Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the Support 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 Support Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the England region.

 Support Analyst
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank775643
Rank change year-on-year
Down-21Down-13
Matching contract IT job ads9409122502
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England2.097 %2.495 %3.260 %
As % of the Job Titles category2.291 %2.726 %3.504 %
Daily rates quoted325242628
Average daily rate£306£300£325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.000 %-7.690 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£109£150£159
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£525£475£558
UK excluding London average daily rate£225£273£250
% change year-on-year
-17.43 %+9.000 %
Hourly rates quoted206193602
Average hourly rate£15.00£16.50£17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.090 %-2.940 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£8.45£10.00£10.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£30.00£27.50£27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£14.00£13.48£14.00
% change year-on-year
+3.890 %-3.750 %
England IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
410223345671396
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England91.53 %91.53 %93.02 %
Daily rates quoted192051101922579
Average daily rate£403£375£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.330 %-6.250 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£213£240
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£550£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£338£350
% change year-on-year
-3.700 %-3.570 %
Hourly rates quoted240928336349
Average hourly rate£20.00£20.00£22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
--9.090 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£10.19£11.00£11.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£38.00£37.50£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£18.00£20.00£22.00
% change year-on-year
-10.00 %-9.090 %
Support Analyst UKSupport Analyst
UK

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.

Support Analyst
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Support Analyst across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

England Support Analyst Demand Trend

Support Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Support Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Support Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Support Analyst across the England region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

England Support Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Support Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Support Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Support Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Support Analyst across the England region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

England Support Analyst Hourly Rate Histogram

Support Analyst
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Support Analyst within the England region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
LondonDown-41543£350+1.44 %
South EastDown-9140£275+10.00 %
East of EnglandUp+2570£80-64.44 %
South WestUp+441£250-27.00 %
North WestDown-1938£113-25.00 %
East MidlandsUp+1737£325+17.11 %
West MidlandsUp+1032£245-11.00 %
YorkshireUp+725£225-7.69 %
North EastUp+1612£105-75.00 %
MidlandsUp+105--
Support Analyst UKSupport Analyst
UK

Support Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

1701 (37.55 %)Windows
2427 (22.87 %)SQL
3407 (21.80 %)Microsoft
4404 (21.64 %)Finance
5394 (21.10 %)Banking
6376 (20.14 %)UNIX
7345 (18.48 %)MS Office
8292 (15.64 %)Active Directory
9255 (13.66 %)Windows XP
10248 (13.28 %)SQL Server
11240 (12.85 %)Investment Banking
12229 (12.27 %)Oracle
13222 (11.89 %)Front Office
14187 (10.02 %)MS Excel
15184 (9.855 %)Windows Server 2003
16175 (9.373 %)ITIL
17153 (8.195 %)Citrix
18151 (8.088 %)Linux
19125 (6.695 %)Windows 2000
20124 (6.642 %)Derivative
21121 (6.481 %)Fixed Income
22117 (6.267 %).NET
23104 (5.570 %)Sybase
24100 (5.356 %)MS Exchange
2596 (5.142 %)Perl
2691 (4.874 %)Java
2787 (4.660 %)VBA
2882 (4.392 %)SLA
2981 (4.339 %)C#
3080 (4.285 %)C

