Hemel Hempstead 1st Line Support Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the 1st Line Support role in IT contracts within the Hemel Hempstead 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 1st Line Support in their job title over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Airdrie Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beccles Bellshill Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Castleford Chelmsford Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Clydebank Coatbridge Colchester Cornwall Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorchester Dorset Dudley Durham East Ayrshire East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Folkestone Glasgow Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Hounslow Hull Kegworth Kent Kidlington Kilmarnock Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northumberland Northwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rugby Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Swindon Tadworth Telford Thames Valley Thirsk Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warwickshire West Dunbartonshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Wiltshire Witham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	9	14
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	3	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	6.818 %	2.439 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£100
Average daily rate	-	£110
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£120
UK excluding London average daily rate	£132	£135
% change on same period last year	-1.75 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£11.00	-
Average hourly rate	£11.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£11.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£11.45	£12.08
% change on same period last year	-5.22 %
Job Titles Hemel Hempstead
Matching contract IT job ads	44	82
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.069 %	0.088 %
Daily rates quoted	9	24
Average minimum daily rate	£204	£246
Average daily rate	£219	£264
% change on same period last year	-16.99 %
Average maximum daily rate	£234	£282
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£351
% change on same period last year	+0.72 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.81	£19.50
Average hourly rate	£22.21	£20.35
% change on same period last year	+9.16 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.62	£21.19
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.37	£24.42
% change on same period last year	-4.31 %
1st Line Support Herefordshire

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing 1st Line Support across the Hemel Hempstead region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing 1st Line Support across the Hemel Hempstead region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing 1st Line Support across the Hemel Hempstead region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing 1st Line Support across the Hemel Hempstead region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

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Top 4 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hemel Hempstead region that cited 1st 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 1st Line Support in their job title.

1 2 (66.67 %) Multimedia 2 1 (33.33 %) ITIL 2 1 (33.33 %) SLA 2 1 (33.33 %) Health

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hemel Hempstead region that cited 1st 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 1st Line Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

General 1 2 (66.67 %) Multimedia 2 1 (33.33 %) Health	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) ITIL
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (33.33 %) SLA