Manchester Desktop Analyst Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Desktop Analyst role in IT contracts within the Manchester 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 Desktop Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Desktop Analyst
Location Aberdeen Basildon Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chertsey Cheshire City of London Cleethorpes Congleton County Antrim Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire England Essex Falkirk Glasgow Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hounslow Hull Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Lowestoft Lutterworth Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Scotland South East South Shields South Wales South West Southampton Suffolk Surrey Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windlesham Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	80	62
Rank change on same period last year	-18
Matching contract IT job ads	2	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	0.180 %	0.665 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£174	£144
% change on same period last year	+20.69 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.00	£14.25
Average hourly rate	£19.00	£14.88
% change on same period last year	+27.73 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.00	£15.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£14.99	£16.69
% change on same period last year	-10.19 %
Job Titles Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	1114	1052
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.470 %	1.048 %
Daily rates quoted	204	209
Average minimum daily rate	£312	£325
Average daily rate	£330	£346
% change on same period last year	-4.81 %
Average maximum daily rate	£347	£368
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.32 %
Hourly rates quoted	148	129
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.43	£17.79
Average hourly rate	£21.21	£19.54
% change on same period last year	+8.54 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.99	£21.29
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.60	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-8.13 %
Desktop Analyst North West

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 Desktop Analyst across the Manchester 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 Desktop Analyst across the Manchester 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 Desktop Analyst across the Manchester region.

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Top 14 Related IT Skills

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

1 3 (100.00 %) Windows 2 2 (66.67 %) Microsoft 2 2 (66.67 %) MS Office 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory 3 1 (33.33 %) Avaya 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (33.33 %) MS Excel 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows XP 3 1 (33.33 %) DHCP 3 1 (33.33 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (33.33 %) DNS 3 1 (33.33 %) Enterprise Architecture 3 1 (33.33 %) Government

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Applications 1 2 (66.67 %) MS Office 2 1 (33.33 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) DHCP 1 1 (33.33 %) TCP/IP 1 1 (33.33 %) DNS
General 1 1 (33.33 %) Government	Operating Systems 1 3 (100.00 %) Windows 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) Enterprise Architecture	System Software 1 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 2 (66.67 %) Microsoft 2 1 (33.33 %) Avaya