The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire 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 24 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 Bedfordshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Analyst
Rank - - 41
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Analyst 0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire - - 0.345%
As % of the Job Titles category - - 0.372%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £305
UK excluding London average daily rate £346 £350 £275
% change year-on-year
-1.07% +27.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.50 £21.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year
-32.55% +16.21%
All Job Titles
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
182 252 269
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 95.79% 92.65% 92.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 124 127
Average daily rate £350 £363 £323
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.44% +12.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £188 £225 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £520 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 12
Average hourly rate £20.70 £29.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-28.63% +114.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.96 £12.00 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £42.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Technical Analyst
East of England

Technical Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire 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 Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire 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 Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire Technical Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (85.71%) VMware
2 6 (85.71%) MS Exchange
2 6 (85.71%) Citrix
2 6 (85.71%) Windows Server 2003
2 6 (85.71%) Exchange Server 2007
2 6 (85.71%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (71.43%) SAN
3 5 (71.43%) SQL
3 5 (71.43%) DHCP
3 5 (71.43%) DNS
3 5 (71.43%) IIS
3 5 (71.43%) DMZ
3 5 (71.43%) Back Office
4 4 (57.14%) NetBackup
4 4 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (42.86%) WhatsUp Gold
5 3 (42.86%) Forefront TMG
5 3 (42.86%) Change Management
5 3 (42.86%) Firewall
5 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
5 3 (42.86%) HP
5 3 (42.86%) Symantec
5 3 (42.86%) Norton AntiVirus
5 3 (42.86%) Project Management
6 2 (28.57%) Application Packaging
7 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
7 1 (14.29%) vSphere
7 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2008

Technical Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 Development
1 2 (28.57%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 6 (85.71%) MS Exchange
1 6 (85.71%) Exchange Server 2007
2 5 (71.43%) IIS
3 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2003
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) SAN
1 5 (71.43%) DHCP
1 5 (71.43%) DNS
1 5 (71.43%) DMZ
2 3 (42.86%) Firewall
3 1 (14.29%) Wireless
3 1 (14.29%) LAN
3 1 (14.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (71.43%) Back Office
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (85.71%) Windows Server 2003
2 6 (85.71%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Change Management
1 3 (42.86%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (42.86%) Forefront TMG
2 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
3 1 (14.29%) vSphere
3 1 (14.29%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) NetBackup
2 3 (42.86%) WhatsUp Gold
2 3 (42.86%) Norton AntiVirus
3 1 (14.29%) SCCM
3 1 (14.29%) SCOM
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) VMware
1 6 (85.71%) Citrix
2 3 (42.86%) HP
2 3 (42.86%) Symantec