Essex 3rd Line Support Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the 3rd Line Support role in IT contracts within the Essex 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Third Line Support
Location Aberdeen Ascot Basingstoke Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chichester City of London Colchester Cornwall Coventry Devon Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Gloucestershire Guildford Hackney Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Ipswich Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire London Manchester Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Torpoint Tyne and Wear UK Wales Walsall Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	48	59
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	8	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	1.262 %	0.157 %
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	£246	£278
% change on same period last year	-11.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.23	£27.60
Average hourly rate	£31.23	£27.60
% change on same period last year	+13.13 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.23	£27.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.26	£24.14
% change on same period last year	+0.50 %
Job Titles Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	634	635
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.845 %	0.642 %
Daily rates quoted	244	199
Average minimum daily rate	£284	£327
Average daily rate	£299	£351
% change on same period last year	-14.95 %
Average maximum daily rate	£314	£375
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	95	131
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.21	£26.48
Average hourly rate	£29.05	£27.12
% change on same period last year	+7.08 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.89	£27.77
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
3rd Line Support East of England

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 Essex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

3rd Line Support
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 Essex region.

3rd Line Support
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 Essex region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing 3rd Line Support across the Essex region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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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 Essex region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Colchester	-4	5	-	-
Chelmsford	-	1	-	-

3rd Line Support East of England

3rd Line Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 13 (76.47 %) Windows 2 8 (47.06 %) MCSE 2 8 (47.06 %) Microsoft Certification 3 7 (41.18 %) Active Directory 4 6 (35.29 %) Windows Server 2003 4 6 (35.29 %) Back Office 5 5 (29.41 %) Windows 2000 6 4 (23.53 %) Microsoft 6 4 (23.53 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 3 (17.65 %) Change Management 7 3 (17.65 %) Citrix 7 3 (17.65 %) NHS 7 3 (17.65 %) Terminal Server 7 3 (17.65 %) Windows NT 7 3 (17.65 %) SAN

8 2 (11.76 %) MS Excel 8 2 (11.76 %) ISA Server 8 2 (11.76 %) Middleware 8 2 (11.76 %) Blackberry 8 2 (11.76 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 8 2 (11.76 %) MS Exchange 8 2 (11.76 %) Content Management 9 1 (5.882 %) Business Analysis 9 1 (5.882 %) CheckPoint 9 1 (5.882 %) Cisco Certification 9 1 (5.882 %) Telecoms 9 1 (5.882 %) Finance 9 1 (5.882 %) Legal 9 1 (5.882 %) Publishing 9 1 (5.882 %) CMS

3rd Line Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 Development 1 2 (11.76 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 4 (23.53 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 2 (11.76 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (11.76 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 3 1 (5.882 %) CMS 3 1 (5.882 %) IIS 3 1 (5.882 %) Tomcat
Applications 1 2 (11.76 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 3 (17.65 %) SAN 2 1 (5.882 %) LAN 2 1 (5.882 %) WAN 2 1 (5.882 %) DHCP 2 1 (5.882 %) DNS
General 1 6 (35.29 %) Back Office 2 1 (5.882 %) Telecoms 2 1 (5.882 %) Finance 2 1 (5.882 %) Legal 2 1 (5.882 %) Publishing	Miscellaneous 1 3 (17.65 %) NHS 2 2 (11.76 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 13 (76.47 %) Windows 2 6 (35.29 %) Windows Server 2003 3 5 (29.41 %) Windows 2000 4 3 (17.65 %) Windows NT 5 1 (5.882 %) Mac OS X 5 1 (5.882 %) Solaris 5 1 (5.882 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (17.65 %) Change Management 2 2 (11.76 %) Content Management 3 1 (5.882 %) Business Analysis 3 1 (5.882 %) ITIL 3 1 (5.882 %) PRINCE2 3 1 (5.882 %) Project Management
Programming Languages 1 1 (5.882 %) Java	Qualifications 1 8 (47.06 %) MCSE 1 8 (47.06 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (5.882 %) CCNP 2 1 (5.882 %) CCNA 2 1 (5.882 %) CCDP 2 1 (5.882 %) Cisco Certification
System Software 1 7 (41.18 %) Active Directory 2 3 (17.65 %) Terminal Server 3 2 (11.76 %) ISA Server 4 1 (5.882 %) NetBackup 4 1 (5.882 %) Backup Exec	Vendors 1 4 (23.53 %) Microsoft 2 3 (17.65 %) Citrix 3 1 (5.882 %) NetApp 3 1 (5.882 %) VERITAS 3 1 (5.882 %) Apple 3 1 (5.882 %) CheckPoint 3 1 (5.882 %) VMware 3 1 (5.882 %) Intel 3 1 (5.882 %) Cisco