Essex Helpdesk Analyst Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Helpdesk Analyst role in IT contracts within the Essex region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Helpdesk Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Help Desk Analyst
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Ayr Ayrshire Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Cleethorpes County Antrim Coventry Crawley Darlington Denbighshire Doncaster Dorchester Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Farnborough Farnham Folkestone Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrow Hastings Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Ilford Kegworth Keighley Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lutterworth Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Middlewich Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Redditch Romford Runcorn Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Ayrshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Asaph St Helens Staffordshire Stockport Sunderland Surrey Swindon Tadworth Taunton Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Windsor Witham Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	50	42
Rank change on same period last year	-8
Matching contract IT job ads	13	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	1.915 %	2.546 %
Daily rates quoted	5	9
Average minimum daily rate	£81	£89
Average daily rate	£83	£89
% change on same period last year	-7.07 %
Average maximum daily rate	£84	£89
UK excluding London average daily rate	£120	£125
% change on same period last year	-3.83 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£9.00	£38.63
Average hourly rate	£9.80	£40.38
% change on same period last year	-75.72 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£10.60	£42.13
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£13.27	£13.04
% change on same period last year	+1.78 %
Job Titles Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	679	707
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.896 %	0.704 %
Daily rates quoted	251	207
Average minimum daily rate	£285	£310
Average daily rate	£301	£333
% change on same period last year	-9.72 %
Average maximum daily rate	£317	£356
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	91	162
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.39	£27.24
Average hourly rate	£28.22	£28.03
% change on same period last year	+0.68 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.05	£28.81
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.68	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.85 %
Helpdesk Analyst East of 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.

Helpdesk Analyst
Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Helpdesk Analyst across the Essex region over the 3 months to 20 August 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 Helpdesk Analyst across the Essex region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Helpdesk Analyst across the Essex region over the 3 months to 20 August 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 jobs citing Helpdesk Analyst within the Essex region over the 3 months to 20 August 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
Chelmsford	+12	5	-	-
Witham	-3	2	£80	-5.88 %
Basildon	-	1	£110	-

Helpdesk Analyst East of England

Helpdesk Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region that cited Helpdesk 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 Helpdesk Analyst in their job title.

1 14 (48.28 %) Windows 2 13 (44.83 %) MS Office 3 9 (31.03 %) Windows XP 3 9 (31.03 %) Active Directory 3 9 (31.03 %) Microsoft Certification 4 7 (24.14 %) MS Excel 4 7 (24.14 %) MCP 5 5 (17.24 %) SMS 6 4 (13.79 %) MS Exchange 6 4 (13.79 %) NHS 6 4 (13.79 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 6 4 (13.79 %) Legal 7 3 (10.34 %) Degree 7 3 (10.34 %) Windows Server 2003 7 3 (10.34 %) Law

7 3 (10.34 %) SLA 8 2 (6.897 %) Microsoft 8 2 (6.897 %) Citrix 8 2 (6.897 %) ITIL 8 2 (6.897 %) MCSE 8 2 (6.897 %) MCSA 8 2 (6.897 %) Exchange Server 2000 8 2 (6.897 %) Exchange Server 2003 8 2 (6.897 %) Windows 2000 Server 9 1 (3.448 %) Mathematics 9 1 (3.448 %) Matrix Management 9 1 (3.448 %) Document Management 9 1 (3.448 %) MCDST 9 1 (3.448 %) Service Delivery 9 1 (3.448 %) Education

Helpdesk Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region that cited Helpdesk 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 Helpdesk Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 4 (13.79 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (6.897 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 2 (6.897 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 13 (44.83 %) MS Office 2 7 (24.14 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 5 (17.24 %) SMS 2 1 (3.448 %) Internet	General 1 4 (13.79 %) Legal 2 3 (10.34 %) Law 3 1 (3.448 %) Education
Miscellaneous 1 4 (13.79 %) NHS 2 1 (3.448 %) Mathematics	Operating Systems 1 14 (48.28 %) Windows 2 9 (31.03 %) Windows XP 3 3 (10.34 %) Windows Server 2003 4 2 (6.897 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 1 (3.448 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (6.897 %) ITIL 2 1 (3.448 %) Matrix Management 2 1 (3.448 %) Document Management 2 1 (3.448 %) Service Delivery	Qualifications 1 9 (31.03 %) Microsoft Certification 2 7 (24.14 %) MCP 3 3 (10.34 %) Degree 4 2 (6.897 %) MCSE 4 2 (6.897 %) MCSA 5 1 (3.448 %) MCDST 5 1 (3.448 %) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (10.34 %) SLA	System Software 1 9 (31.03 %) Active Directory 2 1 (3.448 %) Terminal Services
Systems Management 1 4 (13.79 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 2 (6.897 %) Microsoft 1 2 (6.897 %) Citrix