Scotland Helpdesk Analyst Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Helpdesk 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 Helpdesk Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Help Desk Analyst
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Ayr Basildon Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Caerphilly Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Clydebank Colchester Cornwall Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fife Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Huntingdon Ilford Kegworth Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Liverpool London Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Pershore Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Prescot Reading Redhill Reigate Rochdale Rugby Sandwich Scotland Shropshire Somerset South Ayrshire South East South Wales South West Southampton St Ives Staffordshire Staines Surrey Tadworth Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Dunbartonshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Wiltshire Wirral Witham Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	80	93
Rank change on same period last year	+13
Matching contract IT job ads	13	31
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.033 %
As % of the category below	0.685 %	0.989 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£125	-
Average daily rate	£138	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£150	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£117	£115
% change on same period last year	+1.76 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£10.00	£11.63
Average hourly rate	£13.50	£12.10
% change on same period last year	+11.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.00	£12.57
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£12.29	£11.67
% change on same period last year	+5.32 %
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 %
Helpdesk Analyst UK

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 Helpdesk 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 Helpdesk Analyst across the Scotland region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Helpdesk Analyst across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Helpdesk Analyst across the Scotland region.

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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 Helpdesk 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
Glasgow	+8	5	£120	-
Edinburgh	+23	2	£155	-
Aberdeen	-7	1	-	-
Fife	-	1	-	-
South Ayrshire	-	1	-	-
West Dunbartonshire	-	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 Helpdesk 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 Helpdesk Analyst in their job title.

1 10 (38.46 %) Windows 2 8 (30.77 %) Windows XP 3 6 (23.08 %) Active Directory 4 5 (19.23 %) Lotus 4 5 (19.23 %) Windows Server 2003 4 5 (19.23 %) Lotus Notes 5 4 (15.38 %) Microsoft 6 3 (11.54 %) Windows 2000 6 3 (11.54 %) Finance 6 3 (11.54 %) Microsoft Certification 6 3 (11.54 %) MS Exchange 6 3 (11.54 %) MS Office 7 2 (7.692 %) Oracle 7 2 (7.692 %) SQL Server 7 2 (7.692 %) MCSE

7 2 (7.692 %) MS Excel 7 2 (7.692 %) MS Access 7 2 (7.692 %) LAN 7 2 (7.692 %) TCP/IP 7 2 (7.692 %) Video Conferencing 8 1 (3.846 %) Windows 2000 Server 8 1 (3.846 %) assyst 8 1 (3.846 %) Dynamics NAV 8 1 (3.846 %) Exchange Server 2000 8 1 (3.846 %) Exchange Server 2003 8 1 (3.846 %) IMAP 8 1 (3.846 %) Mandarin Language 8 1 (3.846 %) Cantonese Language 8 1 (3.846 %) Dutch Language 8 1 (3.846 %) French Language

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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 Helpdesk 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 Helpdesk Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 5 (19.23 %) Lotus Notes 2 3 (11.54 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (3.846 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 1 (3.846 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 3 (11.54 %) MS Office 2 2 (7.692 %) MS Excel
Business Applications 1 1 (3.846 %) Movex 1 1 (3.846 %) assyst 1 1 (3.846 %) Dynamics NAV	Communications & Networking 1 2 (7.692 %) LAN 1 2 (7.692 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (3.846 %) VPN 2 1 (3.846 %) IMAP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (7.692 %) SQL Server 1 2 (7.692 %) MS Access	General 1 3 (11.54 %) Finance 2 1 (3.846 %) Education
Miscellaneous 1 2 (7.692 %) Video Conferencing 2 1 (3.846 %) Mandarin Language 2 1 (3.846 %) Cantonese Language 2 1 (3.846 %) Dutch Language 2 1 (3.846 %) French Language 2 1 (3.846 %) German Language 2 1 (3.846 %) Japanese Language 2 1 (3.846 %) Norwegian Language	Operating Systems 1 10 (38.46 %) Windows 2 8 (30.77 %) Windows XP 3 5 (19.23 %) Windows Server 2003 4 3 (11.54 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (3.846 %) Windows NT 5 1 (3.846 %) Solaris 5 1 (3.846 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (3.846 %) ITIL 1 1 (3.846 %) ERP 1 1 (3.846 %) Service Delivery 1 1 (3.846 %) Workflow	Qualifications 1 3 (11.54 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (7.692 %) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (3.846 %) SLA	System Software 1 6 (23.08 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 5 (19.23 %) Lotus 2 4 (15.38 %) Microsoft 3 2 (7.692 %) Oracle 4 1 (3.846 %) SAP 4 1 (3.846 %) IBM 4 1 (3.846 %) Sun 4 1 (3.846 %) Baan 4 1 (3.846 %) JD Edwards 4 1 (3.846 %) Cadence