Berkshire Support Analyst Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Support Analyst role in IT contracts within the Berkshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Support Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Support Analyst
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carterton Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Dalkeith Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dunstable Durham East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Esher Essex Exeter Feltham Fife Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Hull Ilford Ipswich Kegworth Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Pudsey Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Rickmansworth Rugby Sandwich Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tadworth Telford Tiverton Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	49	48
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	78	114
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.123 %	0.122 %
As % of the category below	3.157 %	3.147 %
Daily rates quoted	18	24
Average minimum daily rate	£224	£226
Average daily rate	£235	£249
% change on same period last year	-5.60 %
Average maximum daily rate	£246	£272
UK excluding London average daily rate	£244	£246
% change on same period last year	-0.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	22
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.59	£16.81
Average hourly rate	£21.23	£17.83
% change on same period last year	+19.09 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.87	£18.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£16.12	£16.80
% change on same period last year	-4.02 %
Job Titles Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	2471	3622
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.892 %	3.881 %
Daily rates quoted	665	1004
Average minimum daily rate	£341	£334
Average daily rate	£363	£354
% change on same period last year	+2.56 %
Average maximum daily rate	£385	£374
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£351
% change on same period last year	+0.72 %
Hourly rates quoted	179	429
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.41	£25.90
Average hourly rate	£22.81	£27.38
% change on same period last year	-16.69 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.21	£28.87
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.37	£24.42
% change on same period last year	-4.31 %
Support Analyst South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Support Analyst
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Support Analyst across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Support Analyst across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Support Analyst across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Support Analyst within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Reading	+24	31	£211	+11.07 %
Slough	+10	13	-	-
Maidenhead	0	6	£95	-
Bracknell	+5	5	-	-
Windsor	+4	4	-	-
Wokingham	0	3	£313	+20.19 %
Newbury	-4	1	-	-

Support Analyst South East

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 56 (29.02 %) Windows 2 31 (16.06 %) SQL 2 31 (16.06 %) Oracle 3 25 (12.95 %) Active Directory 3 25 (12.95 %) Finance 4 24 (12.44 %) Microsoft 4 24 (12.44 %) UNIX 5 22 (11.40 %) Windows 2000 5 22 (11.40 %) SQL Server 5 22 (11.40 %) MS Office 6 21 (10.88 %) Windows XP 7 20 (10.36 %) HP 8 19 (9.845 %) Windows Server 2003 9 18 (9.326 %) Citrix 10 17 (8.808 %) VMware

11 16 (8.290 %) Security Cleared 11 16 (8.290 %) VBScript 11 16 (8.290 %) VB 12 15 (7.772 %) SAN 12 15 (7.772 %) SC Cleared 13 14 (7.254 %) SLA 13 14 (7.254 %) MS Excel 13 14 (7.254 %) Citrix Presentation Server 13 14 (7.254 %) Degree 14 13 (6.736 %) WebLogic 14 13 (6.736 %) .NET 14 13 (6.736 %) ITIL 15 12 (6.218 %) SQLPlus 15 12 (6.218 %) Clustering 16 11 (5.699 %) Telecoms

