The first table below looks at the demand for Business Analysis skills in IT jobs advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Business Analysis 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Chester region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Business Analysis
Rank 49 32 44
Rank change year-on-year
-17 +12
Permanent jobs citing Business Analysis 3 2 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 0.890% 1.282% 2.778%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.064% 1.770% 3.933%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 7
Average salary - £37,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -12.94%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £44,000 £41,500
% change year-on-year
-3.40% +6.02%
All Processes & Methodologies
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
282 113 178
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 83.68% 72.44% 70.63%
Number of salaries quoted 148 95 173
Average salary £37,500 £37,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.35% -7.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Business Analysis
Cheshire

Business Analysis
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Business Analysis across the Chester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Chester Business Analysis Jobs Demand Trend

Business Analysis
Salary Trend

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

Chester Business Analysis Salary Trend

Business Analysis
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 5 (71.43%) E-Commerce
2 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
3 3 (42.86%) HTTP
3 3 (42.86%) Migration
3 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (42.86%) Scrum
3 3 (42.86%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (42.86%) Kanban
3 3 (42.86%) Data Migration
4 2 (28.57%) Retail
4 2 (28.57%) MSTest
4 2 (28.57%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
4 2 (28.57%) Degree
4 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
4 2 (28.57%) WCF
4 2 (28.57%) WPF
4 2 (28.57%) LINQ
4 2 (28.57%) WinForms
4 2 (28.57%) Back Office
4 2 (28.57%) MVC
4 2 (28.57%) Finance
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 2 (28.57%) C#
4 2 (28.57%) SQL
4 2 (28.57%) .NET
4 2 (28.57%) Visual Studio
4 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET

Business Analysis
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 2 (28.57%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
1 2 (28.57%) WCF
1 2 (28.57%) WPF
1 2 (28.57%) LINQ
1 2 (28.57%) WinForms
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
1 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET
1 2 (28.57%) Web Services
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) MSTest
1 2 (28.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (28.57%) Retail
1 2 (28.57%) Back Office
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Analyst
1 5 (71.43%) Business Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Server Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) C# .NET Developer
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Junior
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) .NET Developer
2 2 (28.57%) C# Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Junior Business Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Junior Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Financial Services Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Financial Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Agile Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) IT Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) E-Commerce
2 3 (42.86%) Migration
2 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (42.86%) Scrum
2 3 (42.86%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (42.86%) Kanban
2 3 (42.86%) Data Migration
3 2 (28.57%) MVC
3 2 (28.57%) OO
4 1 (14.29%) Validation
4 1 (14.29%) TDD
4 1 (14.29%) Pair Programming
4 1 (14.29%) High Availability
4 1 (14.29%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) C#
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
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