Northampton 2nd Line Support Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the 2nd Line Support role in IT contracts within the Northampton 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 2nd Line Support in their job title over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Second Line Support
Location Aberdeen Barking Basildon Basingstoke Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Bridgwater Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dover Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Hartlepool Heanor Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Inverness Isle of Man Kent King's Lynn Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Lutterworth Maidenhead Manchester Mansfield Marlow Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Rugby Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Thatcham Torpoint Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warwick Warwickshire West Kilbride West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Windsor Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	30	17
Rank change on same period last year	-13
Matching contract IT job ads	4	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	1.600 %	2.941 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£125	-
Average daily rate	£138	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£150	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£144	£169
% change on same period last year	-14.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.00	£10.00
Average hourly rate	£14.50	£10.50
% change on same period last year	+38.09 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.00	£11.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.28	£15.94
% change on same period last year	-4.19 %
Job Titles Northampton
Matching contract IT job ads	250	170
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.338 %	0.168 %
Daily rates quoted	132	44
Average minimum daily rate	£410	£346
Average daily rate	£432	£373
% change on same period last year	+15.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£454	£401
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£355
% change on same period last year	-0.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	42	24
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.78	£18.16
Average hourly rate	£16.89	£19.86
% change on same period last year	-14.96 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.99	£21.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.85	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.14 %
2nd Line Support Northamptonshire

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 2nd Line Support across the Northampton 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 2nd Line Support across the Northampton 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 2nd Line Support across the Northampton region.

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Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northampton region that cited 2nd Line 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 2nd Line Support in their job title.

1 7 (100.00 %) Windows 2 6 (85.71 %) Active Directory 3 5 (71.43 %) Windows Server 2003 4 3 (42.86 %) MS Office 4 3 (42.86 %) Windows 2000 5 2 (28.57 %) MCP 5 2 (28.57 %) Microsoft 5 2 (28.57 %) Microsoft Certification 6 1 (14.29 %) Thin Client 6 1 (14.29 %) Blackberry 6 1 (14.29 %) Citrix 6 1 (14.29 %) MCSE 6 1 (14.29 %) Windows XP 6 1 (14.29 %) MS Exchange 6 1 (14.29 %) DHCP

6 1 (14.29 %) DNS 6 1 (14.29 %) Migration 6 1 (14.29 %) VMware 6 1 (14.29 %) MCDST 6 1 (14.29 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 1 (14.29 %) Fat Client 6 1 (14.29 %) VMware Infrastructure

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northampton region that cited 2nd Line 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 2nd Line Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (14.29 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (14.29 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 3 (42.86 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 1 (14.29 %) DHCP 1 1 (14.29 %) DNS	Miscellaneous 1 1 (14.29 %) Thin Client 1 1 (14.29 %) Blackberry 1 1 (14.29 %) Fat Client
Operating Systems 1 7 (100.00 %) Windows 2 5 (71.43 %) Windows Server 2003 3 3 (42.86 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (14.29 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (14.29 %) Migration
Qualifications 1 2 (28.57 %) MCP 1 2 (28.57 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (14.29 %) MCDST 2 1 (14.29 %) MCSE	System Software 1 6 (85.71 %) Active Directory 2 1 (14.29 %) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors 1 2 (28.57 %) Microsoft 2 1 (14.29 %) Citrix 2 1 (14.29 %) VMware