North West Analyst Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Analyst role in IT jobs within the North West 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 Analyst in their job title over the last 3 months to 12 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Amersham Andover Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barking Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Bicester Bingley Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Coalville Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Darlington Dartford Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dunfermline Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Flintshire Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Greenford Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Hungerford Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Liversedge Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Malmesbury Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Ormskirk Orpington Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Rugby Ruislip Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark Spalding St Albans St Helens St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stamford Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Teesside Telford Tewkesbury Thames Ditton Thames Valley Torfaen Torquay Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallington Walsall Wantage Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Whyteleafe Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimborne Winchester Windsor Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 12 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	7	5
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching permanent IT job ads	1899	2175
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.915 %	0.967 %
As % of the category below	15.62 %	17.16 %
Salaries quoted	1604	1838
Average minimum salary	£28,078	£28,967
Average salary	£30,386	£31,515
% change on same period last year	-3.58 %
Average maximum salary	£32,694	£34,063
UK excluding London average salary	£33,202	£33,610
% change on same period last year	-1.21 %
Job Titles North West
Matching permanent IT job ads	12156	12675
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	5.859 %	5.634 %
Salaries quoted	10229	10465
Average minimum salary	£32,948	£34,145
Average salary	£36,871	£37,917
% change on same period last year	-2.76 %
Average maximum salary	£40,793	£41,690
UK excluding London average salary	£38,587	£39,123
% change on same period last year	-1.36 %
Analyst England

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Demand Trend

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

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Analyst across the North West region over the past 3 months.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the North West region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Manchester	+1	759	£30,420	+0.34 %
2	Cheshire	-2	513	£30,408	-5.27 %
3	Lancashire	-4	255	£27,423	-2.03 %
4	Merseyside	-2	252	£29,482	-12.03 %
5	Cumbria	+5	25	£44,780	+136.99 %

Analyst England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the North West region citing Analyst also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Analyst.

1 1094 (29.00 %) SQL 2 863 (22.87 %) Finance 3 748 (19.83 %) Windows 4 556 (14.74 %) SQL Server 5 469 (12.43 %) Microsoft 6 463 (12.27 %) MS Excel 7 405 (10.73 %) .NET 8 377 (9.992 %) Oracle 9 357 (9.462 %) Business Analysis 10 300 (7.951 %) Degree 11 296 (7.845 %) UML 12 292 (7.739 %) MS Office 13 284 (7.527 %) Unix 14 268 (7.103 %) VB 15 254 (6.732 %) ITIL

16 248 (6.573 %) Retail 17 243 (6.440 %) Pensions 18 217 (5.751 %) C# 19 209 (5.539 %) Health 20 207 (5.486 %) Citrix 21 205 (5.433 %) OO 22 196 (5.195 %) SAP 23 195 (5.168 %) ASP.NET 23 195 (5.168 %) Active Directory 24 178 (4.718 %) Project Management 25 177 (4.691 %) SQL Server 2000 26 174 (4.612 %) Data Analysis 27 173 (4.585 %) XML 28 168 (4.453 %) Java 29 166 (4.400 %) Insurance

