Support Specialist Contracts in London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Support Specialist role in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Support Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 London 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Support Specialist
Rank 357 372 371
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Support Specialist 20 43 71
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.092% 0.160% 0.228%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.100% 0.173% 0.247%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 21 50
Average daily rate £425 £400 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.25% +9.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £160 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £501 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £316 £275 £300
% change year-on-year
+14.84% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
Average hourly rate - £16.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -46.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £27.50 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-30.90% +34.14%
Search 9 Support Specialist jobs in London
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 19942 24907 28750
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.08% 92.46% 92.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 13399 16045 18461
Average daily rate £450 £445 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.12% -6.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 450 624 677
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Support Specialist
England

Support Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Support Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Support Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Support Specialist Daily Rate Trend

Support Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Support Specialist across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London Support Specialist Daily Rate Histogram

Support Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Support Specialist Hourly Rate Trend

Support Specialist
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Support Specialist within the London region over the 3 months to 24 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
City of London +9 7 £501 +29.16%
Croydon - 1 £225 -
Hayes - 1 - -
Support Specialist
England

Support Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Support Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title.

1 17 (40.48%) SQL
2 15 (35.71%) Windows
3 12 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 11 (26.19%) MS Excel
5 9 (21.43%) Active Directory
5 9 (21.43%) Finance
6 8 (19.05%) SQL Server
7 7 (16.67%) Oracle
7 7 (16.67%) Migration
7 7 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (14.29%) Fixed Income
8 6 (14.29%) Java
8 6 (14.29%) UNIX
9 5 (11.90%) MS Access
9 5 (11.90%) VBA
9 5 (11.90%) ITIL
9 5 (11.90%) Sybase
9 5 (11.90%) IIS
9 5 (11.90%) Banking
9 5 (11.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (11.90%) Security Cleared
9 5 (11.90%) Windows 7
10 4 (9.524%) ION MarketView
10 4 (9.524%) Degree
10 4 (9.524%) ION Trading
10 4 (9.524%) Web Services
10 4 (9.524%) XML
10 4 (9.524%) Linux
10 4 (9.524%) T-SQL
10 4 (9.524%) VBScript

