Technical Support Contracts in Milton Keynes
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Support 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 Technical Support in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Support
Rank 49 56 51
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Support 5 5 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 0.952% 0.699% 0.670%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.014% 0.742% 0.708%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
Average daily rate £300 £125 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+140.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £175 £238 £225
% change year-on-year
-26.31% +5.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £13.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.50 £15.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-10.00% -9.09%
All Job Titles
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 493 674 565
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 93.90% 94.27% 94.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 281 214
Average daily rate £325 £315 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.17% -3.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £165 £142
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £400 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 52 75
Average hourly rate £13.50 £14.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.89% +3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 £35.00 £16.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Technical Support
Buckinghamshire

Technical Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes Technical Support Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Support
Daily Rate Trend

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

Milton Keynes Technical Support Daily Rate Trend

Technical Support
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Technical Support across the Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Milton Keynes Technical Support Daily Rate Histogram

Technical Support
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Milton Keynes Technical Support Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region that cited Technical 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 Technical Support in their job title.

1 7 (87.50%) Windows
2 6 (75.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (62.50%) MS Exchange
4 4 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (37.50%) HP
5 3 (37.50%) Exchange Server 2007
5 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
5 3 (37.50%) DV Cleared
5 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
5 3 (37.50%) Exchange Server 2003
6 2 (25.00%) Windows Vista
6 2 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (25.00%) Citrix
6 2 (25.00%) MS Office
6 2 (25.00%) Windows XP
6 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
6 2 (25.00%) Symantec
6 2 (25.00%) Norton AntiVirus
7 1 (12.50%) Sophos
7 1 (12.50%) Project Management
7 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
7 1 (12.50%) Change Management
7 1 (12.50%) Firewall
7 1 (12.50%) Wireless
7 1 (12.50%) Back Office
7 1 (12.50%) VMware
7 1 (12.50%) NetBackup
7 1 (12.50%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (12.50%) DNS
7 1 (12.50%) Active Directory

Technical Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region that cited Technical 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 Technical Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 5 (62.50%) MS Exchange
2 3 (37.50%) Exchange Server 2007
2 3 (37.50%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
4 1 (12.50%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) MS Office
2 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
2 1 (12.50%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) Wireless
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) SAN
2 1 (12.50%) DMZ
2 1 (12.50%) LAN
2 1 (12.50%) WAN
2 1 (12.50%) DHCP
General
1 1 (12.50%) Back Office
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Windows
2 6 (75.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (25.00%) Windows Vista
4 2 (25.00%) Windows XP
5 1 (12.50%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (12.50%) Project Management
1 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
1 1 (12.50%) Change Management
1 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) DV Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) MCITP
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (12.50%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Norton AntiVirus
2 1 (12.50%) NetBackup
2 1 (12.50%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) HP
2 2 (25.00%) Citrix
2 2 (25.00%) Symantec
3 1 (12.50%) Sophos
3 1 (12.50%) VMware
Project Support Assistant - Technical Support
Milton Keynes, Thames Valley
Project Support Assistant - Technical Support - MS Office A global Oil & Gas organisation is currently recruiting for 2x Project Assistants to provide administrative and basic technical support to a...
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Rate: £12.00 - £15.00 per hour
Posted: 24 April 2013
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