Leicester 2nd Line Support Technician Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the 2nd Line Support Technician role in IT contracts within the Leicester 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 2nd Line Support Technician in their job title over the 3 months to 1 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Second Line Support Technician
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bracknell Bradford Burnley Cambridgeshire Cheshire East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire England Grimsby Hampshire Hull Huntingdon Lancashire Leicester Lincolnshire London Maidenhead Manchester Middlesbrough Middlesex Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Oxfordshire Reading Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Surrey Thatcham Tyne and Wear UK Warrington West Midlands West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Yorkshire	3 months to 1 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£148	-
% change on same period last year	-
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	£11.63	£19.07
% change on same period last year	-39.04 %
Job Titles Leicester
Matching contract IT job ads	101	185
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.160 %	0.197 %
Daily rates quoted	30	46
Average minimum daily rate	£305	£326
Average daily rate	£314	£354
% change on same period last year	-11.34 %
Average maximum daily rate	£323	£383
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£351
% change on same period last year	+0.46 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	32
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.13	£18.85
Average hourly rate	£24.00	£19.99
% change on same period last year	+20.04 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.86	£21.13
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.14	£24.11
% change on same period last year	-4.03 %
2nd Line Support Technician Leicestershire

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.

2nd Line Support Technician
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing 2nd Line Support Technician across the Leicester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

2nd Line Support Technician
Top 5 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leicester region that cited 2nd Line 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 2nd Line Support Technician in their job title.

1 1 (100.00 %) Lotus Notes 1 1 (100.00 %) MS Excel 1 1 (100.00 %) Microsoft 1 1 (100.00 %) Lotus 1 1 (100.00 %) Manufacturing

2nd Line Support Technician
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leicester region that cited 2nd Line 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 2nd Line Support Technician in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (100.00 %) Lotus Notes	Applications 1 1 (100.00 %) MS Excel
General 1 1 (100.00 %) Manufacturing	Vendors 1 1 (100.00 %) Microsoft 1 1 (100.00 %) Lotus