Scotland Service Analyst Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Service 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 Service Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Service Analyst
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Andover Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Bellshill Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bracknell Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Crawley Deeside Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dudley Dunstable East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Flintshire Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Kent Kingswinford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Lutterworth Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Romford Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wokingham Wolverhampton Worthing Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	76	100
Rank change on same period last year	+24
Matching contract IT job ads	25	28
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.035 %	0.028 %
As % of the category below	1.147 %	0.815 %
Daily rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum daily rate	£61	£165
Average daily rate	£61	£165
% change on same period last year	-63.03 %
Average maximum daily rate	£61	£165
UK excluding London average daily rate	£161	£170
% change on same period last year	-5.05 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£11.57	£9.86
Average hourly rate	£11.83	£10.37
% change on same period last year	+14.06 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£12.09	£10.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£13.44	£12.18
% change on same period last year	+10.39 %
Job Titles Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	2180	3434
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.069 %	3.470 %
Daily rates quoted	475	665
Average minimum daily rate	£293	£308
Average daily rate	£317	£324
% change on same period last year	-2.36 %
Average maximum daily rate	£340	£341
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	171	239
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.78	£19.35
Average hourly rate	£23.00	£20.53
% change on same period last year	+12.04 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.22	£21.71
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.76	£25.22
% change on same period last year	-5.77 %
Service 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 Service 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 Service 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 Service Analyst across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 10 October 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 Service 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 Service Analyst across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 10 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 Service Analyst within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 10 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
Glasgow	+24	12	£61	-66.11 %
Aberdeen	+4	4	-	-
West Lothian	+1	3	-	-
Edinburgh	+8	2	-	-
Aberdeenshire	-	1	-	-
North Lanarkshire	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region that cited Service 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 Service Analyst in their job title.

1 25 (40.32 %) Windows 2 20 (32.26 %) Finance 3 19 (30.65 %) Microsoft 4 18 (29.03 %) MS Office 4 18 (29.03 %) ITIL 5 15 (24.19 %) Active Directory 6 13 (20.97 %) Lotus 7 12 (19.35 %) Service Delivery 8 11 (17.74 %) Service Management 8 11 (17.74 %) Windows XP 9 10 (16.13 %) Lotus Notes 10 9 (14.52 %) MCP 10 9 (14.52 %) Microsoft Certification 10 9 (14.52 %) MCDST 11 8 (12.90 %) MS Excel

12 7 (11.29 %) MCSE 12 7 (11.29 %) Remedy 13 6 (9.677 %) Novell 13 6 (9.677 %) HNC 13 6 (9.677 %) HND 14 5 (8.065 %) Change Management 14 5 (8.065 %) Windows Server 2003 15 4 (6.452 %) ITIL Certification 15 4 (6.452 %) SLA 15 4 (6.452 %) Education 16 3 (4.839 %) Health 16 3 (4.839 %) NHS 16 3 (4.839 %) Windows 2000 16 3 (4.839 %) NetWare 17 1 (1.613 %) Business Intelligence

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region that cited Service 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 Service Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 10 (16.13 %) Lotus Notes 2 1 (1.613 %) MS Exchange	Applications 1 18 (29.03 %) MS Office 2 8 (12.90 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.613 %) Symposium	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (1.613 %) SQL Server 1 1 (1.613 %) BusinessObjects
General 1 20 (32.26 %) Finance 2 4 (6.452 %) Education 3 3 (4.839 %) Health	Miscellaneous 1 3 (4.839 %) NHS
Operating Systems 1 25 (40.32 %) Windows 2 11 (17.74 %) Windows XP 3 5 (8.065 %) Windows Server 2003 4 3 (4.839 %) NetWare 4 3 (4.839 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (1.613 %) Windows NT 5 1 (1.613 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 18 (29.03 %) ITIL 2 12 (19.35 %) Service Delivery 3 11 (17.74 %) Service Management 4 5 (8.065 %) Change Management 5 1 (1.613 %) ITSM 5 1 (1.613 %) Workflow 5 1 (1.613 %) Asset Management 5 1 (1.613 %) Business Analysis 5 1 (1.613 %) Supplier Management 5 1 (1.613 %) Time Management 5 1 (1.613 %) Security Cleared 5 1 (1.613 %) Process Management 5 1 (1.613 %) PRINCE2 5 1 (1.613 %) Business Intelligence
Qualifications 1 9 (14.52 %) MCP 1 9 (14.52 %) Microsoft Certification 1 9 (14.52 %) MCDST 2 7 (11.29 %) MCSE 3 6 (9.677 %) HNC 3 6 (9.677 %) HND 4 4 (6.452 %) ITIL Certification 5 1 (1.613 %) CCNA 5 1 (1.613 %) Cisco Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (6.452 %) SLA
System Software 1 15 (24.19 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 19 (30.65 %) Microsoft 2 13 (20.97 %) Lotus 3 7 (11.29 %) Remedy 4 6 (9.677 %) Novell 5 1 (1.613 %) Oracle 5 1 (1.613 %) Business Objects 5 1 (1.613 %) Cisco