Basingstoke Support Technician Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Support Technician role in IT contracts within the Basingstoke 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 Support Technician in their job title over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Support Technician
Location Abingdon Basildon Basingstoke Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Chelmsford Cheshire City of London Colchester Coventry Dartford Doncaster Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Farnborough Folkestone Glasgow Gloucestershire Greenwich Gwent Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Preston Reading Romford Rotherham Salford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Helens Stockport Suffolk Surrey Taunton Thatcham Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington West Midlands West Yorkshire Woking Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	32	43
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	5	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	1.603 %	0.313 %
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	£139	£210
% change on same period last year	-33.97 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£10.00
Average hourly rate	-	£12.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£16.28	£15.17
% change on same period last year	+7.33 %
Job Titles Basingstoke
Matching contract IT job ads	312	320
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.439 %	0.323 %
Daily rates quoted	85	103
Average minimum daily rate	£329	£331
Average daily rate	£354	£352
% change on same period last year	+0.73 %
Average maximum daily rate	£379	£373
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	81	44
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.55	£24.20
Average hourly rate	£29.01	£25.48
% change on same period last year	+13.84 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.47	£26.76
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.76	£25.22
% change on same period last year	-5.77 %
Support Technician Hampshire

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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Support Technician across the Basingstoke region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Support Technician across the Basingstoke region.

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Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region that cited Support Technician 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 Support Technician in their job title.

1 16 (100.00 %) Windows 2 13 (81.25 %) MS Office 3 12 (75.00 %) Active Directory 4 10 (62.50 %) Windows XP 5 7 (43.75 %) ITIL 5 7 (43.75 %) MS Excel 6 3 (18.75 %) HP 7 2 (12.50 %) Citrix 7 2 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification 7 2 (12.50 %) VERITAS 7 2 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 7 2 (12.50 %) Blackberry 7 2 (12.50 %) MCP 7 2 (12.50 %) MCSE 7 2 (12.50 %) MCSA

7 2 (12.50 %) MS Exchange 7 2 (12.50 %) LAN 7 2 (12.50 %) WAN 7 2 (12.50 %) VPN 7 2 (12.50 %) Microsoft 7 2 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 2 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 Server 7 2 (12.50 %) Migration 7 2 (12.50 %) Backup Exec

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region that cited Support Technician 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 Support Technician in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 2 (12.50 %) MS Exchange 1 2 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 13 (81.25 %) MS Office 2 7 (43.75 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 2 (12.50 %) LAN 1 2 (12.50 %) WAN 1 2 (12.50 %) VPN	Miscellaneous 1 2 (12.50 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 16 (100.00 %) Windows 2 10 (62.50 %) Windows XP 3 2 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (43.75 %) ITIL 2 2 (12.50 %) Migration
Qualifications 1 2 (12.50 %) MCP 1 2 (12.50 %) MCSE 1 2 (12.50 %) MCSA 1 2 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification	System Software 1 12 (75.00 %) Active Directory 2 2 (12.50 %) Backup Exec
Vendors 1 3 (18.75 %) HP 2 2 (12.50 %) Citrix 2 2 (12.50 %) VERITAS 2 2 (12.50 %) Microsoft