Middlesex Support Analyst Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Support Analyst role in IT contracts within the Middlesex region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Support Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Support Analyst
Location Aberdeen Amersham Aylesbury Ayrshire Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Beverley Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chorley City of London Clapham Cleethorpes Cobham Colchester Congleton County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Fleetwood Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Grays Grimsby Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Heanor Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Inverness Ipswich Jersey Kegworth Kent Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Shields South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Spalding St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Tamworth Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Tonbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	29	19
Rank change on same period last year	-10
Matching contract IT job ads	23	32
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.030 %	0.033 %
As % of the category below	4.159 %	4.977 %
Daily rates quoted	3	15
Average minimum daily rate	£305	£214
Average daily rate	£305	£242
% change on same period last year	+26.03 %
Average maximum daily rate	£305	£270
UK excluding London average daily rate	£239	£232
% change on same period last year	+3.08 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.00	£15.67
Average hourly rate	£16.80	£18.17
% change on same period last year	-7.52 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.60	£20.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.69	£17.55
% change on same period last year	+0.81 %
Job Titles Middlesex
Matching contract IT job ads	553	643
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.729 %	0.672 %
Daily rates quoted	139	135
Average minimum daily rate	£334	£286
Average daily rate	£353	£306
% change on same period last year	+15.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£373	£327
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	48	53
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.88	£24.80
Average hourly rate	£25.97	£25.65
% change on same period last year	+1.24 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.05	£26.49
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.39	£25.89
% change on same period last year	-9.63 %
Support 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 Support Analyst across the Middlesex 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 Support Analyst across the Middlesex region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Support Analyst across the Middlesex region over the 3 months to 8 July 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 Support Analyst across the Middlesex 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 Middlesex region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 29 (53.70 %) Windows 2 23 (42.59 %) MS Office 3 19 (35.19 %) Windows XP 4 14 (25.93 %) Active Directory 5 13 (24.07 %) MS Excel 6 9 (16.67 %) MS Exchange 7 7 (12.96 %) Microsoft 7 7 (12.96 %) Citrix 7 7 (12.96 %) Novell 7 7 (12.96 %) MS PowerPoint 7 7 (12.96 %) Marketing 8 6 (11.11 %) Exchange Server 2003 8 6 (11.11 %) Cisco 8 6 (11.11 %) NHS 8 6 (11.11 %) Windows NT

9 5 (9.259 %) VoIP 9 5 (9.259 %) ZENworks 9 5 (9.259 %) GroupWise 9 5 (9.259 %) NetWare 9 5 (9.259 %) IP Telephony 9 5 (9.259 %) Finance 10 4 (7.407 %) Cisco IPT 10 4 (7.407 %) VPN 10 4 (7.407 %) Hyperion 10 4 (7.407 %) Windows 2000 10 4 (7.407 %) Oracle 10 4 (7.407 %) Citrix Presentation Server 11 3 (5.556 %) SAP 11 3 (5.556 %) Lotus Notes 11 3 (5.556 %) Lotus

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 2 (3.704 %) SAP Basis 2 1 (1.852 %) CSS 2 1 (1.852 %) WebServices 2 1 (1.852 %) XML 2 1 (1.852 %) HTML 2 1 (1.852 %) AJAX	Application Platforms 1 9 (16.67 %) MS Exchange 2 6 (11.11 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 5 (9.259 %) GroupWise 4 3 (5.556 %) Lotus Notes 4 3 (5.556 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 3 (5.556 %) Exchange Server 2007 5 1 (1.852 %) SharePoint 5 1 (1.852 %) Apache 5 1 (1.852 %) Office Project Server 5 1 (1.852 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 23 (42.59 %) MS Office 2 13 (24.07 %) MS Excel 3 7 (12.96 %) MS PowerPoint 4 1 (1.852 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 1 (1.852 %) Oracle 11i 1 1 (1.852 %) SAP MM 1 1 (1.852 %) Oracle HRMS 1 1 (1.852 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 5 (9.259 %) VoIP 1 5 (9.259 %) IP Telephony 2 4 (7.407 %) Cisco IPT 2 4 (7.407 %) VPN 3 2 (3.704 %) Internet 3 2 (3.704 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (1.852 %) DHCP 4 1 (1.852 %) HTTP 4 1 (1.852 %) PBX 4 1 (1.852 %) WINS 4 1 (1.852 %) DNS 4 1 (1.852 %) CTI	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (5.556 %) Hyperion Essbase 2 1 (1.852 %) SQL Server 2 1 (1.852 %) DB2 2 1 (1.852 %) Oracle 9i 2 1 (1.852 %) Oracle 10g 2 1 (1.852 %) RDBMS
Development Applications 1 1 (1.852 %) MSI	General 1 7 (12.96 %) Marketing 2 5 (9.259 %) Finance 3 2 (3.704 %) Pharmaceutical 4 1 (1.852 %) Pensions 4 1 (1.852 %) Music 4 1 (1.852 %) Retail 4 1 (1.852 %) Billing 4 1 (1.852 %) Insurance
Miscellaneous 1 6 (11.11 %) NHS 2 1 (1.852 %) Data Integration 2 1 (1.852 %) IVR 2 1 (1.852 %) AS400	Operating Systems 1 29 (53.70 %) Windows 2 19 (35.19 %) Windows XP 3 6 (11.11 %) Windows NT 4 5 (9.259 %) NetWare 5 4 (7.407 %) Windows 2000 6 2 (3.704 %) Windows Server 2003 6 2 (3.704 %) Linux 7 1 (1.852 %) Unix 7 1 (1.852 %) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (3.704 %) Project Management 1 2 (3.704 %) ERP 1 2 (3.704 %) PRINCE2 1 2 (3.704 %) Data Protection 2 1 (1.852 %) Data Migration 2 1 (1.852 %) ITIL 2 1 (1.852 %) Problem Management 2 1 (1.852 %) Matrix Management 2 1 (1.852 %) Migration 2 1 (1.852 %) Stakeholder Management	Programming Languages 1 2 (3.704 %) Java 1 2 (3.704 %) SQL 1 2 (3.704 %) VB 1 2 (3.704 %) ABAP 1 2 (3.704 %) VBA 2 1 (1.852 %) JavaScript 2 1 (1.852 %) PL/SQL
Qualifications 1 2 (3.704 %) Microsoft Certification 1 2 (3.704 %) MCP 2 1 (1.852 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 2 1 (1.852 %) MCSE 2 1 (1.852 %) Degree	System Software 1 14 (25.93 %) Active Directory 2 4 (7.407 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 1 (1.852 %) Terminal Server
Systems Management 1 5 (9.259 %) ZENworks 2 3 (5.556 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 1 (1.852 %) OpenView	Vendors 1 7 (12.96 %) Microsoft 1 7 (12.96 %) Citrix 1 7 (12.96 %) Novell 2 6 (11.11 %) Cisco 3 4 (7.407 %) Hyperion 3 4 (7.407 %) Oracle 4 3 (5.556 %) SAP 4 3 (5.556 %) Lotus 5 2 (3.704 %) Adobe 6 1 (1.852 %) HP 6 1 (1.852 %) Pegasus 6 1 (1.852 %) IBM 6 1 (1.852 %) JD Edwards 6 1 (1.852 %) Altiris