Edinburgh Business Analyst Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Business Analyst role in IT jobs within the Edinburgh region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. 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 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Analyst
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alfreton Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Bingley Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Brackley Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Buxton Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Colchester Corby Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Diss Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Dunfermline Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kenilworth Kent Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Liversedge Livingston London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Market Drayton Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden New Milton Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Osterley Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Perth and Kinross Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Prescot Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Romford Rugby Ruislip Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Solihull Somerset Somerton South Coast South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Ives St Neots Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tayside Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Tipton Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weymouth Whyteleafe Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Wimborne Winchester Windsor Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worksop Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	23	33
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching permanent IT job ads	80	87
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.042 %	0.036 %
As % of the category below	6.235 %	4.301 %
Salaries quoted	34	63
Average minimum salary	£34,765	£32,035
Average salary	£36,603	£34,589
% change on same period last year	+5.82 %
Average maximum salary	£38,441	£37,143
UK excluding London average salary	£40,553	£40,224
% change on same period last year	+0.81 %
Job Titles Edinburgh
Matching permanent IT job ads	1283	2023
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.676 %	0.830 %
Salaries quoted	917	1357
Average minimum salary	£31,351	£33,400
Average salary	£34,718	£36,597
% change on same period last year	-5.13 %
Average maximum salary	£38,085	£39,794
UK excluding London average salary	£38,194	£39,492
% change on same period last year	-3.28 %
Business Analyst Scotland

Business Analyst
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Business Analyst across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Business Analyst
Salary Trend

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

Business Analyst
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Business Analyst across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

Business Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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.

1 108 (47.37 %) Finance 2 61 (26.75 %) Business Analysis 3 49 (21.49 %) Project Management 4 33 (14.47 %) SQL 5 26 (11.40 %) Data Analysis 6 25 (10.96 %) Change Management 7 23 (10.09 %) Oracle 7 23 (10.09 %) Business Intelligence 7 23 (10.09 %) Fund Management 8 22 (9.649 %) Degree 9 21 (9.211 %) Pensions 9 21 (9.211 %) User Acceptance Testing 9 21 (9.211 %) Front Office 10 20 (8.772 %) Data Modelling 10 20 (8.772 %) Asset Management

11 19 (8.333 %) Investment Management 11 19 (8.333 %) MS Excel 12 18 (7.895 %) GAP Analysis 13 16 (7.018 %) Health 13 16 (7.018 %) Crystal Reports 13 16 (7.018 %) MS Office 14 15 (6.579 %) XML 14 15 (6.579 %) VBA 15 14 (6.140 %) SAP 15 14 (6.140 %) SAP BW 15 14 (6.140 %) Systems Analysis 16 13 (5.702 %) Microsoft 17 12 (5.263 %) BusinessObjects 17 12 (5.263 %) Business Objects 17 12 (5.263 %) VB

