The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Technical Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Edinburgh region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Analyst
Rank 48 50 47
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Analyst 9 13 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 1.080% 1.196% 1.622%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.146% 1.272% 1.713%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 5
Average daily rate £220 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-37.14% -6.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £346 £350 £275
% change year-on-year
-1.07% +27.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £15.29
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.50 £21.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year
-32.55% +16.21%
All Job Titles
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
785 1022 1226
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 94.24% 94.02% 94.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 508 595
Average daily rate £400 £355 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.67% +1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £238 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 24 36
Average hourly rate £13.93 £23.00 £15.29
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-39.43% +50.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £9.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £32.00 £28.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Technical Analyst
Scotland

Technical Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Technical Analyst across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Edinburgh Technical Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Technical Analyst across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Technical Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Technical Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Technical Analyst across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Technical Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 9 (45.00%) Windows
2 8 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (40.00%) Banking
3 6 (30.00%) Finance
3 6 (30.00%) Active Directory
3 6 (30.00%) HP
3 6 (30.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (25.00%) DNS
4 5 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (20.00%) Windows 2000
5 4 (20.00%) MS Excel
6 3 (15.00%) TCP/IP
6 3 (15.00%) VMware
6 3 (15.00%) Clustering
6 3 (15.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 2 (10.00%) Shell Script
7 2 (10.00%) Intranet
7 2 (10.00%) Internet
7 2 (10.00%) Veritas
7 2 (10.00%) IBM
7 2 (10.00%) Terminal Services
7 2 (10.00%) SQL
7 2 (10.00%) VBScript
7 2 (10.00%) Citrix
7 2 (10.00%) Oracle
7 2 (10.00%) IIS
7 2 (10.00%) Web Services
7 2 (10.00%) Network Security
7 2 (10.00%) WMI
7 2 (10.00%) XenApp

Technical Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 2 (10.00%) Web Services
2 1 (5.000%) ISPF
2 1 (5.000%) WebSphere
2 1 (5.000%) XML
2 1 (5.000%) XSL
2 1 (5.000%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (10.00%) IIS
2 1 (5.000%) WebSphere Portal
2 1 (5.000%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (5.000%) WebLogic
2 1 (5.000%) MS Exchange
2 1 (5.000%) SAS
2 1 (5.000%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 4 (20.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.000%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (5.000%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 5 (25.00%) DNS
2 3 (15.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (10.00%) Intranet
3 2 (10.00%) Internet
3 2 (10.00%) Network Security
4 1 (5.000%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (5.000%) HTTP
4 1 (5.000%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.000%) Big Data
1 1 (5.000%) Oracle BI EE
1 1 (5.000%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.000%) DB2
1 1 (5.000%) OLAP
1 1 (5.000%) MS Access
General
1 8 (40.00%) Banking
2 6 (30.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.000%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Clustering
2 1 (5.000%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (5.000%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (5.000%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 9 (45.00%) Windows
2 6 (30.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (20.00%) Windows 2000
5 1 (5.000%) UNIX
5 1 (5.000%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (5.000%) Data Transformation
1 1 (5.000%) Performance Testing
1 1 (5.000%) SOA
1 1 (5.000%) ETL
1 1 (5.000%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.000%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (5.000%) Data Analysis
1 1 (5.000%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (10.00%) SQL
1 2 (10.00%) VBScript
1 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.000%) Assembly Language
2 1 (5.000%) Perl
2 1 (5.000%) REXX
Qualifications
1 1 (5.000%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.00%) Terminal Services
2 2 (10.00%) XenApp
2 2 (10.00%) DFS Replication
3 1 (5.000%) vSphere
3 1 (5.000%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.000%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 2 (10.00%) WMI
3 1 (5.000%) CA Wily
3 1 (5.000%) CA Endevor
3 1 (5.000%) ServiceCenter
3 1 (5.000%) SCCM
3 1 (5.000%) SCOM
3 1 (5.000%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (30.00%) HP
3 3 (15.00%) VMware
4 2 (10.00%) Veritas
4 2 (10.00%) IBM
4 2 (10.00%) Citrix
4 2 (10.00%) Oracle
5 1 (5.000%) Brocade
5 1 (5.000%) CA
5 1 (5.000%) Informatica
5 1 (5.000%) Teradata