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Technical Support Contracts in Bedfordshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Support role in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Technical Support in their job title over the 3 months to 19 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 advertised for the Bedfordshire region.

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
19 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Support
Rank - 33 40
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Support 0 2 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire - 0.763% 1.205%
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.823% 1.282%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £275 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £170 £233 £240
% change year-on-year
-26.88% -3.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £13.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.50 £15.50 £13.50
% change year-on-year
-12.90% +14.81%
All Job Titles
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 187 243 234
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 94.92% 92.75% 93.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 128 103
Average daily rate £350 £375 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +20.96%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £200 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 15
Average hourly rate £35.50 £18.00 £27.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+97.22% -33.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.62 £12.00 £12.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £38.65 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Technical Support
East of England

Technical Support
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Technical Support across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Bedfordshire Technical Support Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Support
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Technical Support across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire Technical Support Daily Rate Trend

Technical Support
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Technical Support across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire Technical Support Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Support
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Support within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 19 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
Bedford - - - -
Luton - - - - 4
Technical Support
East of England

Technical Support
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region that cited Technical 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 Technical Support in their job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Terminal Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010

Technical Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region that cited Technical 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 Technical Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Terminal Server
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
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