The first table below looks at the demand for the Production Support Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Production Support Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the London region.

Note that 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.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Production Support Analyst
Rank 365 401 420
Rank change year-on-year
+36 +19
Contract jobs requiring a Production Support Analyst 24 4 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.109% 0.015% 0.033%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.118% 0.016% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 2 8
Average daily rate £500 £575 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.04% +27.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £495 £386
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £655 £515
UK excluding London average daily rate - - £250
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £27.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
- -8.47%
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
20317 24960 28380
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.22% 92.51% 92.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 13701 16102 18232
Average daily rate £450 £445 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.12% -6.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 456 621 671
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Production Support Analyst
England

Production Support Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Production Support Analyst across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

London Production Support Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Production Support Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Production Support Analyst across the London region.

London Production Support Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Production Support Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Production Support Analyst across the London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

London Production Support Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Production Support Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Production Support Analyst across the London region.

London Production Support Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Production Support Analyst
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Production Support Analyst within the London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of London +19 7 £488 -15.21%
Production Support Analyst
England

Production Support Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Production 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 Production Support Analyst in their job title.

1 22 (56.41%) Windows
2 19 (48.72%) SQL
2 19 (48.72%) UNIX
3 18 (46.15%) Oracle
4 15 (38.46%) Banking
4 15 (38.46%) Investment Banking
5 14 (35.90%) Change Management
5 14 (35.90%) SQL Server
5 14 (35.90%) Sybase
6 12 (30.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 11 (28.21%) ITIL
7 11 (28.21%) Finance
7 11 (28.21%) Release Management
7 11 (28.21%) Capacity Management
8 9 (23.08%) Back Office
8 9 (23.08%) Project Management
8 9 (23.08%) Perl
9 8 (20.51%) Incident Management
10 7 (17.95%) Python
10 7 (17.95%) C#
10 7 (17.95%) Java
11 6 (15.38%) Control-M
11 6 (15.38%) Linux
11 6 (15.38%) Oracle Coherence
12 5 (12.82%) DataSynapse
12 5 (12.82%) Problem Management
12 5 (12.82%) OO
13 4 (10.26%) TCP/IP
13 4 (10.26%) TIBCO
13 4 (10.26%) MQSeries

Production Support Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Production 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 Production Support Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (7.692%) .NET
2 1 (2.564%) WPF
2 1 (2.564%) ASP.NET
2 1 (2.564%) XML
2 1 (2.564%) FpML
Application Platforms
1 6 (15.38%) Oracle Coherence
2 4 (10.26%) MQSeries
Applications
1 2 (5.128%) MS Office
2 1 (2.564%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.26%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.564%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (35.90%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.128%) DB2
3 1 (2.564%) OLTP
General
1 15 (38.46%) Banking
1 15 (38.46%) Investment Banking
2 11 (28.21%) Finance
3 9 (23.08%) Back Office
4 3 (7.692%) Front Office
5 1 (2.564%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 12 (30.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (10.26%) Fixed Income
3 2 (5.128%) Equities
3 2 (5.128%) Derivative
3 2 (5.128%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (2.564%) Statistics
4 1 (2.564%) Credit Risk
4 1 (2.564%) Market Risk
4 1 (2.564%) SWIFT
4 1 (2.564%) Grid Computing
4 1 (2.564%) Clustering
4 1 (2.564%) Replication
4 1 (2.564%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 22 (56.41%) Windows
2 19 (48.72%) UNIX
3 6 (15.38%) Linux
4 1 (2.564%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.90%) Change Management
2 11 (28.21%) ITIL
2 11 (28.21%) Release Management
2 11 (28.21%) Capacity Management
3 9 (23.08%) Project Management
4 8 (20.51%) Incident Management
5 5 (12.82%) Problem Management
5 5 (12.82%) OO
6 3 (7.692%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (7.692%) Service Management
6 3 (7.692%) Configuration Management
7 2 (5.128%) Equity Research
7 2 (5.128%) Change Control
7 2 (5.128%) Electronic Trading
8 1 (2.564%) Performance Management
8 1 (2.564%) Monte Carlo Method
8 1 (2.564%) Cash Management
8 1 (2.564%) User Acceptance Testing
8 1 (2.564%) PRINCE2
8 1 (2.564%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 19 (48.72%) SQL
2 9 (23.08%) Perl
3 7 (17.95%) Python
3 7 (17.95%) C#
3 7 (17.95%) Java
4 4 (10.26%) Bash shell
5 2 (5.128%) VB
6 1 (2.564%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.564%) VB6
6 1 (2.564%) Korn
Qualifications
1 2 (5.128%) Degree
2 1 (2.564%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.564%) SLA
Systems Management
1 6 (15.38%) Control-M
Vendors
1 18 (46.15%) Oracle
2 14 (35.90%) Sybase
3 5 (12.82%) DataSynapse
4 4 (10.26%) TIBCO
5 2 (5.128%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.564%) Sun
6 1 (2.564%) Citrix
6 1 (2.564%) Reuters
6 1 (2.564%) Red Hat
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