The first table below looks at the demand for the IT Support Technician role in IT contracts advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited IT Support Technician 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 Kent 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
IT Support Technician
Rank - - -
Contract jobs requiring an IT Support Technician 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent - - -
As % of the Job Titles category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £160 £183 -
% change year-on-year
-12.32% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.00 £20.00 £12.25
% change year-on-year
-40.00% +63.26%
All Job Titles
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
284 242 309
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 92.81% 91.32% 96.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 118 174
Average daily rate £300 £300 £300
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £138 £169
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 24 23
Average hourly rate £16.00 £15.50 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.22% +3.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £13.50 £11.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £74.25 £27.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
IT Support Technician
South East

IT Support Technician
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent IT Support Technician Jobs Demand Trend

IT Support Technician
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Kent IT Support Technician Hourly Rate Trend

IT Support Technician
Top 6 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region that cited IT Support Technician 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 IT Support Technician in their job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (100.00%) Broadband
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Local Government
1 2 (100.00%) Video Conferencing

IT Support Technician
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region that cited IT Support Technician 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 IT Support Technician in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Broadband
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Local Government
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows