Scotland IT Support Analyst Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the IT 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 IT Support Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

IT Support Analyst
Location Aberdeen Bath Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire City of London Colchester Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London East Midlands East of England England Essex Feltham Glasgow Hammersmith Hampshire High Wycombe Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Luton Manchester Milton Keynes North West Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Redditch Reigate Scotland Slough Somerset South East South West Suffolk Surrey UK Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Witham Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	101	121
Rank change on same period last year	+20
Matching contract IT job ads	4	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	0.185 %	0.177 %
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	£129	£125
% change on same period last year	+3.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.00	£15.25
Average hourly rate	£21.00	£15.75
% change on same period last year	+33.33 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.00	£16.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£14.24	£13.85
% change on same period last year	+2.80 %
Job Titles Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	2157	3391
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.074 %	3.507 %
Daily rates quoted	463	659
Average minimum daily rate	£295	£307
Average daily rate	£318	£323
% change on same period last year	-1.42 %
Average maximum daily rate	£342	£339
UK excluding London average daily rate	£354	£353
% change on same period last year	+0.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	174	251
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.19	£19.52
Average hourly rate	£22.18	£20.69
% change on same period last year	+7.19 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.16	£21.86
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.64	£25.03
% change on same period last year	-5.56 %
IT Support 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.

IT Support Analyst
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing IT 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 IT 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 IT 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 IT Support Analyst across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 15 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 IT Support Analyst within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 15 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
Aberdeen	-	2	-	-
Glasgow	+17	2	-	-

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Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region that cited IT 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 IT Support Analyst in their job title.

1 7 (100.00 %) Windows 2 5 (71.43 %) Windows XP 3 4 (57.14 %) MS Office 3 4 (57.14 %) Microsoft 4 3 (42.86 %) Windows Server 2003 4 3 (42.86 %) Windows 2000 5 2 (28.57 %) SAP 5 2 (28.57 %) TCP/IP 5 2 (28.57 %) DNS 5 2 (28.57 %) Cisco 5 2 (28.57 %) Active Directory 5 2 (28.57 %) Citrix 5 2 (28.57 %) IP Telephony 5 2 (28.57 %) Cisco IPT 5 2 (28.57 %) Windows Vista

6 1 (14.29 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 1 (14.29 %) LAN 6 1 (14.29 %) WAN 6 1 (14.29 %) VMware

IT Support Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region that cited IT 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 IT Support Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 4 (57.14 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 2 (28.57 %) TCP/IP 1 2 (28.57 %) DNS 1 2 (28.57 %) IP Telephony 1 2 (28.57 %) Cisco IPT 2 1 (14.29 %) LAN 2 1 (14.29 %) WAN
Operating Systems 1 7 (100.00 %) Windows 2 5 (71.43 %) Windows XP 3 3 (42.86 %) Windows Server 2003 3 3 (42.86 %) Windows 2000 4 2 (28.57 %) Windows Vista 5 1 (14.29 %) Windows 2000 Server	System Software 1 2 (28.57 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 4 (57.14 %) Microsoft 2 2 (28.57 %) Citrix 2 2 (28.57 %) SAP 2 2 (28.57 %) Cisco 3 1 (14.29 %) VMware