Leeds Support Analyst Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Support Analyst role in IT contracts within the Leeds 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 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Support Analyst
Location Aberdeen Addlestone Alderley Edge Ayrshire Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chorley City of London Clapham Cleethorpes Cobham Colchester Congleton County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnham Feltham Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Grays Grimsby Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hastings Havant Heanor Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Lowestoft Luton Lutterworth Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Rickmansworth Salford Salisbury Sandbach Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Shields South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding 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 Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windlesham Windsor Wirral Witham Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	42	54
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	36	19
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.048 %	0.019 %
As % of the category below	3.056 %	1.758 %
Daily rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum daily rate	£160	£215
Average daily rate	£193	£215
% change on same period last year	-10.46 %
Average maximum daily rate	£225	£215
UK excluding London average daily rate	£266	£227
% change on same period last year	+17.34 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.00	£13.59
Average hourly rate	£16.25	£14.61
% change on same period last year	+11.22 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.50	£15.63
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.14	£18.03
% change on same period last year	+0.59 %
Job Titles Leeds
Matching contract IT job ads	1178	1081
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.555 %	1.077 %
Daily rates quoted	298	185
Average minimum daily rate	£327	£330
Average daily rate	£347	£354
% change on same period last year	-1.91 %
Average maximum daily rate	£368	£378
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.32 %
Hourly rates quoted	62	97
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.27	£26.49
Average hourly rate	£24.41	£27.76
% change on same period last year	-12.06 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.55	£29.03
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.60	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-8.13 %
Support Analyst West Yorkshire

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 Leeds region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Support Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Support Analyst across the Leeds 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 Leeds 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 Leeds region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 34 (44.74 %) Windows 2 23 (30.26 %) Microsoft 3 21 (27.63 %) Windows XP 4 20 (26.32 %) Active Directory 5 18 (23.68 %) MS Office 6 17 (22.37 %) Finance 7 16 (21.05 %) SQL 8 15 (19.74 %) TCP/IP 9 12 (15.79 %) Health 9 12 (15.79 %) Legal 10 11 (14.47 %) VPN 11 10 (13.16 %) Law 11 10 (13.16 %) CMS 12 9 (11.84 %) MS Excel 12 9 (11.84 %) Windows 2000

12 9 (11.84 %) Citrix 12 9 (11.84 %) Microsoft Certification 13 8 (10.53 %) MS Exchange 13 8 (10.53 %) Billing 14 7 (9.211 %) Broadband 14 7 (9.211 %) Lotus Notes 14 7 (9.211 %) ITIL 14 7 (9.211 %) Lotus 14 7 (9.211 %) NHS 15 6 (7.895 %) Symantec 15 6 (7.895 %) Novell 15 6 (7.895 %) MCP 15 6 (7.895 %) PRINCE2 16 5 (6.579 %) HP 16 5 (6.579 %) Windows Server 2003

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 3 (3.947 %) .NET 1 3 (3.947 %) ASP.NET 2 2 (2.632 %) AJAX 3 1 (1.316 %) Application Packaging 3 1 (1.316 %) WebServices 3 1 (1.316 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 10 (13.16 %) CMS 2 8 (10.53 %) MS Exchange 3 7 (9.211 %) Lotus Notes 4 3 (3.947 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 2 (2.632 %) SharePoint 5 2 (2.632 %) Lotus Domino 6 1 (1.316 %) Office Project Server
Applications 1 18 (23.68 %) MS Office 2 9 (11.84 %) MS Excel 3 3 (3.947 %) MS Project 4 2 (2.632 %) MS PowerPoint	Communications & Networking 1 15 (19.74 %) TCP/IP 2 11 (14.47 %) VPN 3 7 (9.211 %) Broadband 4 4 (5.263 %) VoIP 5 3 (3.947 %) Firewall 5 3 (3.947 %) DNS 6 2 (2.632 %) DEFINITY 7 1 (1.316 %) SMS 7 1 (1.316 %) WAN 7 1 (1.316 %) DHCP 7 1 (1.316 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (5.263 %) Crystal Reports 2 2 (2.632 %) SQL Server 3 1 (1.316 %) SQL Server 2000	Development Applications 1 1 (1.316 %) ClearCase 1 1 (1.316 %) ClearQuest
General 1 17 (22.37 %) Finance 2 12 (15.79 %) Health 2 12 (15.79 %) Legal 3 10 (13.16 %) Law 4 8 (10.53 %) Billing 5 3 (3.947 %) Telecoms 5 3 (3.947 %) Government 6 1 (1.316 %) Electric	Miscellaneous 1 7 (9.211 %) NHS 2 5 (6.579 %) Blackberry 3 3 (3.947 %) Smartcard 3 3 (3.947 %) PKI 4 2 (2.632 %) Video Conferencing 4 2 (2.632 %) PDA 5 1 (1.316 %) Management Information System 5 1 (1.316 %) AS400 5 1 (1.316 %) Computer Science 5 1 (1.316 %) Smartphone 5 1 (1.316 %) PACS
Operating Systems 1 34 (44.74 %) Windows 2 21 (27.63 %) Windows XP 3 9 (11.84 %) Windows 2000 4 5 (6.579 %) Windows Server 2003 5 4 (5.263 %) NetWare 6 3 (3.947 %) Windows Mobile 6 3 (3.947 %) Linux 7 2 (2.632 %) UNIX 7 2 (2.632 %) Windows Vista 8 1 (1.316 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (9.211 %) ITIL 2 6 (7.895 %) PRINCE2 3 4 (5.263 %) Incident Management 4 3 (3.947 %) Service Management 4 3 (3.947 %) Change Management 5 2 (2.632 %) Project Management 6 1 (1.316 %) Migration 6 1 (1.316 %) Project Planning 6 1 (1.316 %) Systems Analysis 6 1 (1.316 %) Six Sigma 6 1 (1.316 %) Data Migration 6 1 (1.316 %) Problem Management 6 1 (1.316 %) Time Management
Programming Languages 1 16 (21.05 %) SQL 2 3 (3.947 %) C# 3 2 (2.632 %) C	Qualifications 1 9 (11.84 %) Microsoft Certification 2 6 (7.895 %) MCP 3 2 (2.632 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 2 (2.632 %) Citrix Certification 3 2 (2.632 %) Degree 3 2 (2.632 %) Network+ Certification 4 1 (1.316 %) MCSE 4 1 (1.316 %) MCSA 4 1 (1.316 %) HNC 4 1 (1.316 %) PRINCE2 Certification 4 1 (1.316 %) ITIL Certification
System Software 1 20 (26.32 %) Active Directory 2 2 (2.632 %) Backup Exec 3 1 (1.316 %) NetBackup 3 1 (1.316 %) MetaFrame	Systems Management 1 4 (5.263 %) ZENworks 1 4 (5.263 %) Norton AntiVirus 2 2 (2.632 %) DameWare 3 1 (1.316 %) OpenView 3 1 (1.316 %) Tivoli
Vendors 1 23 (30.26 %) Microsoft 2 9 (11.84 %) Citrix 3 7 (9.211 %) Lotus 4 6 (7.895 %) Symantec 4 6 (7.895 %) Novell 5 5 (6.579 %) HP 6 4 (5.263 %) Remedy 7 3 (3.947 %) IBM 7 3 (3.947 %) Dell 8 2 (2.632 %) Avaya 8 2 (2.632 %) Mitel 9 1 (1.316 %) VMware 9 1 (1.316 %) StorageTek 9 1 (1.316 %) VERITAS 9 1 (1.316 %) Sun 9 1 (1.316 %) Apple