North West 1st Line Support Analyst Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the 1st Line Support Analyst role in IT contracts within the North West 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 1st Line Support Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

First Line Support Analyst
Location Aberdeenshire Basildon Berkshire Bradford Brighton Buckinghamshire Chelmsford Cheshire City of London Clydebank Colchester Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Folkestone Glasgow Hampshire Horsham Kegworth Kent Leatherhead Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Redhill Reigate Rugby Sandwich Scotland Slough South East South West Southampton Stafford Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Walton-on-Thames Warwickshire West Dunbartonshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	121	139
Rank change on same period last year	+18
Matching contract IT job ads	6	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.010 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	0.198 %	0.099 %
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	£125	£115
% change on same period last year	+8.69 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£8.00	£10.00
Average hourly rate	£9.50	£10.83
% change on same period last year	-12.30 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£11.00	£11.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£12.12	£12.58
% change on same period last year	-3.65 %
Job Titles North West
Matching contract IT job ads	3033	4058
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.873 %	4.358 %
Daily rates quoted	676	805
Average minimum daily rate	£320	£326
Average daily rate	£339	£342
% change on same period last year	-0.63 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£357
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£352
% change on same period last year	+0.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	437	479
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.06	£19.41
Average hourly rate	£21.74	£21.18
% change on same period last year	+2.65 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.43	£22.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.10	£24.04
% change on same period last year	-3.88 %
1st Line Support Analyst England

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.

1st Line Support Analyst
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing 1st Line Support Analyst across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

1st Line Support Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing 1st Line Support Analyst across the North West region.

1st Line Support Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing 1st Line Support Analyst across the North West region.

1st Line 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 1st Line Support Analyst within the North West region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Manchester	-1	3	-	-
Merseyside	-	2	-	-
Cheshire	-1	1	-	-

1st Line Support Analyst England

1st Line Support Analyst
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited 1st Line 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 1st Line Support Analyst in their job title.

1 5 (45.45 %) Windows 2 3 (27.27 %) MS Office 2 3 (27.27 %) ITIL 3 2 (18.18 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (9.091 %) C 4 1 (9.091 %) Finance 4 1 (9.091 %) MS Excel 4 1 (9.091 %) Windows XP 4 1 (9.091 %) MS Exchange 4 1 (9.091 %) Broadband 4 1 (9.091 %) VPN 4 1 (9.091 %) Microsoft 4 1 (9.091 %) Active Directory 4 1 (9.091 %) CNA 4 1 (9.091 %) Novell Certification

4 1 (9.091 %) ITIL Certification 4 1 (9.091 %) Novell 4 1 (9.091 %) NHS 4 1 (9.091 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (9.091 %) Internet 4 1 (9.091 %) SAP FI 4 1 (9.091 %) Incident Management 4 1 (9.091 %) System Testing 4 1 (9.091 %) HND 4 1 (9.091 %) SAP

1st Line Support Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited 1st Line 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 1st Line Support Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (9.091 %) MS Exchange	Applications 1 3 (27.27 %) MS Office 2 1 (9.091 %) MS Excel
Business Applications 1 1 (9.091 %) SAP FI	Communications & Networking 1 1 (9.091 %) Broadband 1 1 (9.091 %) VPN 1 1 (9.091 %) Internet
General 1 1 (9.091 %) Finance	Miscellaneous 1 1 (9.091 %) NHS
Operating Systems 1 5 (45.45 %) Windows 2 2 (18.18 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (9.091 %) Windows XP 3 1 (9.091 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (27.27 %) ITIL 2 1 (9.091 %) Incident Management 2 1 (9.091 %) System Testing
Programming Languages 1 1 (9.091 %) C	Qualifications 1 1 (9.091 %) HND 1 1 (9.091 %) CNA 1 1 (9.091 %) Novell Certification 1 1 (9.091 %) ITIL Certification
System Software 1 1 (9.091 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 1 (9.091 %) SAP 1 1 (9.091 %) Microsoft 1 1 (9.091 %) Novell