Business Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 15 (6.579 %) XML 2 9 (3.947 %) HTML 3 6 (2.632 %) .NET 4 5 (2.193 %) CSS 5 1 (0.439 %) WebServices	Application Platforms 1 10 (4.386 %) Lotus Notes 2 5 (2.193 %) SAS 3 1 (0.439 %) CMS
Applications 1 19 (8.333 %) MS Excel 2 16 (7.018 %) MS Office 3 10 (4.386 %) MS Project 4 5 (2.193 %) MS Visio 5 2 (0.877 %) Acrobat 5 2 (0.877 %) FrameMaker 5 2 (0.877 %) Adobe Illustrator 5 2 (0.877 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 2 (0.877 %) HiPortfolio 1 2 (0.877 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 2 1 (0.439 %) PeopleSoft Financials 2 1 (0.439 %) PeopleSoft HRMS
Communications & Networking 1 11 (4.825 %) Intranet 2 7 (3.070 %) Internet 3 1 (0.439 %) Extranet 3 1 (0.439 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 16 (7.018 %) Crystal Reports 2 14 (6.140 %) SAP BW 3 12 (5.263 %) BusinessObjects 4 9 (3.947 %) SQL Server 5 8 (3.509 %) MS Access 6 5 (2.193 %) Oracle Discoverer 7 4 (1.754 %) Oracle 8/8i 8 2 (0.877 %) Datawarehouse 8 2 (0.877 %) DecisionStream 8 2 (0.877 %) Data Mining 9 1 (0.439 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 9 1 (0.439 %) DTS 9 1 (0.439 %) RDBMS 9 1 (0.439 %) Oracle Reports
Development Applications 1 1 (0.439 %) TestDirector 1 1 (0.439 %) FrontPage	General 1 108 (47.37 %) Finance 2 21 (9.211 %) Front Office 2 21 (9.211 %) Pensions 3 16 (7.018 %) Health 4 12 (5.263 %) FMCG 5 8 (3.509 %) Financial Institution 5 8 (3.509 %) Government 5 8 (3.509 %) Insurance 6 7 (3.070 %) Back Office 6 7 (3.070 %) Education 7 6 (2.632 %) Local Government 7 6 (2.632 %) Banking 8 4 (1.754 %) Marketing 9 2 (0.877 %) Retail 9 2 (0.877 %) Legal 9 2 (0.877 %) Criminal Justice 10 1 (0.439 %) Investment Banking 10 1 (0.439 %) Electric 10 1 (0.439 %) Telecoms 10 1 (0.439 %) Law
Miscellaneous 1 4 (1.754 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 2 3 (1.316 %) Management Information System 2 3 (1.316 %) Computer Science 3 2 (0.877 %) Mainframe 4 1 (0.439 %) Data Protection Act 4 1 (0.439 %) IBM Mainframe 4 1 (0.439 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 10 (4.386 %) Windows 1 10 (4.386 %) Windows XP 2 7 (3.070 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (0.439 %) VMS 3 1 (0.439 %) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies 1 61 (26.75 %) Business Analysis 2 49 (21.49 %) Project Management 3 26 (11.40 %) Data Analysis 4 25 (10.96 %) Change Management 5 23 (10.09 %) Business Intelligence 5 23 (10.09 %) Fund Management 6 21 (9.211 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 20 (8.772 %) Asset Management 7 20 (8.772 %) Data Modelling 8 19 (8.333 %) Investment Management 9 18 (7.895 %) GAP Analysis 10 14 (6.140 %) Systems Analysis 11 11 (4.825 %) Stakeholder Management 12 8 (3.509 %) CRM 13 6 (2.632 %) Content Management 13 6 (2.632 %) Supplier Management 13 6 (2.632 %) Requirements Analysis 13 6 (2.632 %) Security Cleared 14 5 (2.193 %) Information Management 15 4 (1.754 %) Document Management	Programming Languages 1 33 (14.47 %) SQL 2 15 (6.579 %) VBA 3 12 (5.263 %) VB 4 1 (0.439 %) COBOL 4 1 (0.439 %) Java 4 1 (0.439 %) SQR 4 1 (0.439 %) DCL
Qualifications 1 22 (9.649 %) Degree 2 11 (4.825 %) MBA 3 3 (1.316 %) ISEB 4 1 (0.439 %) PRINCE2 Certification	Vendors 1 23 (10.09 %) Oracle 2 14 (6.140 %) SAP 3 13 (5.702 %) Microsoft 4 12 (5.263 %) Business Objects 5 10 (4.386 %) Lotus 6 9 (3.947 %) PeopleSoft 6 9 (3.947 %) Cognos 7 4 (1.754 %) Quark 8 2 (0.877 %) Reuters 8 2 (0.877 %) Charles River 8 2 (0.877 %) Progress 8 2 (0.877 %) Adobe 9 1 (0.439 %) IBM 9 1 (0.439 %) Open Text 9 1 (0.439 %) thinkFolio