Bishop's Stortford 1st Line Support Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the 1st Line Support role in IT contracts within the Bishop's Stortford 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 1st Line Support in their job title over the 3 months to 7 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Airdrie Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bellshill Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Braintree Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chelmsford Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Clydebank Coatbridge Colchester Cornwall Coventry Crawley Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorchester Dorset Dudley Durham East Ayrshire East Grinstead East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Eynsham Fareham Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Hounslow Kegworth Kidlington Kilmarnock Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newcastle North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rugby Scotland Shropshire Sidcup Slough Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Swindon Tadworth Telford Thirsk Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Warwickshire West Dunbartonshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Wiltshire Winchester Witham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	1	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	50.00 %	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	£144	£118
% change on same period last year	+22.43 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£10.00	-
Average hourly rate	£11.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£12.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£11.82	£11.75
% change on same period last year	+0.64 %
Job Titles Bishop's Stortford
Matching contract IT job ads	2	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.018 %
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	£350	£357
% change on same period last year	-2.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£10.00	£15.00
Average hourly rate	£11.00	£22.50
% change on same period last year	-51.11 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£12.00	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.14	£23.50
% change on same period last year	-1.52 %
1st Line Support Hertfordshire

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 1st Line Support across the Bishop's Stortford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing 1st Line Support across the Bishop's Stortford region.

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Top 4 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Bishop's Stortford region that cited 1st 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 1st Line Support in their job title.

1 1 (100.00 %) MS Office 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows 1 1 (100.00 %) MS Excel 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows XP

1st Line Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Bishop's Stortford region that cited 1st 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 1st Line Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 1 (100.00 %) MS Office 1 1 (100.00 %) MS Excel

Operating Systems 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows XP