The first table below looks at the demand for the Support Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the Aberdeen region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Support Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Aberdeen region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Support Analyst
Rank 22 6 24
Rank change year-on-year
-16 +18
Contract jobs requiring a Support Analyst 5 25 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Aberdeen 3.125% 13.16% 2.564%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.401% 14.45% 2.762%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 1
Average daily rate £300 £225 £213
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+33.33% +5.88%
UK excluding London average daily rate £248 £220 £225
% change year-on-year
+12.50% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Average hourly rate - £17.00 £11.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +51.11%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £15.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-9.67% +3.33%
All Job Titles
Aberdeen
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
147 173 181
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Aberdeen 91.88% 91.05% 92.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 74 69
Average daily rate £350 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £179 £150 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £456 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 9 17
Average hourly rate £15.77 £17.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.23% +13.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £13.55 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.80 £34.00 £31.01
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Support Analyst
Scotland

Support Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Aberdeen Support Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Support Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Support Analyst across the Aberdeen region.

Aberdeen Support Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Support Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Support Analyst across the Aberdeen region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Aberdeen Support Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Support Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Support Analyst across the Aberdeen region.

Aberdeen Support Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Support Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region that cited Support 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 contract IT job ads sampled with Support Analyst in their job title.

1 6 (54.55%) Windows
2 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 4 (36.36%) Windows 7
3 3 (27.27%) SharePoint
3 3 (27.27%) Windows XP
3 3 (27.27%) MS Office
3 3 (27.27%) ITIL
3 3 (27.27%) Oracle
4 2 (18.18%) Blackberry
4 2 (18.18%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 2 (18.18%) Altiris
4 2 (18.18%) SQL
4 2 (18.18%) Linux
4 2 (18.18%) Dell
4 2 (18.18%) Citrix
4 2 (18.18%) UNIX
5 1 (9.091%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (9.091%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
5 1 (9.091%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (9.091%) Novell
5 1 (9.091%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (9.091%) Symantec
5 1 (9.091%) GroupWise
5 1 (9.091%) Active Directory
5 1 (9.091%) HP
5 1 (9.091%) Compaq
5 1 (9.091%) MS Exchange
5 1 (9.091%) Data Mining
5 1 (9.091%) TCP/IP
5 1 (9.091%) VPN

Support Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region that cited Support 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 contract IT job ads sampled with Support Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (9.091%) HTML
1 1 (9.091%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 3 (27.27%) SharePoint
2 2 (18.18%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (9.091%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (9.091%) MS Exchange
3 1 (9.091%) GroupWise
Applications
1 3 (27.27%) MS Office
2 1 (9.091%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.091%) TCP/IP
1 1 (9.091%) VPN
1 1 (9.091%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.091%) SQL Server
1 1 (9.091%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (9.091%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (9.091%) MS Access
1 1 (9.091%) Data Mining
1 1 (9.091%) RDBMS
1 1 (9.091%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
1 1 (9.091%) Xcelsius
General
1 1 (9.091%) Telecoms
1 1 (9.091%) Aerospace
1 1 (9.091%) French Language
1 1 (9.091%) Norwegian Language
1 1 (9.091%) Portuguese Language
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Blackberry
2 1 (9.091%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Windows
2 4 (36.36%) Windows 7
3 3 (27.27%) Windows XP
4 2 (18.18%) UNIX
4 2 (18.18%) Linux
5 1 (9.091%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (9.091%) Windows Vista
5 1 (9.091%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) ITIL
2 1 (9.091%) PRINCE2
2 1 (9.091%) Project Management
2 1 (9.091%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
2 1 (9.091%) VBA
2 1 (9.091%) C
2 1 (9.091%) Java
2 1 (9.091%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.091%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (9.091%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.091%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (9.091%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (9.091%) SCCM
1 1 (9.091%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) Oracle
3 2 (18.18%) Dell
3 2 (18.18%) Citrix
3 2 (18.18%) Altiris
4 1 (9.091%) Novell
4 1 (9.091%) Symantec
4 1 (9.091%) VMware
4 1 (9.091%) Business Objects
4 1 (9.091%) Cisco
4 1 (9.091%) HP
4 1 (9.091%) Compaq