The first table below looks at the demand for the Messaging Analyst role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Messaging 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 currently tracked.

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
Messaging Analyst
Rank 523 577 572
Rank change year-on-year
+54 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Messaging Analyst 11 9 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.023% 0.015% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.016% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 7
Average daily rate £308 £375 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.05% +2.80%
UK excluding London average daily rate £308 £326 £219
% change year-on-year
-5.52% +48.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
43445 54854 55821
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.19% 92.53% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 24929 30221 30365
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2155 2623 2895
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Messaging Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Messaging Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Messaging Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Messaging Analyst within the UK.

Messaging Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Messaging Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Messaging Analyst within the UK.

Messaging Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Messaging Analyst
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Messaging Analyst within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +57 10 £308 -18.05%
Yorkshire - 8 £308 -
West Yorkshire - 8 £308 -
Leeds - 8 £308 -
London +24 1 - -
South East +17 1 £380 +16.74%
Northern Ireland - 1 £375 -
Belfast - 1 £375 -
County Antrim - 1 £375 -
Oxfordshire - 1 £380 -
Oxford - 1 £380 -

Messaging Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Messaging 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 Messaging Analyst in their job title.

1 12 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 10 (83.33%) Exchange Server 2003
3 9 (75.00%) Windows
3 9 (75.00%) MCSE
3 9 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (75.00%) SAN
4 8 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
4 8 (66.67%) Cisco
4 8 (66.67%) Microsoft
4 8 (66.67%) Windows XP
4 8 (66.67%) LAN
4 8 (66.67%) WAN
4 8 (66.67%) SQL Server
4 8 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
4 8 (66.67%) NAS
4 8 (66.67%) F5
5 4 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
5 4 (33.33%) Migration
6 2 (16.67%) Legal
7 1 (8.333%) Finance
7 1 (8.333%) VMware
7 1 (8.333%) SMTP
7 1 (8.333%) DNS
7 1 (8.333%) Lotus Domino
7 1 (8.333%) Active Directory
7 1 (8.333%) HP
7 1 (8.333%) MOM
7 1 (8.333%) Blackberry
7 1 (8.333%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 1 (8.333%) High Availability

Messaging Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Messaging 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 Messaging Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 12 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 10 (83.33%) Exchange Server 2003
3 4 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (8.333%) Lotus Domino
4 1 (8.333%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2007
Communications & Networking
1 9 (75.00%) SAN
2 8 (66.67%) LAN
2 8 (66.67%) WAN
2 8 (66.67%) NAS
3 1 (8.333%) SMTP
3 1 (8.333%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (66.67%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (16.67%) Legal
2 1 (8.333%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.333%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 9 (75.00%) Windows
2 8 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 8 (66.67%) Windows XP
2 8 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (8.333%) High Availability
2 1 (8.333%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.333%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (75.00%) MCSE
1 9 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (8.333%) Active Directory
1 1 (8.333%) vSphere
1 1 (8.333%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 1 (8.333%) MOM
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Cisco
1 8 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 8 (66.67%) F5
2 1 (8.333%) VMware
2 1 (8.333%) HP