The first table below looks at the demand for the Desktop Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Desktop 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 England 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
Desktop Analyst
Rank 421 393 440
Rank change year-on-year
-28 +47
Contract jobs requiring a Desktop Analyst 92 167 131
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.221% 0.313% 0.233%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.239% 0.338% 0.252%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 73 49
Average daily rate £160 £180 £170
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.11% +5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £138 £123 £100
10% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £325 £264
UK excluding London average daily rate £150 £130 £180
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -27.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 54 47
Average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% -2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.30 £12.92 £11.05
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 £24.70 £22.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £13.75 £15.75
% change year-on-year
+9.09% -12.69%
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
38421 49352 52077
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.41% 92.53% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22588 27902 28893
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £246 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1983 2412 2765
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.70% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.21 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.86 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Desktop Analyst
UK

Desktop Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Desktop Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Desktop Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Desktop Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Desktop Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Desktop Analyst across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England Desktop Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Desktop Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Desktop Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Desktop Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Desktop Analyst across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England Desktop Analyst Hourly Rate Histogram

Desktop Analyst
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Desktop Analyst within the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London -25 47 £170 -5.55%
South East +15 17 £174 +12.09%
East of England +23 8 £170 -6.07%
South West +29 6 £138 -21.98%
North West +14 6 £133 -39.77%
Yorkshire -6 3 - -
West Midlands +3 2 £140 -56.92%
East Midlands -7 2 - -
North East +12 1 - -
Desktop Analyst
UK

Desktop Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Desktop 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 Desktop Analyst in their job title.

1 184 (84.02%) Windows
2 106 (48.40%) Active Directory
3 105 (47.95%) MS Office
4 98 (44.75%) Windows XP
5 86 (39.27%) Windows 7
6 85 (38.81%) Microsoft
7 59 (26.94%) Blackberry
8 50 (22.83%) Citrix
9 40 (18.26%) TCP/IP
10 36 (16.44%) Banking
11 33 (15.07%) MS Excel
12 30 (13.70%) Finance
13 28 (12.79%) ITIL
14 27 (12.33%) MS Exchange
14 27 (12.33%) VPN
15 25 (11.42%) LAN
16 23 (10.50%) Dell
16 23 (10.50%) Microsoft Certification
16 23 (10.50%) Windows Server 2008
17 20 (9.132%) Windows Server 2003
18 19 (8.676%) Lotus
18 19 (8.676%) Lotus Notes
19 18 (8.219%) 3G
20 17 (7.763%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
20 17 (7.763%) Broadband
20 17 (7.763%) DNS
20 17 (7.763%) Windows Vista
21 16 (7.306%) SCCM
21 16 (7.306%) WAN
21 16 (7.306%) MS Visio

