The first table below looks at the demand for the Business Analyst role in IT jobs advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Business Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 Chester region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Business Analyst
Rank 21 29 40
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +11
Permanent jobs requiring a Business Analyst 38 5 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 10.89% 3.185% 4.545%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.69% 3.185% 4.867%
Number of salaries quoted 2 4 11
Average salary £41,250 £42,500 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.94% +18.05%
90% offered a salary of more than £38,250 £38,650 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £44,250 £44,250 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £41,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+2.40% +3.75%
All Job Titles
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
325 157 226
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 93.12% 100.00% 93.39%
Number of salaries quoted 177 132 218
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% +8.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £21,500 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £46,000 £42,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Business Analyst
Cheshire

Business Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Business Analyst across the Chester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Chester Business Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Business Analyst
Salary Trend

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

Chester Business Analyst Salary Trend

Business Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 IT job ads sampled with Business Analyst in their job title.

1 44 (88.00%) Agile Software Development
2 28 (56.00%) Migration
3 27 (54.00%) Data Migration
4 22 (44.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 20 (40.00%) Validation
5 20 (40.00%) E-Commerce
5 20 (40.00%) Data Validation
6 14 (28.00%) Scrum
7 13 (26.00%) HTTP
8 12 (24.00%) User Stories
9 9 (18.00%) Waterfall
9 9 (18.00%) SQL
10 8 (16.00%) Requirements Management
11 6 (12.00%) Time Management
11 6 (12.00%) Client/Server
11 6 (12.00%) Finance
12 5 (10.00%) Information Security
12 5 (10.00%) Data Cleansing
12 5 (10.00%) Business Analysis
13 4 (8.000%) Web Development
13 4 (8.000%) Use Case
13 4 (8.000%) SQL Server
13 4 (8.000%) UML
14 3 (6.000%) Internet
14 3 (6.000%) QA
14 3 (6.000%) Kanban
15 2 (4.000%) Planning Poker
15 2 (4.000%) Velocity
15 2 (4.000%) Degree
15 2 (4.000%) ISEB

Business Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 IT job ads sampled with Business Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (4.000%) Velocity
Communications & Networking
1 13 (26.00%) HTTP
2 3 (6.000%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.000%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (12.00%) Finance
2 2 (4.000%) Games
3 1 (2.000%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.000%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.00%) Client/Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (88.00%) Agile Software Development
2 28 (56.00%) Migration
3 27 (54.00%) Data Migration
4 22 (44.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 20 (40.00%) Validation
5 20 (40.00%) E-Commerce
5 20 (40.00%) Data Validation
6 14 (28.00%) Scrum
7 12 (24.00%) User Stories
8 9 (18.00%) Waterfall
9 8 (16.00%) Requirements Management
10 6 (12.00%) Time Management
11 5 (10.00%) Information Security
11 5 (10.00%) Data Cleansing
11 5 (10.00%) Business Analysis
12 4 (8.000%) Web Development
12 4 (8.000%) Use Case
12 4 (8.000%) UML
13 3 (6.000%) Kanban
14 2 (4.000%) Planning Poker
Programming Languages
1 9 (18.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (4.000%) Degree
1 2 (4.000%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.000%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (2.000%) Cognos