The first table below looks at the demand for the 3rd 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 3rd Line Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 18 June 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Third Line Support Engineer
Rank 47 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Support Engineer 4 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 0.946% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.026% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £350 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £258 £220
% change year-on-year
+16.50% +17.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £18.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.50 £22.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
+20.45% +7.31%
All Job Titles
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
390 425 362
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 92.20% 95.08% 93.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 196 164
Average daily rate £300 £270 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% +8.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £170 £100 £99
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £469 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 69 65
Average hourly rate £27.57 £25.00 £27.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.26% -7.40%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £13.00 £10.05
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £45.00 £34.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
3rd Line Support Engineer
East of England

3rd Line Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 3rd Line Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

3rd Line Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Essex 3rd Line Support Engineer Daily Rate Trend

3rd Line Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Essex 3rd Line Support Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

3rd Line Support Engineer
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region that cited 3rd 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 3rd Line Support Engineer in their job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Citrix
1 4 (100.00%) XenApp
2 3 (75.00%) XenDesktop
2 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
3 2 (50.00%) AppSense
3 2 (50.00%) Xen
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (50.00%) SolarWinds
3 2 (50.00%) Time Management
4 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (25.00%) Blackberry
4 1 (25.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (25.00%) Windows XP
4 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
4 1 (25.00%) DHCP
4 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (25.00%) MS Office

3rd Line Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region that cited 3rd 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 3rd Line Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (25.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) DHCP
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (25.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Time Management
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) XenApp
2 3 (75.00%) XenDesktop
2 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (50.00%) Xen
4 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Citrix
2 3 (75.00%) VMware
3 2 (50.00%) AppSense
3 2 (50.00%) SolarWinds
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
Epping, Essex
Marcus Donald People are currently recruiting for a 1st-3rd Line Support Engineer to work for an outsourcing company based in Epping on a 3 month contract basis...
Marcus Donald People
Rate: £17 to £19 per hour
Posted: 13 June 2013