The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Technical 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 Milton Keynes 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
Technical Analyst
Rank 52 56 54
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Analyst 3 6 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 0.573% 0.836% 0.168%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.609% 0.884% 0.178%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £270 £315 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £350 £275
% change year-on-year
-3.57% +27.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £19.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £21.25 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-29.41% +11.84%
All Job Titles
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
493 679 563
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 94.08% 94.57% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 286 219
Average daily rate £325 £315 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.17% -3.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £173 £142
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £400 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 54 69
Average hourly rate £13.50 £14.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.89% +3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 £35.00 £21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Technical Analyst
Buckinghamshire

Technical Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes Technical Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Technical Analyst across the Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes Technical Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Technical Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Technical Analyst across the Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes Technical Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region that cited Technical 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 Technical Analyst in their job title.

1 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 4 (50.00%) Change Management
3 3 (37.50%) Retail Banking
3 3 (37.50%) Banking
3 3 (37.50%) Retail
4 2 (25.00%) Oracle Retail
4 2 (25.00%) Spanish Language
4 2 (25.00%) Service Management
4 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery
4 2 (25.00%) Windows
4 2 (25.00%) SQL
4 2 (25.00%) Oracle
4 2 (25.00%) ITIL
4 2 (25.00%) Project Management
4 2 (25.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (12.50%) UNIX
5 1 (12.50%) IIS
5 1 (12.50%) PeopleSoft
5 1 (12.50%) SOAP
5 1 (12.50%) MS Exchange
5 1 (12.50%) DHCP
5 1 (12.50%) DNS
5 1 (12.50%) HP
5 1 (12.50%) Citrix
5 1 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (12.50%) SAN
5 1 (12.50%) DMZ
5 1 (12.50%) PRINCE
5 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (12.50%) Symantec

Technical Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (12.50%) SOAP
1 1 (12.50%) WCF
1 1 (12.50%) soapUI
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) IIS
1 1 (12.50%) MS Exchange
1 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2007
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle Retail
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DHCP
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) SAN
1 1 (12.50%) DMZ
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Selenium
1 1 (12.50%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Retail Banking
2 3 (37.50%) Banking
2 3 (37.50%) Retail
3 2 (25.00%) Spanish Language
4 1 (12.50%) Back Office
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) UNIX
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Change Management
2 2 (25.00%) Service Management
2 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (25.00%) ITIL
2 2 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (12.50%) PRINCE
3 1 (12.50%) Release Management
3 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (12.50%) Functional Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (12.50%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Norton AntiVirus
1 1 (12.50%) NetBackup
1 1 (12.50%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) PeopleSoft
2 1 (12.50%) HP
2 1 (12.50%) Citrix
2 1 (12.50%) Symantec
2 1 (12.50%) VMware