The first table below looks at the demand for the 3rd Line Support role in IT contracts advertised for the Leicestershire 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 23 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 Leicestershire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Third Line Support
Rank 28 25 32
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +7
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Support 2 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 0.948% 0.465% 0.851%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.000% 0.505% 0.889%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £225 - £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £258 £238
% change year-on-year
+6.79% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £20.03 £21.50
% change year-on-year
+9.83% -6.83%
All Job Titles
Leicestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
200 198 225
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 94.79% 92.09% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 51 60
Average daily rate £325 £313 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.00% -0.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £150 £190
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £505 £515
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 30 33
Average hourly rate £13.00 £11.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.18% -66.15%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £8.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £20.00 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
3rd Line Support
East Midlands

3rd Line Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire 3rd Line Support Hourly Rate Trend

3rd Line Support
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 3rd Line Support within the Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Leicester - 1 £225 -
3rd Line Support
East Midlands

3rd Line Support
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server 2000
2 3 (75.00%) Citrix
2 3 (75.00%) SAN
2 3 (75.00%) Windows 2000
3 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
3 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
3 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (25.00%) DNS
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2007

3rd Line Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) SAN
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server 2000
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (75.00%) Windows 2000
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) Citrix
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft