The first table below looks at the demand for the Support Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the Taunton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Support Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Taunton region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Support Analyst
Rank 20 21 16
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Support Analyst 1 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Taunton 1.316% 1.695% 4.651%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.471% 1.754% 5.263%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 2
Average daily rate - £310 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +24.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £220 £222
% change year-on-year
+13.63% -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £15.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £15.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-9.67% +3.33%
All Job Titles
Taunton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
68 57 38
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Taunton 89.47% 96.61% 88.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 36 12
Average daily rate £320 £358 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.48% +19.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £235 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £420 £351
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 4
Average hourly rate £10.00 - £13.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Support Analyst
Somerset

Support Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Support Analyst across the Taunton region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Taunton Support Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Support Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Support Analyst across the Taunton region.

Taunton Support Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Support Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Support Analyst across the Taunton region.

Taunton Support Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Support Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Taunton 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 4 (66.67%) UML
1 4 (66.67%) SharePoint
1 4 (66.67%) Ingres
1 4 (66.67%) C#
1 4 (66.67%) C++
1 4 (66.67%) HTML
1 4 (66.67%) Java
1 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
1 4 (66.67%) VB
1 4 (66.67%) VB.NET
1 4 (66.67%) .NET
1 4 (66.67%) Oracle
1 4 (66.67%) ASP
1 4 (66.67%) ASP.NET
1 4 (66.67%) XML
1 4 (66.67%) IIS
1 4 (66.67%) UNIX
2 3 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (50.00%) TeamCity
2 3 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 3 (50.00%) NUnit
2 3 (50.00%) CruiseControl
2 3 (50.00%) Subversion
2 3 (50.00%) MSTest
2 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (50.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 2 (33.33%) Windows XP
3 2 (33.33%) Active Directory

Support Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Taunton 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 4 (66.67%) HTML
1 4 (66.67%) .NET
1 4 (66.67%) ASP
1 4 (66.67%) ASP.NET
1 4 (66.67%) XML
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) SharePoint
1 4 (66.67%) IIS
2 1 (16.67%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Ingres
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) TeamCity
1 3 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 3 (50.00%) NUnit
1 3 (50.00%) CruiseControl
1 3 (50.00%) Subversion
1 3 (50.00%) MSTest
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (50.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) UNIX
2 2 (33.33%) Windows XP
2 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) UML
2 3 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) Service Management
3 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) C#
1 4 (66.67%) C++
1 4 (66.67%) Java
1 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
1 4 (66.67%) VB
1 4 (66.67%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) MCTS
1 1 (16.67%) MCPD
1 1 (16.67%) MCP
1 1 (16.67%) ISEB
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft