Hertfordshire Technical Analyst Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Technical 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 Technical Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Technical Analyst
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Borehamwood Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Kegworth Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newcastle Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	71	85
Rank change on same period last year	+14
Matching contract IT job ads	11	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	0.846 %	0.455 %
Daily rates quoted	2	5
Average minimum daily rate	£375	£162
Average daily rate	£388	£172
% change on same period last year	+125.43 %
Average maximum daily rate	£401	£182
UK excluding London average daily rate	£323	£274
% change on same period last year	+17.69 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.33	-
Average hourly rate	£16.92	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.50	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.07	£24.04
% change on same period last year	-20.70 %
Job Titles Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1300	1759
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.716 %	1.752 %
Daily rates quoted	480	710
Average minimum daily rate	£356	£325
Average daily rate	£383	£344
% change on same period last year	+11.29 %
Average maximum daily rate	£410	£363
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.32 %
Hourly rates quoted	161	182
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.17	£23.26
Average hourly rate	£26.37	£24.34
% change on same period last year	+8.33 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.57	£25.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.60	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-8.13 %
Technical 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.

Technical Analyst
Demand Trend

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

Technical Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

Technical Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Technical Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Technical Analyst across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

Technical Analyst
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Analyst within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Rickmansworth	-	2	-	-
Welwyn Garden City	-	2	-	-

Technical Analyst East of England

Technical Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region that cited Technical 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 Technical Analyst in their job title.

1 15 (53.57 %) Hibernate 1 15 (53.57 %) Java 1 15 (53.57 %) JUnit 1 15 (53.57 %) WebLogic 1 15 (53.57 %) OO 1 15 (53.57 %) Eclipse 2 14 (50.00 %) Spring 3 13 (46.43 %) UML 3 13 (46.43 %) Oracle 4 12 (42.86 %) SQL 4 12 (42.86 %) RAD 5 11 (39.29 %) PL/SQL 6 10 (35.71 %) BEA 7 9 (32.14 %) ClearQuest 7 9 (32.14 %) Finance

7 9 (32.14 %) ClearCase 8 8 (28.57 %) Supplier Management 9 7 (25.00 %) UNIX 10 6 (21.43 %) Windows 11 4 (14.29 %) Sun 12 3 (10.71 %) J2EE 12 3 (10.71 %) StorageTek 12 3 (10.71 %) Microsoft 12 3 (10.71 %) Financial Institution 12 3 (10.71 %) Retail 12 3 (10.71 %) Brocade 13 2 (7.143 %) FitNesse 13 2 (7.143 %) Project Planning 13 2 (7.143 %) CheckStyle 13 2 (7.143 %) Telecoms

Technical Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region that cited Technical 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 Technical Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 15 (53.57 %) Hibernate 2 14 (50.00 %) Spring 3 3 (10.71 %) J2EE 4 1 (3.571 %) SOAP 4 1 (3.571 %) WebServices 4 1 (3.571 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 15 (53.57 %) WebLogic 2 1 (3.571 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (3.571 %) IIS 2 1 (3.571 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 2 1 (3.571 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 2 (7.143 %) MS Project 2 1 (3.571 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 1 (3.571 %) TCP/IP 1 1 (3.571 %) Internet 1 1 (3.571 %) LLU
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (3.571 %) Oracle 8/8i 1 1 (3.571 %) Datawarehouse	Development Applications 1 15 (53.57 %) JUnit 1 15 (53.57 %) Eclipse 2 9 (32.14 %) ClearQuest 2 9 (32.14 %) ClearCase 3 2 (7.143 %) FitNesse 3 2 (7.143 %) CheckStyle 4 1 (3.571 %) ERwin
General 1 9 (32.14 %) Finance 2 3 (10.71 %) Financial Institution 2 3 (10.71 %) Retail 3 2 (7.143 %) Telecoms 3 2 (7.143 %) Pharmaceutical	Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.571 %) Blackberry 1 1 (3.571 %) Informatics 1 1 (3.571 %) IPTV
Operating Systems 1 7 (25.00 %) UNIX 2 6 (21.43 %) Windows 3 1 (3.571 %) Windows XP 3 1 (3.571 %) Solaris 3 1 (3.571 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (53.57 %) OO 2 13 (46.43 %) UML 3 12 (42.86 %) RAD 4 8 (28.57 %) Supplier Management 5 2 (7.143 %) Project Planning 5 2 (7.143 %) OOA/OOD 5 2 (7.143 %) ITIL 5 2 (7.143 %) RUP 6 1 (3.571 %) Data Modelling 6 1 (3.571 %) PRINCE2 6 1 (3.571 %) Agile Software Development 6 1 (3.571 %) Migration 6 1 (3.571 %) Scrum 6 1 (3.571 %) Data Migration 6 1 (3.571 %) Automated Testing 6 1 (3.571 %) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages 1 15 (53.57 %) Java 2 12 (42.86 %) SQL 3 11 (39.29 %) PL/SQL 4 2 (7.143 %) Shell Script	Qualifications 1 2 (7.143 %) A+ Certification 2 1 (3.571 %) MCSE 2 1 (3.571 %) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (3.571 %) ISO9000 1 1 (3.571 %) SLA 1 1 (3.571 %) QA	System Software 1 2 (7.143 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 13 (46.43 %) Oracle 2 10 (35.71 %) BEA 3 4 (14.29 %) Sun 4 3 (10.71 %) StorageTek 4 3 (10.71 %) Microsoft 4 3 (10.71 %) Brocade 5 2 (7.143 %) Intel 6 1 (3.571 %) Cisco 6 1 (3.571 %) Ab Initio 6 1 (3.571 %) Netezza 6 1 (3.571 %) GUPTA