The first table below looks at the demand for the 3rd Line Support role in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited 3rd Line Support in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Bristol 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Third Line Support
Rank 49 59 43
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -16
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Support 1 2 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 0.187% 0.235% 0.930%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.197% 0.252% 0.985%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 4
Average daily rate - - £281
UK excluding London average daily rate £270 £258 £233
% change year-on-year
+4.85% +10.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Average hourly rate - £21.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +5.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.50 £20.03 £21.50
% change year-on-year
+17.32% -6.83%
All Job Titles
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
508 793 609
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 95.13% 93.29% 94.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 297 528 330
Average daily rate £338 £350 £360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.57% -2.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £223 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £453 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 36 38
Average hourly rate £13.50 £21.00 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.71% +31.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.00 £14.50 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £37.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
3rd Line Support
South West

3rd Line Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol 3rd Line Support Jobs Demand Trend

3rd Line Support
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bristol 3rd Line Support Daily Rate Trend

3rd Line Support
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bristol 3rd Line Support Hourly Rate Trend

3rd Line Support
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region that cited 3rd 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 3rd Line Support in their job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) XenDesktop
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
2 1 (50.00%) EqualLogic
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) Clustering
2 1 (50.00%) PKI
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (50.00%) SonicWALL
2 1 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (50.00%) SCOM
2 1 (50.00%) Dell
2 1 (50.00%) Genesys
2 1 (50.00%) CommVault
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft

3rd Line Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region that cited 3rd 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 3rd Line Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
1 1 (50.00%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) XenDesktop
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
1 1 (50.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) SonicWALL
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Dell
2 1 (50.00%) Genesys
2 1 (50.00%) CommVault
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat