The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the Tyne and Wear region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Technical Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Tyne and Wear 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Analyst
Rank - 38 34
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Analyst 0 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear - 0.313% 0.758%
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.334% 0.806%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 2
Average daily rate - £330 £160
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +106.25%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £275
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +27.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £21.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year
-30.23% +16.21%
All Job Titles
Tyne and Wear
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
160 299 248
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 90.40% 93.73% 93.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 152 120
Average daily rate £301 £350 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.14% +12.90%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £225 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £513 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 27 15
Average hourly rate £13.11 £20.00 £16.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-34.45% +23.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £12.00 £10.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.90 £37.25 £21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Technical Analyst
North East

Technical Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Tyne and Wear Technical Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Technical Analyst across the Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear Technical Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Technical Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Technical Analyst across the Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear Technical Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 4 (80.00%) Problem Management
2 3 (60.00%) Service Management
2 3 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco
2 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Asset Management
3 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (40.00%) Capacity Management
3 2 (40.00%) SLA
4 1 (20.00%) RightFax
4 1 (20.00%) SRDF
4 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Clustering
4 1 (20.00%) Project Management
4 1 (20.00%) UNIX
4 1 (20.00%) LDAP
4 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (20.00%) SMTP
4 1 (20.00%) FTP
4 1 (20.00%) SNMP
4 1 (20.00%) DNS
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (20.00%) Citrix
4 1 (20.00%) SAN
4 1 (20.00%) Novell

Technical Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) LDAP
1 1 (20.00%) SMTP
1 1 (20.00%) FTP
1 1 (20.00%) SNMP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Problem Management
2 3 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (60.00%) ITIL
2 3 (60.00%) Service Management
3 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (40.00%) Asset Management
3 2 (40.00%) Capacity Management
4 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (20.00%) Project Management
4 1 (20.00%) Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) SRDF
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Citrix
2 1 (20.00%) Novell
2 1 (20.00%) McAfee
2 1 (20.00%) RightFax