Scotland Desktop Support Analyst Contracts

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

Desktop Support Analyst
Location Aberdeen Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf City of London Croydon Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fife Glasgow Hampshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Lincoln Lincolnshire London Maidenhead Manchester Milton Keynes Newcastle Norfolk North East North Wales North West Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Preston Sandwich Scotland Somerset South East South West Southampton Staines Suffolk Surrey Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	85	105
Rank change on same period last year	+20
Matching contract IT job ads	8	19
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.020 %
As % of the category below	0.422 %	0.606 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£114	£140
Average daily rate	£114	£140
% change on same period last year	-18.57 %
Average maximum daily rate	£114	£140
UK excluding London average daily rate	£176	£191
% change on same period last year	-7.90 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.40	£15.28
Average hourly rate	£15.90	£15.66
% change on same period last year	+1.52 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.40	£16.04
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.59	£15.72
% change on same period last year	-0.82 %
Job Titles Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	1897	3133
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.048 %	3.365 %
Daily rates quoted	429	610
Average minimum daily rate	£312	£317
Average daily rate	£335	£332
% change on same period last year	+0.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£358	£348
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£352
% change on same period last year	+0.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	166	273
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.72	£18.41
Average hourly rate	£22.91	£19.62
% change on same period last year	+16.76 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.10	£20.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.10	£24.04
% change on same period last year	-3.88 %
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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 Support Analyst across the Scotland 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 Support Analyst across the Scotland 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 Support Analyst across the Scotland region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Desktop Support Analyst across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 2 December 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 Support Analyst within the Scotland 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
Aberdeen	+1	3	£114	-
Edinburgh	+24	3	-	-
Fife	-	1	-	-
Glasgow	+12	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region that cited Desktop 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 Desktop Support Analyst in their job title.

1 10 (71.43 %) Windows 2 9 (64.29 %) Windows XP 3 8 (57.14 %) MS Office 4 5 (35.71 %) Cisco 4 5 (35.71 %) Microsoft 5 4 (28.57 %) Active Directory 5 4 (28.57 %) VPN 5 4 (28.57 %) Blackberry 6 3 (21.43 %) IP Telephony 6 3 (21.43 %) Document Management 6 3 (21.43 %) Law 6 3 (21.43 %) LAN 6 3 (21.43 %) HP 6 3 (21.43 %) Dell 6 3 (21.43 %) SAP

6 3 (21.43 %) Windows 2000 7 2 (14.29 %) Citrix 7 2 (14.29 %) Cisco IPT 7 2 (14.29 %) Windows Vista 8 1 (7.143 %) Windows 2000 Server 8 1 (7.143 %) DNS 8 1 (7.143 %) Migration 8 1 (7.143 %) Home Office 8 1 (7.143 %) TCP/IP 8 1 (7.143 %) Broadband 8 1 (7.143 %) Lotus 8 1 (7.143 %) Windows Server 2003 8 1 (7.143 %) Internet 8 1 (7.143 %) Symantec 8 1 (7.143 %) Lotus Notes

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms 1 1 (7.143 %) Lotus Notes	Applications 1 8 (57.14 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 4 (28.57 %) VPN 2 3 (21.43 %) LAN 2 3 (21.43 %) IP Telephony 3 2 (14.29 %) Cisco IPT 4 1 (7.143 %) Broadband 4 1 (7.143 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (7.143 %) DNS 4 1 (7.143 %) Internet	General 1 3 (21.43 %) Law 2 1 (7.143 %) Home Office
Miscellaneous 1 4 (28.57 %) Blackberry	Operating Systems 1 10 (71.43 %) Windows 2 9 (64.29 %) Windows XP 3 3 (21.43 %) Windows 2000 4 2 (14.29 %) Windows Vista 5 1 (7.143 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 1 (7.143 %) Windows Server 2003 5 1 (7.143 %) UNIX 5 1 (7.143 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (21.43 %) Document Management 2 1 (7.143 %) Migration	Qualifications 1 1 (7.143 %) HND
System Software 1 4 (28.57 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 5 (35.71 %) Cisco 1 5 (35.71 %) Microsoft 2 3 (21.43 %) HP 2 3 (21.43 %) Dell 2 3 (21.43 %) SAP 3 2 (14.29 %) Citrix 4 1 (7.143 %) Lotus 4 1 (7.143 %) Symantec