3rd Line Support Contracts in the North of England

Third Line Support
England > North of England

The median Third Line Support daily rate in the North of England is £300 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 168 205 218
Rank change year-on-year +37 +13 -36
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Support 16 8 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.34% 0.14% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.15% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 8 27
10th Percentile - £244 £178
25th Percentile £275 £294 £234
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £325 £250
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +30.00% -21.88%
75th Percentile £359 £347 £394
90th Percentile £392 £375 £438
England median daily rate £375 £375 £325
% change year-on-year - +15.38% +4.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North of England with a recognized job title 4,373 5,442 6,917
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 95.34% 96.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,731 3,843 5,087
10th Percentile £263 £285 £200
25th Percentile £382 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £554
90th Percentile £672 £687 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 400 155 280
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.00 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.54 £14.19
Median hourly rate £20.60 £30.76 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -33.02% +65.42% +3.87%
75th Percentile £46.18 £51.19 £28.94
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.41 £51.48
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.38% +100.00% +2.27%

3rd Line Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured 3rd Line Support in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Support in the North of England

3rd Line Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Support in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for 3rd Line Support in the North of England

3rd Line Support
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Support in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for 3rd Line Support in the North of England

3rd Line Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Support in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for 3rd Line Support in the North of England

3rd Line Support
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 3rd Line Support within the North of England region over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Yorkshire +32 10 £300 -3.23% 5
North West +27 5 £375 +7.14% 7
North East +16 1 - - 4
3rd Line Support
England

3rd Line Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, 3rd Line Support contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North of England region featuring 3rd Line Support in the job title.

1 13 (81.25%) Windows
2 12 (75.00%) Active Directory
3 11 (68.75%) Microsoft
3 11 (68.75%) Windows Server
4 10 (62.50%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (56.25%) SharePoint
5 9 (56.25%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (56.25%) Firewall
6 7 (43.75%) Server Virtualisation
6 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
6 7 (43.75%) VPN
6 7 (43.75%) Customer Service
7 4 (25.00%) Azure
7 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
8 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
8 3 (18.75%) VMware
9 2 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (12.50%) A+ Certification
9 2 (12.50%) SAN
9 2 (12.50%) CCENT
9 2 (12.50%) PKI
9 2 (12.50%) CCNA
9 2 (12.50%) MCSA
9 2 (12.50%) Cisco
9 2 (12.50%) LAN
9 2 (12.50%) WAN
9 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 2 (12.50%) Entra ID

3rd Line Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (56.25%) Microsoft Exchange
1 9 (56.25%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (25.00%) Azure
3 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Stack
4 1 (6.25%) IaaS
4 1 (6.25%) OneDrive
4 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.25%) PowerApps
4 1 (6.25%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 9 (56.25%) Firewall
2 7 (43.75%) VPN
3 2 (12.50%) LAN
3 2 (12.50%) SAN
3 2 (12.50%) WAN
4 1 (6.25%) AMQP
4 1 (6.25%) DNS
4 1 (6.25%) MQTT
4 1 (6.25%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (6.25%) JSON
1 1 (6.25%) Middleware
1 1 (6.25%) Software Packaging
1 1 (6.25%) Web Services
1 1 (6.25%) XML
1 1 (6.25%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) PKI
2 1 (6.25%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 13 (81.25%) Windows
2 11 (68.75%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.25%) Linux
3 1 (6.25%) Windows 10
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Customer Service
1 7 (43.75%) Server Virtualisation
2 2 (12.50%) High Availability
2 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (6.25%) CRUD
3 1 (6.25%) Data Analysis
3 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (6.25%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
1 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) A+ Certification
1 2 (12.50%) CCENT
1 2 (12.50%) CCNA
1 2 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (12.50%) MCSA
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (6.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (6.25%) SCCM
2 1 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (68.75%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) VMware
3 2 (12.50%) Cisco
4 1 (6.25%) Brio
4 1 (6.25%) Dell
4 1 (6.25%) Proofpoint
4 1 (6.25%) Sophos