East of England Support Specialist Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Support Specialist role in IT contracts within the East of England 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 Support Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Alderley Edge Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Cheltenham Cheshire Chesterfield Cirencester City of London County Londonderry Crawley Crewe Croydon Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England England Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Kent Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire London Manchester Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Reading Redhill Salford Sheffield South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Surrey Swindon UK Wales Watford Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	124	136
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	6	24
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.025 %
As % of the category below	0.188 %	0.546 %
Daily rates quoted	4	2
Average minimum daily rate	£363	£300
Average daily rate	£375	£308
% change on same period last year	+21.99 %
Average maximum daily rate	£388	£315
UK excluding London average daily rate	£297	£288
% change on same period last year	+3.18 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	9
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£26.85
Average hourly rate	-	£27.76
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£28.66
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.06	£26.07
% change on same period last year	+26.78 %
Job Titles East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	3189	4392
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.545 %	4.542 %
Daily rates quoted	965	1318
Average minimum daily rate	£313	£316
Average daily rate	£334	£333
% change on same period last year	+0.19 %
Average maximum daily rate	£355	£351
UK excluding London average daily rate	£354	£353
% change on same period last year	+0.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	494	707
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.23	£26.22
Average hourly rate	£22.52	£27.56
% change on same period last year	-18.27 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.81	£28.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.64	£25.03
% change on same period last year	-5.56 %
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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 Support Specialist across the East of England 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 Support Specialist across the East of England region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Support Specialist across the East of England region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Support Specialist across the East of England 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 Support Specialist within the East of England region over the 3 months to 15 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
Hertfordshire	+22	6	£375	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region that cited Support Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title.

1 12 (50.00 %) Perl 1 12 (50.00 %) Shell Script 2 11 (45.83 %) Linux 3 10 (41.67 %) JBoss 3 10 (41.67 %) Middleware 4 9 (37.50 %) Red Hat 4 9 (37.50 %) AIX 4 9 (37.50 %) J2SE 4 9 (37.50 %) SQL 4 9 (37.50 %) J2EE 4 9 (37.50 %) Java 4 9 (37.50 %) UNIX 4 9 (37.50 %) Red Hat Linux 5 8 (33.33 %) WebSphere 5 8 (33.33 %) DB2

5 8 (33.33 %) WebSphere Application Server 5 8 (33.33 %) IBM 6 6 (25.00 %) Microsoft 7 5 (20.83 %) Windows 7 5 (20.83 %) MS Office 8 4 (16.67 %) SharePoint 8 4 (16.67 %) MS Exchange 8 4 (16.67 %) Citrix 8 4 (16.67 %) Microsoft Certification 9 3 (12.50 %) StorageTek 9 3 (12.50 %) VERITAS 9 3 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 9 3 (12.50 %) Sun 9 3 (12.50 %) MS Excel 9 3 (12.50 %) EMC

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region that cited Support Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 10 (41.67 %) Middleware 2 9 (37.50 %) J2SE 2 9 (37.50 %) J2EE 3 8 (33.33 %) WebSphere 4 3 (12.50 %) ASP 4 3 (12.50 %) ASP.NET 4 3 (12.50 %) HTML 4 3 (12.50 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 10 (41.67 %) JBoss 2 8 (33.33 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 4 (16.67 %) SharePoint 3 4 (16.67 %) MS Exchange 4 3 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2007 5 2 (8.333 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 2 (8.333 %) Lotus Notes 6 1 (4.167 %) Apache 6 1 (4.167 %) Tomcat 6 1 (4.167 %) Tuxedo 6 1 (4.167 %) Rendezvous 6 1 (4.167 %) WebLogic 6 1 (4.167 %) TIBCO EMS
Applications 1 5 (20.83 %) MS Office 2 3 (12.50 %) MS Excel 2 3 (12.50 %) MS PowerPoint	Communications & Networking 1 3 (12.50 %) VoIP 2 2 (8.333 %) WAN 2 2 (8.333 %) DNS 2 2 (8.333 %) MPLS 2 2 (8.333 %) Firewall 2 2 (8.333 %) LAN 3 1 (4.167 %) DHCP 3 1 (4.167 %) HTTP 3 1 (4.167 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (33.33 %) DB2	General 1 2 (8.333 %) Telecoms 1 2 (8.333 %) Games
Miscellaneous 1 1 (4.167 %) AS400	Operating Systems 1 11 (45.83 %) Linux 2 9 (37.50 %) Red Hat Linux 2 9 (37.50 %) UNIX 2 9 (37.50 %) AIX 3 5 (20.83 %) Windows 4 3 (12.50 %) Solaris 4 3 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 5 1 (4.167 %) Windows XP 5 1 (4.167 %) NetWare
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (12.50 %) ITIL	Programming Languages 1 12 (50.00 %) Perl 1 12 (50.00 %) Shell Script 2 9 (37.50 %) Java 2 9 (37.50 %) SQL 3 3 (12.50 %) VBScript 3 3 (12.50 %) VB.NET
Qualifications 1 4 (16.67 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (4.167 %) MCSE	System Software 1 2 (8.333 %) Active Directory 2 1 (4.167 %) VMware ESX 2 1 (4.167 %) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors 1 9 (37.50 %) Red Hat 2 8 (33.33 %) IBM 3 6 (25.00 %) Microsoft 4 4 (16.67 %) Citrix 5 3 (12.50 %) SAP 5 3 (12.50 %) Sun 5 3 (12.50 %) EMC 5 3 (12.50 %) StorageTek 5 3 (12.50 %) VERITAS 5 3 (12.50 %) Brocade 6 2 (8.333 %) VMware 6 2 (8.333 %) Lotus 6 2 (8.333 %) Cisco 7 1 (4.167 %) Novell 7 1 (4.167 %) TIBCO