Scotland Technical Analyst Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Technical 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 Technical Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire City of London County Antrim Coventry Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dudley East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Kegworth Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire London Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Manchester Marlow Melton Mowbray Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newcastle Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Reigate Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Spalding Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	74	71
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	26	58
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.035 %	0.059 %
As % of the category below	1.115 %	1.693 %
Daily rates quoted	6	21
Average minimum daily rate	£355	£298
Average daily rate	£369	£318
% change on same period last year	+15.92 %
Average maximum daily rate	£383	£339
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£307
% change on same period last year	+7.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	£12.00
Average hourly rate	£36.50	£13.50
% change on same period last year	+170.37 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.00	£15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.14	£29.31
% change on same period last year	-34.69 %
Job Titles Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	2331	3425
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.107 %	3.465 %
Daily rates quoted	514	666
Average minimum daily rate	£297	£306
Average daily rate	£320	£321
% change on same period last year	-0.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£344	£337
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	140	196
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.18	£18.21
Average hourly rate	£22.27	£19.26
% change on same period last year	+15.61 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.36	£20.31
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
Technical 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 Technical 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 Technical 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 Technical Analyst across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 Technical Analyst across the Scotland region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Analyst within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Edinburgh	-12	15	£393	+11.22 %
Glasgow	+14	6	£250	-
Aberdeen	+1	2	-	-
North Lanarkshire	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 26 (33.77 %) UNIX 2 22 (28.57 %) AIX 2 22 (28.57 %) Finance 3 19 (24.68 %) Shell Script 4 14 (18.18 %) Banking 5 13 (16.88 %) Windows 5 13 (16.88 %) SQL 5 13 (16.88 %) Oracle 6 11 (14.29 %) Active Directory 7 10 (12.99 %) Microsoft 7 10 (12.99 %) Solaris 8 8 (10.39 %) Windows 2000 8 8 (10.39 %) TCP/IP 8 8 (10.39 %) Cisco 9 7 (9.091 %) RDBMS

9 7 (9.091 %) HPUX 9 7 (9.091 %) ASP 10 6 (7.792 %) UML 10 6 (7.792 %) RUP 10 6 (7.792 %) Rational Rose 10 6 (7.792 %) Service Management 10 6 (7.792 %) Casewise 10 6 (7.792 %) Requirements Management 10 6 (7.792 %) Use Case 11 5 (6.494 %) Migration 11 5 (6.494 %) Infovista 11 5 (6.494 %) Nortel 11 5 (6.494 %) BizTalk Server 11 5 (6.494 %) Tivoli 11 5 (6.494 %) Broadband

