The first table below looks at the demand for the Support Technician role in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Support Technician 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 Cheshire 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
Support Technician
Rank - - 70
Contract jobs requiring a Support Technician 0 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire - - 0.322%
As % of the Job Titles category - - 0.356%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £158 £200 £210
% change year-on-year
-21.25% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £12.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £13.00 £13.50
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -3.70%
All Job Titles
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
667 749 842
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 92.00% 91.90% 90.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 404 467
Average daily rate £350 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £455 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 24 34
Average hourly rate £35.00 £20.00 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+75.00% -13.04%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £42.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Support Technician
North West

Support Technician
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire Support Technician Jobs Demand Trend

Support Technician
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cheshire Support Technician Daily Rate Trend

Support Technician
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cheshire Support Technician Hourly Rate Trend

Support Technician
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Support Technician within the Cheshire 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
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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
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Vacancies
Chester - - - -
Knutsford - - - -
Runcorn - - - -
Warrington - - - -
Daresbury - - - -
Support Technician
North West

Support Technician
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region that cited Support Technician 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 Support Technician in their job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Perl
1 2 (66.67%) PHP
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
1 2 (66.67%) UNIX
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Apache
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) LAMP
1 2 (66.67%) Puppet
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) VoIP
2 1 (33.33%) SLA
2 1 (33.33%) EPoS

Support Technician
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (66.67%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) UNIX
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Perl
1 2 (66.67%) PHP
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Puppet