Glasgow Support Analyst Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the 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 jobs that have cited Support Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Support Analyst
Location Aberdeen Ayrshire Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Beverley Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chorley City of London Clapham Cleethorpes Cobham Colchester Congleton County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Feltham Fleetwood Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Grays Grimsby Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Havant Heanor Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Kegworth Kent Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Shields South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Tonbridge Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	38	30
Rank change on same period last year	-8
Matching contract IT job ads	21	43
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.028 %	0.044 %
As % of the category below	3.075 %	4.335 %
Daily rates quoted	1	11
Average minimum daily rate	£250	£293
Average daily rate	£250	£306
% change on same period last year	-18.32 %
Average maximum daily rate	£250	£319
UK excluding London average daily rate	£251	£227
% change on same period last year	+10.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	18
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.33	£12.93
Average hourly rate	£18.24	£13.76
% change on same period last year	+32.58 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.15	£14.59
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.12	£18.18
% change on same period last year	-0.32 %
Job Titles Glasgow
Matching contract IT job ads	683	992
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.910 %	1.004 %
Daily rates quoted	185	291
Average minimum daily rate	£298	£299
Average daily rate	£321	£315
% change on same period last year	+1.72 %
Average maximum daily rate	£344	£332
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	39	80
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.00	£17.24
Average hourly rate	£22.74	£18.53
% change on same period last year	+22.73 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.48	£19.81
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
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.

Support Analyst
Demand Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Support Analyst across the Glasgow region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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.

1 20 (37.74 %) Windows 2 16 (30.19 %) Finance 3 15 (28.30 %) Active Directory 4 13 (24.53 %) MS Office 5 12 (22.64 %) Microsoft 6 9 (16.98 %) SQL 6 9 (16.98 %) SQL Server 7 7 (13.21 %) Cisco 7 7 (13.21 %) Windows XP 8 6 (11.32 %) UNIX 8 6 (11.32 %) Windows 2000 8 6 (11.32 %) MS Exchange 9 5 (9.434 %) SQL Server 2000 9 5 (9.434 %) Shell Script 9 5 (9.434 %) MCSE

9 5 (9.434 %) MS Excel 9 5 (9.434 %) Oracle 9 5 (9.434 %) Java 9 5 (9.434 %) Microsoft Certification 10 4 (7.547 %) BusinessObjects 10 4 (7.547 %) Citrix 10 4 (7.547 %) Lotus 10 4 (7.547 %) Business Objects 10 4 (7.547 %) ITIL 10 4 (7.547 %) Windows NT 10 4 (7.547 %) ERP 10 4 (7.547 %) MPLS 10 4 (7.547 %) Change Management 10 4 (7.547 %) Health 11 3 (5.660 %) Investment Banking

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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.

Application Development 1 2 (3.774 %) .NET 1 2 (3.774 %) XML 2 1 (1.887 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 6 (11.32 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (5.660 %) Lotus Notes 3 2 (3.774 %) BizTalk Server 3 2 (3.774 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 1 (1.887 %) Office Communications Server 4 1 (1.887 %) WebSphere MQ 4 1 (1.887 %) MQSeries
Applications 1 13 (24.53 %) MS Office 2 5 (9.434 %) MS Excel 3 1 (1.887 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 1 (1.887 %) Movex
Communications & Networking 1 4 (7.547 %) MPLS 2 3 (5.660 %) Firewall 3 2 (3.774 %) Broadband 3 2 (3.774 %) ISDN 3 2 (3.774 %) PBX 3 2 (3.774 %) SMS 3 2 (3.774 %) VoIP 3 2 (3.774 %) TCP/IP 3 2 (3.774 %) DNS 3 2 (3.774 %) SAN 3 2 (3.774 %) CTI 3 2 (3.774 %) Internet 4 1 (1.887 %) DHCP 4 1 (1.887 %) LAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (16.98 %) SQL Server 2 5 (9.434 %) SQL Server 2000 3 4 (7.547 %) BusinessObjects 4 2 (3.774 %) SQL Server 2005 4 2 (3.774 %) Datawarehouse 4 2 (3.774 %) Ingres 5 1 (1.887 %) RDBMS 5 1 (1.887 %) MS Access
Development Applications 1 2 (3.774 %) Oracle APEX 2 1 (1.887 %) PVCS	General 1 16 (30.19 %) Finance 2 4 (7.547 %) Health 3 3 (5.660 %) Banking 3 3 (5.660 %) Investment Banking 4 2 (3.774 %) Financial Institution 4 2 (3.774 %) Telecoms 5 1 (1.887 %) Auditing
Miscellaneous 1 3 (5.660 %) NHS 2 2 (3.774 %) Blackberry 3 1 (1.887 %) AS400 3 1 (1.887 %) Derivative 3 1 (1.887 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 20 (37.74 %) Windows 2 7 (13.21 %) Windows XP 3 6 (11.32 %) UNIX 3 6 (11.32 %) Windows 2000 4 4 (7.547 %) Windows NT 5 1 (1.887 %) HPUX 5 1 (1.887 %) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (7.547 %) ITIL 1 4 (7.547 %) ERP 1 4 (7.547 %) Change Management 2 3 (5.660 %) Service Delivery 3 2 (3.774 %) Performance Management 3 2 (3.774 %) Service Management 3 2 (3.774 %) CRM 4 1 (1.887 %) Migration 4 1 (1.887 %) Document Management	Programming Languages 1 9 (16.98 %) SQL 2 5 (9.434 %) Java 2 5 (9.434 %) Shell Script 3 2 (3.774 %) VB 3 2 (3.774 %) C 4 1 (1.887 %) Transact-SQL
Qualifications 1 5 (9.434 %) MCSE 1 5 (9.434 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (5.660 %) MCP 3 1 (1.887 %) HND 3 1 (1.887 %) CCVP 3 1 (1.887 %) MCDST 3 1 (1.887 %) MCSA 3 1 (1.887 %) CCNP 3 1 (1.887 %) Cisco Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (5.660 %) SLA
System Software 1 15 (28.30 %) Active Directory 2 2 (3.774 %) Backup Exec 3 1 (1.887 %) VMware ESX	Systems Management 1 2 (3.774 %) CiscoWorks 1 2 (3.774 %) Tivoli 1 2 (3.774 %) BMC PATROL 2 1 (1.887 %) CONTROL-M 2 1 (1.887 %) WSUS 2 1 (1.887 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 2 1 (1.887 %) MOM
Vendors 1 12 (22.64 %) Microsoft 2 7 (13.21 %) Cisco 3 5 (9.434 %) Oracle 4 4 (7.547 %) Business Objects 4 4 (7.547 %) Citrix 4 4 (7.547 %) Lotus 5 2 (3.774 %) Avaya 5 2 (3.774 %) Informatica 5 2 (3.774 %) Vignette 5 2 (3.774 %) HP 5 2 (3.774 %) Infovista 5 2 (3.774 %) Nortel 6 1 (1.887 %) VMware 6 1 (1.887 %) StreamServe 6 1 (1.887 %) IBM 6 1 (1.887 %) EMC 6 1 (1.887 %) Intel 6 1 (1.887 %) Sybase 6 1 (1.887 %) NetApp 6 1 (1.887 %) VERITAS