The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical 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 Technical Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Analyst
Rank - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Analyst 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedford - - -
As % of the Job Titles category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £370 £350
% change year-on-year
-5.40% +5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.70 £21.50 £18.00
% change year-on-year
-36.27% +19.44%
All Job Titles
Bedford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
20 24 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedford 90.91% 92.31% 87.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 15 11
Average daily rate £240 £365 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-34.24% +62.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £130 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £369 £425 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
Average hourly rate - £190.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +1307.40%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Technical Analyst
Bedfordshire

Technical Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedford Technical Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bedford Technical Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Technical Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bedford Technical Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Analyst
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedford region that cited Technical 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 Technical Analyst in their job title.

1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) IIS
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (100.00%) DHCP
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
1 3 (100.00%) Citrix
1 3 (100.00%) SAN
1 3 (100.00%) DMZ
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (100.00%) Back Office
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
1 3 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) WhatsUp Gold
2 2 (66.67%) Forefront TMG
2 2 (66.67%) HP
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) NetBackup
2 2 (66.67%) Change Management
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) Symantec
2 2 (66.67%) Norton AntiVirus
2 2 (66.67%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (33.33%) SCOM

Technical Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedford region that cited Technical 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 Technical Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) IIS
1 3 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DHCP
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
1 3 (100.00%) SAN
1 3 (100.00%) DMZ
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
General
1 3 (100.00%) Back Office
2 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Change Management
1 2 (66.67%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Forefront TMG
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) WhatsUp Gold
1 2 (66.67%) NetBackup
1 2 (66.67%) Norton AntiVirus
2 1 (33.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Citrix
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) HP
2 2 (66.67%) Symantec