The first table below looks at the demand for the Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the Gatwick region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 Gatwick 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Analyst
Rank 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year
0 +1
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 15 31 34
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gatwick 46.88% 31.00% 38.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 46.88% 31.31% 43.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 24
Average daily rate £518 £325 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+59.23% -18.75%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £11.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £15.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -
All Job Titles
Gatwick
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
32 99 79
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gatwick 100.00% 99.00% 88.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 49 36
Average daily rate £450 £288 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+56.52% -28.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £305 £275 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £585 £398 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 5
Average hourly rate £42.50 £32.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+30.76% +85.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.50 £32.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £32.50 £28.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Analyst
West Sussex

Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gatwick Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

Gatwick Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Analyst across the Gatwick region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Gatwick Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Gatwick Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gatwick region that cited 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 Analyst in their job title.

1 12 (50.00%) Windows
2 10 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 10 (41.67%) VMware
2 10 (41.67%) vSphere
3 9 (37.50%) Active Directory
3 9 (37.50%) NetApp
4 8 (33.33%) Red Hat
4 8 (33.33%) Linux
4 8 (33.33%) MySQL
4 8 (33.33%) SQL Server
4 8 (33.33%) VMware ESX
4 8 (33.33%) Clustering
4 8 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
4 8 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
4 8 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (29.17%) Dynamics NAV
5 7 (29.17%) Apache
5 7 (29.17%) SharePoint
5 7 (29.17%) OpenEdge
5 7 (29.17%) PHP
5 7 (29.17%) SharePoint 2010
5 7 (29.17%) Windows 7
6 5 (20.83%) XenApp
6 5 (20.83%) Cisco
6 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (12.50%) Project Management
8 3 (12.50%) ITIL
9 2 (8.333%) MS Office
9 2 (8.333%) LAN

Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gatwick region that cited 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 Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 7 (29.17%) Apache
1 7 (29.17%) SharePoint
1 7 (29.17%) OpenEdge
1 7 (29.17%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (4.167%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 2 (8.333%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 7 (29.17%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (8.333%) LAN
3 1 (4.167%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (4.167%) Firewall
3 1 (4.167%) SAN
3 1 (4.167%) WAN
3 1 (4.167%) DHCP
3 1 (4.167%) SNMP
3 1 (4.167%) DNS
3 1 (4.167%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (33.33%) MySQL
1 8 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 8 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (4.167%) Selenium
General
1 1 (4.167%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 8 (33.33%) Clustering
2 2 (8.333%) Blackberry
3 1 (4.167%) iPhone
3 1 (4.167%) CCTV
3 1 (4.167%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 12 (50.00%) Windows
2 8 (33.33%) Linux
2 8 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 8 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (29.17%) Windows 7
4 1 (4.167%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (12.50%) Project Management
1 3 (12.50%) ITIL
2 2 (8.333%) Project Planning
2 2 (8.333%) Manual Testing
3 1 (4.167%) SAP Implementation
3 1 (4.167%) Test Scripting
3 1 (4.167%) Automated Testing
3 1 (4.167%) Change Management
3 1 (4.167%) Regression Testing
3 1 (4.167%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (4.167%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) PHP
2 1 (4.167%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (8.333%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.333%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.167%) ISEB
3 1 (4.167%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 10 (41.67%) vSphere
2 9 (37.50%) Active Directory
3 8 (33.33%) VMware ESX
4 5 (20.83%) XenApp
5 1 (4.167%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (4.167%) SCOM
1 1 (4.167%) NetBackup
1 1 (4.167%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 10 (41.67%) Microsoft
1 10 (41.67%) VMware
2 9 (37.50%) NetApp
3 8 (33.33%) Red Hat
4 5 (20.83%) Cisco
5 2 (8.333%) HP
5 2 (8.333%) Citrix
6 1 (4.167%) LANDesk
6 1 (4.167%) Avaya
6 1 (4.167%) Lotus
6 1 (4.167%) Symantec
6 1 (4.167%) Remedy
6 1 (4.167%) SAP
6 1 (4.167%) SolarWinds