The first table below looks at the demand for the 2nd Line Support Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Blackpool region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited 2nd Line Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 May 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 Blackpool 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Second Line Support Engineer
Rank - - -
Contract jobs requiring a 2nd Line Support Engineer 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Blackpool - - -
As % of the Job Titles category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £175 £165 £250
% change year-on-year
+6.06% -34.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £14.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year
+17.24% -3.33%
All Job Titles
Blackpool
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
19 44 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Blackpool 90.48% 100.00% 84.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 19
Average daily rate £315 £470 £328
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-32.97% +43.51%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £163 £259 £235
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £675 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 5
Average hourly rate £26.50 £21.50 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+23.25% -40.27%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
2nd Line Support Engineer
Lancashire

2nd Line Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing 2nd Line Support Engineer across the Blackpool region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Blackpool 2nd Line Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

2nd Line Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Blackpool 2nd Line Support Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

2nd Line Support Engineer
Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Blackpool region that cited 2nd Line Support Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title.

1 3 (100.00%) MS Office
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) MCSE
1 3 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (100.00%) Sage
1 3 (100.00%) MCDST
1 3 (100.00%) Windows 7

2nd Line Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Blackpool region that cited 2nd Line Support Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (100.00%) MS Office
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) MCSE
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (100.00%) MCDST
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Sage