East of England Technical Analyst Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Technical Analyst role in IT contracts within the East of England 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 Technical Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Technical Analyst
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Clapham County Antrim Coventry Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dudley East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Kegworth Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Lincoln Lincolnshire London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Manchester Marlow Melton Mowbray Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newcastle Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Reigate Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Slough South East South West South Yorkshire Spalding St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swindon Teesside Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Warrington Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Woking Wokingham York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	111	107
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	40	37
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.053 %	0.039 %
As % of the category below	1.060 %	0.889 %
Daily rates quoted	8	9
Average minimum daily rate	£295	£247
Average daily rate	£318	£256
% change on same period last year	+24.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£341	£264
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£315
% change on same period last year	+5.62 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.38	£25.33
Average hourly rate	£20.23	£25.97
% change on same period last year	-22.10 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.08	£26.61
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.50	£28.61
% change on same period last year	-31.86 %
Job Titles East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	3775	4164
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.978 %	4.417 %
Daily rates quoted	1208	1257
Average minimum daily rate	£338	£331
Average daily rate	£361	£350
% change on same period last year	+3.02 %
Average maximum daily rate	£384	£370
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	513	534
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.45	£23.65
Average hourly rate	£23.94	£25.00
% change on same period last year	-4.26 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.42	£26.35
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.28	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
Technical Analyst 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.

Technical Analyst
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Technical Analyst across the East of England 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 Technical Analyst across the East of England region.

Technical Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Technical Analyst across the East of England region over the 3 months to 4 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 Technical Analyst across the East of England region.

Technical Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Technical Analyst across the East of England region over the 3 months to 4 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 Technical Analyst within the East of England region over the 3 months to 4 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
Hertfordshire	+11	22	£451	-
Cambridgeshire	-4	10	£164	-
Norfolk	-6	3	£188	-51.29 %
Essex	-8	3	£413	+340.00 %
East Anglia	-	1	£300	-
Bedfordshire	+7	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region that cited Technical 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 Technical Analyst in their job title.

1 21 (35.00 %) Windows 2 17 (28.33 %) SQL 3 15 (25.00 %) Java 3 15 (25.00 %) JUnit 3 15 (25.00 %) WebLogic 3 15 (25.00 %) OO 3 15 (25.00 %) Eclipse 3 15 (25.00 %) Hibernate 4 14 (23.33 %) Spring 4 14 (23.33 %) Oracle 5 13 (21.67 %) RAD 5 13 (21.67 %) UML 6 12 (20.00 %) PL/SQL 6 12 (20.00 %) Active Directory 7 11 (18.33 %) Finance

8 10 (16.67 %) BEA 8 10 (16.67 %) Microsoft 9 9 (15.00 %) ClearCase 9 9 (15.00 %) Unix 9 9 (15.00 %) ClearQuest 10 8 (13.33 %) Supplier Management 10 8 (13.33 %) MS Exchange 11 7 (11.67 %) MS Office 12 6 (10.00 %) MCSE 12 6 (10.00 %) Microsoft Certification 13 5 (8.333 %) MS Excel 13 5 (8.333 %) Windows 2000 14 4 (6.667 %) Sun 14 4 (6.667 %) MS Project 14 4 (6.667 %) J2EE