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 13 (6.736 %) .NET 2 9 (4.663 %) CSS 2 9 (4.663 %) XHTML 2 9 (4.663 %) HTML 3 8 (4.145 %) XML 4 5 (2.591 %) AJAX 5 4 (2.073 %) WebServices 6 3 (1.554 %) XSL 6 3 (1.554 %) XSLT 7 2 (1.036 %) ASP.NET 8 1 (0.518 %) COM	Application Platforms 1 13 (6.736 %) WebLogic 2 8 (4.145 %) CMS 3 6 (3.109 %) GroupWise 3 6 (3.109 %) Lotus Notes 3 6 (3.109 %) SharePoint 4 5 (2.591 %) MS Exchange 4 5 (2.591 %) IIS 4 5 (2.591 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 4 (2.073 %) MTS 5 4 (2.073 %) Documentum 6 3 (1.554 %) BizTalk Server 6 3 (1.554 %) Plone 7 1 (0.518 %) LiveLink 7 1 (0.518 %) Exchange Server 2000 7 1 (0.518 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 1 (0.518 %) Joomla! 7 1 (0.518 %) Apache
Applications 1 22 (11.40 %) MS Office 2 14 (7.254 %) MS Excel 3 6 (3.109 %) MS PowerPoint 4 4 (2.073 %) XMetaL 4 4 (2.073 %) Photoshop 5 3 (1.554 %) MS Project 6 1 (0.518 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 4 (2.073 %) Summit 2 3 (1.554 %) Oracle HRMS 3 2 (1.036 %) SAP FI/CO 3 2 (1.036 %) SAP FI 3 2 (1.036 %) SAP MM 3 2 (1.036 %) SAP CO 4 1 (0.518 %) SAP Oil and Gas 4 1 (0.518 %) Retail-J 4 1 (0.518 %) GoldMine
Communications & Networking 1 15 (7.772 %) SAN 2 11 (5.699 %) Internet 3 10 (5.181 %) WAN 3 10 (5.181 %) TCP/IP 4 7 (3.627 %) Firewall 5 6 (3.109 %) VPN 5 6 (3.109 %) LAN 6 4 (2.073 %) ADSL 6 4 (2.073 %) Extranet 6 4 (2.073 %) VLAN 7 3 (1.554 %) Wireless 7 3 (1.554 %) WLAN 7 3 (1.554 %) MPLS 7 3 (1.554 %) DSL 7 3 (1.554 %) Ethernet 7 3 (1.554 %) ISDN 7 3 (1.554 %) DNS 8 2 (1.036 %) SMS 8 2 (1.036 %) Intranet 9 1 (0.518 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 22 (11.40 %) SQL Server 2 12 (6.218 %) SQLPlus 3 10 (5.181 %) BusinessObjects 4 5 (2.591 %) SAP BW 5 4 (2.073 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 3 (1.554 %) Oracle 9i 6 3 (1.554 %) Oracle Reports 6 3 (1.554 %) Datawarehouse 6 3 (1.554 %) SQL Server 2005 6 3 (1.554 %) Oracle 10g 7 2 (1.036 %) Data Cleansing 7 2 (1.036 %) SAP BI 7 2 (1.036 %) MS Access 8 1 (0.518 %) DTS 8 1 (0.518 %) Data Mining 8 1 (0.518 %) SQL Server 2000 8 1 (0.518 %) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications 1 4 (2.073 %) Dreamweaver 2 3 (1.554 %) Oracle Forms	General 1 25 (12.95 %) Finance 2 11 (5.699 %) Telecoms 3 5 (2.591 %) Online Banking 3 5 (2.591 %) Banking 4 4 (2.073 %) Education 5 2 (1.036 %) Publishing 5 2 (1.036 %) FMCG 6 1 (0.518 %) Military 6 1 (0.518 %) Retail 6 1 (0.518 %) Billing 6 1 (0.518 %) Government 6 1 (0.518 %) Health 6 1 (0.518 %) Legal 6 1 (0.518 %) Construction 6 1 (0.518 %) Pharmaceutical 6 1 (0.518 %) Electronics
Miscellaneous 1 12 (6.218 %) Clustering 2 7 (3.627 %) NHS 3 4 (2.073 %) Computer Science 4 2 (1.036 %) EPoS 5 1 (0.518 %) PMI 5 1 (0.518 %) Smartphone 5 1 (0.518 %) PDA 5 1 (0.518 %) French Language 5 1 (0.518 %) Japanese Language	Operating Systems 1 56 (29.02 %) Windows 2 24 (12.44 %) UNIX 3 22 (11.40 %) Windows 2000 4 21 (10.88 %) Windows XP 5 19 (9.845 %) Windows Server 2003 6 5 (2.591 %) Windows NT 6 5 (2.591 %) Windows 2000 Server 7 4 (2.073 %) Windows Vista 7 4 (2.073 %) Linux 8 3 (1.554 %) Solaris 8 3 (1.554 %) VMS 9 2 (1.036 %) OpenVMS 9 2 (1.036 %) OpenBSD 9 2 (1.036 %) FreeBSD 10 1 (0.518 %) OS/400 10 1 (0.518 %) NetWare
Processes & Methodologies 1 16 (8.290 %) Security Cleared 2 15 (7.772 %) SC Cleared 3 13 (6.736 %) ITIL 4 9 (4.663 %) Web Design 4 9 (4.663 %) Content Management 5 6 (3.109 %) Business Intelligence 5 6 (3.109 %) Project Management 6 4 (2.073 %) Configuration Management 7 3 (1.554 %) Service Delivery 8 2 (1.036 %) Change Management 8 2 (1.036 %) CRM 8 2 (1.036 %) E-Commerce 8 2 (1.036 %) Migration 8 2 (1.036 %) Data Analysis 8 2 (1.036 %) System Testing 9 1 (0.518 %) User Acceptance Testing 9 1 (0.518 %) Data Management 9 1 (0.518 %) Business Continuity 9 1 (0.518 %) ERP 9 1 (0.518 %) PRINCE2	Programming Languages 1 31 (16.06 %) SQL 2 16 (8.290 %) VBScript 2 16 (8.290 %) VB 3 10 (5.181 %) Shell Script 4 9 (4.663 %) DHTML 5 8 (4.145 %) Java 6 4 (2.073 %) VBA 6 4 (2.073 %) VB6 7 3 (1.554 %) C# 8 2 (1.036 %) C
Qualifications 1 14 (7.254 %) Degree 2 4 (2.073 %) Microsoft Certification 3 2 (1.036 %) MCP 3 2 (1.036 %) Citrix Certification 3 2 (1.036 %) Cisco Certification 3 2 (1.036 %) ACCA 3 2 (1.036 %) CIMA 4 1 (0.518 %) MOS 4 1 (0.518 %) MCDST 4 1 (0.518 %) HNC 4 1 (0.518 %) HND 4 1 (0.518 %) ITIL Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 14 (7.254 %) SLA 2 2 (1.036 %) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software 1 25 (12.95 %) Active Directory 2 14 (7.254 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 5 (2.591 %) Backup Exec 4 2 (1.036 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 2 (1.036 %) MetaFrame 4 2 (1.036 %) ISA Server 5 1 (0.518 %) VMware GSX 5 1 (0.518 %) VMware ESX 5 1 (0.518 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler	Systems Management 1 4 (2.073 %) SCCM 2 2 (1.036 %) OpenView 2 2 (1.036 %) Tivoli 2 2 (1.036 %) Norton AntiVirus 2 2 (1.036 %) OVSD
Vendors 1 31 (16.06 %) Oracle 2 24 (12.44 %) Microsoft 3 20 (10.36 %) HP 4 18 (9.326 %) Citrix 5 17 (8.808 %) VMware 6 11 (5.699 %) EMC 7 10 (5.181 %) Business Objects 8 9 (4.663 %) Cisco 9 8 (4.145 %) SAP 10 6 (3.109 %) Lotus 11 5 (2.591 %) Remedy 12 4 (2.073 %) Symantec 12 4 (2.073 %) Novell 13 3 (1.554 %) VERITAS 13 3 (1.554 %) Alcatel 13 3 (1.554 %) Compaq 14 2 (1.036 %) Cognos 14 2 (1.036 %) Charles River 15 1 (0.518 %) Frango 15 1 (0.518 %) McAfee Security