Buckinghamshire Helpdesk Analyst Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Helpdesk Analyst role in IT contracts within the Buckinghamshire 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 Helpdesk Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Help Desk Analyst
Location Abingdon Basildon Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Caerphilly Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Cleethorpes Coventry Crawley Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorchester Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Farnham Folkestone Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrow Hastings High Wycombe Horsham Hounslow Kegworth Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Lutterworth Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Pershore Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Romford Rugby Sandwich Scotland Sheffield South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Asaph St Helens Staffordshire Stockport Surrey Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Wirral Witham Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	34	51
Rank change on same period last year	+17
Matching contract IT job ads	52	47
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.074 %	0.047 %
As % of the category below	4.981 %	3.036 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£100	£100
Average daily rate	£100	£100
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£100	£100
UK excluding London average daily rate	£97	£114
% change on same period last year	-14.95 %
Hourly rates quoted	23	23
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.48	£11.97
Average hourly rate	£14.90	£12.35
% change on same period last year	+20.67 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.33	£12.73
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£13.09	£12.13
% change on same period last year	+7.96 %
Job Titles Buckinghamshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1044	1548
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.484 %	1.563 %
Daily rates quoted	322	393
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£303
Average daily rate	£321	£319
% change on same period last year	+0.77 %
Average maximum daily rate	£342	£334
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	137	236
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.63	£25.07
Average hourly rate	£20.77	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-20.07 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.91	£26.91
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.69	£25.18
% change on same period last year	-5.93 %
Helpdesk 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.

Helpdesk Analyst
Demand Trend

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

Helpdesk Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Helpdesk Analyst across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 7 October 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 Helpdesk Analyst within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 7 October 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
Milton Keynes	+2	40	£100	-
High Wycombe	-	12	-	-

Helpdesk Analyst South East

Helpdesk Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region that cited Helpdesk 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 Helpdesk Analyst in their job title.

1 99 (77.95 %) Windows 2 60 (47.24 %) MS Office 3 57 (44.88 %) Windows XP 4 54 (42.52 %) Microsoft 5 46 (36.22 %) Windows 2000 6 41 (32.28 %) MS Excel 7 32 (25.20 %) French Language 8 26 (20.47 %) Windows Vista 9 25 (19.69 %) German Language 10 20 (15.75 %) Dutch Language 11 15 (11.81 %) Security Cleared 12 14 (11.02 %) SC Cleared 12 14 (11.02 %) Government 13 13 (10.24 %) Pharmaceutical 14 12 (9.449 %) Active Directory

15 10 (7.874 %) Citrix 15 10 (7.874 %) Business Intelligence 15 10 (7.874 %) Finance 16 8 (6.299 %) Spanish Language 16 8 (6.299 %) Italian Language 16 8 (6.299 %) Internet 17 7 (5.512 %) Legal 17 7 (5.512 %) TCP/IP 18 6 (4.724 %) Novell 18 6 (4.724 %) MS Exchange 18 6 (4.724 %) Oracle 18 6 (4.724 %) AS400 18 6 (4.724 %) JD Edwards 19 5 (3.937 %) NetWare 19 5 (3.937 %) Remedy

Helpdesk Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region that cited Helpdesk 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 Helpdesk Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 6 (4.724 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (1.575 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 1 (0.787 %) Lotus Notes 3 1 (0.787 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 60 (47.24 %) MS Office 2 41 (32.28 %) MS Excel 3 2 (1.575 %) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking 1 8 (6.299 %) Internet 2 7 (5.512 %) TCP/IP 3 3 (2.362 %) Ethernet 4 1 (0.787 %) LAN 4 1 (0.787 %) VPN 4 1 (0.787 %) 3G 4 1 (0.787 %) Wi-Fi	General 1 14 (11.02 %) Government 2 13 (10.24 %) Pharmaceutical 3 10 (7.874 %) Finance 4 7 (5.512 %) Legal 5 2 (1.575 %) Retail 6 1 (0.787 %) Telecoms 6 1 (0.787 %) Manufacturing 6 1 (0.787 %) Back Office
Miscellaneous 1 32 (25.20 %) French Language 2 25 (19.69 %) German Language 3 20 (15.75 %) Dutch Language 4 8 (6.299 %) Spanish Language 4 8 (6.299 %) Italian Language 5 6 (4.724 %) AS400 6 3 (2.362 %) Statistics 6 3 (2.362 %) Swedish Language 6 3 (2.362 %) Norwegian Language 7 2 (1.575 %) Cantonese Language 7 2 (1.575 %) Japanese Language 7 2 (1.575 %) Korean Language 8 1 (0.787 %) EPoS 8 1 (0.787 %) PDA	Operating Systems 1 99 (77.95 %) Windows 2 57 (44.88 %) Windows XP 3 46 (36.22 %) Windows 2000 4 26 (20.47 %) Windows Vista 5 5 (3.937 %) NetWare 6 2 (1.575 %) Windows Server 2003 7 1 (0.787 %) Solaris 7 1 (0.787 %) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (11.81 %) Security Cleared 2 14 (11.02 %) SC Cleared 3 10 (7.874 %) Business Intelligence 4 5 (3.937 %) ITIL 5 1 (0.787 %) CRM 5 1 (0.787 %) PRINCE2	Programming Languages 1 2 (1.575 %) SQL 2 1 (0.787 %) C
Qualifications 1 3 (2.362 %) MCP 1 3 (2.362 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (1.575 %) MCSA 3 1 (0.787 %) MCSE 3 1 (0.787 %) Degree	System Software 1 12 (9.449 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 2 (1.575 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 54 (42.52 %) Microsoft 2 10 (7.874 %) Citrix 3 6 (4.724 %) Novell 3 6 (4.724 %) Oracle 3 6 (4.724 %) JD Edwards 4 5 (3.937 %) Remedy 5 3 (2.362 %) SAP 5 3 (2.362 %) HP 5 3 (2.362 %) Compaq 6 2 (1.575 %) Altiris 6 2 (1.575 %) Siebel 6 2 (1.575 %) Dell 7 1 (0.787 %) VERITAS 7 1 (0.787 %) Lotus 7 1 (0.787 %) Cisco 7 1 (0.787 %) Sun