The first table below looks at the demand for the Windows Support 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 Windows Support Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 18 June 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Support Analyst
Rank 550 581 577
Rank change year-on-year
+31 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Support Analyst 4 8 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.008% 0.014% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.009% 0.015% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 5
Average daily rate £150 £264 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-43.12% -12.08%
UK excluding London average daily rate £225 - £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
Average hourly rate £11.00 £12.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.00% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £11.00 - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
44867 53712 57592
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.17% 92.50% 92.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 25887 29609 31515
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 2132 2587 2980
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 £11.25 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £40.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Windows Support Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Windows Support Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Windows Support Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

Windows Support Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Windows Support Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Windows Support Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Windows Support Analyst
Top 18 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Support Analyst within the UK over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +10 3 £150 -43.12% 1
London +17 2 £150 -43.12% 1
Maidenhead - - - -
Watford - - - -
Berkshire - - - -
Hertfordshire - - - -
Kent - - - -
Staffordshire - - - -
West Yorkshire - - - -
Yorkshire - - - -
City of London - - - -
South East - - - -
West Midlands - - - -
East of England - - - -
Beckenham - - - -
Birmingham - - - -
Cannock - - - -
Leeds - - - -

Windows Support Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Windows 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 Windows Support Analyst in their job title.

1 39 (100.00%) Windows
2 14 (35.90%) Windows 7
2 14 (35.90%) Front Office
2 14 (35.90%) SQL
3 13 (33.33%) UNIX
3 13 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
4 12 (30.77%) Credit Risk
4 12 (30.77%) Linux
4 12 (30.77%) Middleware
4 12 (30.77%) Fixed Income
5 11 (28.21%) Windows Server 2003
5 11 (28.21%) Windows Server 2008
5 11 (28.21%) Banking
5 11 (28.21%) Capacity Management
6 10 (25.64%) Microsoft
6 10 (25.64%) Active Directory
6 10 (25.64%) MS Office
7 9 (23.08%) Citrix
8 8 (20.51%) VBA
8 8 (20.51%) Workflow
8 8 (20.51%) Investment Banking
9 7 (17.95%) Migration
9 7 (17.95%) Windows XP
10 6 (15.38%) VMware
10 6 (15.38%) Blackberry
11 5 (12.82%) MS Exchange
12 4 (10.26%) SQL Server
12 4 (10.26%) MS Excel
12 4 (10.26%) Incident Management
12 4 (10.26%) XenDesktop

Windows Support Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Windows 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 Windows Support Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (30.77%) Middleware
2 1 (2.564%) XMPP
2 1 (2.564%) WebSphere
2 1 (2.564%) Software Packaging
Application Platforms
1 5 (12.82%) MS Exchange
2 4 (10.26%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (7.692%) IIS
3 3 (7.692%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 2 (5.128%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (2.564%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (2.564%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (25.64%) MS Office
2 4 (10.26%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.692%) TCP/IP
2 2 (5.128%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.26%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.564%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (2.564%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (5.128%) MSI
1 2 (5.128%) TeamCity
General
1 14 (35.90%) Front Office
2 11 (28.21%) Banking
3 8 (20.51%) Investment Banking
4 2 (5.128%) Back Office
4 2 (5.128%) Finance
5 1 (2.564%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 12 (30.77%) Fixed Income
1 12 (30.77%) Credit Risk
2 6 (15.38%) Blackberry
3 3 (7.692%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (5.128%) PDA
5 1 (2.564%) iSeries
5 1 (2.564%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 39 (100.00%) Windows
2 14 (35.90%) Windows 7
3 13 (33.33%) UNIX
4 12 (30.77%) Linux
5 11 (28.21%) Windows Server 2003
5 11 (28.21%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (17.95%) Windows XP
7 1 (2.564%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 11 (28.21%) Capacity Management
3 8 (20.51%) Workflow
4 7 (17.95%) Migration
5 4 (10.26%) Incident Management
6 3 (7.692%) Change Management
7 1 (2.564%) Network Load Balancing
7 1 (2.564%) User Acceptance Testing
7 1 (2.564%) ITIL
7 1 (2.564%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (35.90%) SQL
2 8 (20.51%) VBA
3 2 (5.128%) PowerShell
3 2 (5.128%) Java
3 2 (5.128%) Perl
4 1 (2.564%) T-SQL
4 1 (2.564%) VBScript
4 1 (2.564%) COBOL
4 1 (2.564%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (2.564%) MCP
1 1 (2.564%) MCSE
1 1 (2.564%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.128%) SLA
2 1 (2.564%) QA
System Software
1 10 (25.64%) Active Directory
2 4 (10.26%) XenDesktop
2 4 (10.26%) vSphere
3 3 (7.692%) XenApp
4 2 (5.128%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (2.564%) VMware Server
5 1 (2.564%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (7.692%) Norton AntiVirus
2 1 (2.564%) Backup Exec
2 1 (2.564%) Cisco UCCX
2 1 (2.564%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (2.564%) Tivoli
2 1 (2.564%) Control-M
2 1 (2.564%) ARCserve
Vendors
1 10 (25.64%) Microsoft
2 9 (23.08%) Citrix
3 6 (15.38%) VMware
4 3 (7.692%) Symantec
5 2 (5.128%) Altiris
6 1 (2.564%) McAfee
6 1 (2.564%) Sophos
6 1 (2.564%) AppSense
6 1 (2.564%) Cisco
6 1 (2.564%) IBM