Bristol Support Analyst Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Support Analyst role in IT contracts within the Bristol 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Ayrshire Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Beverley Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chorley City of London Clapham Cleethorpes Cobham Colchester Congleton County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Feltham Fleetwood Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Grays Grimsby Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Havant Heanor Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Kegworth Kent Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Shields South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Tonbridge Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	40	44
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	18	27
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.027 %
As % of the category below	2.225 %	2.626 %
Daily rates quoted	7	7
Average minimum daily rate	£256	£145
Average daily rate	£276	£149
% change on same period last year	+86.05 %
Average maximum daily rate	£297	£152
UK excluding London average daily rate	£251	£227
% change on same period last year	+10.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.40	£18.25
Average hourly rate	£19.80	£19.63
% change on same period last year	+0.89 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.20	£21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.12	£18.18
% change on same period last year	-0.32 %
Job Titles Bristol
Matching contract IT job ads	809	1028
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.078 %	1.040 %
Daily rates quoted	287	366
Average minimum daily rate	£309	£326
Average daily rate	£333	£341
% change on same period last year	-2.41 %
Average maximum daily rate	£358	£357
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	123	147
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.48	£24.04
Average hourly rate	£26.18	£26.65
% change on same period last year	-1.76 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.87	£29.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
Support Analyst South West

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Support Analyst across the Bristol 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 Bristol 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 Bristol region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 Bristol 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 Bristol region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 7 (24.14 %) ITIL 2 5 (17.24 %) MS Office 2 5 (17.24 %) SLA 2 5 (17.24 %) Microsoft 2 5 (17.24 %) Finance 3 4 (13.79 %) Active Directory 3 4 (13.79 %) Windows 4 3 (10.34 %) Health 4 3 (10.34 %) Law 4 3 (10.34 %) Windows 2000 4 3 (10.34 %) Oracle 4 3 (10.34 %) TCP/IP 4 3 (10.34 %) Service Management 5 2 (6.897 %) Government 5 2 (6.897 %) BusinessObjects

5 2 (6.897 %) Citrix 5 2 (6.897 %) Project Management 5 2 (6.897 %) Microsoft Certification 5 2 (6.897 %) Business Intelligence 5 2 (6.897 %) IBM 5 2 (6.897 %) MS Excel 5 2 (6.897 %) MS Exchange 5 2 (6.897 %) LAN 5 2 (6.897 %) WAN 5 2 (6.897 %) SQL 5 2 (6.897 %) Business Objects 5 2 (6.897 %) IIS 5 2 (6.897 %) MS Project 5 2 (6.897 %) PRINCE2 5 2 (6.897 %) .NET

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 2 (6.897 %) .NET 1 2 (6.897 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (3.448 %) Middleware 2 1 (3.448 %) .NET Framework 2 1 (3.448 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 2 (6.897 %) IIS 1 2 (6.897 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (3.448 %) Lotus Notes 2 1 (3.448 %) MQSeries 2 1 (3.448 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 5 (17.24 %) MS Office 2 2 (6.897 %) MS Excel 2 2 (6.897 %) MS PowerPoint 2 2 (6.897 %) MS Project 3 1 (3.448 %) CA Clarity 3 1 (3.448 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 2 (6.897 %) Academy Housing 1 2 (6.897 %) arcHouse
Communications & Networking 1 3 (10.34 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (6.897 %) LAN 2 2 (6.897 %) WAN 3 1 (3.448 %) DHCP 3 1 (3.448 %) VoIP 3 1 (3.448 %) DNS 3 1 (3.448 %) Intranet 3 1 (3.448 %) Internet 3 1 (3.448 %) Firewall 3 1 (3.448 %) VLAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (6.897 %) BusinessObjects 2 1 (3.448 %) InterBase 2 1 (3.448 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 2 1 (3.448 %) SQL Server 2 1 (3.448 %) Cognos Impromptu
Development Applications 1 1 (3.448 %) MSI	General 1 5 (17.24 %) Finance 2 3 (10.34 %) Health 2 3 (10.34 %) Law 3 2 (6.897 %) Government 4 1 (3.448 %) Insurance
Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.448 %) Blackberry	Operating Systems 1 4 (13.79 %) Windows 2 3 (10.34 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (3.448 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (24.14 %) ITIL 2 3 (10.34 %) Service Management 3 2 (6.897 %) Business Analysis 3 2 (6.897 %) PRINCE2 3 2 (6.897 %) Business Intelligence 3 2 (6.897 %) Project Management 3 2 (6.897 %) Performance Management 4 1 (3.448 %) ERP 4 1 (3.448 %) Project Planning 4 1 (3.448 %) Process Management 4 1 (3.448 %) Stakeholder Management	Programming Languages 1 2 (6.897 %) SQL 2 1 (3.448 %) VB 2 1 (3.448 %) VB.NET
Qualifications 1 2 (6.897 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (3.448 %) ITIL Certification 2 1 (3.448 %) MCSE 2 1 (3.448 %) MCSA 2 1 (3.448 %) CCNA 2 1 (3.448 %) Cisco Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (17.24 %) SLA
System Software 1 4 (13.79 %) Active Directory 2 1 (3.448 %) ISA Server 2 1 (3.448 %) Backup Exec	Systems Management 1 1 (3.448 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 5 (17.24 %) Microsoft 2 3 (10.34 %) Oracle 3 2 (6.897 %) Business Objects 3 2 (6.897 %) Citrix 3 2 (6.897 %) Northgate 3 2 (6.897 %) Civica 3 2 (6.897 %) Comino 3 2 (6.897 %) Capita 3 2 (6.897 %) Orchard 3 2 (6.897 %) Anite 3 2 (6.897 %) IBM 4 1 (3.448 %) VMware 4 1 (3.448 %) Lotus 4 1 (3.448 %) Cisco