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 Development 1 7 (9.091 %) ASP 2 5 (6.494 %) HTML 3 3 (3.896 %) .NET 4 2 (2.597 %) ASP.NET 4 2 (2.597 %) Middleware 5 1 (1.299 %) Application Packaging	Application Platforms 1 5 (6.494 %) BizTalk Server 2 2 (2.597 %) LiveLink 2 2 (2.597 %) SharePoint 2 2 (2.597 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (2.597 %) CICS 3 1 (1.299 %) Lotus Notes 3 1 (1.299 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 1 (1.299 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 4 (5.195 %) MS Office 2 1 (1.299 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 1 (1.299 %) Movex
Communications & Networking 1 8 (10.39 %) TCP/IP 2 5 (6.494 %) Broadband 2 5 (6.494 %) ISDN 3 4 (5.195 %) DNS 3 4 (5.195 %) MPLS 4 2 (2.597 %) IP Telephony 4 2 (2.597 %) SAN 4 2 (2.597 %) Internet 4 2 (2.597 %) SNA 4 2 (2.597 %) PBX 5 1 (1.299 %) WAN 5 1 (1.299 %) Network Security 5 1 (1.299 %) OSPF 5 1 (1.299 %) BGP 5 1 (1.299 %) EIGRP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (9.091 %) RDBMS 2 3 (3.896 %) PowerCenter 2 3 (3.896 %) ETL 2 3 (3.896 %) SQL Server 3 1 (1.299 %) Informix 3 1 (1.299 %) Oracle 9i 3 1 (1.299 %) MS Access
Development Applications 1 6 (7.792 %) Rational Rose 2 1 (1.299 %) JDeveloper 2 1 (1.299 %) InstallShield 2 1 (1.299 %) AdminStudio	General 1 22 (28.57 %) Finance 2 14 (18.18 %) Banking 3 3 (3.896 %) Investment Banking 4 2 (2.597 %) Pensions 4 2 (2.597 %) Retail 4 2 (2.597 %) Government 4 2 (2.597 %) Telecoms 5 1 (1.299 %) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous 1 3 (3.896 %) Mainframe 2 2 (2.597 %) Clustering 2 2 (2.597 %) IVR 2 2 (2.597 %) IBM Mainframe 3 1 (1.299 %) Data Integration 3 1 (1.299 %) AS400 3 1 (1.299 %) Replication 3 1 (1.299 %) Blackberry	Operating Systems 1 26 (33.77 %) UNIX 2 22 (28.57 %) AIX 3 13 (16.88 %) Windows 4 10 (12.99 %) Solaris 5 8 (10.39 %) Windows 2000 6 7 (9.091 %) HPUX 7 5 (6.494 %) Windows NT 8 4 (5.195 %) Windows Server 2003 9 3 (3.896 %) Windows XP 10 2 (2.597 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (7.792 %) UML 1 6 (7.792 %) RUP 1 6 (7.792 %) Service Management 1 6 (7.792 %) Requirements Management 1 6 (7.792 %) Use Case 2 5 (6.494 %) ITIL 2 5 (6.494 %) Migration 3 3 (3.896 %) Network Load Balancing 4 2 (2.597 %) Enterprise Data Management 4 2 (2.597 %) Data Management 4 2 (2.597 %) Change Management 5 1 (1.299 %) E-business 5 1 (1.299 %) ITSM 5 1 (1.299 %) ERP 5 1 (1.299 %) Project Management 5 1 (1.299 %) Systems Analysis 5 1 (1.299 %) Business Analysis 5 1 (1.299 %) Incident Management 5 1 (1.299 %) Requirements Analysis 5 1 (1.299 %) Business Development	Programming Languages 1 19 (24.68 %) Shell Script 2 13 (16.88 %) SQL 3 5 (6.494 %) JavaScript 4 4 (5.195 %) VBScript 5 3 (3.896 %) VB 6 2 (2.597 %) Transact-SQL 7 1 (1.299 %) Perl 7 1 (1.299 %) PL/SQL 7 1 (1.299 %) VB.NET 7 1 (1.299 %) VBA
Qualifications 1 2 (2.597 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (1.299 %) MCP 2 1 (1.299 %) MCSE	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (2.597 %) SLA
System Software 1 11 (14.29 %) Active Directory 2 1 (1.299 %) Terminal Services 2 1 (1.299 %) VMware ESX 2 1 (1.299 %) Backup Exec 2 1 (1.299 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 2 1 (1.299 %) Citrix Presentation Server 2 1 (1.299 %) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 5 (6.494 %) Tivoli 2 4 (5.195 %) BMC PATROL 3 3 (3.896 %) Legato 3 3 (3.896 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 4 1 (1.299 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 4 1 (1.299 %) MOM
Vendors 1 13 (16.88 %) Oracle 2 10 (12.99 %) Microsoft 3 8 (10.39 %) Cisco 4 6 (7.792 %) Casewise 5 5 (6.494 %) Nortel 5 5 (6.494 %) Infovista 6 4 (5.195 %) EMC 6 4 (5.195 %) Intel 7 3 (3.896 %) SAP 7 3 (3.896 %) Informatica 7 3 (3.896 %) IBM 7 3 (3.896 %) HP 8 2 (2.597 %) Sun 8 2 (2.597 %) Dell 9 1 (1.299 %) NetApp 9 1 (1.299 %) Lotus 9 1 (1.299 %) Lawson 9 1 (1.299 %) Compaq 9 1 (1.299 %) Sybase 9 1 (1.299 %) VMware