Northamptonshire Desktop Analyst Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Desktop Analyst role in IT contracts within the Northamptonshire 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 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Desktop Analyst
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chertsey Cheshire City of London County Antrim Croydon Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fife Glasgow Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hounslow Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Lowestoft Lutterworth Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Milton Keynes Newcastle Norfolk North East North Wales North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Preston Sandwich Scotland South East South West Suffolk Surrey Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Wales Walton-on-Thames Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windlesham Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	31	39
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	3	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	1.079 %	0.587 %
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	£187	£161
% change on same period last year	+15.73 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.33	£15.00
Average hourly rate	£19.67	£15.00
% change on same period last year	+31.11 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.00	£15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.90	£15.54
% change on same period last year	+2.36 %
Job Titles Northamptonshire
Matching contract IT job ads	278	341
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.393 %	0.345 %
Daily rates quoted	155	92
Average minimum daily rate	£391	£327
Average daily rate	£412	£345
% change on same period last year	+19.26 %
Average maximum daily rate	£433	£364
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.18 %
Hourly rates quoted	29	57
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.12	£16.90
Average hourly rate	£16.87	£20.50
% change on same period last year	-17.70 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.62	£24.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.71	£25.14
% change on same period last year	-5.69 %
Desktop Analyst East Midlands

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 Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Desktop Analyst across the Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Desktop Analyst within the Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 13 October 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
Northampton	-1	3	-	-

Desktop Analyst East Midlands

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Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 1 (33.33 %) Service Delivery 1 1 (33.33 %) Government 1 1 (33.33 %) Local Government 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows XP 1 1 (33.33 %) NetWare 1 1 (33.33 %) Citrix 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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.

General 1 1 (33.33 %) Government 1 1 (33.33 %) Local Government	Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows XP 1 1 (33.33 %) NetWare 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) Service Delivery	Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Citrix