Desktop Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Desktop 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 Desktop Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (3.653%) Middleware
2 3 (1.370%) COM
3 1 (0.457%) CSS
3 1 (0.457%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 27 (12.33%) MS Exchange
2 19 (8.676%) Lotus Notes
3 17 (7.763%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 6 (2.740%) WorkSite
5 5 (2.283%) Exchange Server 2003
6 4 (1.826%) Exchange Server 2007
6 4 (1.826%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.913%) Lotus Domino
8 1 (0.457%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.457%) IIS
8 1 (0.457%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 105 (47.95%) MS Office
2 33 (15.07%) MS Excel
3 16 (7.306%) MS Visio
4 7 (3.196%) MS PowerPoint
5 1 (0.457%) MS Project
5 1 (0.457%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.457%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 1 (0.457%) 3000 Xtra
Communications & Networking
1 40 (18.26%) TCP/IP
2 27 (12.33%) VPN
3 25 (11.42%) LAN
4 18 (8.219%) 3G
5 17 (7.763%) Broadband
5 17 (7.763%) DNS
6 16 (7.306%) WAN
7 12 (5.479%) DHCP
8 11 (5.023%) Internet
9 5 (2.283%) WLAN
10 4 (1.826%) Firewall
10 4 (1.826%) HTTP
11 3 (1.370%) VoIP
11 3 (1.370%) IPsec
11 3 (1.370%) Wireless
12 2 (0.913%) IP Telephony
12 2 (0.913%) VLAN
12 2 (0.913%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (0.913%) IPv6
12 2 (0.913%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.457%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 7 (3.196%) MSI
General
1 36 (16.44%) Banking
2 30 (13.70%) Finance
3 12 (5.479%) Front Office
4 11 (5.023%) Legal
5 10 (4.566%) Back Office
6 9 (4.110%) Law
7 8 (3.653%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.740%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.826%) Retail
10 3 (1.370%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.370%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.913%) Local Government
11 2 (0.913%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.913%) Advertising
11 2 (0.913%) Publishing
12 1 (0.457%) Automotive
12 1 (0.457%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 59 (26.94%) Blackberry
2 9 (4.110%) Fixed Income
3 8 (3.653%) Credit Risk
4 7 (3.196%) PDA
5 5 (2.283%) NHS
5 5 (2.283%) iPhone
6 4 (1.826%) Handset
6 4 (1.826%) Fat Client
6 4 (1.826%) Hedge funds
6 4 (1.826%) Thin Client
7 3 (1.370%) iPad
7 3 (1.370%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (0.913%) PKI
8 2 (0.913%) PMI
9 1 (0.457%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 184 (84.02%) Windows
2 98 (44.75%) Windows XP
3 86 (39.27%) Windows 7
4 23 (10.50%) Windows Server 2008
5 20 (9.132%) Windows Server 2003
6 17 (7.763%) Windows Vista
7 11 (5.023%) UNIX
8 10 (4.566%) Linux
9 7 (3.196%) Windows 2000
10 2 (0.913%) Windows 8
10 2 (0.913%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.913%) Android
10 2 (0.913%) Windows NT
11 1 (0.457%) NetWare
11 1 (0.457%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.457%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (12.79%) ITIL
2 12 (5.479%) Migration
3 10 (4.566%) Capacity Management
4 9 (4.110%) Root Cause Analysis
5 8 (3.653%) Workflow
5 8 (3.653%) Service Delivery
6 7 (3.196%) Service Management
7 6 (2.740%) Project Management
8 5 (2.283%) Incident Management
9 4 (1.826%) Asset Management
9 4 (1.826%) Document Management
9 4 (1.826%) Configuration Management
9 4 (1.826%) Change Management
9 4 (1.826%) PRINCE2
10 3 (1.370%) Software Deployment
10 3 (1.370%) Problem Management
11 2 (0.913%) Test Scripting
11 2 (0.913%) Software Distribution
11 2 (0.913%) Network Management
11 2 (0.913%) Market Research
Programming Languages
1 10 (4.566%) SQL
2 9 (4.110%) VBA
3 6 (2.740%) Java
4 1 (0.457%) VBScript
4 1 (0.457%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 23 (10.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 14 (6.393%) MCSE
3 10 (4.566%) MCP
4 8 (3.653%) Security Cleared
5 7 (3.196%) SC Cleared
6 4 (1.826%) MCDST
6 4 (1.826%) Degree
7 3 (1.370%) MOS
8 2 (0.913%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.913%) ACSP
8 2 (0.913%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.913%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.457%) MCSA
9 1 (0.457%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.457%) ISEB
9 1 (0.457%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.457%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.457%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.110%) SLA
2 1 (0.457%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.457%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.457%) COBIT
System Software
1 106 (48.40%) Active Directory
2 11 (5.023%) XenApp
3 6 (2.740%) XenDesktop
4 4 (1.826%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.370%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (1.370%) Terminal Services
6 2 (0.913%) Citrix Presentation Server
6 2 (0.913%) vSphere
6 2 (0.913%) Terminal Server
6 2 (0.913%) VMware ESX
7 1 (0.457%) MetaFrame
7 1 (0.457%) Forefront TMG
7 1 (0.457%) Novell eDirectory
7 1 (0.457%) Xen
Systems Management
1 16 (7.306%) SCCM
2 7 (3.196%) Norton AntiVirus
3 2 (0.913%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 2 (0.913%) DameWare
4 1 (0.457%) OpenView
4 1 (0.457%) OpenView Configuration Management
4 1 (0.457%) ZENworks
4 1 (0.457%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
4 1 (0.457%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 85 (38.81%) Microsoft
2 50 (22.83%) Citrix
3 23 (10.50%) Dell
4 19 (8.676%) Lotus
5 14 (6.393%) Bloomberg
6 13 (5.936%) Symantec
7 12 (5.479%) Reuters
8 11 (5.023%) HP
9 8 (3.653%) Cisco
10 6 (2.740%) LANDesk
11 5 (2.283%) Apple
11 5 (2.283%) Avaya
11 5 (2.283%) VMware
12 4 (1.826%) AppSense
13 3 (1.370%) Juniper
13 3 (1.370%) Remedy
13 3 (1.370%) Altiris
14 2 (0.913%) Verint
14 2 (0.913%) McAfee
14 2 (0.913%) Interwoven
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Rate: £21 - £22000 per annum + pro rata
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Rate: Market Rate
Posted: 20 May 2013
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Rate: £150 per day
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