Midlands Support Technician Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Support Technician role in IT contracts within the Midlands 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 Support Technician in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Support Technician
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Bacup Basildon Basingstoke Beckenham Berkshire Birmingham Bootle Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chelmsford City of London Coventry Crawley Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Grays Greenwich Hampshire Haverhill Herefordshire Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Lincolnshire London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Redcar Rotherham Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	84
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.058 %
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	£193	£189
% change on same period last year	+2.05 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£9.26
Average hourly rate	-	£10.16
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£11.05
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.86	£14.12
% change on same period last year	+12.26 %
Job Titles Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	1248	1718
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.663 %	1.738 %
Daily rates quoted	256	287
Average minimum daily rate	£361	£375
Average daily rate	£388	£398
% change on same period last year	-2.56 %
Average maximum daily rate	£414	£420
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	50	109
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.01	£30.46
Average hourly rate	£24.03	£31.49
% change on same period last year	-23.68 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.06	£32.53
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
Support Technician England

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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands region that cited Support Technician 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 Technician in their job title.

1 2 (66.67 %) MS Office 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 2 1 (33.33 %) LAN 2 1 (33.33 %) WAN 2 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 2 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory 2 1 (33.33 %) Citrix 2 1 (33.33 %) Migration 2 1 (33.33 %) CMS

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands region that cited Support Technician 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 Technician in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (33.33 %) CMS	Applications 1 2 (66.67 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) LAN 1 1 (33.33 %) WAN	Operating Systems 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) Migration	System Software 1 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 1 1 (33.33 %) Citrix