Eastleigh 1st Line Support Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the 1st Line Support role in IT contracts within the Eastleigh 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 1st Line Support in their job title over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Airdrie Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beccles Bellshill Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Clydebank Coatbridge Colchester Cornwall Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorchester Dorset Dudley Durham East Ayrshire East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Folkestone Glasgow Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Hounslow Hull Kegworth Kent Kidlington Kilmarnock Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northumberland Northwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rugby Sandwich Scotland Shropshire Sidcup Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Swindon Tadworth Telford Thames Valley Thirsk Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warwickshire West Dunbartonshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Wiltshire Witham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	4	15
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	8	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	28.57 %	6.522 %
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	£130	£126
% change on same period last year	+3.34 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£11.76	£12.83
Average hourly rate	£13.09	£13.17
% change on same period last year	-0.61 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.41	£13.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£11.52	£12.12
% change on same period last year	-4.94 %
Job Titles Eastleigh
Matching contract IT job ads	28	46
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.045 %	0.049 %
Daily rates quoted	4	29
Average minimum daily rate	£357	£341
Average daily rate	£363	£345
% change on same period last year	+5.19 %
Average maximum daily rate	£368	£349
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£352
% change on same period last year	+0.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	19	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.86	£18.48
Average hourly rate	£13.48	£19.15
% change on same period last year	-29.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.11	£19.81
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.10	£24.04
% change on same period last year	-3.88 %
1st Line Support Hampshire

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 1st Line Support across the Eastleigh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing 1st Line Support across the Eastleigh region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing 1st Line Support across the Eastleigh region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

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Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Eastleigh region that cited 1st 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 1st Line Support in their job title.

1 10 (83.33 %) Citrix 1 10 (83.33 %) Lotus 1 10 (83.33 %) Lotus Notes 2 1 (8.333 %) MS Office 2 1 (8.333 %) ITIL 2 1 (8.333 %) Windows 2 1 (8.333 %) Linux 2 1 (8.333 %) iSeries 2 1 (8.333 %) Microsoft 2 1 (8.333 %) Active Directory

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Eastleigh region that cited 1st 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 1st Line Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 10 (83.33 %) Lotus Notes	Applications 1 1 (8.333 %) MS Office
Miscellaneous 1 1 (8.333 %) iSeries	Operating Systems 1 1 (8.333 %) Windows 1 1 (8.333 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (8.333 %) ITIL	System Software 1 1 (8.333 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 10 (83.33 %) Citrix 1 10 (83.33 %) Lotus 2 1 (8.333 %) Microsoft