The first table below looks at the demand for the Server 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 Server Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Server Analyst
Rank 480 508 524
Rank change year-on-year
+28 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Server Analyst 38 54 49
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.092% 0.101% 0.086%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.099% 0.109% 0.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 31 29
Average daily rate £310 £323 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.87% +2.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £150 £190
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £305 £260 £290
% change year-on-year
+17.30% -10.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 6
Average hourly rate £20.00 £18.25 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.58% -17.04%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.95 £16.50 £16.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.65 £30.75 £76.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.00 £17.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year
+65.71% -20.45%
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
38380 49421 52947
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.44% 92.55% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22598 27956 29382
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 1965 2419 2806
Average hourly rate £18.88 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.02% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.13 £11.13 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Server Analyst
UK

Server Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Server Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Server Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Server Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Server Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Server Analyst across the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

England Server Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Server Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Server Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Server Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Server Analyst across the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

England Server Analyst Hourly Rate Histogram

Server Analyst
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Server Analyst within the England region over the 3 months to 23 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 +22 16 £400 +3.22%
South East +18 7 £303 -11.02%
South West - 7 £260 -
East of England +17 4 £335 +83.56%
Yorkshire -8 2 £160 +6.66%
East Midlands -2 1 - -
North West - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -
Server Analyst
UK

Server Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Server 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 Server Analyst in their job title.

1 42 (50.60%) Windows
2 33 (39.76%) SQL Server
3 28 (33.73%) Microsoft
3 28 (33.73%) Active Directory
4 26 (31.33%) MS Exchange
4 26 (31.33%) Windows Server 2008
5 25 (30.12%) Windows Server 2003
6 24 (28.92%) Citrix
7 23 (27.71%) SQL
8 22 (26.51%) VMware
9 15 (18.07%) Exchange Server 2010
10 14 (16.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 14 (16.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 14 (16.87%) Migration
11 13 (15.66%) DNS
11 13 (15.66%) VMware Infrastructure
12 11 (13.25%) SQL Server 2008
12 11 (13.25%) SAN
13 10 (12.05%) DHCP
13 10 (12.05%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (12.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 9 (10.84%) SCCM
14 9 (10.84%) Service Delivery
14 9 (10.84%) Finance
14 9 (10.84%) T-SQL
14 9 (10.84%) .NET
14 9 (10.84%) ITIL
14 9 (10.84%) MCSE
15 8 (9.639%) Blackberry
15 8 (9.639%) Blackberry Enterprise Server

Server Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Server 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 Server Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (10.84%) .NET
2 5 (6.024%) ASP.NET
3 3 (3.614%) WCF
4 2 (2.410%) Ajax
5 1 (1.205%) XMPP
5 1 (1.205%) jQuery
5 1 (1.205%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 26 (31.33%) MS Exchange
2 15 (18.07%) Exchange Server 2010
3 8 (9.639%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 7 (8.434%) Exchange Server 2007
5 5 (6.024%) IIS
6 4 (4.819%) SharePoint
6 4 (4.819%) Exchange Server 2003
7 3 (3.614%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (1.205%) WorkSite
8 1 (1.205%) Lync
8 1 (1.205%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (7.229%) MS Excel
1 6 (7.229%) Office 365
2 4 (4.819%) MS Office
3 2 (2.410%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.205%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 1 (1.205%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 13 (15.66%) DNS
2 11 (13.25%) SAN
3 10 (12.05%) DHCP
4 6 (7.229%) TCP/IP
5 4 (4.819%) Firewall
6 3 (3.614%) LDAP
6 3 (3.614%) HTTP
7 2 (2.410%) IPv6
7 2 (2.410%) VPN
7 2 (2.410%) SNMP
7 2 (2.410%) FTP
7 2 (2.410%) LAN
7 2 (2.410%) WLAN
7 2 (2.410%) WAN
7 2 (2.410%) SMTP
7 2 (2.410%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (2.410%) IPsec
7 2 (2.410%) Network Security
8 1 (1.205%) VPLS
8 1 (1.205%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (39.76%) SQL Server
2 14 (16.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 14 (16.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 11 (13.25%) SQL Server 2008
4 10 (12.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 8 (9.639%) SQL Server 2005
6 4 (4.819%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (4.819%) QlikView
7 2 (2.410%) OLAP
7 2 (2.410%) Star Schema
7 2 (2.410%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (1.205%) SQL Server 2012
8 1 (1.205%) BusinessObjects XI
8 1 (1.205%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
8 1 (1.205%) SQL Server 2000
8 1 (1.205%) GIS
8 1 (1.205%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.205%) TeamCity
1 1 (1.205%) ClearCase
General
1 9 (10.84%) Finance
2 6 (7.229%) Banking
3 4 (4.819%) Law
4 2 (2.410%) Financial Institution
4 2 (2.410%) Front Office
4 2 (2.410%) Retail
4 2 (2.410%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.205%) Legal
5 1 (1.205%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.205%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.639%) Blackberry
1 8 (9.639%) Clustering
2 4 (4.819%) CLARiiON
3 3 (3.614%) Fixed Income
3 3 (3.614%) PKI
4 1 (1.205%) CCTV
4 1 (1.205%) Derivative
4 1 (1.205%) Grid Computing
4 1 (1.205%) Equities
4 1 (1.205%) Data Extraction
4 1 (1.205%) Data Integration
4 1 (1.205%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.205%) NHS
4 1 (1.205%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.205%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 42 (50.60%) Windows
2 26 (31.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 25 (30.12%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (6.024%) Windows 2000
5 4 (4.819%) UNIX
6 3 (3.614%) Windows 7
6 3 (3.614%) Windows XP
7 2 (2.410%) Linux
8 1 (1.205%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.205%) Windows Vista
8 1 (1.205%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (16.87%) Migration
2 9 (10.84%) Service Delivery
2 9 (10.84%) ITIL
3 7 (8.434%) Capacity Planning
3 7 (8.434%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (6.024%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (4.819%) ETL
5 4 (4.819%) Project Management
6 3 (3.614%) Asset Management
6 3 (3.614%) Time Management
6 3 (3.614%) Data Migration
6 3 (3.614%) Configuration Management
6 3 (3.614%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (2.410%) RAD
7 2 (2.410%) ITSM
7 2 (2.410%) Market Research
7 2 (2.410%) Problem Management
7 2 (2.410%) Network Load Balancing
7 2 (2.410%) Data Analysis
7 2 (2.410%) Operations Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (27.71%) SQL
2 9 (10.84%) T-SQL
3 6 (7.229%) C#
4 3 (3.614%) PowerShell
4 3 (3.614%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.614%) VB
5 2 (2.410%) VBA
6 1 (1.205%) MATLAB
6 1 (1.205%) Perl
6 1 (1.205%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 10 (12.05%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (10.84%) MCSE
3 7 (8.434%) Security Cleared
3 7 (8.434%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.819%) MCSA
4 4 (4.819%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (2.410%) CCNA
5 2 (2.410%) CCA
5 2 (2.410%) Citrix Certification
5 2 (2.410%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.410%) Degree
5 2 (2.410%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.205%) MCITP
6 1 (1.205%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.205%) QA
1 1 (1.205%) GxP
1 1 (1.205%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (33.73%) Active Directory
2 13 (15.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (9.639%) Hyper-V
4 5 (6.024%) vSphere
4 5 (6.024%) XenApp
5 4 (4.819%) UAG
6 3 (3.614%) VMware ESX
6 3 (3.614%) DFS Replication
6 3 (3.614%) Terminal Services
7 2 (2.410%) SRDF
7 2 (2.410%) Xen
7 2 (2.410%) Citrix Presentation Server
8 1 (1.205%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 9 (10.84%) SCCM
2 7 (8.434%) SCOM
3 5 (6.024%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
4 1 (1.205%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (1.205%) Backup Exec
4 1 (1.205%) HP Data Protector
4 1 (1.205%) Cisco UCCX
4 1 (1.205%) HP SIM
4 1 (1.205%) Tivoli
4 1 (1.205%) MOM
4 1 (1.205%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (1.205%) ARCserve
4 1 (1.205%) MIIS
4 1 (1.205%) Norton AntiVirus
4 1 (1.205%) Foglight
Vendors
1 28 (33.73%) Microsoft
2 24 (28.92%) Citrix
3 22 (26.51%) VMware
4 6 (7.229%) Cisco
4 6 (7.229%) Symantec
5 5 (6.024%) McAfee
6 4 (4.819%) EMC
6 4 (4.819%) NetIQ
6 4 (4.819%) Cadis
7 3 (3.614%) Remedy
7 3 (3.614%) Sophos
7 3 (3.614%) HP
8 2 (2.410%) Oracle
8 2 (2.410%) CA
8 2 (2.410%) Juniper
8 2 (2.410%) Novell
8 2 (2.410%) RightFax
9 1 (1.205%) JD Edwards
9 1 (1.205%) Sage
9 1 (1.205%) Perforce