Cambridgeshire Support Analyst Contracts

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

Support Analyst
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Addlestone Alderley Edge Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Chatham Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Esher Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnham Feltham Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Grays Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hastings Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Kegworth Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Lowestoft Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Pudsey Reading Redhill Reigate Rickmansworth Rugby Salford Sandbach Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Staffordshire Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tadworth Telford Thames Valley Tiverton Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Windlesham Windsor Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	31	47
Rank change on same period last year	+16
Matching contract IT job ads	27	29
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.038 %	0.029 %
As % of the category below	4.199 %	2.754 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£250	-
Average daily rate	£275	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£300	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£260	£239
% change on same period last year	+8.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	18
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.66	£21.11
Average hourly rate	£14.28	£22.56
% change on same period last year	-36.68 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.91	£24.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.20	£17.94
% change on same period last year	-4.08 %
Job Titles Cambridgeshire
Matching contract IT job ads	643	1053
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.914 %	1.063 %
Daily rates quoted	133	194
Average minimum daily rate	£312	£304
Average daily rate	£337	£321
% change on same period last year	+4.94 %
Average maximum daily rate	£361	£337
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	143	188
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.24	£28.51
Average hourly rate	£21.75	£30.52
% change on same period last year	-28.74 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.26	£32.53
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.69	£25.18
% change on same period last year	-5.93 %
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.

Support Analyst
Demand Trend

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

Support Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

Support Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Support Analyst across the Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire 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 Support Analyst within the Cambridgeshire 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
Cambridge	+21	15	£275	-
Peterborough	+6	5	-	-
Huntingdon	0	2	-	-

Support Analyst East of England

Support Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 45 (59.21 %) Windows 2 26 (34.21 %) Active Directory 3 25 (32.89 %) Microsoft 4 23 (30.26 %) MS Exchange 5 17 (22.37 %) Windows XP 5 17 (22.37 %) MCSE 5 17 (22.37 %) Microsoft Certification 5 17 (22.37 %) Windows Server 2003 6 15 (19.74 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 15 (19.74 %) MS Excel 7 14 (18.42 %) SharePoint 8 13 (17.11 %) LAN 9 11 (14.47 %) MS Office 9 11 (14.47 %) TCP/IP 9 11 (14.47 %) DNS

10 10 (13.16 %) VPN 10 10 (13.16 %) VMware 11 9 (11.84 %) Telecoms 12 8 (10.53 %) Exchange Server 2003 12 8 (10.53 %) Cisco 12 8 (10.53 %) Citrix 12 8 (10.53 %) SQL 13 7 (9.211 %) ITIL 13 7 (9.211 %) Windows 2000 13 7 (9.211 %) SLA 13 7 (9.211 %) HP 13 7 (9.211 %) WAN 14 6 (7.895 %) UNIX 14 6 (7.895 %) HTML 15 5 (6.579 %) Linux

Support Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 6 (7.895 %) HTML 2 2 (2.632 %) XML 3 1 (1.316 %) LAMP	Application Platforms 1 23 (30.26 %) MS Exchange 2 15 (19.74 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 14 (18.42 %) SharePoint 4 8 (10.53 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 3 (3.947 %) Lotus Notes 6 1 (1.316 %) Apache 6 1 (1.316 %) Exchange Server 5.5 6 1 (1.316 %) Exchange Server 2000
Applications 1 15 (19.74 %) MS Excel 2 11 (14.47 %) MS Office 3 3 (3.947 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 13 (17.11 %) LAN 2 11 (14.47 %) TCP/IP 2 11 (14.47 %) DNS 3 10 (13.16 %) VPN 4 7 (9.211 %) WAN 5 4 (5.263 %) WLAN 6 3 (3.947 %) MPLS 7 1 (1.316 %) SMS 7 1 (1.316 %) VoIP 7 1 (1.316 %) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (5.263 %) SQL Server 2 2 (2.632 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 2 2 (2.632 %) MS Access 2 2 (2.632 %) Crystal Reports 3 1 (1.316 %) MySQL	General 1 9 (11.84 %) Telecoms 2 4 (5.263 %) Electronics 2 4 (5.263 %) Government 3 2 (2.632 %) Manufacturing 4 1 (1.316 %) Retail 4 1 (1.316 %) Finance 4 1 (1.316 %) Education
Miscellaneous 1 4 (5.263 %) Blackberry 2 3 (3.947 %) PDA 3 1 (1.316 %) Mainframe 3 1 (1.316 %) Data Protection Act 3 1 (1.316 %) Dutch Language	Operating Systems 1 45 (59.21 %) Windows 2 17 (22.37 %) Windows XP 2 17 (22.37 %) Windows Server 2003 3 7 (9.211 %) Windows 2000 4 6 (7.895 %) UNIX 5 5 (6.579 %) Linux 6 2 (2.632 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (9.211 %) ITIL 2 2 (2.632 %) Business Analysis 2 2 (2.632 %) Time Management 2 2 (2.632 %) Security Cleared 2 2 (2.632 %) Data Analysis 2 2 (2.632 %) Data Modelling 2 2 (2.632 %) ERP 2 2 (2.632 %) Project Management 3 1 (1.316 %) Configuration Management 3 1 (1.316 %) E-Commerce 3 1 (1.316 %) Migration 3 1 (1.316 %) Data Protection 3 1 (1.316 %) Knowledge Management 3 1 (1.316 %) Incident Management	Programming Languages 1 8 (10.53 %) SQL 2 2 (2.632 %) VBA 3 1 (1.316 %) C 3 1 (1.316 %) PHP 3 1 (1.316 %) VBScript 3 1 (1.316 %) VB
Qualifications 1 17 (22.37 %) MCSE 1 17 (22.37 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (3.947 %) MCP 2 3 (3.947 %) Degree 3 2 (2.632 %) CCNA 3 2 (2.632 %) Cisco Certification 4 1 (1.316 %) A+ Certification 4 1 (1.316 %) MCSA 4 1 (1.316 %) Network+ Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 7 (9.211 %) SLA
System Software 1 26 (34.21 %) Active Directory 2 3 (3.947 %) VMware ESX 3 2 (2.632 %) Backup Exec 4 1 (1.316 %) Terminal Services 4 1 (1.316 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 1 (1.316 %) VMware Server	Systems Management 1 3 (3.947 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 3 (3.947 %) OpenView 2 2 (2.632 %) OVSD 3 1 (1.316 %) ARCserve 3 1 (1.316 %) SCCM
Vendors 1 25 (32.89 %) Microsoft 2 10 (13.16 %) VMware 3 8 (10.53 %) Cisco 3 8 (10.53 %) Citrix 4 7 (9.211 %) HP 5 4 (5.263 %) Dell 6 3 (3.947 %) Lotus 7 2 (2.632 %) Oracle 7 2 (2.632 %) Compaq 8 1 (1.316 %) Remedy 8 1 (1.316 %) IBM 8 1 (1.316 %) PeopleSoft 8 1 (1.316 %) SurfControl