Sheffield Support Analyst Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Support Analyst role in IT contracts within the Sheffield 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 Support Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Support Analyst
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Addlestone Alderley Edge Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Chatham Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Esher Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnham Feltham Fife Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Kegworth Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Lowestoft Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Pudsey Reading Redhill Reigate Rickmansworth Rugby Salford Sandbach Sandwich Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Staffordshire Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tadworth Telford Thames Valley Tiverton Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Windlesham Windsor Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	20	27
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	15	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	6.608 %	4.380 %
Daily rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£240
Average daily rate	£317	£255
% change on same period last year	+24.18 %
Average maximum daily rate	£333	£270
UK excluding London average daily rate	£256	£240
% change on same period last year	+6.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.30	£14.20
Average hourly rate	£26.97	£14.20
% change on same period last year	+89.95 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.63	£14.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.07	£17.82
% change on same period last year	-4.23 %
Job Titles Sheffield
Matching contract IT job ads	227	411
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.321 %	0.416 %
Daily rates quoted	40	82
Average minimum daily rate	£310	£275
Average daily rate	£333	£289
% change on same period last year	+15.24 %
Average maximum daily rate	£356	£304
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.18 %
Hourly rates quoted	71	83
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.57	£24.92
Average hourly rate	£27.23	£26.33
% change on same period last year	+3.42 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.89	£27.73
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.71	£25.14
% change on same period last year	-5.69 %
Support Analyst South Yorkshire

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 Support Analyst across the Sheffield 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 Support Analyst across the Sheffield region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Support Analyst across the Sheffield region over the 3 months to 13 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 Support Analyst across the Sheffield region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Support Analyst across the Sheffield region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield region that cited 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 Support Analyst in their job title.

1 11 (44.00 %) HPUX 2 10 (40.00 %) SAN 3 9 (36.00 %) EMC 3 9 (36.00 %) AIX 3 9 (36.00 %) Cisco 3 9 (36.00 %) Sun 3 9 (36.00 %) Solaris 3 9 (36.00 %) Linux 3 9 (36.00 %) Finance 3 9 (36.00 %) Brocade 4 8 (32.00 %) Windows 5 7 (28.00 %) Windows XP 6 6 (24.00 %) SQL 6 6 (24.00 %) Windows Server 2003 7 4 (16.00 %) Windows 2000

7 4 (16.00 %) Legal 8 3 (12.00 %) Problem Management 8 3 (12.00 %) MS Office 8 3 (12.00 %) Active Directory 8 3 (12.00 %) SLA 9 2 (8.000 %) Microsoft 9 2 (8.000 %) ITIL 9 2 (8.000 %) MS Exchange 9 2 (8.000 %) MS Excel 9 2 (8.000 %) ERP 9 2 (8.000 %) UNIX 9 2 (8.000 %) MCSE 9 2 (8.000 %) Windows 2000 Server 9 2 (8.000 %) assyst 9 2 (8.000 %) Incident Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield region that cited 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 Support Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (4.000 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 2 (8.000 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (4.000 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 3 (12.00 %) MS Office 2 2 (8.000 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 2 (8.000 %) assyst
Communications & Networking 1 10 (40.00 %) SAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (4.000 %) BusinessObjects
General 1 9 (36.00 %) Finance 2 4 (16.00 %) Legal 3 2 (8.000 %) Telecoms 4 1 (4.000 %) Back Office 4 1 (4.000 %) Health 4 1 (4.000 %) Billing	Miscellaneous 1 1 (4.000 %) Statistics
Operating Systems 1 11 (44.00 %) HPUX 2 9 (36.00 %) Solaris 2 9 (36.00 %) Linux 2 9 (36.00 %) AIX 3 8 (32.00 %) Windows 4 7 (28.00 %) Windows XP 5 6 (24.00 %) Windows Server 2003 6 4 (16.00 %) Windows 2000 7 2 (8.000 %) Windows 2000 Server 7 2 (8.000 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (12.00 %) Problem Management 2 2 (8.000 %) ITIL 2 2 (8.000 %) ERP 2 2 (8.000 %) Service Management 2 2 (8.000 %) Change Management 2 2 (8.000 %) Incident Management
Programming Languages 1 6 (24.00 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 2 (8.000 %) MCSE 1 2 (8.000 %) Microsoft Certification 1 2 (8.000 %) Degree 2 1 (4.000 %) MCSA 2 1 (4.000 %) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (12.00 %) SLA	System Software 1 3 (12.00 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 1 (4.000 %) OpenView	Vendors 1 9 (36.00 %) Cisco 1 9 (36.00 %) Sun 1 9 (36.00 %) EMC 1 9 (36.00 %) Brocade 2 2 (8.000 %) Microsoft 3 1 (4.000 %) HP 3 1 (4.000 %) Intel 3 1 (4.000 %) NetApp 3 1 (4.000 %) Lotus 3 1 (4.000 %) Business Objects