3rd Line Support Contracts in Leeds
 
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 Leeds 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 22 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 Leeds 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Third Line Support
Rank 58 57 37
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -20
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Support 10 14 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 1.330% 1.568% 2.738%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.406% 1.653% 2.872%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 2
Average daily rate £275 £270 £248
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.85% +9.09%
UK excluding London average daily rate £270 £258 £238
% change year-on-year
+4.85% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 9
Average hourly rate - £16.00 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -25.58%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £20.03 £21.25
% change year-on-year
+12.33% -5.74%
All Job Titles
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 711 847 592
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 94.55% 94.85% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 375 486 272
Average daily rate £300 £335 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.44% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £210 £222
10% offered a daily rate of more than £426 £459 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 49 47
Average hourly rate £12.50 £13.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% -13.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £10.00 £7.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.25 £35.60 £24.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
3rd Line Support
West Yorkshire

3rd Line Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds 3rd Line Support Hourly Rate Trend

3rd Line Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 13 (92.86%) Windows
2 11 (78.57%) Windows Server 2008
3 10 (71.43%) Cisco
3 10 (71.43%) SAN
4 9 (64.29%) MS Exchange
5 8 (57.14%) Windows Server 2003
6 7 (50.00%) Windows XP
6 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
7 6 (42.86%) LAN
7 6 (42.86%) WAN
7 6 (42.86%) MCSE
7 6 (42.86%) SQL Server
7 6 (42.86%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (42.86%) Exchange Server 2003
7 6 (42.86%) NAS
7 6 (42.86%) F5
8 4 (28.57%) CheckPoint
8 4 (28.57%) Active Directory
9 3 (21.43%) NetApp
9 3 (21.43%) SQL
9 3 (21.43%) Oracle
9 3 (21.43%) VMware
9 3 (21.43%) Windows 7
9 3 (21.43%) vSphere
9 3 (21.43%) SCCM
9 3 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
9 3 (21.43%) Exchange Server 2010
10 2 (14.29%) Legal
10 2 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
10 2 (14.29%) SharePoint 2010

3rd Line Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 9 (64.29%) MS Exchange
2 6 (42.86%) Exchange Server 2003
3 3 (21.43%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (14.29%) SharePoint 2010
4 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
5 1 (7.143%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) MS Office
2 1 (7.143%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 10 (71.43%) SAN
2 6 (42.86%) LAN
2 6 (42.86%) WAN
2 6 (42.86%) NAS
3 2 (14.29%) DNS
4 1 (7.143%) DHCP
4 1 (7.143%) TCP/IP
4 1 (7.143%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (7.143%) Firewall
4 1 (7.143%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 2 (14.29%) Legal
2 1 (7.143%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.143%) NHS
1 1 (7.143%) Blackberry
1 1 (7.143%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 13 (92.86%) Windows
2 11 (78.57%) Windows Server 2008
3 8 (57.14%) Windows Server 2003
4 7 (50.00%) Windows XP
5 3 (21.43%) Windows 7
6 1 (7.143%) Linux
6 1 (7.143%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (14.29%) CRM
2 1 (7.143%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) MCSE
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (7.143%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (7.143%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.143%) BC Cleared
2 1 (7.143%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 3 (21.43%) vSphere
2 3 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (7.143%) XenApp
3 1 (7.143%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (71.43%) Cisco
2 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (42.86%) F5
4 4 (28.57%) CheckPoint
5 3 (21.43%) NetApp
5 3 (21.43%) Oracle
5 3 (21.43%) VMware
6 2 (14.29%) HP
7 1 (7.143%) Citrix
7 1 (7.143%) Symantec
7 1 (7.143%) Websense
7 1 (7.143%) Blue Coat
7 1 (7.143%) Barracuda Networks
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