The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Specialist role in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Technical Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 19 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 Hertfordshire 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Specialist
Rank 56 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Specialist 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.313% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.328% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £388 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £390 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 - £22.88
All Job Titles
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
609 927 871
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 95.31% 93.07% 94.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 409 384
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £488
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 87 111
Average hourly rate £18.00 £29.00 £16.20
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-37.93% +79.01%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.30 £11.00 £11.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.50 £36.00 £37.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Technical Specialist
East of England

Technical Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Technical Specialist across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Hertfordshire Technical Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Technical Specialist across the Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Technical Specialist Daily Rate Trend

Technical Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Technical Specialist across the Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Technical Specialist Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Specialist
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Specialist within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
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Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
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Vacancies
St Albans - - - -
Watford - - - -
Welwyn Garden City - - - - 1
Technical Specialist
East of England

Technical Specialist
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region that cited Technical Specialist 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 Technical Specialist in their job title.

1 1 (50.00%) J2EE
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) Remedy
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) ITSM
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (50.00%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Change Control

Technical Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region that cited Technical Specialist 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 Technical Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) J2EE
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Remedy ITSM
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) ITSM
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (50.00%) Change Control
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) Remedy