Support Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

England IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1117 (6.267 %).NET
242 (2.250 %)XML
337 (1.982 %)WebSphere
428 (1.500 %)ASP.NET
520 (1.071 %)J2EE
619 (1.018 %)FIX Protocol
718 (0.964 %)Murex MxML
813 (0.696 %)HTML
912 (0.643 %)Middleware
912 (0.643 %)Web Services
109 (0.482 %)CSS
118 (0.428 %)Application Packaging
127 (0.375 %)Software Packaging
127 (0.375 %)ASP.NET 2.0
127 (0.375 %)JDBC
135 (0.268 %)ASP
135 (0.268 %)XML Messaging
144 (0.214 %)EDI
144 (0.214 %)JMS
153 (0.161 %)Spring
England IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1100 (5.356 %)MS Exchange
277 (4.124 %)SharePoint
367 (3.589 %)Lotus Notes
454 (2.892 %)Exchange Server 2003
454 (2.892 %)IIS
540 (2.142 %)Rendezvous
625 (1.339 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
625 (1.339 %)Exchange Server 2007
723 (1.232 %)Apache
819 (1.018 %)Tomcat
918 (0.964 %)WebLogic
918 (0.964 %)Lotus Domino
1011 (0.589 %)SharePoint Server 2007
118 (0.428 %)Confluence
127 (0.375 %)Exchange Server 2000
127 (0.375 %)JCAPS
127 (0.375 %)BizTalk Server
136 (0.321 %)WebSphere Application Server
136 (0.321 %)Documentum
136 (0.321 %)Office Project Server
England IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1345 (18.48 %)MS Office
2187 (10.02 %)MS Excel
320 (1.071 %)MS PowerPoint
419 (1.018 %)MS Project
515 (0.803 %)MS Visio
68 (0.428 %)Spreadsheet
72 (0.107 %)Photoshop
72 (0.107 %)CA Clarity
72 (0.107 %)InfoPath
81 (0.054 %)CINEMA 4D
81 (0.054 %)Vectorworks
81 (0.054 %)Acrobat
England IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
133 (1.768 %)ION MarketView
217 (0.911 %)RMDS
314 (0.750 %)Global One
412 (0.643 %)Summit
412 (0.643 %)Oracle Applications
412 (0.643 %)Cerner Millennium
412 (0.643 %)Oracle EBS R12
510 (0.536 %)Oracle EBS
69 (0.482 %)SAP FI
69 (0.482 %)Endur
78 (0.428 %)SAP CO
78 (0.428 %)SAP FI/CO
78 (0.428 %)Loan IQ
86 (0.321 %)SAP R/3
86 (0.321 %)Eagle PACE
86 (0.321 %)Misys Opics
86 (0.321 %)Minerva
95 (0.268 %)SAP Oil and Gas
95 (0.268 %)assyst
95 (0.268 %)SAP SD
England IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
174 (3.964 %)TCP/IP
271 (3.803 %)Internet
369 (3.696 %)WAN
465 (3.482 %)LAN
553 (2.839 %)VPN
647 (2.517 %)DNS
739 (2.089 %)DHCP
837 (1.982 %)Firewall
837 (1.982 %)SAN
925 (1.339 %)Wireless
1017 (0.911 %)VoIP
1017 (0.911 %)Intranet
1114 (0.750 %)SSL
1114 (0.750 %)ATM
1213 (0.696 %)IP Telephony
1213 (0.696 %)MPLS
1312 (0.643 %)ADSL
149 (0.482 %)Ethernet
157 (0.375 %)ISDN
157 (0.375 %)SMS
England IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1248 (13.28 %)SQL Server
258 (3.107 %)SQL Server 2005
347 (2.517 %)SQL Server 2000
429 (1.553 %)SQL Server Integration Services
525 (1.339 %)BusinessObjects
616 (0.857 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
712 (0.643 %)SAP BW
712 (0.643 %)Oracle Reports
811 (0.589 %)Data Mart
811 (0.589 %)ETL
811 (0.589 %)RDBMS
910 (0.536 %)Data Mining
910 (0.536 %)Oracle 8/8i
910 (0.536 %)SQL Server 2008
109 (0.482 %)DB2
109 (0.482 %)Oracle 10g
118 (0.428 %)BusinessObjects XI
127 (0.375 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
127 (0.375 %)Datawarehouse
136 (0.321 %)Essbase
England IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
18 (0.428 %)JIRA
26 (0.321 %)Log4Net
26 (0.321 %)Oracle Forms
26 (0.321 %)Team Foundation Server
34 (0.214 %)ClearQuest
34 (0.214 %)ClearCase
43 (0.161 %)TestDirector
51 (0.054 %)CruiseControl
51 (0.054 %)Dreamweaver
51 (0.054 %)JUnit
51 (0.054 %)VSS/SourceSafe
51 (0.054 %)JDeveloper
51 (0.054 %)InstallShield
England IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1404 (21.64 %)Finance
2394 (21.10 %)Banking
3240 (12.85 %)Investment Banking
4222 (11.89 %)Front Office
552 (2.785 %)Back Office
650 (2.678 %)Financial Institution
737 (1.982 %)Government
832 (1.714 %)Law
832 (1.714 %)Legal
929 (1.553 %)Retail
1026 (1.393 %)Health
1120 (1.071 %)Insurance
1219 (1.018 %)Education
1316 (0.857 %)Telecoms
1411 (0.589 %)Local Government
158 (0.428 %)Pharmaceutical
158 (0.428 %)Retail Banking
167 (0.375 %)Billing
176 (0.321 %)Automotive
176 (0.321 %)Marketing
England IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1124 (6.642 %)Derivative
2121 (6.481 %)Fixed Income
378 (4.178 %)Blackberry
476 (4.071 %)Equities
568 (3.642 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
646 (2.464 %)NHS
744 (2.357 %)Credit Derivative
830 (1.607 %)PDA
