Lincolnshire Technical Support Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Technical Support role in IT contracts within the Lincolnshire 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 Technical Support in their job title over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Technical Support
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Buxton Cambridge Cambridgeshire Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chesterfield City of London Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorset Dover Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Esher Essex Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Godalming Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Huddersfield Huntingdon Ipswich Kegworth Kent Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Runcorn Scotland Shropshire Slough Solihull South East South West Southampton Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Teddington Telford Tiverton Tyne and Wear UK Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Woking Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	16	14
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	2	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	2.857 %	1.190 %
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	£246	£258
% change on same period last year	-4.53 %
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	£15.48	£18.50
% change on same period last year	-16.34 %
Job Titles Lincolnshire
Matching contract IT job ads	70	84
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.110 %	0.090 %
Daily rates quoted	12	18
Average minimum daily rate	£188	£356
Average daily rate	£197	£364
% change on same period last year	-45.87 %
Average maximum daily rate	£206	£371
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£351
% change on same period last year	+0.72 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.65	£13.54
Average hourly rate	£16.21	£14.68
% change on same period last year	+10.40 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.76	£15.81
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.37	£24.42
% change on same period last year	-4.31 %
Technical Support East Midlands

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.

Technical Support
Demand Trend

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

Technical Support
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Technical Support across the Lincolnshire region.

Technical Support
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Support within the Lincolnshire region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Lincoln	-	1	-	-

Technical Support East Midlands

Technical Support
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lincolnshire region that cited Technical 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 Technical Support in their job title.

1 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Office 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (33.33 %) Cisco 1 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 1 1 (33.33 %) CCNA 1 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory 1 1 (33.33 %) HP 1 1 (33.33 %) Cisco Certification

Technical Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lincolnshire region that cited Technical 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 Technical Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Exchange	Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server	Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows
Qualifications 1 1 (33.33 %) CCNA 1 1 (33.33 %) Cisco Certification	System Software 1 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Cisco 1 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 1 1 (33.33 %) HP