Kent Service Analyst Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Service Analyst role in IT contracts within the Kent 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 Service Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Andover Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Birmingham Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Deeside Derby Derbyshire Dorking Dudley Dunstable Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Flintshire Folkestone Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Harrogate Hartlepool Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Kent Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Livingston London Lutterworth Manchester Middlesex Milton Keynes Newcastle Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Reigate Rickmansworth Romford Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stockton-on-Tees Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wokingham Wolverhampton Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	41	51
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	4	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	1.050 %	0.735 %
Daily rates quoted	4	1
Average minimum daily rate	£115	£60
Average daily rate	£115	£65
% change on same period last year	+77.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£115	£70
UK excluding London average daily rate	£156	£168
% change on same period last year	-7.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£15.50
Average hourly rate	-	£16.25
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£17.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£13.45	£11.93
% change on same period last year	+12.75 %
Job Titles Kent
Matching contract IT job ads	381	544
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.508 %	0.543 %
Daily rates quoted	136	117
Average minimum daily rate	£282	£313
Average daily rate	£300	£327
% change on same period last year	-8.20 %
Average maximum daily rate	£317	£340
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£355
% change on same period last year	+0.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	60	111
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.49	£22.11
Average hourly rate	£21.07	£24.44
% change on same period last year	-13.78 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.65	£26.77
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.79	£25.66
% change on same period last year	-7.31 %
Service Analyst South East

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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Service Analyst across the Kent region over the 3 months to 29 August 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 Service Analyst across the Kent region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Service Analyst within the Kent region over the 3 months to 29 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
Folkestone	+3	3	£103	+58.97 %

Service Analyst South East

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Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region that cited Service 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 Service Analyst in their job title.

1 3 (50.00 %) ITIL 2 1 (16.67 %) MS PowerPoint 2 1 (16.67 %) MS Office 2 1 (16.67 %) Change Management 2 1 (16.67 %) Windows 2 1 (16.67 %) MS Excel 2 1 (16.67 %) Microsoft 2 1 (16.67 %) ITIL Certification 2 1 (16.67 %) Lotus 2 1 (16.67 %) Unicenter

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region that cited Service 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 Service Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 1 (16.67 %) MS PowerPoint 1 1 (16.67 %) MS Office 1 1 (16.67 %) MS Excel	Operating Systems 1 1 (16.67 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (50.00 %) ITIL 2 1 (16.67 %) Change Management	Qualifications 1 1 (16.67 %) ITIL Certification
Systems Management 1 1 (16.67 %) Unicenter	Vendors 1 1 (16.67 %) Microsoft 1 1 (16.67 %) Lotus