Cheshire Service Analyst Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Service Analyst role in IT contracts within the Cheshire 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 Service 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 Aberdeenshire Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Clapham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Deeside Derby Derbyshire Dorking Douglas Dudley Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Flintshire Folkestone Glasgow Gloucestershire Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Hartlepool Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Inverurie Isle of Man Kent Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Romford Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stockton-on-Tees Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Trowbridge UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	57	39
Rank change on same period last year	-18
Matching contract IT job ads	13	22
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.022 %
As % of the category below	1.407 %	2.876 %
Daily rates quoted	3	14
Average minimum daily rate	£187	£112
Average daily rate	£195	£114
% change on same period last year	+70.73 %
Average maximum daily rate	£203	£117
UK excluding London average daily rate	£158	£159
% change on same period last year	-0.72 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.75	£11.33
Average hourly rate	£16.75	£11.83
% change on same period last year	+41.54 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.75	£12.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£13.82	£12.24
% change on same period last year	+12.88 %
Job Titles Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	924	765
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.232 %	0.774 %
Daily rates quoted	281	200
Average minimum daily rate	£322	£300
Average daily rate	£337	£315
% change on same period last year	+7.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£352	£329
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	90	56
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.99	£20.87
Average hourly rate	£25.17	£22.05
% change on same period last year	+14.15 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.34	£23.22
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
Service Analyst North 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 Service Analyst across the Cheshire 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 Service Analyst across the Cheshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Service Analyst across the Cheshire 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 Service Analyst across the Cheshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Service Analyst across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Service Analyst within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Chester	+1	6	£325	-
Wilmslow	-	3	£130	-
Warrington	-16	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region that cited Service 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 Service Analyst in their job title.

1 17 (50.00 %) ITIL 2 12 (35.29 %) MS Office 2 12 (35.29 %) Service Delivery 3 7 (20.59 %) Change Management 3 7 (20.59 %) Finance 4 6 (17.65 %) Project Management 5 5 (14.71 %) MS Excel 6 3 (8.824 %) SLA 6 3 (8.824 %) HP 6 3 (8.824 %) Service Management 6 3 (8.824 %) Banking 7 2 (5.882 %) Risk Assessment 7 2 (5.882 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 2 (5.882 %) LANDesk 7 2 (5.882 %) BT

7 2 (5.882 %) Manufacturing 7 2 (5.882 %) Pharmaceutical 7 2 (5.882 %) ITIL Certification 7 2 (5.882 %) IBM 7 2 (5.882 %) Microsoft 7 2 (5.882 %) Active Directory 7 2 (5.882 %) Windows XP 7 2 (5.882 %) MS Exchange 7 2 (5.882 %) C 7 2 (5.882 %) Windows 8 1 (2.941 %) Lotus Notes 8 1 (2.941 %) PRINCE2 8 1 (2.941 %) Crystal Reports 8 1 (2.941 %) Business Objects 8 1 (2.941 %) SAP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region that cited Service 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 Service Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 2 (5.882 %) MS Exchange 1 2 (5.882 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (2.941 %) Lotus Notes	Applications 1 12 (35.29 %) MS Office 2 5 (14.71 %) MS Excel 3 1 (2.941 %) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking 1 1 (2.941 %) TCP/IP 1 1 (2.941 %) Firewall 1 1 (2.941 %) Network Security	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (2.941 %) Crystal Reports 1 1 (2.941 %) BusinessObjects
General 1 7 (20.59 %) Finance 2 3 (8.824 %) Banking 3 2 (5.882 %) Manufacturing 3 2 (5.882 %) Pharmaceutical 4 1 (2.941 %) Retail	Miscellaneous 1 1 (2.941 %) EPoS
Operating Systems 1 2 (5.882 %) Windows 1 2 (5.882 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 17 (50.00 %) ITIL 2 12 (35.29 %) Service Delivery 3 7 (20.59 %) Change Management 4 6 (17.65 %) Project Management 5 3 (8.824 %) Service Management 6 2 (5.882 %) Risk Assessment 7 1 (2.941 %) Asset Management 7 1 (2.941 %) Supplier Management 7 1 (2.941 %) Incident Management 7 1 (2.941 %) Problem Management 7 1 (2.941 %) Release Management 7 1 (2.941 %) Performance Management 7 1 (2.941 %) CMMI 7 1 (2.941 %) PRINCE2
Programming Languages 1 2 (5.882 %) C	Qualifications 1 2 (5.882 %) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (8.824 %) SLA 2 1 (2.941 %) BS7799 2 1 (2.941 %) ISO9000	System Software 1 2 (5.882 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 1 (2.941 %) OpenView 1 1 (2.941 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 3 (8.824 %) HP 2 2 (5.882 %) BT 2 2 (5.882 %) LANDesk 2 2 (5.882 %) IBM 2 2 (5.882 %) Microsoft 3 1 (2.941 %) Business Objects 3 1 (2.941 %) SAP 3 1 (2.941 %) Lotus 3 1 (2.941 %) Remedy