The first table below looks at the demand for the Support Technician 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 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Support Technician
Rank 74 - 56
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Support Technician 2 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.268% - 0.160%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.283% - 0.168%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £125 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £180 £200 £210
% change year-on-year
-10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £10.30 - £15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £11.50 £13.00 £13.50
% change year-on-year
-11.53% -3.70%
All Job Titles
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
706 845 596
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 94.77% 94.94% 95.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 480 279
Average daily rate £300 £330 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.09% -5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £213 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £434 £453 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 47 44
Average hourly rate £12.50 £12.50 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -16.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £10.00 £6.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.75 £32.80 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Support Technician
West Yorkshire

Support Technician
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds Support Technician Jobs Demand Trend

Support Technician
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Support Technician across the Leeds region.

Leeds Support Technician Daily Rate Trend

Support Technician
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leeds Support Technician Hourly Rate Trend

Support Technician
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) MS Office
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) VBScript
2 1 (50.00%) MCSE
2 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) SSL
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Mac OS X
2 1 (50.00%) Apple
2 1 (50.00%) Thin Client
2 1 (50.00%) Blackberry
2 1 (50.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Wyse
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Xen
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) Fat Client
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure

Support Technician
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) SSL
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Thin Client
1 1 (50.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (50.00%) Fat Client
1 1 (50.00%) iPhone
1 1 (50.00%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Mac OS X
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) ITSM
1 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) VBScript
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) MCSE
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Xen
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) Apple
2 1 (50.00%) Wyse
2 1 (50.00%) VMware