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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the Support Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Support Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 11 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Leeds region.

 Support Analyst
Location
3 months to
11 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank384443
Rank change year-on-year
Up+6Down-1
Matching contract IT job ads121432
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds2.299 %2.273 %2.982 %
As % of the Job Titles category2.454 %2.487 %3.131 %
Daily rates quoted146
Average daily rate£135£375£118
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-64.00 %+219.14 %
UK excluding London average daily rate£225£275£250
% change year-on-year
-18.18 %+10.00 %
Hourly rates quoted336
Average hourly rate£9.00£17.80£14.35
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-49.43 %+24.04 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate£13.00£14.00£14.00
% change year-on-year
-7.140 %-
Leeds IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
4895631022
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds93.68 %91.40 %95.25 %
Daily rates quoted215164259
Average daily rate£324£350£325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.420 %+7.690 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£200£225£200
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£475£500£500
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£340£350
% change year-on-year
-4.410 %-2.850 %
Hourly rates quoted323072
Average hourly rate£17.00£18.40£20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.600 %-8.000 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£9.00£12.65£11.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£25.00£30.00£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£17.50£20.50£22.00
% change year-on-year
-14.63 %-6.810 %
Support Analyst West YorkshireSupport Analyst
West Yorkshire

Daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly 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.

Leeds Support Analyst Demand Trend

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.

Leeds Support Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Support Analyst
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.

Leeds Support Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Support Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 11 March 2010, 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.

110 (52.63 %)Windows
26 (31.58 %)E-Commerce
26 (31.58 %)Windows Server 2003
35 (26.32 %)ITIL
44 (21.05 %)MCSE
44 (21.05 %)Microsoft Certification
53 (15.79 %)Dell
53 (15.79 %)MCSA
53 (15.79 %)IIS
53 (15.79 %)XML
53 (15.79 %)Windows XP
53 (15.79 %)TCP/IP
53 (15.79 %)Windows 2000 Server
62 (10.53 %)Active Directory
62 (10.53 %)Windows Vista
62 (10.53 %)Problem Management
62 (10.53 %)User Acceptance Testing
62 (10.53 %)SLA
62 (10.53 %)IBM
62 (10.53 %)Oracle
62 (10.53 %)Apache
62 (10.53 %)Linux
62 (10.53 %)Citrix
62 (10.53 %)Finance
62 (10.53 %)Banking
62 (10.53 %)Incident Management
71 (5.263 %)Degree
71 (5.263 %)MCDST
71 (5.263 %)Manufacturing
71 (5.263 %)Validation

Support Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 11 March 2010, 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.

Leeds IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
13 (15.79 %)XML
21 (5.263 %)HTML
21 (5.263 %).NET
Leeds IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
13 (15.79 %)IIS
22 (10.53 %)Apache
31 (5.263 %)SAS
Leeds IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11 (5.263 %)MS Excel
11 (5.263 %)MS Office
Leeds IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
13 (15.79 %)TCP/IP
21 (5.263 %)DNS
21 (5.263 %)LAN
21 (5.263 %)WAN
21 (5.263 %)DHCP
Leeds IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
12 (10.53 %)Finance
12 (10.53 %)Banking
21 (5.263 %)Manufacturing
Leeds IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
110 (52.63 %)Windows
26 (31.58 %)Windows Server 2003
33 (15.79 %)Windows XP
33 (15.79 %)Windows 2000 Server
42 (10.53 %)Windows Vista
42 (10.53 %)Linux
51 (5.263 %)Windows 2000
51 (5.263 %)UNIX
51 (5.263 %)Windows NT
51 (5.263 %)Windows Server 2008
Leeds IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
16 (31.58 %)E-Commerce
25 (26.32 %)ITIL
32 (10.53 %)Problem Management
32 (10.53 %)User Acceptance Testing
32 (10.53 %)Incident Management
41 (5.263 %)Validation
41 (5.263 %)Project Management
Leeds IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11 (5.263 %)REXX
11 (5.263 %)C
11 (5.263 %)Perl
11 (5.263 %)SQL
11 (5.263 %)VBScript
11 (5.263 %)VB
11 (5.263 %)Shell Script
Leeds IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
14 (21.05 %)MCSE
14 (21.05 %)Microsoft Certification
23 (15.79 %)MCSA
31 (5.263 %)Degree
31 (5.263 %)MCDST
31 (5.263 %)CCA
31 (5.263 %)Citrix Certification
31 (5.263 %)MCP
Leeds IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
12 (10.53 %)SLA
21 (5.263 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
Leeds IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
12 (10.53 %)Active Directory
21 (5.263 %)RACF
21 (5.263 %)VMware Infrastructure
Leeds IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
11 (5.263 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
Leeds IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
13 (15.79 %)Dell
22 (10.53 %)IBM
22 (10.53 %)Oracle
22 (10.53 %)Citrix
31 (5.263 %)VMware
31 (5.263 %)Microsoft
31 (5.263 %)McAfee