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the North West region citing Analyst also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Analyst. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 405 (10.73 %) .NET 2 195 (5.168 %) ASP.NET 3 173 (4.585 %) XML 4 115 (3.048 %) HTML 5 99 (2.624 %) WebServices 6 90 (2.385 %) J2EE 7 59 (1.564 %) ASP 7 59 (1.564 %) WebSphere 8 41 (1.087 %) SOAP 9 40 (1.060 %) JSP 10 39 (1.034 %) AJAX 11 33 (0.875 %) CSS 12 27 (0.716 %) .NET Framework 13 21 (0.557 %) JDBC 14 16 (0.424 %) Servlets 15 15 (0.398 %) WinForms 15 15 (0.398 %) .NET Remoting 16 14 (0.371 %) Middleware 17 13 (0.345 %) ISPF 18 11 (0.292 %) EJB	Application Platforms 1 139 (3.684 %) MS Exchange 2 127 (3.366 %) SAS 3 106 (2.809 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 105 (2.783 %) IIS 5 65 (1.723 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 47 (1.246 %) SharePoint 7 45 (1.193 %) WebSphere Application Server 8 43 (1.140 %) Apache 9 40 (1.060 %) Lotus Notes 10 36 (0.954 %) Oracle Application Server 11 22 (0.583 %) Tomcat 12 19 (0.504 %) CICS 13 17 (0.451 %) BizTalk Server 13 17 (0.451 %) Exchange Server 2007 14 11 (0.292 %) Exchange Server 5.5 15 10 (0.265 %) Oracle Workflow 16 8 (0.212 %) WebSphere MQ 17 6 (0.159 %) CMS 18 5 (0.133 %) MQSeries 19 4 (0.106 %) NetWeaver
Applications 1 463 (12.27 %) MS Excel 2 292 (7.739 %) MS Office 3 38 (1.007 %) MS Visio 4 32 (0.848 %) MS PowerPoint 5 28 (0.742 %) SPSS 6 26 (0.689 %) MS Project 7 5 (0.133 %) AutoCAD 8 2 (0.053 %) MATLAB 8 2 (0.053 %) SmartSuite 8 2 (0.053 %) Photoshop 9 1 (0.027 %) DeltaView 9 1 (0.027 %) PrintSoft PReS	Business Applications 1 53 (1.405 %) SAP FI 2 52 (1.378 %) Oracle Applications 3 39 (1.034 %) SAP FI/CO 3 39 (1.034 %) SAP CO 4 33 (0.875 %) Oracle EBS 5 32 (0.848 %) SAP MM 6 25 (0.663 %) Oracle 11i 7 15 (0.398 %) SAP R/3 8 12 (0.318 %) SAP HR 9 11 (0.292 %) Oracle ERP 9 11 (0.292 %) Unica Affinium 10 9 (0.239 %) MFGPRO 11 8 (0.212 %) Oracle Financials 11 8 (0.212 %) Navision 12 7 (0.186 %) SAP PP 12 7 (0.186 %) BASE24 12 7 (0.186 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 12 7 (0.186 %) Line 500 13 6 (0.159 %) SageBI 14 4 (0.106 %) SAP WM
Communications & Networking 1 164 (4.347 %) Internet 2 161 (4.267 %) Firewall 3 160 (4.241 %) TCP/IP 4 103 (2.730 %) VPN 5 84 (2.226 %) LAN 6 79 (2.094 %) WAN 7 52 (1.378 %) DNS 8 36 (0.954 %) SAN 9 33 (0.875 %) SNMP 10 29 (0.769 %) VoIP 11 21 (0.557 %) DHCP 12 18 (0.477 %) FTP 13 17 (0.451 %) Ethernet 13 17 (0.451 %) LDAP 13 17 (0.451 %) MPLS 14 15 (0.398 %) WINS 14 15 (0.398 %) Wireless 15 12 (0.318 %) Cisco PIX 16 11 (0.292 %) SMS 17 10 (0.265 %) PBX	Database & Business Intelligence 1 556 (14.74 %) SQL Server 2 177 (4.691 %) SQL Server 2000 3 152 (4.029 %) SQL Server 2005 4 150 (3.976 %) Crystal Reports 5 109 (2.889 %) Datawarehouse 6 95 (2.518 %) BusinessObjects 7 81 (2.147 %) Oracle Reports 8 