1st Line Support Contracts in the North East

First Line Support
England > North East

The median First Line Support daily rate in the North East is £173 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 - 40
Rank change year-on-year - - +1
Contract jobs requiring a 1st Line Support 2 0 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 0.59% - 2.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% - 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 11
10th Percentile £160 - £105
25th Percentile £163 - £130
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £173 - £140
Median % change year-on-year - - +65.06%
75th Percentile £178 - £180
90th Percentile £179 - -
England median daily rate £140 £150 £145
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +11.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.75
Median hourly rate - - £16.50
75th Percentile - - £17.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £16.50 £18.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year -10.81% +23.33% +25.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North East. 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 East with a recognized job title 308 422 495
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.32% 97.91% 97.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 324 391
10th Percentile £190 £231 £145
25th Percentile £363 £400 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +13.16% +5.56%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £575
90th Percentile £650 £720 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 2 17
10th Percentile £10.42 £32.98 £12.16
25th Percentile £11.50 £35.56 £14.00
Median hourly rate £13.99 £40.75 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -65.67% +139.71% +13.33%
75th Percentile £46.18 £45.56 £19.91
90th Percentile £50.00 £47.93 £46.15
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%

1st Line Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings that featured 1st Line Support in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for 1st Line Support in the North East

1st Line Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 1st Line Support in the North East.

Daily rate trend for 1st Line Support in the North East

1st Line Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 1st Line Support in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for 1st Line Support in the North East

1st Line Support
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 1st Line Support within the North East region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Tyne and Wear - 2 £173 -
1st Line Support
England

1st Line Support Skill Set
Top 21 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, 1st 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 East region featuring 1st Line Support in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) Site Server
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) WSUS
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) NAS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Server Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) VB
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Client/Server

1st Line Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (50.00%) Site Server
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) NAS
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Server Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) VB
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) VMware