Cheshire Support Analyst Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Support 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 job ads that have cited Support Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Ayrshire Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Beverley Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chorley City of London Clapham Cleethorpes Cobham Colchester Congleton County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Feltham Fleetwood Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Grays Grimsby Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Heanor Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Kegworth Kent Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Shields South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Tonbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	54	51
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	25	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.033 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	2.470 %	1.184 %
Daily rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum daily rate	£210	£213
Average daily rate	£210	£213
% change on same period last year	-1.17 %
Average maximum daily rate	£210	£213
UK excluding London average daily rate	£244	£226
% change on same period last year	+8.03 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.44	£12.67
Average hourly rate	£21.94	£13.67
% change on same period last year	+60.56 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.44	£14.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.14	£17.59
% change on same period last year	+3.13 %
Job Titles Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1012	760
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.344 %	0.780 %
Daily rates quoted	319	200
Average minimum daily rate	£326	£302
Average daily rate	£343	£316
% change on same period last year	+8.56 %
Average maximum daily rate	£360	£329
UK excluding London average daily rate	£358	£352
% change on same period last year	+1.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	90	57
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.56	£21.54
Average hourly rate	£25.77	£22.61
% change on same period last year	+13.96 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.97	£23.68
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.42	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.89 %
Support 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 Support 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 Support 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 Support Analyst across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 18 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 Support 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 Support Analyst across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 18 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 job ads citing Support Analyst within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 18 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	+5	10	-	-
Chester	+1	8	-	-
Wilmslow	-	2	£165	-
Runcorn	-	2	-	-
Congleton	-	1	-	-
Knutsford	-	1	-	-

Support Analyst North West

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 13 (29.55 %) Finance 2 12 (27.27 %) Windows 3 9 (20.45 %) MS Office 4 7 (15.91 %) Microsoft 5 6 (13.64 %) MS Exchange 5 6 (13.64 %) AS400 6 5 (11.36 %) Telecoms 6 5 (11.36 %) Replication 6 5 (11.36 %) Billing 6 5 (11.36 %) CRM 6 5 (11.36 %) Windows 2000 7 4 (9.091 %) Oracle Financials 7 4 (9.091 %) UNIX 7 4 (9.091 %) SAP 7 4 (9.091 %) Oracle

7 4 (9.091 %) Oracle EBS 8 3 (6.818 %) Mainframe 8 3 (6.818 %) Configuration Management 8 3 (6.818 %) XML 8 3 (6.818 %) SQL 8 3 (6.818 %) EDI 8 3 (6.818 %) FTP 8 3 (6.818 %) Active Directory 8 3 (6.818 %) ISDN 9 2 (4.545 %) Citrix 9 2 (4.545 %) AIX 9 2 (4.545 %) Solaris 9 2 (4.545 %) Project Management 9 2 (4.545 %) VMS 9 2 (4.545 %) Remedy

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 3 (6.818 %) XML 1 3 (6.818 %) EDI 2 2 (4.545 %) WebSphere 3 1 (2.273 %) HTML 3 1 (2.273 %) EDIFACT	Application Platforms 1 6 (13.64 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (2.273 %) CICS 2 1 (2.273 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (2.273 %) IIS
Applications 1 9 (20.45 %) MS Office 2 1 (2.273 %) MS Excel 2 1 (2.273 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 4 (9.091 %) Oracle Financials 1 4 (9.091 %) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking 1 3 (6.818 %) FTP 1 3 (6.818 %) ISDN 2 1 (2.273 %) LAN 2 1 (2.273 %) WAN 2 1 (2.273 %) Broadband 2 1 (2.273 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (2.273 %) DNS 2 1 (2.273 %) SSH 2 1 (2.273 %) Network Security	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (2.273 %) DB2 1 1 (2.273 %) TOAD 1 1 (2.273 %) Oracle Discoverer
General 1 13 (29.55 %) Finance 2 5 (11.36 %) Telecoms 2 5 (11.36 %) Billing 3 2 (4.545 %) Banking 4 1 (2.273 %) Retail 4 1 (2.273 %) Retail Banking 4 1 (2.273 %) Back Office 4 1 (2.273 %) Health	Miscellaneous 1 6 (13.64 %) AS400 2 5 (11.36 %) Replication 3 3 (6.818 %) Mainframe 4 2 (4.545 %) Clustering 4 2 (4.545 %) PDA 5 1 (2.273 %) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 12 (27.27 %) Windows 2 5 (11.36 %) Windows 2000 3 4 (9.091 %) UNIX 4 2 (4.545 %) VMS 4 2 (4.545 %) AIX 4 2 (4.545 %) Solaris 5 1 (2.273 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (11.36 %) CRM 2 3 (6.818 %) Configuration Management 3 2 (4.545 %) Project Management 3 2 (4.545 %) Business Analysis 4 1 (2.273 %) Incident Management 4 1 (2.273 %) Requirements Analysis 4 1 (2.273 %) ITIL 4 1 (2.273 %) Disaster Recovery 4 1 (2.273 %) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages 1 3 (6.818 %) SQL 2 1 (2.273 %) COBOL 2 1 (2.273 %) PL/SQL	Qualifications 1 1 (2.273 %) MCP 1 1 (2.273 %) ISEB 1 1 (2.273 %) Citrix Certification 1 1 (2.273 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (2.273 %) Degree
System Software 1 3 (6.818 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 7 (15.91 %) Microsoft 2 4 (9.091 %) Oracle 2 4 (9.091 %) SAP 3 2 (4.545 %) Citrix 3 2 (4.545 %) Remedy 4 1 (2.273 %) Accenture 4 1 (2.273 %) SEEBURGER 4 1 (2.273 %) VERITAS 4 1 (2.273 %) Cisco 4 1 (2.273 %) IBM