The first table below looks at the demand for the IT Support role in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited IT Support 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 Manchester 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
IT Support
Rank 71 77 66
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -11
Contract jobs requiring an IT Support 4 6 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.429% 0.464% 0.576%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.459% 0.504% 0.611%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 1
Average daily rate - £275 £113
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +144.44%
UK excluding London average daily rate £150 £155 £113
% change year-on-year
-3.22% +37.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.00 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.77% +50.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.75 £14.50 £12.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% +16.00%
All Job Titles
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
872 1190 982
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 93.46% 92.11% 94.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 413 578 432
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £225 £130
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £496
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 72 77
Average hourly rate £17.00 £19.50 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.82% +18.18%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.01 £9.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £82.50 £35.00 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
IT Support
North West

IT Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester IT Support Jobs Demand Trend

IT Support
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester IT Support Daily Rate Trend

IT Support
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester IT Support Hourly Rate Trend

IT Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 5 (38.46%) Windows
2 4 (30.77%) MS Office
2 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
3 3 (23.08%) Citrix
3 3 (23.08%) Thin Client
3 3 (23.08%) Blackberry
3 3 (23.08%) Czech Language
3 3 (23.08%) Fat Client
4 2 (15.38%) iPhone
4 2 (15.38%) XenDesktop
4 2 (15.38%) Windows Vista
4 2 (15.38%) iPad
4 2 (15.38%) Polish Language
4 2 (15.38%) Incident Management
4 2 (15.38%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 2 (15.38%) Terminal Services
4 2 (15.38%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 2 (15.38%) Lotus
4 2 (15.38%) ITIL
4 2 (15.38%) VPN
4 2 (15.38%) Lotus Notes
4 2 (15.38%) Windows XP
5 1 (7.692%) LAN
5 1 (7.692%) WAN
5 1 (7.692%) Ethernet
5 1 (7.692%) TCP/IP
5 1 (7.692%) Microsoft
5 1 (7.692%) Apple
5 1 (7.692%) NHS
5 1 (7.692%) Novell

IT Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 2 (15.38%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 4 (30.77%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) VPN
2 1 (7.692%) LAN
2 1 (7.692%) WAN
2 1 (7.692%) Ethernet
2 1 (7.692%) TCP/IP
General
1 3 (23.08%) Czech Language
2 2 (15.38%) Polish Language
3 1 (7.692%) Banking
3 1 (7.692%) Music
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Thin Client
1 3 (23.08%) Blackberry
1 3 (23.08%) Fat Client
2 2 (15.38%) iPhone
2 2 (15.38%) iPad
3 1 (7.692%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Vista
2 2 (15.38%) Windows XP
3 1 (7.692%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (15.38%) Incident Management
1 2 (15.38%) ITIL
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
2 2 (15.38%) XenDesktop
2 2 (15.38%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (7.692%) ZENworks
2 1 (7.692%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Citrix
2 2 (15.38%) Lotus
3 1 (7.692%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.692%) Apple
3 1 (7.692%) Novell
Greater Manchester
The 3rd Line IT Support Engineer will be required to oversee the deployment and configuration of Windows 2008, Active Directory including Group Policy, migrate user data and to...
Oscar Associates (UK) Ltd
Rate: £175 - £225 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013