The first table below looks at the demand for the Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the Bedford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited 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 Bedford 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Analyst
Rank 4 4 16
Rank change year-on-year
0 +12
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 3 2 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedford 14.29% 9.524% 6.977%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.67% 10.00% 7.895%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £325 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £10.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £15.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -
All Job Titles
Bedford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
18 20 38
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedford 85.71% 95.24% 88.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 8 16
Average daily rate £325 £228 £205
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+42.85% +10.97%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £130 £170
10% offered a daily rate of more than £405 £553 £280
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
Average hourly rate £19.39 £42.50 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-54.37% +286.36%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Analyst
Bedfordshire

Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedford Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bedford Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bedford Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedford region that cited 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 Analyst in their job title.

1 5 (41.67%) Firewall
1 5 (41.67%) DMZ
1 5 (41.67%) Windows
1 5 (41.67%) DNS
1 5 (41.67%) DHCP
1 5 (41.67%) Manufacturing
2 4 (33.33%) Project Management
3 3 (25.00%) Back Office
3 3 (25.00%) VMware
3 3 (25.00%) Business Analysis
3 3 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2007
3 3 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (25.00%) Forefront TMG
3 3 (25.00%) Cisco
3 3 (25.00%) SQL
3 3 (25.00%) IIS
3 3 (25.00%) MS Exchange
3 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (25.00%) Citrix
3 3 (25.00%) SAN
4 2 (16.67%) Juniper
4 2 (16.67%) Symantec
4 2 (16.67%) Norton AntiVirus
4 2 (16.67%) Service Management
4 2 (16.67%) Change Management
4 2 (16.67%) LAN
4 2 (16.67%) VoIP
4 2 (16.67%) WAN
4 2 (16.67%) ITIL

Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedford region that cited 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 Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 3 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 3 (25.00%) IIS
1 3 (25.00%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) Firewall
1 5 (41.67%) DMZ
1 5 (41.67%) DNS
1 5 (41.67%) DHCP
2 3 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (25.00%) SAN
3 2 (16.67%) LAN
3 2 (16.67%) VoIP
3 2 (16.67%) WAN
3 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 2 (16.67%) VPN
3 2 (16.67%) Wireless
General
1 5 (41.67%) Manufacturing
2 3 (25.00%) Back Office
3 2 (16.67%) Local Government
4 1 (8.333%) Automotive
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.333%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Windows
2 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Project Management
2 3 (25.00%) Business Analysis
3 2 (16.67%) Service Management
3 2 (16.67%) Change Management
3 2 (16.67%) ITIL
3 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (16.67%) Asset Management
3 2 (16.67%) Systems Analysis
4 1 (8.333%) Demand Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) ISEB
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.333%) CCNP
2 1 (8.333%) CCNA
2 1 (8.333%) MCSE
2 1 (8.333%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (8.333%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Forefront TMG
2 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (8.333%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Norton AntiVirus
1 2 (16.67%) WhatsUp Gold
1 2 (16.67%) NetBackup
2 1 (8.333%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) VMware
1 3 (25.00%) Cisco
1 3 (25.00%) Citrix
2 2 (16.67%) Juniper
2 2 (16.67%) Symantec
2 2 (16.67%) HP
3 1 (8.333%) Microsoft