The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire 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 69 69 78
Rank change year-on-year
0 +9
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Analyst 6 3 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 0.657% 0.314% 0.367%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.711% 0.334% 0.388%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
Average daily rate £300 - £500
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
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
844 897 1031
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 92.44% 93.83% 94.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 395 393
Average daily rate £325 £325 £345
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.79%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £208 £175 £165
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 67 129
Average hourly rate £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.09 £11.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.75 £32.50 £23.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Technical Analyst
South East

Technical Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire Technical Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Analyst
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Analyst within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Milton Keynes +6 3 £270 -
High Wycombe - - - -
Technical Analyst
South East

Technical Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 (53.85%) Finance
2 5 (38.46%) Change Management
2 5 (38.46%) Retail
3 4 (30.77%) Retail Banking
3 4 (30.77%) Banking
4 3 (23.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (23.08%) Service Management
4 3 (23.08%) Service Delivery
4 3 (23.08%) ITIL
4 3 (23.08%) SQL
4 3 (23.08%) Windows
5 2 (15.38%) MS Exchange
5 2 (15.38%) Oracle
5 2 (15.38%) Citrix
5 2 (15.38%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (15.38%) Symantec
5 2 (15.38%) Project Management
5 2 (15.38%) VMware
5 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
5 2 (15.38%) Spanish Language
5 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (15.38%) Oracle Retail
5 2 (15.38%) Forefront TMG
6 1 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (7.692%) soapUI
6 1 (7.692%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (7.692%) Functional Testing
6 1 (7.692%) XenApp
6 1 (7.692%) WhatsUp Gold

Technical Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 1 (7.692%) soapUI
1 1 (7.692%) WCF
1 1 (7.692%) SOAP
1 1 (7.692%) XML
Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) MS Exchange
2 1 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (7.692%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (7.692%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle Retail
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.692%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (7.692%) Firewall
1 1 (7.692%) SAN
1 1 (7.692%) DMZ
1 1 (7.692%) DHCP
1 1 (7.692%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (7.692%) WebDriver
1 1 (7.692%) Selenium
General
1 7 (53.85%) Finance
2 5 (38.46%) Retail
3 4 (30.77%) Retail Banking
3 4 (30.77%) Banking
4 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
4 2 (15.38%) Spanish Language
5 1 (7.692%) Back Office
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (7.692%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Change Management
2 3 (23.08%) Service Management
2 3 (23.08%) Service Delivery
2 3 (23.08%) ITIL
3 2 (15.38%) Project Management
4 1 (7.692%) Functional Testing
4 1 (7.692%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (7.692%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (7.692%) Release Management
4 1 (7.692%) Integration Testing
4 1 (7.692%) Test Management
4 1 (7.692%) Financial Modelling
4 1 (7.692%) Systems Analysis
4 1 (7.692%) Business Analysis
4 1 (7.692%) Requirements Analysis
4 1 (7.692%) PRINCE
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (7.692%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.692%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Forefront TMG
2 1 (7.692%) XenApp
2 1 (7.692%) vSphere
2 1 (7.692%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.692%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 1 (7.692%) WhatsUp Gold
1 1 (7.692%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (7.692%) NetBackup
1 1 (7.692%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle
1 2 (15.38%) Citrix
1 2 (15.38%) Symantec
1 2 (15.38%) VMware
2 1 (7.692%) Capita
2 1 (7.692%) Websense
2 1 (7.692%) NetApp
2 1 (7.692%) PeopleSoft
2 1 (7.692%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.692%) HP