The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne 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 - 33 29
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Analyst 0 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne - 0.383% 1.026%
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.402% 1.117%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 2
Average daily rate - £330 £160
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +106.25%
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £350 £275
% change year-on-year
-3.57% +27.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £21.25 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-29.41% +11.84%
All Job Titles
Newcastle upon Tyne
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
136 249 179
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 90.67% 95.40% 91.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 138 81
Average daily rate £300 £350 £309
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% +13.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £513 £510 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 9
Average hourly rate £10.50 £35.00 £15.63
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-70.00% +124.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £14.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.10 £35.50 £21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Technical Analyst
Tyne and Wear

Technical Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne 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 4 (100.00%) Problem Management
2 3 (75.00%) Service Management
2 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (75.00%) Cisco
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) ITIL
3 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (50.00%) Asset Management
3 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (50.00%) Capacity Management
3 2 (50.00%) SLA
4 1 (25.00%) RightFax
4 1 (25.00%) SRDF
4 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (25.00%) Clustering
4 1 (25.00%) Project Management
4 1 (25.00%) UNIX
4 1 (25.00%) LDAP
4 1 (25.00%) SMTP
4 1 (25.00%) FTP
4 1 (25.00%) SNMP
4 1 (25.00%) DNS
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (25.00%) Citrix
4 1 (25.00%) SAN
4 1 (25.00%) Novell
4 1 (25.00%) McAfee
4 1 (25.00%) Blackberry
4 1 (25.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server

Technical Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) LDAP
1 1 (25.00%) SMTP
1 1 (25.00%) FTP
1 1 (25.00%) SNMP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) SAN
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Clustering
1 1 (25.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Problem Management
2 3 (75.00%) Service Management
2 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (75.00%) ITIL
3 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (50.00%) Asset Management
3 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (50.00%) Capacity Management
4 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (25.00%) Project Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) SRDF
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) RightFax
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix
2 1 (25.00%) Novell
2 1 (25.00%) McAfee