The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems Support 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 Systems Support in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Systems Support
Rank 107 124 131
Rank change year-on-year
+17 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Support 10 8 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.435% 0.253% 0.032%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.466% 0.276% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 1
Average daily rate £140 £105 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+33.33% -73.75%
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £219 £289
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -24.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £20.00 £26.15 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-23.51% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.88 £18.75 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-15.33% +25.00%
All Job Titles
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2144 2900 2856
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 93.34% 91.57% 92.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1014 1446 1426
Average daily rate £335 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.07% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 169 190
Average hourly rate £18.50 £19.50 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.12% +14.70%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.29 £12.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £33.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Systems Support
England

Systems Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West Systems Support Jobs Demand Trend

Systems Support
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West Systems Support Daily Rate Trend

Systems Support
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West Systems Support Hourly Rate Trend

Systems Support
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Support within the North West region over the 3 months to 17 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
Manchester +16 6 £140 -
Lancashire +13 2 - -
Cheshire +5 2 - -
Systems Support
England

Systems Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited Systems 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 Systems Support in their job title.

1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
1 7 (43.75%) Active Directory
2 5 (31.25%) Netcool
2 5 (31.25%) Nagios
2 5 (31.25%) Telecoms
2 5 (31.25%) Linux
2 5 (31.25%) Perl
2 5 (31.25%) UNIX
3 4 (25.00%) Windows
3 4 (25.00%) Oracle
3 4 (25.00%) Apache
3 4 (25.00%) Oracle Financials
3 4 (25.00%) LDAP
3 4 (25.00%) C
3 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (25.00%) IBM
3 4 (25.00%) MS Visio
3 4 (25.00%) Billing
3 4 (25.00%) HFM
3 4 (25.00%) Systems Analysis
3 4 (25.00%) Finance
3 4 (25.00%) Hyperion
3 4 (25.00%) Red Hat
3 4 (25.00%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (25.00%) Ruby
3 4 (25.00%) Wiki
3 4 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (25.00%) Oracle BI EE
3 4 (25.00%) Revenue Management
3 4 (25.00%) Oracle EBS R12

Systems Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited Systems 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 Systems Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (6.250%) XML
Application Platforms
1 4 (25.00%) Apache
2 2 (12.50%) MS Exchange
2 2 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 4 (25.00%) MS Visio
2 3 (18.75%) MS Office
2 3 (18.75%) MS Excel
3 1 (6.250%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Oracle Financials
1 4 (25.00%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (25.00%) HFM
1 4 (25.00%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) LDAP
2 1 (6.250%) LAN
2 1 (6.250%) WAN
2 1 (6.250%) FTP
2 1 (6.250%) TCP/IP
2 1 (6.250%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (6.250%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 5 (31.25%) Telecoms
2 4 (25.00%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Billing
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Wiki
2 2 (12.50%) Fat Client
2 2 (12.50%) Thin Client
3 1 (6.250%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) UNIX
1 5 (31.25%) Linux
2 4 (25.00%) Windows
3 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (6.250%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) Systems Analysis
1 4 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 4 (25.00%) Revenue Management
2 2 (12.50%) Information Management
3 1 (6.250%) Incident Management
3 1 (6.250%) ITIL
3 1 (6.250%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Perl
2 4 (25.00%) C
2 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (25.00%) Ruby
3 1 (6.250%) Java
3 1 (6.250%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.250%) MCP
1 1 (6.250%) MCSE
1 1 (6.250%) MCSA
1 1 (6.250%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (6.250%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.250%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (43.75%) Active Directory
2 2 (12.50%) Hyper-V
2 2 (12.50%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Netcool
1 5 (31.25%) Nagios
2 4 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 4 (25.00%) Oracle
2 4 (25.00%) Hyperion
2 4 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 4 (25.00%) IBM
3 2 (12.50%) Citrix
4 1 (6.250%) Cisco
4 1 (6.250%) VMware