Technical Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region that cited Technical 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 Technical Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 15 (25.00 %) Hibernate 2 14 (23.33 %) Spring 3 4 (6.667 %) J2EE 4 3 (5.000 %) HTML 5 2 (3.333 %) XML 6 1 (1.667 %) X-Windows 6 1 (1.667 %) .NET 6 1 (1.667 %) ASP 6 1 (1.667 %) Struts	Application Platforms 1 15 (25.00 %) WebLogic 2 8 (13.33 %) MS Exchange 3 4 (6.667 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 1 (1.667 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 4 1 (1.667 %) QuickPlace 4 1 (1.667 %) IIS 4 1 (1.667 %) Lotus Notes 4 1 (1.667 %) Lotus Domino 4 1 (1.667 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 7 (11.67 %) MS Office 2 5 (8.333 %) MS Excel 3 4 (6.667 %) MS Project	Communications & Networking 1 3 (5.000 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (3.333 %) SAN 2 2 (3.333 %) LAN 2 2 (3.333 %) WAN 3 1 (1.667 %) VoIP 3 1 (1.667 %) Intranet 3 1 (1.667 %) Extranet 3 1 (1.667 %) Firewall 3 1 (1.667 %) IP Telephony 3 1 (1.667 %) LLU
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (1.667 %) Oracle Reports 1 1 (1.667 %) Oracle 8/8i 1 1 (1.667 %) Datawarehouse 1 1 (1.667 %) RDBMS	Development Applications 1 15 (25.00 %) JUnit 1 15 (25.00 %) Eclipse 2 9 (15.00 %) ClearQuest 2 9 (15.00 %) ClearCase 3 2 (3.333 %) CheckStyle 3 2 (3.333 %) FitNesse 4 1 (1.667 %) ERwin 4 1 (1.667 %) Ant 4 1 (1.667 %) PVCS
General 1 11 (18.33 %) Finance 2 4 (6.667 %) Retail 2 4 (6.667 %) Telecoms 3 3 (5.000 %) Financial Institution 4 2 (3.333 %) Pharmaceutical 5 1 (1.667 %) Insurance 5 1 (1.667 %) Auditing 5 1 (1.667 %) Automotive 5 1 (1.667 %) Chemicals 5 1 (1.667 %) Publishing	Miscellaneous 1 1 (1.667 %) Client/Server 1 1 (1.667 %) N-Tier 1 1 (1.667 %) Blackberry 1 1 (1.667 %) IPTV 1 1 (1.667 %) Informatics
Operating Systems 1 21 (35.00 %) Windows 2 9 (15.00 %) Unix 3 5 (8.333 %) Windows 2000 4 2 (3.333 %) Windows XP 5 1 (1.667 %) Mac OS X 5 1 (1.667 %) Windows Server 2003 5 1 (1.667 %) Solaris 5 1 (1.667 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (25.00 %) OO 2 13 (21.67 %) RAD 2 13 (21.67 %) UML 3 8 (13.33 %) Supplier Management 4 3 (5.000 %) Project Planning 4 3 (5.000 %) Migration 5 2 (3.333 %) Data Management 5 2 (3.333 %) Content Management 5 2 (3.333 %) E-Commerce 5 2 (3.333 %) Project Management 5 2 (3.333 %) OOA/OOD 5 2 (3.333 %) ITIL 5 2 (3.333 %) PRINCE2 5 2 (3.333 %) RUP 5 2 (3.333 %) Data Migration 5 2 (3.333 %) Systems Analysis 6 1 (1.667 %) Security Cleared 6 1 (1.667 %) CRM 6 1 (1.667 %) Change Management 6 1 (1.667 %) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages 1 17 (28.33 %) SQL 2 15 (25.00 %) Java 3 12 (20.00 %) PL/SQL 4 2 (3.333 %) Shell Script 5 1 (1.667 %) LotusScript 5 1 (1.667 %) Formula Language	Qualifications 1 6 (10.00 %) MCSE 1 6 (10.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (5.000 %) Degree 3 2 (3.333 %) MCP 3 2 (3.333 %) A+ Certification 3 2 (3.333 %) CCNA 3 2 (3.333 %) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (3.333 %) SLA 1 2 (3.333 %) QA 2 1 (1.667 %) ISO9000	System Software 1 12 (20.00 %) Active Directory 2 2 (3.333 %) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management 1 4 (6.667 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 14 (23.33 %) Oracle 2 10 (16.67 %) Microsoft 2 10 (16.67 %) BEA 3 4 (6.667 %) Sun 4 3 (5.000 %) StorageTek 4 3 (5.000 %) Brocade 4 3 (5.000 %) Cisco 5 2 (3.333 %) VMware 5 2 (3.333 %) Siebel 5 2 (3.333 %) Intel 5 2 (3.333 %) Citrix 6 1 (1.667 %) Compaq 6 1 (1.667 %) EMC 6 1 (1.667 %) GUPTA 6 1 (1.667 %) Netezza 6 1 (1.667 %) IronPort 6 1 (1.667 %) Lotus 6 1 (1.667 %) Apple 6 1 (1.667 %) salesforce.com 6 1 (1.667 %) Ab Initio