Support Specialist Contracts in the North West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Support Specialist role in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Support Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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 North West 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Support Specialist
Rank 109 128 124
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Support Specialist 9 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.384% 0.032% 0.097%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.412% 0.035% 0.105%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 3
Average daily rate £435 £120 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+262.50% -65.71%
UK excluding London average daily rate £311 £275 £300
% change year-on-year
+12.93% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £25.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-24.00% +21.95%
All Job Titles
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 2182 2864 2865
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 93.09% 91.74% 92.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1045 1414 1422
Average daily rate £338 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.84% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £225 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £470
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 175 192
Average hourly rate £17.50 £19.00 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.89% +5.55%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.01 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £33.32 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Support Specialist
England

Support Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West Support Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Support Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Support Specialist across the North West region.

North West Support Specialist Daily Rate Trend

Support Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Support Specialist across the North West region.

North West Support Specialist Hourly Rate Trend

Support Specialist
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Support Specialist within the North West region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cheshire +9 6 £435 +262.50%
Manchester - 2 - -
Merseyside - 1 - -
Support Specialist
England

Support Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited Support Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title.

1 6 (66.67%) Citrix
1 6 (66.67%) AppSense
1 6 (66.67%) XenApp
2 5 (55.56%) Active Directory
3 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
3 4 (44.44%) Finance
3 4 (44.44%) Citrix Presentation Server
4 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (33.33%) VMware
4 3 (33.33%) Windows
4 3 (33.33%) SQL
5 2 (22.22%) Service Delivery
5 2 (22.22%) Windows 7
5 2 (22.22%) Banking
6 1 (11.11%) SCCM
6 1 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (11.11%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (11.11%) JSON
6 1 (11.11%) Application Packaging
6 1 (11.11%) vSphere
6 1 (11.11%) REST
6 1 (11.11%) Change Management
6 1 (11.11%) Service Management
6 1 (11.11%) SAP BW
6 1 (11.11%) NetWeaver
6 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (11.11%) VMware ESX
6 1 (11.11%) SAP XI
6 1 (11.11%) Microsoft App-V

Support Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited Support Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (11.11%) JSON
1 1 (11.11%) Application Packaging
1 1 (11.11%) REST
1 1 (11.11%) SAP XI
1 1 (11.11%) SAP Basis
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
1 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
1 1 (11.11%) CSS
1 1 (11.11%) SOAP
1 1 (11.11%) XML
1 1 (11.11%) XHTML
1 1 (11.11%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) NetWeaver
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics AX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) SAP BW
1 1 (11.11%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Windows 7
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) Service Delivery
2 1 (11.11%) Change Management
2 1 (11.11%) Service Management
2 1 (11.11%) Migration
2 1 (11.11%) ITIL
2 1 (11.11%) CRM
2 1 (11.11%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) C#
2 1 (11.11%) Java
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) XenApp
2 5 (55.56%) Active Directory
3 4 (44.44%) Citrix Presentation Server
4 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (11.11%) vSphere
5 1 (11.11%) VMware ESX
5 1 (11.11%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Citrix
1 6 (66.67%) AppSense
2 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
3 3 (33.33%) VMware
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle
4 1 (11.11%) SAP
4 1 (11.11%) IBM
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