73 (1.935 %) MS Access 9 70 (1.855 %) RDBMS 10 68 (1.802 %) Oracle 9i 11 59 (1.564 %) DB2 12 51 (1.352 %) DTS 13 47 (1.246 %) Data Mining 14 41 (1.087 %) OLAP 15 40 (1.060 %) Oracle 8/8i 16 36 (0.954 %) SAP BW 16 36 (0.954 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 17 30 (0.795 %) Oracle Discoverer 17 30 (0.795 %) Oracle 10g 18 27 (0.716 %) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications 1 65 (1.723 %) Oracle Forms 2 64 (1.696 %) Visual Studio 3 56 (1.484 %) Rational Rose 4 45 (1.193 %) TestDirector 5 29 (0.769 %) WinRunner 6 16 (0.424 %) Introscope 7 14 (0.371 %) QuickTest Pro 7 14 (0.371 %) Dreamweaver 8 10 (0.265 %) LoadRunner 9 8 (0.212 %) Eclipse 10 5 (0.133 %) ERwin 10 5 (0.133 %) Rational Robot 11 4 (0.106 %) JDeveloper 12 3 (0.080 %) Synon 13 2 (0.053 %) PowerBuilder 13 2 (0.053 %) ClearQuest 13 2 (0.053 %) WebSpeed 13 2 (0.053 %) NUnit 13 2 (0.053 %) QARun 14 1 (0.027 %) Selenium	General 1 863 (22.87 %) Finance 2 248 (6.573 %) Retail 3 243 (6.440 %) Pensions 4 209 (5.539 %) Health 5 166 (4.400 %) Insurance 6 142 (3.764 %) Manufacturing 7 128 (3.393 %) Banking 8 99 (2.624 %) Marketing 9 86 (2.279 %) Government 10 85 (2.253 %) Telecoms 11 65 (1.723 %) Publishing 12 61 (1.617 %) Education 13 55 (1.458 %) Legal 14 47 (1.246 %) Law 15 42 (1.113 %) Auditing 16 32 (0.848 %) Billing 17 26 (0.689 %) Local Government 18 22 (0.583 %) Games 19 16 (0.424 %) Back Office 20 14 (0.371 %) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous 1 74 (1.961 %) Mainframe 2 69 (1.829 %) Management Information System 3 53 (1.405 %) Credit Risk 4 39 (1.034 %) Statistics 5 36 (0.954 %) Asset Management 6 33 (0.875 %) AS400 7 31 (0.822 %) Mathematics 8 30 (0.795 %) NHS 9 29 (0.769 %) IBM Mainframe 10 27 (0.716 %) Computer Science 11 25 (0.663 %) Blackberry 11 25 (0.663 %) Clustering 12 23 (0.610 %) EPoS 13 20 (0.530 %) Client/Server 13 20 (0.530 %) PKI 14 17 (0.451 %) PDA 14 17 (0.451 %) IVR 15 14 (0.371 %) French Language 15 14 (0.371 %) SecurID 16 10 (0.265 %) Tandem	Operating Systems 1 748 (19.83 %) Windows 2 284 (7.527 %) Unix 3 146 (3.870 %) Windows 2000 4 99 (2.624 %) Windows NT 4 99 (2.624 %) Linux 5 90 (2.385 %) Windows XP 6 73 (1.935 %) Solaris 7 70 (1.855 %) Windows Server 2003 8 57 (1.511 %) AIX 9 35 (0.928 %) zOS 10 32 (0.848 %) HPUX 11 28 (0.742 %) MVS 12 10 (0.265 %) OS/400 13 5 (0.133 %) VMS 14 4 (0.106 %) NetWare 15 3 (0.080 %) SUSE 16 2 (0.053 %) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies 1 357 (9.462 %) Business Analysis 2 296 (7.845 %) UML 3 254 (6.732 %) ITIL 4 205 (5.433 %) OO 5 178 (4.718 %) Project Management 6 174 (4.612 %) Data Analysis 7 158 (4.188 %) User Acceptance Testing 8 141 (3.737 %) Software Testing 8 141 (3.737 %) E-Commerce 9 134 (3.552 %) Business Intelligence 10 109 (2.889 %) Systems Analysis 11 106 (2.809 %) PRINCE2 12 103 (2.730 %) Test Scripting 13 102 (2.703 %) Data Modelling 14 