Hertfordshire Support Analyst Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Support Analyst role in IT contracts within the Hertfordshire 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 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Support Analyst
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carterton Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Clydebank Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Dalkeith Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorset Dunstable Durham East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Esher Essex Exeter Feltham Fife Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Hull Ilford Ipswich Kegworth Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Pudsey Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Rickmansworth Rugby Sandwich Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Tadworth Telford Tiverton Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Dunbartonshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	28	34
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching contract IT job ads	44	72
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.071 %	0.077 %
As % of the category below	4.777 %	4.503 %
Daily rates quoted	20	3
Average minimum daily rate	£269	£190
Average daily rate	£281	£190
% change on same period last year	+47.76 %
Average maximum daily rate	£293	£190
UK excluding London average daily rate	£243	£250
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	32
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.75	£16.56
Average hourly rate	£14.63	£17.05
% change on same period last year	-14.21 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.50	£17.53
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.93	£16.62
% change on same period last year	-4.13 %
Job Titles Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	921	1599
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.480 %	1.717 %
Daily rates quoted	284	619
Average minimum daily rate	£337	£324
Average daily rate	£357	£344
% change on same period last year	+3.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£378	£364
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£352
% change on same period last year	+0.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	112	194
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.57	£23.77
Average hourly rate	£27.67	£24.98
% change on same period last year	+10.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.76	£26.19
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.10	£24.04
% change on same period last year	-3.88 %
Support 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.

Support Analyst
Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Support Analyst across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 2 December 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 Support Analyst across the Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

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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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 2 December 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
Watford	+17	5	£375	-
Rickmansworth	-4	2	£230	-

Support Analyst East of England

Support Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 31 (42.47 %) UNIX 2 21 (28.77 %) WebLogic 3 18 (24.66 %) SQL 3 18 (24.66 %) MS Excel 4 17 (23.29 %) MS Office 4 17 (23.29 %) Finance 5 16 (21.92 %) Oracle 6 15 (20.55 %) Microsoft 7 13 (17.81 %) Windows 7 13 (17.81 %) SLA 8 12 (16.44 %) Linux 8 12 (16.44 %) Project Management 8 12 (16.44 %) Tuxedo 8 12 (16.44 %) Middleware 8 12 (16.44 %) ClearQuest

9 11 (15.07 %) TIBCO 9 11 (15.07 %) ITIL 10 10 (13.70 %) MS PowerPoint 10 10 (13.70 %) Project Planning 10 10 (13.70 %) Business Development 10 10 (13.70 %) Java 10 10 (13.70 %) Apache 10 10 (13.70 %) Datawarehouse 11 9 (12.33 %) DB2 12 8 (10.96 %) Ab Initio 12 8 (10.96 %) Financial Institution 12 8 (10.96 %) Incident Management 12 8 (10.96 %) ETL 12 8 (10.96 %) ClearCase 12 8 (10.96 %) Shell Script

Support Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 12 (16.44 %) Middleware 2 6 (8.219 %) J2EE 3 5 (6.849 %) JSP 4 4 (5.479 %) SOAP 4 4 (5.479 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 21 (28.77 %) WebLogic 2 12 (16.44 %) Tuxedo 3 10 (13.70 %) Apache 4 7 (9.589 %) Office Project Server 5 3 (4.110 %) Tomcat 6 1 (1.370 %) JBoss 6 1 (1.370 %) Lotus Notes 6 1 (1.370 %) WebSphere Application Server 6 1 (1.370 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 18 (24.66 %) MS Excel 2 17 (23.29 %) MS Office 3 10 (13.70 %) MS PowerPoint 4 5 (6.849 %) MS Project 5 1 (1.370 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 2 (2.740 %) assyst
Communications & Networking 1 6 (8.219 %) Firewall 2 2 (2.740 %) Network Security 3 1 (1.370 %) Wireless 3 1 (1.370 %) IP Telephony 3 1 (1.370 %) LAN 3 1 (1.370 %) PBX 3 1 (1.370 %) SMS 3 1 (1.370 %) WAN 3 1 (1.370 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (1.370 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (13.70 %) Datawarehouse 2 9 (12.33 %) DB2 3 8 (10.96 %) ETL 4 3 (4.110 %) SQL Server 5 2 (2.740 %) SQL Server 2000 6 1 (1.370 %) Crystal Reports
Development Applications 1 12 (16.44 %) ClearQuest 2 8 (10.96 %) ClearCase 3 1 (1.370 %) MSI	General 1 17 (23.29 %) Finance 2 8 (10.96 %) Financial Institution 3 5 (6.849 %) Back Office 4 4 (5.479 %) Pharmaceutical 5 3 (4.110 %) Telecoms 6 2 (2.740 %) Retail 7 1 (1.370 %) Billing
Miscellaneous 1 2 (2.740 %) Informatics 2 1 (1.370 %) EPoS	Operating Systems 1 31 (42.47 %) UNIX 2 13 (17.81 %) Windows 3 12 (16.44 %) Linux 4 3 (4.110 %) Windows XP 5 2 (2.740 %) Windows Vista 5 2 (2.740 %) Windows 2000 6 1 (1.370 %) AIX 6 1 (1.370 %) Red Hat Linux 6 1 (1.370 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (16.44 %) Project Management 2 11 (15.07 %) ITIL 3 10 (13.70 %) Project Planning 3 10 (13.70 %) Business Development 4 8 (10.96 %) Incident Management 5 6 (8.219 %) PRINCE2 6 3 (4.110 %) Enterprise Architecture 6 3 (4.110 %) Service Management 7 2 (2.740 %) Service Delivery 7 2 (2.740 %) PRINCE 7 2 (2.740 %) Problem Management 8 1 (1.370 %) Matrix Management 8 1 (1.370 %) SC Cleared 8 1 (1.370 %) Security Cleared 8 1 (1.370 %) Data Analysis 8 1 (1.370 %) Business Analysis	Programming Languages 1 18 (24.66 %) SQL 2 10 (13.70 %) Java 3 8 (10.96 %) Shell Script 4 1 (1.370 %) Perl
Qualifications 1 3 (4.110 %) CCNA 1 3 (4.110 %) Cisco Certification 2 2 (2.740 %) A+ Certification 3 1 (1.370 %) ITIL Certification 3 1 (1.370 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 13 (17.81 %) SLA 2 6 (8.219 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 3 2 (2.740 %) PCI DSS
System Software 1 3 (4.110 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 16 (21.92 %) Oracle 2 15 (20.55 %) Microsoft 3 11 (15.07 %) TIBCO 4 8 (10.96 %) Ab Initio 5 4 (5.479 %) CheckPoint 5 4 (5.479 %) Netezza 5 4 (5.479 %) Chordiant 5 4 (5.479 %) Informatica 6 3 (4.110 %) Cisco 7 1 (1.370 %) IBM 7 1 (1.370 %) Novell 7 1 (1.370 %) Lotus 7 1 (1.370 %) Red Hat 7 1 (1.370 %) Altiris 7 1 (1.370 %) Remedy 7 1 (1.370 %) HP 7 1 (1.370 %) Citrix