0.153 %) Credit Risk	Operating Systems 1 3 (0.459 %) UNIX 1 3 (0.459 %) Windows 2 1 (0.153 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 169 (25.84 %) Business Analysis 2 89 (13.61 %) UML 3 66 (10.09 %) PRINCE2 4 55 (8.410 %) BPR 5 54 (8.257 %) Use Case 6 45 (6.881 %) Stakeholder Management 7 41 (6.269 %) GAP Analysis 8 40 (6.116 %) Systems Analysis 9 38 (5.810 %) Migration 10 36 (5.505 %) Project Management 11 35 (5.352 %) Data Modelling 12 23 (3.517 %) RUP 13 22 (3.364 %) User Acceptance Testing 14 21 (3.211 %) Security Cleared 15 20 (3.058 %) Document Management 16 19 (2.905 %) Requirements Analysis 16 19 (2.905 %) Data Protection 16 19 (2.905 %) Workflow 17 17 (2.599 %) Six Sigma 18 15 (2.294 %) SC Cleared	Programming Languages 1 16 (2.446 %) SQL 2 12 (1.835 %) Java 3 9 (1.376 %) ABAP 4 8 (1.223 %) VB.NET 5 1 (0.153 %) C# 5 1 (0.153 %) VBA
Qualifications 1 9 (1.376 %) PRINCE2 Certification 1 9 (1.376 %) Degree 2 3 (0.459 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 2 3 (0.459 %) ISEB 3 2 (0.306 %) Citrix Certification 4 1 (0.153 %) ITIL Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 9 (1.376 %) QA 2 5 (0.765 %) SLA 3 4 (0.612 %) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors 1 30 (4.587 %) Oracle 2 23 (3.517 %) SAP 3 19 (2.905 %) Business Objects 4 16 (2.446 %) Casewise 5 11 (1.682 %) Microsoft 6 7 (1.070 %) Siebel 7 2 (0.306 %) CA 7 2 (0.306 %) Retalix 7 2 (0.306 %) BT 7 2 (0.306 %) Retek 7 2 (0.306 %) IBM 8 1 (0.153 %) CODA 8 1 (0.153 %) Sage 8 1 (0.153 %) webMethods 8 1 (0.153 %) Alterian 8 1 (0.153 %) Meridio 8 1 (0.153 %) Hyperion 8 1 (0.153 %) Unisys 8 1 (0.153 %) PeopleSoft 8 1 (0.153 %) Cognos