The first table below looks at the demand for the 2nd Line Support Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Second Line Support Engineer
Rank - 49 48
Contract jobs requiring a 2nd Line Support Engineer 0 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex - 0.244% 0.256%
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.261% 0.269%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £170 £160 £175
% change year-on-year
+6.25% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £15.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.38 £14.50 £14.50
% change year-on-year
+12.93% -
All Job Titles
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
375 383 372
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 91.02% 93.64% 95.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 184 167
Average daily rate £301 £288 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.52% -
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 78 58 76
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 £13.95
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.00 £40.60 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
2nd Line Support Engineer
East of England

2nd Line Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 2nd Line Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

2nd Line Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Essex 2nd Line Support Engineer Daily Rate Trend

2nd Line Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Essex 2nd Line Support Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

2nd Line Support Engineer
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region that cited 2nd 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 2nd Line Support Engineer in their job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 3 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (66.67%) Blackberry
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) Windows 7
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (33.33%) SAN
3 1 (33.33%) Internet
3 1 (33.33%) MS Office
3 1 (33.33%) MCP
3 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Windows 2000
3 1 (33.33%) MCSE
3 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
3 1 (33.33%) MCDST
3 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (33.33%) Back Office

2nd Line Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Office
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
1 1 (33.33%) Internet
General
1 1 (33.33%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) Windows 7
3 1 (33.33%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) MCP
1 1 (33.33%) MCSE
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (33.33%) MCDST
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Citrix
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft