1st/2nd Line Support Contracts in Manchester

1st/2nd Line Support
North West > Manchester

The median 1st/2nd Line Support daily rate in Manchester is £220 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 113 137
Rank change year-on-year +14 +24 -45
Contract jobs requiring a 1st/2nd Line Support 4 4 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.26% 0.21% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.22% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £193 £136 £140
25th Percentile £204 £144 £158
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £170 £195
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -12.82% +30.00%
75th Percentile £230 £197 £214
90th Percentile - £206 £221
North West median daily rate £190 £200 £175
% change year-on-year -5.00% +14.29% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £20.00 -
North West median hourly rate £17.72 £20.00 -
% change year-on-year -11.40% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Manchester with a recognized job title 1,470 1,836 2,512
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.70% 96.63% 97.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,021 1,368 1,976
10th Percentile £313 £313 £213
25th Percentile £394 £409 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £584 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £655 £650
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £465
% change year-on-year -1.40% +7.53% +9.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 56 62
10th Percentile £12.07 £14.13 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.31 £20.00 £11.82
Median hourly rate £25.10 £35.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.30% +100.00% +8.59%
75th Percentile £62.50 £47.81 £22.90
90th Percentile £73.75 £68.00 £33.75
North West median hourly rate £26.53 £30.54 £20.49
% change year-on-year -13.15% +49.05% +12.41%

1st/2nd Line Support
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings that featured 1st/2nd Line Support in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for 1st/2nd Line Support in Manchester

1st/2nd Line Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 1st/2nd Line Support in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for 1st/2nd Line Support in Manchester

1st/2nd Line Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 1st/2nd Line Support in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for 1st/2nd Line Support in Manchester

1st/2nd Line Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, 1st/2nd Line Support contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Manchester region featuring 1st/2nd Line Support in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2019
2 3 (75.00%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Datto
2 3 (75.00%) Autotask
2 3 (75.00%) Apple
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 3 (75.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 3 (75.00%) Jamf Pro
2 3 (75.00%) Driving Licence
2 3 (75.00%) Windows 10
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (75.00%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (75.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (75.00%) Quality Management
2 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 3 (75.00%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) Clustering
2 3 (75.00%) VLAN
2 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 3 (75.00%) SCCM
2 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (75.00%) PowerShell

1st/2nd Line Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) LAN
1 3 (75.00%) VLAN
1 3 (75.00%) VoIP
1 3 (75.00%) VPN
1 3 (75.00%) WAN
1 3 (75.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Social Housing
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Clustering
1 3 (75.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Mac OS
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Windows 10
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Server
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (75.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 3 (75.00%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (75.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (75.00%) Autotask
2 3 (75.00%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (75.00%) Jamf Pro
2 3 (75.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) Apple
2 3 (75.00%) Datto
2 3 (75.00%) VMware