East Sussex 3rd Line Support Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the 3rd Line Support role in IT contracts within the East Sussex 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 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Third Line Support
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Basingstoke Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bradford 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 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 Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Wales Walsall Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	27	37
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	1	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.488 %	0.303 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£300
Average daily rate	-	£300
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£256	£292
% change on same period last year	-12.25 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	-
Average hourly rate	£17.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.50	£24.78
% change on same period last year	-1.13 %
Job Titles East Sussex
Matching contract IT job ads	205	330
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.273 %	0.329 %
Daily rates quoted	47	105
Average minimum daily rate	£347	£320
Average daily rate	£365	£337
% change on same period last year	+8.40 %
Average maximum daily rate	£383	£353
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£355
% change on same period last year	+0.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	43	40
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.95	£16.68
Average hourly rate	£21.08	£18.03
% change on same period last year	+16.91 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.20	£19.37
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.79	£25.66
% change on same period last year	-7.31 %
3rd Line Support South East

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 East Sussex 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 East Sussex 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 East Sussex region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 3rd Line Support within the East Sussex region over the 3 months to 29 August 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
Hove	-	1	-	-

3rd Line Support South East

3rd Line Support
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex 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 1 (100.00 %) Windows 1 1 (100.00 %) MCSE 1 1 (100.00 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (100.00 %) DHCP 1 1 (100.00 %) DNS 1 1 (100.00 %) Cisco 1 1 (100.00 %) Active Directory 1 1 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (100.00 %) Juniper 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows Server 2003 1 1 (100.00 %) Firewall 1 1 (100.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows 2000 Server

3rd Line Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex 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 (100.00 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (100.00 %) Exchange Server 2003	Communications & Networking 1 1 (100.00 %) DHCP 1 1 (100.00 %) DNS 1 1 (100.00 %) Firewall
Operating Systems 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows Server 2003 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows 2000 Server	Qualifications 1 1 (100.00 %) MCSE 1 1 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification
System Software 1 1 (100.00 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 1 (100.00 %) Cisco 1 1 (100.00 %) Juniper