The first table below looks at the demand for the 2nd Line Support Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited 2nd Line Support Analyst 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 Buckinghamshire 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
Second Line Support Analyst
Rank 67 64 80
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +16
Contract jobs requiring a 2nd Line Support Analyst 8 8 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 0.876% 0.837% 0.183%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.948% 0.892% 0.194%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 2
Average daily rate £210 £146 £164
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+43.83% -10.70%
UK excluding London average daily rate £173 £142 £175
% change year-on-year
+21.26% -18.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
Average hourly rate £13.00 £15.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.75 £16.50 £14.00
% change year-on-year
-16.66% +17.85%
All Job Titles
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
844 897 1031
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 92.44% 93.83% 94.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 395 393
Average daily rate £325 £325 £345
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.79%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £208 £175 £165
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 67 129
Average hourly rate £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.09 £11.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.75 £32.50 £23.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
2nd Line Support Analyst
South East

2nd Line Support Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire 2nd Line Support Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

2nd Line Support Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing 2nd Line Support Analyst across the Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire 2nd Line Support Analyst Daily Rate Trend

2nd Line Support Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Buckinghamshire 2nd Line Support Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

2nd Line Support Analyst
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 2nd Line Support Analyst within the Buckinghamshire 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
Milton Keynes +8 5 £210 - 3
Newport Pagnell - - - -
2nd Line Support Analyst
South East

2nd Line Support Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region that cited 2nd Line Support Analyst 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 Analyst in their job title.

1 11 (91.67%) Windows
2 7 (58.33%) Active Directory
3 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (50.00%) IBM Notes
3 6 (50.00%) MS Office
3 6 (50.00%) ITIL
3 6 (50.00%) Citrix
3 6 (50.00%) Lotus
3 6 (50.00%) Windows 7
4 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
5 4 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (33.33%) DV Cleared
5 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (33.33%) SQL
5 4 (33.33%) MS Exchange
6 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
6 3 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
6 3 (25.00%) Windows Vista
6 3 (25.00%) VMware
6 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (16.67%) vSphere
7 2 (16.67%) Backup Exec
7 2 (16.67%) PDA
7 2 (16.67%) Mathematics
7 2 (16.67%) Broadband
7 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
7 2 (16.67%) VPN
7 2 (16.67%) HP
7 2 (16.67%) Compaq
7 2 (16.67%) MCP

2nd Line Support Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region that cited 2nd Line Support Analyst 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 Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 6 (50.00%) IBM Notes
2 4 (33.33%) MS Exchange
3 3 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 6 (50.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Broadband
1 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (16.67%) VPN
1 2 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (16.67%) SAN
1 2 (16.67%) 3G
2 1 (8.333%) DHCP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) PDA
1 2 (16.67%) Mathematics
2 1 (8.333%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 11 (91.67%) Windows
2 6 (50.00%) Windows 7
3 4 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (25.00%) Windows Vista
5 2 (16.67%) UNIX
5 2 (16.67%) Windows XP
6 1 (8.333%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (16.67%) Service Management
2 2 (16.67%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (16.67%) MCP
4 2 (16.67%) MCSE
4 2 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (16.67%) vSphere
4 1 (8.333%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (50.00%) Citrix
1 6 (50.00%) Lotus
2 3 (25.00%) VMware
3 2 (16.67%) HP
3 2 (16.67%) Compaq
3 2 (16.67%) SAP
3 2 (16.67%) Remedy
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