Kent Support Specialist Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Support Specialist role in IT contracts within the Kent 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 Support Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 4 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Support Specialist
Location Alderley Edge Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire Chesterfield Cirencester City of London County Londonderry Coventry Crewe Croydon Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Gloucestershire Grampian Hampshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Hounslow Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Reading Salford Scotland Sheffield South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Suffolk Surrey Swindon UK Warrington West Lothian West Midlands Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	42	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.270 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£450	-
Average daily rate	£450	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£450	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£285	£318
% change on same period last year	-10.29 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.75	£22.82
% change on same period last year	-13.42 %
Job Titles Kent
Matching contract IT job ads	370	553
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.499 %	0.553 %
Daily rates quoted	132	113
Average minimum daily rate	£281	£330
Average daily rate	£298	£347
% change on same period last year	-13.97 %
Average maximum daily rate	£315	£363
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£355
% change on same period last year	-0.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	53	111
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.59	£21.66
Average hourly rate	£20.24	£23.98
% change on same period last year	-15.61 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.88	£26.29
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.87	£25.62
% change on same period last year	-6.81 %
Support Specialist South East

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 Support Specialist across the Kent 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 Support Specialist across the Kent 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 Support Specialist across the Kent region.

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Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region that cited Support 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 Support Specialist in their job title.

1 1 (33.33 %) IIS 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows 1 1 (33.33 %) Cisco 1 1 (33.33 %) CCNA 1 1 (33.33 %) Intel 1 1 (33.33 %) Cisco Certification 1 1 (33.33 %) BizTalk Server 1 1 (33.33 %) Configuration Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Pharmaceutical 1 1 (33.33 %) Telecoms 1 1 (33.33 %) IP Telephony 1 1 (33.33 %) Business Analysis 1 1 (33.33 %) Cisco IPT 1 1 (33.33 %) Software Packaging 1 1 (33.33 %) Security Cleared

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region that cited Support 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 Support Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (33.33 %) Software Packaging	Application Platforms 1 1 (33.33 %) IIS 1 1 (33.33 %) BizTalk Server
Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) IP Telephony 1 1 (33.33 %) Cisco IPT	General 1 1 (33.33 %) Pharmaceutical 1 1 (33.33 %) Telecoms
Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) Configuration Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Business Analysis 1 1 (33.33 %) Security Cleared
Qualifications 1 1 (33.33 %) CCNA 1 1 (33.33 %) Cisco Certification	Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Cisco 1 1 (33.33 %) Intel