928 (1.500 %)Equity Derivative
1022 (1.178 %)German Language
1118 (0.964 %)Interest Rate Derivative
1215 (0.803 %)French Language
1312 (0.643 %)Management Information System
1312 (0.643 %)AS400
1411 (0.589 %)Video Conferencing
1411 (0.589 %)Clustering
1510 (0.536 %)EPoS
1510 (0.536 %)VAX
168 (0.428 %)Credit Risk
168 (0.428 %)Mathematics
England IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1701 (37.55 %)Windows
2376 (20.14 %)UNIX
3255 (13.66 %)Windows XP
4184 (9.855 %)Windows Server 2003
5151 (8.088 %)Linux
6125 (6.695 %)Windows 2000
764 (3.428 %)Windows Vista
851 (2.732 %)Solaris
944 (2.357 %)Windows 2000 Server
1042 (2.250 %)Windows Server 2008
1131 (1.660 %)Red Hat Linux
1221 (1.125 %)Windows NT
1320 (1.071 %)Mac OS X
1418 (0.964 %)AIX
1516 (0.857 %)VMS
1613 (0.696 %)Windows 7
178 (0.428 %)NetWare
187 (0.375 %)HPUX
195 (0.268 %)Tru64
204 (0.214 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
England IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1175 (9.373 %)ITIL
259 (3.160 %)Project Management
342 (2.250 %)PRINCE2
441 (2.196 %)Disaster Recovery
537 (1.982 %)Risk Management
634 (1.821 %)Asset Management
733 (1.768 %)Incident Management
733 (1.768 %)Service Management
832 (1.714 %)Service Delivery
931 (1.660 %)E-Commerce
1029 (1.553 %)Business Analysis
1029 (1.553 %)User Acceptance Testing
1029 (1.553 %)Migration
1124 (1.285 %)Investment Management
1223 (1.232 %)Algorithmic Trading
1322 (1.178 %)CRM
1421 (1.125 %)Release Management
1518 (0.964 %)Change Management
1518 (0.964 %)Data Management
1617 (0.911 %)Problem Management
England IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1427 (22.87 %)SQL
296 (5.142 %)Perl
391 (4.874 %)Java
487 (4.660 %)VBA
581 (4.339 %)C#
680 (4.285 %)C
774 (3.964 %)VB
847 (2.517 %)Shell Script
931 (1.660 %)Korn
1027 (1.446 %)PL/SQL
1122 (1.178 %)T-SQL
1122 (1.178 %)Bash shell
1220 (1.071 %)VBScript
1220 (1.071 %)Tcl
1319 (1.018 %)C++
1410 (0.536 %)JavaScript
159 (0.482 %)VB.NET
168 (0.428 %)C-shell
177 (0.375 %)VB6
186 (0.321 %)COBOL
England IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
170 (3.749 %)Microsoft Certification
261 (3.267 %)Security Cleared
350 (2.678 %)Degree
437 (1.982 %)MCSE
534 (1.821 %)MCP
628 (1.500 %)SC Cleared
718 (0.964 %)DV Cleared
813 (0.696 %)Cisco Certification
911 (0.589 %)MCSA
911 (0.589 %)ITIL Certification
1010 (0.536 %)MCDST
119 (0.482 %)ACHDS
127 (0.375 %)MOS
127 (0.375 %)CCNA
136 (0.321 %)Citrix Certification
144 (0.214 %)CIMA
144 (0.214 %)ACCA
144 (0.214 %)PRINCE2 Certification
144 (0.214 %)CCNP
153 (0.161 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
England IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
182 (4.392 %)SLA
217 (0.911 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
314 (0.750 %)QA
42 (0.107 %)COBIT
42 (0.107 %)ISO27001
51 (0.054 %)PCI DSS
England IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1292 (15.64 %)Active Directory
215 (0.803 %)VMware Infrastructure
312 (0.643 %)MSMQ
312 (0.643 %)Citrix Presentation Server
411 (0.589 %)VMware ESX
510 (0.536 %)ISA Server
69 (0.482 %)Terminal Services
78 (0.428 %)Terminal Server
85 (0.268 %)Oracle RAC
94 (0.214 %)MetaFrame
94 (0.214 %)XenApp
94 (0.214 %)XenServer
102 (0.107 %)RACF
111 (0.054 %)Hyper-V
111 (0.054 %)XenDesktop
111 (0.054 %)vSphere
111 (0.054 %)NDS
England IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
125 (1.339 %)OpenView
215 (0.803 %)AutoSys
314 (0.750 %)SCCM
413 (0.696 %)Tivoli
512 (0.643 %)Backup Exec
611 (0.589 %)CONTROL-M
79 (0.482 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
87 (0.375 %)Norton AntiVirus
96 (0.321 %)NetBackup
105 (0.268 %)OVOW
105 (0.268 %)WSUS
105 (0.268 %)SCOM
105 (0.268 %)EMC NetWorker
105 (0.268 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
105 (0.268 %)BMC PATROL
105 (0.268 %)MOM
114 (0.214 %)MIMEsweeper
114 (0.214 %)ServiceCenter
123 (0.161 %)MAILsweeper
123 (0.161 %)MSI
England IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1407 (21.80 %)Microsoft
2229 (12.27 %)Oracle
3153 (8.195 %)Citrix
4104 (5.570 %)Sybase
571 (3.803 %)Lotus
666 (3.535 %)Remedy
765 (3.482 %)SAP
859 (3.160 %)Bloomberg
958 (3.107 %)Reuters
1054 (2.892 %)TIBCO
1054 (2.892 %)HP
1153 (2.839 %)VMware
1250 (2.678 %)Cisco
1348 (2.571 %)IBM
1445 (2.410 %)ION Trading
1533 (1.768 %)Murex
1632 (1.714 %)Red Hat
1731 (1.660 %)Fidessa
1825 (1.339 %)Business Objects
1921 (1.125 %)Charles River