Bedfordshire Business Analysis Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Business Analysis skills within the Bedfordshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Business Analysis over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Analysis
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Amersham Aylesbury Banbury Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bathgate Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Bellshill Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Colchester Cornwall Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh Ellesmere Port Enfield England Epsom Essex Exmouth Farnborough Fife Flintshire Folkestone Frome Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Hackney Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Liversedge Livingston London Loughborough Loughton Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Market Drayton Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newry Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northumbria Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Retford Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shoreham-by-Sea Shropshire Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stamford Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stratford-upon-Avon Stroud Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Whyteleafe Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worksop Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	67	52
Rank change on same period last year	-15
Matching permanent IT job ads	9	15
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	1.473 %	3.371 %
Salaries quoted	9	15
Average minimum salary	£41,333	£36,133
Average salary	£43,278	£39,767
% change on same period last year	+8.82 %
Average maximum salary	£45,222	£43,400
UK excluding London average salary	£40,958	£42,722
% change on same period last year	-4.12 %
Processes & Methodologies Bedfordshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	611	445
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.354 %	0.191 %
Salaries quoted	487	396
Average minimum salary	£37,775	£34,938
Average salary	£40,605	£38,113
% change on same period last year	+6.53 %
Average maximum salary	£43,436	£41,289
UK excluding London average salary	£42,675	£44,216
% change on same period last year	-3.48 %
Business Analysis East of England

Business Analysis
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Business Analysis across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Business Analysis
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Business Analysis across the Bedfordshire region.

Business Analysis
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Business Analysis across the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

Business Analysis
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Analysis within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 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 Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Bedford	-13	6	£41,167	+12.78 %

Business Analysis East of England

Business Analysis
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Business Analysis.

1 8 (50.00 %) SQL 2 6 (37.50 %) SAP 2 6 (37.50 %) BizTalk Server 2 6 (37.50 %) Middleware 2 6 (37.50 %) SQLPlus 2 6 (37.50 %) Project Management 2 6 (37.50 %) PL/SQL 3 4 (25.00 %) Resource Management 3 4 (25.00 %) MS Excel 4 2 (12.50 %) Client/Server 4 2 (12.50 %) GPRS 4 2 (12.50 %) GSM 4 2 (12.50 %) ISDN 4 2 (12.50 %) Windows CE 4 2 (12.50 %) SAP FI

4 2 (12.50 %) Intranet 4 2 (12.50 %) Internet 4 2 (12.50 %) Windows 4 2 (12.50 %) .NET 4 2 (12.50 %) DB2 4 2 (12.50 %) C 4 2 (12.50 %) C# 4 2 (12.50 %) C++ 4 2 (12.50 %) Java 4 2 (12.50 %) Manufacturing 4 2 (12.50 %) SAP FI/CO 4 2 (12.50 %) SAP CO 4 2 (12.50 %) Software Engineering 4 2 (12.50 %) Computer Science 4 2 (12.50 %) Degree

Business Analysis
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Business Analysis. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 6 (37.50 %) Middleware 2 2 (12.50 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 6 (37.50 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 4 (25.00 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 2 (12.50 %) SAP FI 1 2 (12.50 %) SAP FI/CO 1 2 (12.50 %) SAP CO
Communications & Networking 1 2 (12.50 %) GPRS 1 2 (12.50 %) GSM 1 2 (12.50 %) ISDN 1 2 (12.50 %) Intranet 1 2 (12.50 %) Internet 1 2 (12.50 %) Wireless	Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (37.50 %) SQLPlus 2 2 (12.50 %) DB2
General 1 2 (12.50 %) Automotive 1 2 (12.50 %) Manufacturing 2 1 (6.250 %) Education	Job Titles 1 4 (25.00 %) Development Manager 2 2 (12.50 %) Systems Manager 2 2 (12.50 %) SAP FI/CO Consultant 2 2 (12.50 %) SAP Consultant 2 2 (12.50 %) Business Systems Manager 2 2 (12.50 %) Business Manager 2 2 (12.50 %) Senior SAP Consultant 2 2 (12.50 %) Analyst 2 2 (12.50 %) Senior Consultant 2 2 (12.50 %) Consultant 3 1 (6.250 %) Systems Analyst 3 1 (6.250 %) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 2 (12.50 %) Client/Server 1 2 (12.50 %) Management Information System 1 2 (12.50 %) Computer Science	Operating Systems 1 2 (12.50 %) Windows 1 2 (12.50 %) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (37.50 %) Project Management 2 4 (25.00 %) Resource Management 3 2 (12.50 %) Software Engineering 3 2 (12.50 %) SAP Implementation 3 2 (12.50 %) Data Protection 4 1 (6.250 %) SC Cleared 4 1 (6.250 %) Security Cleared 4 1 (6.250 %) Systems Analysis 4 1 (6.250 %) GAP Analysis 4 1 (6.250 %) Problem Management	Programming Languages 1 8 (50.00 %) SQL 2 6 (37.50 %) PL/SQL 3 2 (12.50 %) C 3 2 (12.50 %) C# 3 2 (12.50 %) C++ 3 2 (12.50 %) Java
Qualifications 1 2 (12.50 %) Degree	Vendors 1 6 (37.50 %) SAP