The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Technical 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 Senior Technical Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Technical Analyst
Rank 525 537 553
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Technical Analyst 16 28 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.035% 0.048% 0.053%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.052% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 11
Average daily rate £432 £400 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £208 £329 £313
10% offered a daily rate of more than £580 £504 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £213 £400 £450
% change year-on-year
-46.87% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Average hourly rate - £41.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +130.55%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £41.50 £18.00
% change year-on-year
- +130.55%
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42697 54001 57544
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.14% 92.51% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24521 29759 31287
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £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 2095 2581 2973
Average hourly rate £18.25 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.35% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.88 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Senior Technical Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Senior Technical Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Technical Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

Senior Technical Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Senior Technical Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Senior Technical Analyst within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Senior Technical Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Senior Technical Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Senior Technical Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Senior Technical Analyst
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Technical Analyst within the UK over the 3 months to 23 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 +35 10 £494 +23.43%
London +27 6 £588 +46.87%
Wales +15 3 £213 -57.92%
Cardiff +6 3 £213 -57.92%
South Wales +3 3 £213 -57.92%
Edinburgh - 3 - -
Scotland - 3 - -
North West +12 2 - -
Manchester - 2 - -
City of London +19 1 £625 -
South East +18 1 £438 -2.77%
East Midlands - 1 £432 -
Surrey - 1 £438 -
Northamptonshire - 1 £432 -
Northampton - 1 £432 -

Senior Technical Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Senior 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 Senior Technical Analyst in their job title.

1 14 (51.85%) Windows
2 12 (44.44%) Windows Server 2003
2 12 (44.44%) Windows Server 2008
3 10 (37.04%) Citrix
4 9 (33.33%) SAN
4 9 (33.33%) VMware
5 8 (29.63%) HP
5 8 (29.63%) SQL
6 7 (25.93%) MS Exchange
6 7 (25.93%) DNS
7 6 (22.22%) Microsoft
8 5 (18.52%) Active Directory
8 5 (18.52%) DHCP
8 5 (18.52%) IIS
8 5 (18.52%) DMZ
8 5 (18.52%) Back Office
8 5 (18.52%) Exchange Server 2007
8 5 (18.52%) VMware Infrastructure
9 4 (14.81%) NetBackup
9 4 (14.81%) Business Analysis
9 4 (14.81%) Finance
9 4 (14.81%) MS Excel
9 4 (14.81%) CRM
10 3 (11.11%) MS Office
10 3 (11.11%) Firewall
10 3 (11.11%) Change Management
10 3 (11.11%) Symantec
10 3 (11.11%) Norton AntiVirus
10 3 (11.11%) Project Management
10 3 (11.11%) Data Analysis

Senior Technical Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Senior 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 Senior Technical Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (3.704%) CSS
1 1 (3.704%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 7 (25.93%) MS Exchange
2 5 (18.52%) IIS
2 5 (18.52%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (3.704%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 4 (14.81%) MS Excel
2 3 (11.11%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (7.407%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 9 (33.33%) SAN
2 7 (25.93%) DNS
3 5 (18.52%) DHCP
3 5 (18.52%) DMZ
4 3 (11.11%) Firewall
5 2 (7.407%) VoIP
6 1 (3.704%) Wireless
6 1 (3.704%) Internet
General
1 5 (18.52%) Back Office
2 4 (14.81%) Finance
3 3 (11.11%) Banking
4 2 (7.407%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.704%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.704%) Front Office
5 1 (3.704%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.704%) French Language
5 1 (3.704%) Turkish Language
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.704%) Mainframe
1 1 (3.704%) DTCC
1 1 (3.704%) Video Conferencing
1 1 (3.704%) FMCG
1 1 (3.704%) Market Risk
1 1 (3.704%) Symmetrix DMX
1 1 (3.704%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 14 (51.85%) Windows
2 12 (44.44%) Windows Server 2003
2 12 (44.44%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (7.407%) Windows 7
3 2 (7.407%) Windows 2000
4 1 (3.704%) Windows XP
4 1 (3.704%) AIX
4 1 (3.704%) Solaris
4 1 (3.704%) UNIX
4 1 (3.704%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (14.81%) Business Analysis
1 4 (14.81%) CRM
2 3 (11.11%) Change Management
2 3 (11.11%) Project Management
2 3 (11.11%) Data Analysis
3 2 (7.407%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (7.407%) Investment Management
3 2 (7.407%) Document Management
3 2 (7.407%) Risk Management
3 2 (7.407%) Workflow
3 2 (7.407%) Migration
3 2 (7.407%) ITIL
4 1 (3.704%) Data Modelling
4 1 (3.704%) OO
4 1 (3.704%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (3.704%) Validation
4 1 (3.704%) E-business
4 1 (3.704%) Requirements Analysis
4 1 (3.704%) Data Migration
4 1 (3.704%) Fund Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (29.63%) SQL
2 1 (3.704%) Python
2 1 (3.704%) VBA
2 1 (3.704%) Java
2 1 (3.704%) Perl
2 1 (3.704%) Jython
2 1 (3.704%) LINC
Qualifications
1 1 (3.704%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (3.704%) MCSE
1 1 (3.704%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.704%) Basel II
1 1 (3.704%) Basel III
System Software
1 5 (18.52%) Active Directory
1 5 (18.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (11.11%) Forefront TMG
3 2 (7.407%) Hyper-V
3 2 (7.407%) XenApp
4 1 (3.704%) NFS
4 1 (3.704%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 4 (14.81%) NetBackup
2 3 (11.11%) Norton AntiVirus
2 3 (11.11%) WhatsUp Gold
3 2 (7.407%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (7.407%) SCOM
4 1 (3.704%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (37.04%) Citrix
2 9 (33.33%) VMware
3 8 (29.63%) HP
4 6 (22.22%) Microsoft
5 3 (11.11%) Symantec
6 2 (7.407%) Cadis
6 2 (7.407%) IBM
7 1 (3.704%) Cisco
7 1 (3.704%) Dell
7 1 (3.704%) EMC
7 1 (3.704%) Veritas
7 1 (3.704%) Brocade
7 1 (3.704%) iRise