98 (2.597 %) CRM 15 88 (2.332 %) OOD 16 82 (2.173 %) Service Delivery 17 80 (2.120 %) Change Management 17 80 (2.120 %) RUP 18 74 (1.961 %) ERP	Programming Languages 1 1094 (29.00 %) SQL 2 268 (7.103 %) VB 3 217 (5.751 %) C# 4 168 (4.453 %) Java 5 157 (4.161 %) Transact-SQL 6 146 (3.870 %) VB.NET 7 123 (3.260 %) PL/SQL 8 88 (2.332 %) C 9 82 (2.173 %) JavaScript 10 67 (1.776 %) C++ 11 56 (1.484 %) VBA 12 53 (1.405 %) VB6 13 39 (1.034 %) JCL 14 34 (0.901 %) VBScript 15 32 (0.848 %) Perl 16 26 (0.689 %) PHP 17 24 (0.636 %) REXX 18 19 (0.504 %) SAS Macro 18 19 (0.504 %) COBOL 18 19 (0.504 %) DHTML
Qualifications 1 300 (7.951 %) Degree 2 161 (4.267 %) ISEB 3 154 (4.082 %) Microsoft Certification 4 98 (2.597 %) MCP 5 89 (2.359 %) MCSE 6 41 (1.087 %) MCSA 6 41 (1.087 %) HND 7 38 (1.007 %) ITIL Certification 8 23 (0.610 %) Cisco Certification 9 20 (0.530 %) CCNA 10 17 (0.451 %) CISSP 11 12 (0.318 %) Oracle Certification 12 10 (0.265 %) OCP 12 10 (0.265 %) CHFI 13 9 (0.239 %) MCDST 14 8 (0.212 %) PMP 14 8 (0.212 %) PMI Certification 14 8 (0.212 %) Citrix Certification 14 8 (0.212 %) CCNP 15 6 (0.159 %) CCSP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 160 (4.241 %) QA 2 106 (2.809 %) SLA 3 27 (0.716 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 22 (0.583 %) Basel II 5 20 (0.530 %) ISO27001 6 5 (0.133 %) ISO9001 7 2 (0.053 %) BS7799 7 2 (0.053 %) ISO9000 8 1 (0.027 %) ISO17799 8 1 (0.027 %) HL7
System Software 1 195 (5.168 %) Active Directory 2 44 (1.166 %) ISA Server 3 36 (0.954 %) RACF 4 27 (0.716 %) Terminal Server 5 19 (0.504 %) Backup Exec 6 16 (0.424 %) NetBackup 7 11 (0.292 %) Citrix Presentation Server 8 6 (0.159 %) Novell eDirectory 8 6 (0.159 %) MetaFrame 9 5 (0.133 %) VMware ESX 10 4 (0.106 %) Terminal Services 10 4 (0.106 %) Oracle RAC 11 1 (0.027 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 11 1 (0.027 %) VMware Workstation	Systems Management 1 28 (0.742 %) Tivoli 2 24 (0.636 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 16 (0.424 %) ServiceCenter 4 14 (0.371 %) MOM 5 13 (0.345 %) BMC PATROL 6 10 (0.265 %) OpenView 6 10 (0.265 %) DameWare 7 8 (0.212 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 8 7 (0.186 %) Norton AntiVirus 9 6 (0.159 %) NNM 10 3 (0.080 %) WSUS 10 3 (0.080 %) ARCserve 10 3 (0.080 %) Tivoli Identity Manager 11 2 (0.053 %) MIMEsweeper 12 1 (0.027 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 12 1 (0.027 %) Legato
Vendors 1 469 (12.43 %) Microsoft 2 377 (9.992 %) Oracle 3 207 (5.486 %) Citrix 4 196 (5.195 %) SAP 5 113 (2.995 %) Cisco 6 95 (2.518 %) Business Objects 7 86 (2.279 %) IBM 8 81 (2.147 %) Cognos 9 69 (1.829 %) HP 10 58 (1.537 %) VMware 11 48 (1.272 %) CheckPoint 12 46 (1.219 %) Lotus 13 30 (0.795 %) Dell 14 29 (0.769 %) Sun 15 27 (0.716 %) VERITAS 16 25 (0.663 %) Remedy 17 24 (0.636 %) Symantec 18 23 (0.610 %) Sage 19 19 (0.504 %) WatchGuard 20 14 (0.371 %) JD Edwards