Cambridgeshire Helpdesk Support Analyst Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Helpdesk Support Analyst role in IT contracts within the Cambridgeshire 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 Support Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Help Desk Support Analyst
Location Basildon Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Buckinghamshire Caerphilly Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire City of London Colchester Crawley Devon Docklands, London East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh England Essex Exeter Fife Folkestone Gatwick Hampshire Hertfordshire Horsham Ilford Kent Leatherhead Lewes Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Redhill Reigate Rugby Sandwich Scotland South East South Wales South West Southampton Surrey Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Witham Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	55	74
Rank change on same period last year	+19
Matching contract IT job ads	5	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	0.745 %	0.200 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£80	-
Average daily rate	£90	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£100	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£87	£101
% change on same period last year	-13.73 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	£10.00
Average hourly rate	£15.00	£15.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.00	£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£12.63	£11.91
% change on same period last year	+6.04 %
Job Titles Cambridgeshire
Matching contract IT job ads	671	1001
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.057 %	1.073 %
Daily rates quoted	111	206
Average minimum daily rate	£290	£307
Average daily rate	£322	£326
% change on same period last year	-1.09 %
Average maximum daily rate	£355	£344
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£351
% change on same period last year	+0.72 %
Hourly rates quoted	162	179
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.07	£27.02
Average hourly rate	£24.71	£29.24
% change on same period last year	-15.47 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.35	£31.46
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.37	£24.42
% change on same period last year	-4.31 %
Helpdesk Support Analyst East of England

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 Support Analyst
Demand Trend

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

Helpdesk Support Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

Helpdesk Support Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Helpdesk Support Analyst
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Helpdesk Support Analyst within the Cambridgeshire 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
Peterborough	-	2	£90	-
Cambridge	+9	1	-	-

Helpdesk Support Analyst East of England

Helpdesk Support Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region that cited Helpdesk 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 Helpdesk Support Analyst in their job title.

1 6 (54.55 %) Windows 2 3 (27.27 %) MS Excel 2 3 (27.27 %) UNIX 2 3 (27.27 %) Active Directory 3 2 (18.18 %) OpenView 3 2 (18.18 %) Microsoft Certification 3 2 (18.18 %) Lotus 3 2 (18.18 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (18.18 %) Remedy 3 2 (18.18 %) Mainframe 3 2 (18.18 %) VPN 3 2 (18.18 %) Windows XP 3 2 (18.18 %) Lotus Notes 3 2 (18.18 %) MCSE 3 2 (18.18 %) SQL

3 2 (18.18 %) Oracle 3 2 (18.18 %) MS Office 3 2 (18.18 %) Incident Management 4 1 (9.091 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 1 (9.091 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 1 (9.091 %) ITIL 4 1 (9.091 %) MCP 4 1 (9.091 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (9.091 %) MS Exchange 4 1 (9.091 %) LAN 4 1 (9.091 %) WAN 4 1 (9.091 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (9.091 %) Cisco 4 1 (9.091 %) Microsoft 4 1 (9.091 %) SharePoint

Helpdesk Support Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region that cited Helpdesk 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 Helpdesk Support Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 2 (18.18 %) Lotus Notes 2 1 (9.091 %) SharePoint 2 1 (9.091 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (9.091 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (9.091 %) Exchange Server 2007	Applications 1 3 (27.27 %) MS Excel 2 2 (18.18 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 2 (18.18 %) VPN 2 1 (9.091 %) LAN 2 1 (9.091 %) WAN 2 1 (9.091 %) TCP/IP	Miscellaneous 1 2 (18.18 %) Mainframe 2 1 (9.091 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 6 (54.55 %) Windows 2 3 (27.27 %) UNIX 3 2 (18.18 %) Windows XP 3 2 (18.18 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (9.091 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (18.18 %) Incident Management 2 1 (9.091 %) ITIL 2 1 (9.091 %) Configuration Management
Programming Languages 1 2 (18.18 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 2 (18.18 %) MCSE 1 2 (18.18 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (9.091 %) MCP
System Software 1 3 (27.27 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 2 (18.18 %) OpenView
Vendors 1 2 (18.18 %) Oracle 1 2 (18.18 %) Lotus 1 2 (18.18 %) Remedy 2 1 (9.091 %) Cisco 2 1 (9.091 %) Microsoft