Support Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Support Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (9.524%) Web Services
1 4 (9.524%) XML
1 4 (9.524%) HTML
2 3 (7.143%) XHTML
2 3 (7.143%) .NET
2 3 (7.143%) SOAP
2 3 (7.143%) Ajax
3 2 (4.762%) WebSphere
3 2 (4.762%) .NET Framework
3 2 (4.762%) Middleware
4 1 (2.381%) FIXML
4 1 (2.381%) OLE DB
4 1 (2.381%) WinForms
4 1 (2.381%) WSDL
4 1 (2.381%) J2EE
4 1 (2.381%) XSL
4 1 (2.381%) ODBC
Application Platforms
1 5 (11.90%) IIS
2 3 (7.143%) Apache
3 2 (4.762%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (4.762%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (4.762%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.762%) MS Exchange
4 1 (2.381%) WebSphere MQ
4 1 (2.381%) Tomcat
4 1 (2.381%) Lotus Notes
4 1 (2.381%) Alfresco
Applications
1 11 (26.19%) MS Excel
2 3 (7.143%) MS Office
3 2 (4.762%) MS Visio
4 1 (2.381%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (9.524%) ION MarketView
2 2 (4.762%) RMDS
3 1 (2.381%) LongView
3 1 (2.381%) LatentZero
3 1 (2.381%) Capstone
3 1 (2.381%) Tesseract
3 1 (2.381%) Minerva
3 1 (2.381%) Sentinel
3 1 (2.381%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.143%) Firewall
1 3 (7.143%) LAN
2 2 (4.762%) HTTP
2 2 (4.762%) TCP/IP
2 2 (4.762%) HTTPS
3 1 (2.381%) Intranet
3 1 (2.381%) Internet
3 1 (2.381%) TELNET
3 1 (2.381%) Wireless
3 1 (2.381%) SSL
3 1 (2.381%) SSH
3 1 (2.381%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (19.05%) SQL Server
2 5 (11.90%) MS Access
2 5 (11.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (4.762%) BusinessObjects XI
3 2 (4.762%) DTS
3 2 (4.762%) EDRMS
4 1 (2.381%) SQL Server 2000
4 1 (2.381%) Ingres
4 1 (2.381%) Oracle Discoverer
4 1 (2.381%) MySQL
4 1 (2.381%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (2.381%) dBASE
4 1 (2.381%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (2.381%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (4.762%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (2.381%) Introscope
2 1 (2.381%) WinDbg
General
1 9 (21.43%) Finance
2 5 (11.90%) Banking
3 4 (9.524%) Front Office
4 2 (4.762%) Investment Banking
4 2 (4.762%) Legal
5 1 (2.381%) German Language
5 1 (2.381%) Russian Language
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (14.29%) Fixed Income
3 2 (4.762%) Computer Science
3 2 (4.762%) Fat Client
3 2 (4.762%) Derivative
3 2 (4.762%) Equities
3 2 (4.762%) Thin Client
4 1 (2.381%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.381%) Clustering
4 1 (2.381%) Replication
4 1 (2.381%) VAX
4 1 (2.381%) Data Extraction
4 1 (2.381%) Wiki
4 1 (2.381%) Open Source
4 1 (2.381%) SWIFT
Operating Systems
1 15 (35.71%) Windows
2 6 (14.29%) UNIX
3 5 (11.90%) Windows 7
4 4 (9.524%) Linux
4 4 (9.524%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (7.143%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (4.762%) Windows XP
7 1 (2.381%) SUSE
7 1 (2.381%) VMS
7 1 (2.381%) Windows Mobile
7 1 (2.381%) Android
7 1 (2.381%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (16.67%) Migration
2 5 (11.90%) ITIL
3 4 (9.524%) PRINCE2
4 3 (7.143%) Project Management
4 3 (7.143%) Asset Management
5 2 (4.762%) Analytics
5 2 (4.762%) Change Control
5 2 (4.762%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (4.762%) Integration Testing
5 2 (4.762%) Test Scripting
5 2 (4.762%) Network Load Balancing
5 2 (4.762%) Problem Management
5 2 (4.762%) Investment Management
5 2 (4.762%) Data Analysis
5 2 (4.762%) ETL
5 2 (4.762%) E-Commerce
5 2 (4.762%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (4.762%) Configuration Management
6 1 (2.381%) MOF
6 1 (2.381%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 17 (40.48%) SQL
2 6 (14.29%) Java
3 5 (11.90%) VBA
4 4 (9.524%) T-SQL
4 4 (9.524%) VBScript
4 4 (9.524%) JavaScript
4 4 (9.524%) C
5 3 (7.143%) Shell Script
5 3 (7.143%) C++
5 3 (7.143%) PHP
6 2 (4.762%) VB
6 2 (4.762%) C#
7 1 (2.381%) Assembly Language
7 1 (2.381%) COBOL
7 1 (2.381%) Perl
7 1 (2.381%) VB6
Qualifications
1 5 (11.90%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.524%) Degree
3 3 (7.143%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (7.143%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.143%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.762%) MCP
4 2 (4.762%) MCSE
4 2 (4.762%) PMP
4 2 (4.762%) PMI Certification
4 2 (4.762%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.381%) A+ Certification
5 1 (2.381%) CCA
5 1 (2.381%) Citrix Certification
5 1 (2.381%) Linux+ Certification
5 1 (2.381%) CCNP
5 1 (2.381%) CCNA
5 1 (2.381%) CCEE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.381%) SLA
1 1 (2.381%) QA
System Software
1 9 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.381%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (2.381%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.381%) XenApp
2 1 (2.381%) XenDesktop
2 1 (2.381%) vSphere
2 1 (2.381%) IAG
2 1 (2.381%) UAG
2 1 (2.381%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (7.143%) SCCM
2 2 (4.762%) SCOM
3 1 (2.381%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 12 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 7 (16.67%) Oracle
3 5 (11.90%) Sybase
4 4 (9.524%) ION Trading
5 3 (7.143%) Citrix
5 3 (7.143%) IBM
5 3 (7.143%) Business Objects
6 2 (4.762%) Twitter
6 2 (4.762%) Fidessa
6 2 (4.762%) Sun
6 2 (4.762%) VMware
6 2 (4.762%) Bloomberg
6 2 (4.762%) Symantec
6 2 (4.762%) Red Hat
6 2 (4.762%) Lotus
7 1 (2.381%) Plumtree
7 1 (2.381%) BMC
7 1 (2.381%) CA
7 1 (2.381%) Remedy
7 1 (2.381%) Charles River
PMO Analyst - Project Support Specialist - £300 per day.
London
PMO Analyst / Project Management Support Specialist from a strong IT / Financial background currently required by my extremely well known West London based Travel company client. This is initially...
Reflex Computer Recruitment
Rate: £275 - £325 per day + Possible 2-3 year contract
Posted: 23 May 2013
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