The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the Oxford 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 22 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 Oxford 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Analyst
Rank 30 34 -
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Analyst 5 6 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 2.146% 1.770% -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.212% 1.835% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £238 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £339 £350 £275
% change year-on-year
-3.21% +27.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Average hourly rate - £30.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £21.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year
-30.23% +16.21%
All Job Titles
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
226 327 152
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 97.00% 96.46% 94.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 185 80
Average daily rate £340 £350 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.85% +12.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £225 £183
10% offered a daily rate of more than £457 £500 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 42 20
Average hourly rate £15.00 £12.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -37.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Technical Analyst
Oxfordshire

Technical Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford Technical Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 (71.43%) Active Directory
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
1 5 (71.43%) MS Exchange
2 3 (42.86%) Migration
2 3 (42.86%) VMware
2 3 (42.86%) SCCM
2 3 (42.86%) SCOM
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (42.86%) SharePoint
2 3 (42.86%) DHCP
2 3 (42.86%) DNS
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (42.86%) SharePoint 2010
2 3 (42.86%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (42.86%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (42.86%) vSphere
3 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
3 2 (28.57%) Windows 7
3 2 (28.57%) VoIP
3 2 (28.57%) Windows XP
3 2 (28.57%) MS Office
3 2 (28.57%) Citrix
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (14.29%) DRM
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (14.29%) Finance
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle

Technical Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 5 (71.43%) MS Exchange
2 3 (42.86%) SharePoint
2 3 (42.86%) SharePoint 2010
2 3 (42.86%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
1 2 (28.57%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) DHCP
1 3 (42.86%) DNS
2 2 (28.57%) VoIP
3 1 (14.29%) LAN
3 1 (14.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle BI EE
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle 11g
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (28.57%) Windows 7
3 2 (28.57%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Migration
2 1 (14.29%) DRM
2 1 (14.29%) ETL
2 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (14.29%) Analytics
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (14.29%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 3 (42.86%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (42.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) SCCM
1 3 (42.86%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) VMware
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Citrix
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle