Cheshire 3rd Line Support Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the 3rd Line Support role in IT contracts within the Cheshire 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 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Third Line Support
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Brentford 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 East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Gatwick Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hackney Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hove Ipswich Kent Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire London Maidenhead Manchester Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne 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 St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Thirsk Tyne and Wear UK Wales Walsall Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	56	63
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	1	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	0.129 %	0.344 %
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	£261	£297
% change on same period last year	-12.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	-
Average hourly rate	£25.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.39	£24.24
% change on same period last year	+0.62 %
Job Titles Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	778	872
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.052 %	0.860 %
Daily rates quoted	234	212
Average minimum daily rate	£309	£296
Average daily rate	£322	£310
% change on same period last year	+3.75 %
Average maximum daily rate	£335	£324
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£355
% change on same period last year	-0.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	104	62
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.83	£21.09
Average hourly rate	£22.99	£22.37
% change on same period last year	+2.78 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.16	£23.65
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.85	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.14 %
3rd Line Support North West

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing 3rd Line Support across the Cheshire 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 3rd Line Support across the Cheshire 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 3rd Line Support across the Cheshire region.

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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 3rd Line Support within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 5 September 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
Crewe	-	1	-	-

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Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 3 (100.00 %) Windows 1 3 (100.00 %) Active Directory 1 3 (100.00 %) Windows Server 2003 2 2 (66.67 %) Citrix 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows 2000 Server 2 2 (66.67 %) Microsoft 3 1 (33.33 %) SAN 3 1 (33.33 %) HP 3 1 (33.33 %) Dell 3 1 (33.33 %) Back Office 3 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (33.33 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows NT 3 1 (33.33 %) MS Exchange

3 1 (33.33 %) DHCP 3 1 (33.33 %) VPN 3 1 (33.33 %) DNS 3 1 (33.33 %) Cisco

3rd Line Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003	Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) DHCP 1 1 (33.33 %) VPN 1 1 (33.33 %) DNS 1 1 (33.33 %) SAN
General 1 1 (33.33 %) Back Office	Operating Systems 1 3 (100.00 %) Windows 1 3 (100.00 %) Windows Server 2003 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows NT
System Software 1 3 (100.00 %) Active Directory 2 1 (33.33 %) Citrix Presentation Server	Vendors 1 2 (66.67 %) Microsoft 1 2 (66.67 %) Citrix 2 1 (33.33 %) Cisco 2 1 (33.33 %) HP 2 1 (33.33 %) Dell