Cambridgeshire 1st Line Support Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the 1st Line Support role in IT contracts within the Cambridgeshire 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 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

First Line Support
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Addlestone Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beccles Bedfordshire Bellshill Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Castleford Chelmsford Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Clydebank Colchester Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Dunbar Dunstable Durham East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnham Folkestone Glasgow Gloucestershire Halifax Hampshire Hastings Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kegworth Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North Lanarkshire North West Northumberland Northwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Stockport Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Dunbartonshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Witham Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	48	69
Rank change on same period last year	+21
Matching contract IT job ads	10	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.014 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	1.517 %	0.863 %
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	£134	£140
% change on same period last year	-4.66 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£9.00	£10.17
Average hourly rate	£9.93	£11.50
% change on same period last year	-13.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£10.86	£12.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£11.62	£12.00
% change on same period last year	-3.15 %
Job Titles Cambridgeshire
Matching contract IT job ads	659	1043
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.921 %	1.048 %
Daily rates quoted	133	189
Average minimum daily rate	£312	£307
Average daily rate	£337	£324
% change on same period last year	+3.99 %
Average maximum daily rate	£361	£340
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£353
% change on same period last year	+0.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	147	185
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.77	£28.56
Average hourly rate	£21.26	£30.48
% change on same period last year	-30.24 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.76	£32.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.74	£25.24
% change on same period last year	-5.93 %
1st Line Support East of England

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.

1st Line Support
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing 1st Line Support across the Cambridgeshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing 1st Line Support across the Cambridgeshire region.

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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 Cambridgeshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing 1st Line Support across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 1st Line Support within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Cambridge	+18	5	-	-
Peterborough	+8	3	-	-
Huntingdon	-	1	-	-

1st Line Support East of England

1st Line Support
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 20 (83.33 %) Windows 2 14 (58.33 %) Windows 2000 3 11 (45.83 %) Microsoft 4 10 (41.67 %) Windows XP 5 9 (37.50 %) MS Office 6 4 (16.67 %) TCP/IP 6 4 (16.67 %) MS Excel 6 4 (16.67 %) Knowledge Management 7 3 (12.50 %) SLA 8 2 (8.333 %) Active Directory 8 2 (8.333 %) MS Exchange 9 1 (4.167 %) NDS 9 1 (4.167 %) MS Visio 9 1 (4.167 %) CRM 9 1 (4.167 %) Windows NT

9 1 (4.167 %) ERP 9 1 (4.167 %) VERITAS 9 1 (4.167 %) Intranet 9 1 (4.167 %) Exchange Server 5.5 9 1 (4.167 %) Exchange Server 2003 9 1 (4.167 %) Data Protection Act 9 1 (4.167 %) Data Protection 9 1 (4.167 %) SC Cleared 9 1 (4.167 %) Security Cleared

1st Line Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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.

Application Platforms 1 2 (8.333 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (4.167 %) Exchange Server 5.5 2 1 (4.167 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 9 (37.50 %) MS Office 2 4 (16.67 %) MS Excel 3 1 (4.167 %) MS Visio
Communications & Networking 1 4 (16.67 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (4.167 %) Intranet	Miscellaneous 1 1 (4.167 %) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems 1 20 (83.33 %) Windows 2 14 (58.33 %) Windows 2000 3 10 (41.67 %) Windows XP 4 1 (4.167 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (16.67 %) Knowledge Management 2 1 (4.167 %) Data Protection 2 1 (4.167 %) SC Cleared 2 1 (4.167 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (4.167 %) CRM 2 1 (4.167 %) ERP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (12.50 %) SLA	System Software 1 2 (8.333 %) Active Directory 2 1 (4.167 %) NDS
Vendors 1 11 (45.83 %) Microsoft 2 1 (4.167 %) VERITAS