Glasgow Desktop Support Analyst Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Desktop Support Analyst role in IT contracts within the Glasgow region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Desktop Support Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Desktop Support Analyst
Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chertsey Cheshire City of London Cleethorpes Congleton County Antrim Coventry Darlington Derbyshire Docklands, London Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hounslow Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Scotland South East South Shields South Wales South West Staffordshire Surrey Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwickshire Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Yorkshire Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	59	64
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	1	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	0.124 %	0.583 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£176	£127
% change on same period last year	+38.88 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£12.00
Average hourly rate	£22.00	£13.75
% change on same period last year	+60.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.00	£15.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£14.97	£16.02
% change on same period last year	-6.57 %
Job Titles Glasgow
Matching contract IT job ads	808	1030
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.065 %	1.093 %
Daily rates quoted	203	295
Average minimum daily rate	£298	£299
Average daily rate	£319	£315
% change on same period last year	+1.57 %
Average maximum daily rate	£341	£330
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	46	100
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.77	£17.15
Average hourly rate	£19.74	£18.43
% change on same period last year	+7.09 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.71	£19.72
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.28	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
Desktop Support Analyst Scotland

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.

Desktop Support Analyst
Demand Trend

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

Desktop Support Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

Desktop Support Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Desktop Support Analyst
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region that cited Desktop 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 Desktop Support Analyst in their job title.

1 4 (66.67 %) Finance 1 4 (66.67 %) Windows 1 4 (66.67 %) Active Directory 2 3 (50.00 %) Microsoft 2 3 (50.00 %) MS Office 2 3 (50.00 %) Windows NT 2 3 (50.00 %) MS Exchange 3 2 (33.33 %) DHCP 3 2 (33.33 %) Windows XP 3 2 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 3 2 (33.33 %) SLA 3 2 (33.33 %) WINS 3 2 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 2 (33.33 %) Blackberry 4 1 (16.67 %) Windows Vista

4 1 (16.67 %) Exchange Server 5.5 4 1 (16.67 %) Financial Institution 4 1 (16.67 %) Migration 4 1 (16.67 %) Backup Exec 4 1 (16.67 %) DNS 4 1 (16.67 %) Dell 4 1 (16.67 %) Citrix 4 1 (16.67 %) Reuters 4 1 (16.67 %) Bloomberg 4 1 (16.67 %) MS Excel 4 1 (16.67 %) HND 4 1 (16.67 %) VPN

Desktop Support Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region that cited Desktop 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 Desktop Support Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 3 (50.00 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (16.67 %) Exchange Server 5.5	Applications 1 3 (50.00 %) MS Office 2 1 (16.67 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 2 (33.33 %) DHCP 1 2 (33.33 %) WINS 2 1 (16.67 %) DNS 2 1 (16.67 %) VPN	General 1 4 (66.67 %) Finance 2 1 (16.67 %) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous 1 2 (33.33 %) Blackberry	Operating Systems 1 4 (66.67 %) Windows 2 3 (50.00 %) Windows NT 3 2 (33.33 %) Windows XP 3 2 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (16.67 %) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (16.67 %) Migration	Qualifications 1 1 (16.67 %) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (33.33 %) SLA	System Software 1 4 (66.67 %) Active Directory 2 1 (16.67 %) Backup Exec
Vendors 1 3 (50.00 %) Microsoft 2 1 (16.67 %) Dell 2 1 (16.67 %) Citrix 2 1 (16.67 %) Reuters 2 1 (16.67 %) Bloomberg