The first table below looks at the demand for the 2nd Line Support Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited 2nd Line Support Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Essex 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Second Line Support Analyst
Rank 44 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a 2nd Line Support Analyst 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 0.491% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.538% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £134 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £193 £140 £185
% change year-on-year
+37.50% -24.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.50 £15.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year
-3.33% +7.14%
All Job Titles
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
372 384 376
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 91.40% 93.66% 95.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 188 169
Average daily rate £301 £294 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.29% +2.17%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £160 £105 £78
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 57 77
Average hourly rate £30.00 £27.00 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% -1.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £13.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £41.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
2nd Line Support Analyst
East of England

2nd Line Support Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing 2nd Line Support Analyst across the Essex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Essex 2nd Line Support Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

2nd Line Support Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing 2nd Line Support Analyst across the Essex region.

Essex 2nd Line Support Analyst Daily Rate Trend

2nd Line Support Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing 2nd Line Support Analyst across the Essex region.

Essex 2nd Line Support Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

2nd Line Support Analyst
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 2nd Line Support Analyst within the Essex region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
(Click each for more statistics)
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
Witham - 1 £95 -
2nd Line Support Analyst
East of England

2nd Line Support Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region that cited 2nd Line Support Analyst 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 2nd Line Support Analyst in their job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Windows
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (60.00%) Windows XP
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (40.00%) MS Office
3 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) MCP
3 2 (40.00%) MS Excel
3 2 (40.00%) McAfee
3 2 (40.00%) HP
3 2 (40.00%) Citrix
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (40.00%) VMware
4 1 (20.00%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (20.00%) OVSD
4 1 (20.00%) MCDST
4 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (20.00%) Windows Vista
4 1 (20.00%) LANDesk
4 1 (20.00%) Tandberg
4 1 (20.00%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (20.00%) Juniper
4 1 (20.00%) Mac OS X
4 1 (20.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (20.00%) Blackberry
4 1 (20.00%) OpenView
4 1 (20.00%) C
4 1 (20.00%) Linux
4 1 (20.00%) MCSE

2nd Line Support Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region that cited 2nd Line Support Analyst 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 2nd Line Support Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) MS Office
1 2 (40.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) LAN
1 1 (20.00%) VoIP
1 1 (20.00%) WAN
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
1 1 (20.00%) HTTP
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Wireless
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (20.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Windows XP
3 1 (20.00%) Mac OS X
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Vista
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (20.00%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) MCP
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (20.00%) MCDST
2 1 (20.00%) MCSE
2 1 (20.00%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (20.00%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) OpenView
1 1 (20.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 1 (20.00%) OVSD
1 1 (20.00%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) HP
2 2 (40.00%) Citrix
2 2 (40.00%) McAfee
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) LANDesk
3 1 (20.00%) Tandberg
3 1 (20.00%) Juniper
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco