North East Support Technician Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Support Technician role in IT contracts within the North East 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 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Support Technician
Location Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Chelmsford Cheshire City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Crawley Croydon Darlington Dartford Devon Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Farnborough Folkestone Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grimsby Hampshire Henlow Hertfordshire Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Preston Reading Romford Rotherham Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire St Helens Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Thatcham Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Warrington West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Wiltshire Woking Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	39	55
Rank change on same period last year	+16
Matching contract IT job ads	9	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.014 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	1.852 %	0.838 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£160
Average daily rate	-	£160
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£160
UK excluding London average daily rate	£186	£212
% change on same period last year	-12.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£10.00	£10.67
Average hourly rate	£10.42	£11.00
% change on same period last year	-5.30 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£10.83	£11.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£13.84	£14.66
% change on same period last year	-5.59 %
Job Titles North East
Matching contract IT job ads	486	835
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.781 %	0.897 %
Daily rates quoted	98	231
Average minimum daily rate	£293	£327
Average daily rate	£318	£338
% change on same period last year	-5.89 %
Average maximum daily rate	£344	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£352
% change on same period last year	+0.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	83	119
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.93	£24.76
Average hourly rate	£18.25	£26.65
% change on same period last year	-31.50 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.57	£28.54
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.10	£24.04
% change on same period last year	-3.88 %
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 North East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Support Technician across the North East region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Support Technician within the North East region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Tyne and Wear	+16	6	-	-
Durham	-7	2	-	-
Northumberland	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 7 (63.64 %) Windows 2 4 (36.36 %) Windows XP 3 3 (27.27 %) Government 3 3 (27.27 %) MS Office 3 3 (27.27 %) Active Directory 3 3 (27.27 %) Cisco Certification 4 2 (18.18 %) Windows Server 2003 4 2 (18.18 %) TCP/IP 4 2 (18.18 %) Microsoft 4 2 (18.18 %) Windows 2000 4 2 (18.18 %) WAN 4 2 (18.18 %) CCNA 4 2 (18.18 %) Network+ Certification 4 2 (18.18 %) Local Government 4 2 (18.18 %) Network Security

5 1 (9.091 %) Data Migration 5 1 (9.091 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 1 (9.091 %) IP Telephony 5 1 (9.091 %) Migration 5 1 (9.091 %) Telecoms 5 1 (9.091 %) Ethernet 5 1 (9.091 %) MS Exchange 5 1 (9.091 %) LAN 5 1 (9.091 %) MS Excel 5 1 (9.091 %) SQL 5 1 (9.091 %) CCNP 5 1 (9.091 %) DNS 5 1 (9.091 %) Cisco 5 1 (9.091 %) ICMP 5 1 (9.091 %) SAN

Support Technician
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 (9.091 %) MS Exchange	Applications 1 3 (27.27 %) MS Office 2 1 (9.091 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 2 (18.18 %) TCP/IP 1 2 (18.18 %) WAN 1 2 (18.18 %) Network Security 2 1 (9.091 %) LAN 2 1 (9.091 %) Ethernet 2 1 (9.091 %) DNS 2 1 (9.091 %) SAN 2 1 (9.091 %) ICMP 2 1 (9.091 %) IP Telephony	General 1 3 (27.27 %) Government 2 2 (18.18 %) Local Government 3 1 (9.091 %) Telecoms
Operating Systems 1 7 (63.64 %) Windows 2 4 (36.36 %) Windows XP 3 2 (18.18 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (18.18 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (9.091 %) Windows 2000 Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (9.091 %) Migration 1 1 (9.091 %) Data Migration
Programming Languages 1 1 (9.091 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 3 (27.27 %) Cisco Certification 2 2 (18.18 %) Network+ Certification 2 2 (18.18 %) CCNA 3 1 (9.091 %) CCNP
System Software 1 3 (27.27 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 2 (18.18 %) Microsoft 2 1 (9.091 %) Cisco