The first table below looks at the demand for the 3rd Line Support Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited 3rd Line Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 May 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 City of London 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Third Line Support Engineer
Rank 193 214 239
Rank change year-on-year
+21 +25
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Support Engineer 10 4 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.157% 0.051% 0.061%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.170% 0.056% 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 3
Average daily rate £300 £279 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.62% -30.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £256 £192
10% offered a daily rate of more than £343 £302 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £240 £260
% change year-on-year
+25.00% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 2
Average hourly rate £135.00 £17.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+694.11% -24.44%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year
+25.00% +4.76%
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5894 7192 8993
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.40% 91.44% 91.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4333 5169 6545
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 186 197
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £133.00 £41.28 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
3rd Line Support Engineer
London

3rd Line Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing 3rd Line Support Engineer across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London 3rd Line Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

3rd Line Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing 3rd Line Support Engineer across the City of London region.

City of London 3rd Line Support Engineer Daily Rate Trend

3rd Line Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing 3rd Line Support Engineer across the City of London region.

City of London 3rd Line Support Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

3rd Line Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing 3rd Line Support Engineer across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London 3rd Line Support Engineer Hourly Rate Histogram

3rd Line Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited 3rd Line Support Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title.

1 16 (88.89%) Windows
2 15 (83.33%) Active Directory
3 12 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 12 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
4 11 (61.11%) Citrix
4 11 (61.11%) ITIL
5 9 (50.00%) Blackberry
6 8 (44.44%) Exchange Server 2007
6 8 (44.44%) MS Exchange
6 8 (44.44%) Cisco
7 7 (38.89%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (38.89%) WAN
7 7 (38.89%) MCSE
7 7 (38.89%) VMware
8 6 (33.33%) LAN
8 6 (33.33%) CCNA
8 6 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
8 6 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
8 6 (33.33%) XenApp
8 6 (33.33%) Windows 7
8 6 (33.33%) vSphere
9 5 (27.78%) Intranet
9 5 (27.78%) Internet
9 5 (27.78%) Windows XP
9 5 (27.78%) SLA
9 5 (27.78%) PRINCE2
9 5 (27.78%) HTML
9 5 (27.78%) Service Management

3rd Line Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited 3rd Line Support Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (27.78%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 8 (44.44%) Exchange Server 2007
1 8 (44.44%) MS Exchange
2 4 (22.22%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 2 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (5.556%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 3 (16.67%) MS Excel
2 1 (5.556%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 7 (38.89%) WAN
2 6 (33.33%) LAN
2 6 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (27.78%) Intranet
3 5 (27.78%) Internet
4 4 (22.22%) VLAN
4 4 (22.22%) TCP/IP
5 2 (11.11%) DNS
5 2 (11.11%) SAN
5 2 (11.11%) Firewall
6 1 (5.556%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (5.556%) Cisco PIX
6 1 (5.556%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (5.556%) SMS
6 1 (5.556%) DHCP
General
1 2 (11.11%) Finance
1 2 (11.11%) Law
2 1 (5.556%) Legal
2 1 (5.556%) Banking
2 1 (5.556%) Investment Banking
2 1 (5.556%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 9 (50.00%) Blackberry
2 1 (5.556%) Replication
2 1 (5.556%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 16 (88.89%) Windows
2 12 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 12 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (33.33%) Windows 7
4 5 (27.78%) Windows XP
5 1 (5.556%) Windows Vista
5 1 (5.556%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) ITIL
2 5 (27.78%) PRINCE2
2 5 (27.78%) Service Management
2 5 (27.78%) Project Management
2 5 (27.78%) Business Analysis
3 2 (11.11%) Time Management
4 1 (5.556%) Capacity Management
4 1 (5.556%) Validation
4 1 (5.556%) Problem Management
4 1 (5.556%) Change Management
4 1 (5.556%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.556%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft Certification
1 7 (38.89%) MCSE
2 6 (33.33%) CCNA
2 6 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.556%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.556%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.556%) MCITP
3 1 (5.556%) CCNP
3 1 (5.556%) CCA
3 1 (5.556%) Citrix Certification
3 1 (5.556%) CCEA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 6 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (33.33%) XenApp
2 6 (33.33%) vSphere
3 4 (22.22%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 4 (22.22%) VMware ESX
3 4 (22.22%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (22.22%) Hyper-V
4 1 (5.556%) XenDesktop
4 1 (5.556%) ProxySG
Vendors
1 11 (61.11%) Citrix
2 8 (44.44%) Cisco
3 7 (38.89%) VMware
4 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 2 (11.11%) HP
6 1 (5.556%) ProCurve
6 1 (5.556%) F5
6 1 (5.556%) FalconStor
6 1 (5.556%) Blue Coat
6 1 (5.556%) Dell
6 1 (5.556%) CommVault
6 1 (5.556%) Juniper
6 1 (5.556%) Oracle
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