Cheshire Service Desk Analyst Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Service Desk 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 Desk 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 Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheshire City of London Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Dorking Douglas Dudley Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Folkestone Glasgow Hampshire Hartlepool Hastings Havant Hertfordshire High Wycombe Inverurie Isle of Man Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Rickmansworth Romford 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 Wiltshire Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	69	41
Rank change on same period last year	-28
Matching contract IT job ads	1	20
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.020 %
As % of the category below	0.108 %	2.614 %
Daily rates quoted	0	13
Average minimum daily rate	-	£101
Average daily rate	-	£102
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£103
UK excluding London average daily rate	£138	£109
% change on same period last year	+26.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	£11.33
Average hourly rate	£15.00	£11.83
% change on same period last year	+26.76 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.00	£12.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£13.20	£11.91
% change on same period last year	+10.81 %
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 Desk 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 Desk 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 Desk Analyst across the Cheshire 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 Service Desk Analyst across the Cheshire region.

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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 Desk 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
Warrington	-17	1	-	-

Service Desk Analyst North West

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Top 25 Related IT Skills

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

1 8 (88.89 %) MS Office 2 2 (22.22 %) ITIL 2 2 (22.22 %) Windows 2 2 (22.22 %) Windows XP 2 2 (22.22 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (22.22 %) Active Directory 2 2 (22.22 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 2 (22.22 %) LANDesk 3 1 (11.11 %) Spreadsheet 3 1 (11.11 %) Crystal Reports 3 1 (11.11 %) Business Objects 3 1 (11.11 %) CMMI 3 1 (11.11 %) Change Management 3 1 (11.11 %) OpenView 3 1 (11.11 %) HP

3 1 (11.11 %) BusinessObjects 3 1 (11.11 %) Lotus 3 1 (11.11 %) EPoS 3 1 (11.11 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 1 (11.11 %) BS7799 3 1 (11.11 %) ISO9000 3 1 (11.11 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (11.11 %) SLA 3 1 (11.11 %) Lotus Notes 3 1 (11.11 %) MS Excel

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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 Desk 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 Desk Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 2 (22.22 %) MS Exchange 1 2 (22.22 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (11.11 %) Lotus Notes	Applications 1 8 (88.89 %) MS Office 2 1 (11.11 %) MS Excel 2 1 (11.11 %) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking 1 1 (11.11 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (11.11 %) Crystal Reports 1 1 (11.11 %) BusinessObjects
Miscellaneous 1 1 (11.11 %) EPoS	Operating Systems 1 2 (22.22 %) Windows 1 2 (22.22 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (22.22 %) ITIL 2 1 (11.11 %) CMMI 2 1 (11.11 %) Change Management	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (11.11 %) ISO9000 1 1 (11.11 %) SLA 1 1 (11.11 %) BS7799
System Software 1 2 (22.22 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 1 (11.11 %) OpenView 1 1 (11.11 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 2 (22.22 %) LANDesk 2 1 (11.11 %) Business Objects 2 1 (11.11 %) HP 2 1 (11.11 %) Lotus