Newbury Technical Support Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Technical Support role in IT contracts within the Newbury 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 Technical Support in their job title over the 3 months to 4 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Technical Support
Location Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cheshire Chichester Cirencester City of London Corby Darlington Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Grimsby Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Hounslow Huntingdon Immingham Inverness Ipswich Kegworth Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Reigate Rugby Runcorn Scotland Shropshire Slough Solihull South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Teesside Telford Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	17	36
Rank change on same period last year	+19
Matching contract IT job ads	2	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	1.639 %	0.292 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£200	-
Average daily rate	£219	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£238	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£249	£283
% change on same period last year	-11.90 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£16.58	£15.95
% change on same period last year	+3.90 %
Job Titles Newbury
Matching contract IT job ads	122	343
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.164 %	0.343 %
Daily rates quoted	28	159
Average minimum daily rate	£256	£375
Average daily rate	£266	£381
% change on same period last year	-30.07 %
Average maximum daily rate	£277	£386
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£355
% change on same period last year	-0.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	25
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.50	£24.26
Average hourly rate	£19.47	£25.52
% change on same period last year	-23.71 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.44	£26.78
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.87	£25.62
% change on same period last year	-6.81 %
Technical Support Berkshire

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.

Technical Support
Demand Trend

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

Technical Support
Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Newbury 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 1 (33.33 %) SQL 1 1 (33.33 %) VB.NET 1 1 (33.33 %) .NET 1 1 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 1 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 1 1 (33.33 %) AIX 1 1 (33.33 %) HPUX 1 1 (33.33 %) Solaris 1 1 (33.33 %) Linux 1 1 (33.33 %) GPRS 1 1 (33.33 %) GSM 1 1 (33.33 %) UMTS 1 1 (33.33 %) HP 1 1 (33.33 %) SS7 1 1 (33.33 %) Telecoms

1 1 (33.33 %) Pensions

Technical Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Newbury 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 Development 1 1 (33.33 %) .NET 1 1 (33.33 %) ASP.NET	Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) GPRS 1 1 (33.33 %) GSM 1 1 (33.33 %) UMTS 1 1 (33.33 %) SS7
General 1 1 (33.33 %) Telecoms 1 1 (33.33 %) Pensions	Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 1 1 (33.33 %) AIX 1 1 (33.33 %) HPUX 1 1 (33.33 %) Solaris 1 1 (33.33 %) Linux
Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL 1 1 (33.33 %) VB.NET	Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) HP