Cardiff 3rd Line Support Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the 3rd Line Support role in IT contracts within the Cardiff 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 3rd Line Support in their job title over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Third Line Support
Location Abingdon Basingstoke Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chichester City of London Coventry Crewe Darlington Devon Docklands, London Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Gatwick Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hackney Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Ipswich Kent Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire London Maidenhead Manchester Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Scotland Sheffield Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Wales Walsall Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	30	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	4	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	1.563 %	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	£249	£293
% change on same period last year	-14.98 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.61	-
Average hourly rate	£28.44	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.28	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.38	£24.93
% change on same period last year	-2.19 %
Job Titles Cardiff
Matching contract IT job ads	256	216
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.338 %	0.215 %
Daily rates quoted	87	62
Average minimum daily rate	£304	£335
Average daily rate	£337	£364
% change on same period last year	-7.47 %
Average maximum daily rate	£370	£393
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	22
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.55	£20.31
Average hourly rate	£22.74	£20.85
% change on same period last year	+9.05 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.92	£21.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.68	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.85 %
3rd Line Support South Wales

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.

3rd Line Support
Demand Trend

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

3rd Line Support
Hourly Rate Trend

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

3rd Line Support
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing 3rd Line Support across the Cardiff region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

3rd Line Support
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 4 (66.67 %) Windows 2 2 (33.33 %) Solaris 2 2 (33.33 %) UNIX 2 2 (33.33 %) Windows XP 2 2 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 2 (33.33 %) Sun 2 2 (33.33 %) Active Directory 2 2 (33.33 %) SAN 2 2 (33.33 %) VERITAS 2 2 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 2 2 (33.33 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (16.67 %) Terminal Services 3 1 (16.67 %) EMC 3 1 (16.67 %) Degree

3 1 (16.67 %) SC Cleared 3 1 (16.67 %) Change Management 3 1 (16.67 %) DameWare 3 1 (16.67 %) LAN 3 1 (16.67 %) WAN 3 1 (16.67 %) NFS 3 1 (16.67 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (16.67 %) VPN 3 1 (16.67 %) C 3 1 (16.67 %) Windows 2000

3rd Line Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 2 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 1 2 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003	Communications & Networking 1 2 (33.33 %) SAN 2 1 (16.67 %) LAN 2 1 (16.67 %) WAN 2 1 (16.67 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (16.67 %) VPN
Operating Systems 1 4 (66.67 %) Windows 2 2 (33.33 %) Solaris 2 2 (33.33 %) UNIX 2 2 (33.33 %) Windows XP 2 2 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (16.67 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (33.33 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (16.67 %) SC Cleared 2 1 (16.67 %) Change Management
Programming Languages 1 1 (16.67 %) C	Qualifications 1 1 (16.67 %) Degree
System Software 1 2 (33.33 %) Active Directory 2 1 (16.67 %) Terminal Services 2 1 (16.67 %) NFS	Systems Management 1 1 (16.67 %) DameWare
Vendors 1 2 (33.33 %) Sun 1 2 (33.33 %) VERITAS 2 1 (16.67 %) EMC