Ascot 2nd Line Support Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the 2nd Line Support role in IT contracts within the Ascot region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited 2nd Line Support in their job title over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Second Line Support
Location Aberdeen Ascot Bacup Barking Basildon Basingstoke Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Bridgwater Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chatham Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hartlepool Heanor Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Inverness Isle of Man Kent King's Lynn Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Lutterworth Maidenhead Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Rugby Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Torpoint Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warwick Warwickshire West Kilbride West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Windsor Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£156	£167
% change on same period last year	-6.53 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.16	£15.57
% change on same period last year	-2.63 %
Job Titles Ascot
Matching contract IT job ads	7	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.010 %
Daily rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum daily rate	£322	-
Average daily rate	£383	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£444	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.68	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.85 %
2nd Line Support Berkshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

2nd Line Support
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing 2nd Line Support across the Ascot region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

2nd Line Support
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing 2nd Line Support across the Ascot region.

2nd Line Support
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Ascot region that cited 2nd Line Support 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 2nd Line Support in their job title.

1 1 (100.00 %) SQL Server 1 1 (100.00 %) ITIL 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows 1 1 (100.00 %) DHCP 1 1 (100.00 %) TCP/IP 1 1 (100.00 %) DNS 1 1 (100.00 %) Microsoft 1 1 (100.00 %) Active Directory 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows Server 2003 1 1 (100.00 %) Firewall 1 1 (100.00 %) VMware 1 1 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2005 1 1 (100.00 %) SharePoint Server 2007

2nd Line Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Ascot region that cited 2nd Line Support 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 2nd Line Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (100.00 %) SharePoint Server 2007	Communications & Networking 1 1 (100.00 %) DHCP 1 1 (100.00 %) TCP/IP 1 1 (100.00 %) DNS 1 1 (100.00 %) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (100.00 %) SQL Server 1 1 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2005	Operating Systems 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (100.00 %) ITIL	System Software 1 1 (100.00 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 1 (100.00 %) Microsoft 1 1 (100.00 %) VMware