3rd Line Support Contracts in Glasgow
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the 3rd Line Support role in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited 3rd Line Support 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 Glasgow 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
Third Line Support
Rank 79 - 62
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Support 1 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.106% - 0.143%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.112% - 0.150%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £270 £258 £233
% change year-on-year
+4.85% +10.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.50 £20.03 £21.50
% change year-on-year
+17.32% -6.83%
All Job Titles
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 892 735 666
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 94.69% 95.21% 95.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 456 350 388
Average daily rate £338 £319 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.79% -8.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £215 £251
10% offered a daily rate of more than £454 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 37 21
Average hourly rate £14.00 £20.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-30.00% +5.26%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £9.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.75 £34.54 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
3rd Line Support
Scotland

3rd Line Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow 3rd Line Support Jobs Demand Trend

3rd Line Support
Daily Rate Trend

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

Glasgow 3rd Line Support Daily Rate Trend

3rd Line Support
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Glasgow 3rd Line Support Hourly Rate Trend

3rd Line Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 8 (88.89%) Windows
1 8 (88.89%) VMware
2 6 (66.67%) MS Exchange
2 6 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (55.56%) Exchange Server 2007
3 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
3 5 (55.56%) Citrix
4 3 (33.33%) NetApp
4 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
4 3 (33.33%) HP
4 3 (33.33%) Dell
4 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (22.22%) Windows XP
5 2 (22.22%) XenApp
5 2 (22.22%) SCCM
5 2 (22.22%) Incident Management
5 2 (22.22%) Symantec
5 2 (22.22%) McAfee
5 2 (22.22%) Backup Exec
5 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (22.22%) SAN
5 2 (22.22%) DHCP
5 2 (22.22%) DNS
5 2 (22.22%) Cisco
5 2 (22.22%) IBM
5 2 (22.22%) Solaris
5 2 (22.22%) UNIX

3rd Line Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 Platforms
1 6 (66.67%) MS Exchange
2 5 (55.56%) Exchange Server 2007
3 3 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) DHCP
1 2 (22.22%) DNS
1 2 (22.22%) SAN
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Windows
2 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (22.22%) Solaris
3 2 (22.22%) Windows XP
3 2 (22.22%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) Incident Management
2 1 (11.11%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (22.22%) XenApp
4 1 (11.11%) Terminal Server
4 1 (11.11%) VMware Server
4 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Backup Exec
1 2 (22.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) VMware
2 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 5 (55.56%) Citrix
3 3 (33.33%) NetApp
3 3 (33.33%) HP
3 3 (33.33%) Dell
4 2 (22.22%) Cisco
4 2 (22.22%) IBM
4 2 (22.22%) Symantec
4 2 (22.22%) McAfee
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