The first table below looks at the demand for the 2nd Line Support Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited 2nd Line Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Milton Keynes 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Second Line Support Engineer
Rank 62 60 64
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +4
Contract jobs requiring a 2nd Line Support Engineer 1 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 0.164% 0.306% 0.158%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.175% 0.322% 0.167%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £250 £203 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.45% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £175 £160 £150
% change year-on-year
+9.37% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £15.00 £15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £14.25 £15.00
% change year-on-year
+22.80% -5.00%
All Job Titles
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
570 621 599
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 93.44% 94.95% 94.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 265 229
Average daily rate £350 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £173 £142
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £425 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 48 90
Average hourly rate £14.00 £14.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.44% +3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.03 £11.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 £25.00 £16.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
2nd Line Support Engineer
Buckinghamshire

2nd Line Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing 2nd Line Support Engineer across the Milton Keynes region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Milton Keynes 2nd Line Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

2nd Line Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing 2nd Line Support Engineer across the Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes 2nd Line Support Engineer Daily Rate Trend

2nd Line Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing 2nd Line Support Engineer across the Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes 2nd Line Support Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

2nd Line Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region that cited 2nd Line Support Engineer 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 2nd Line Support Engineer in their job title.

1 2 (66.67%) MS Office
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows XP
2 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) CCIE
2 1 (33.33%) CCSP
2 1 (33.33%) CCNP
2 1 (33.33%) CCIP
2 1 (33.33%) CCNA
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Juniper
2 1 (33.33%) EPoS
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (33.33%) MPLS
2 1 (33.33%) Wireless
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) JNCIA
2 1 (33.33%) JNCIS
2 1 (33.33%) JNCIP
2 1 (33.33%) MCITP
2 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Vista
2 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 7

2nd Line Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region that cited 2nd Line Support Engineer 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 2nd Line Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
1 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
1 1 (33.33%) MPLS
1 1 (33.33%) Wireless
1 1 (33.33%) Unified Communications
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows XP
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Vista
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCIE
1 1 (33.33%) CCSP
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) CCIP
1 1 (33.33%) CCNA
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) JNCIA
1 1 (33.33%) JNCIS
1 1 (33.33%) JNCIP
1 1 (33.33%) MCITP
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix
1 1 (33.33%) Juniper