The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Support role in IT contracts advertised for the Nottingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Technical 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 Nottingham 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
Technical Support
Rank - 30 26
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Support 0 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham - 0.450% 1.271%
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.478% 1.333%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £170 £238 £225
% change year-on-year
-28.42% +5.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.50 £15.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year
-12.90% -
All Job Titles
Nottingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
272 209 225
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 95.44% 94.14% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 103 67
Average daily rate £350 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £94
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 13 23
Average hourly rate £13.75 £17.50 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% +2.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £8.50 £10.08
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £30.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Technical Support
Nottinghamshire

Technical Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottingham Technical Support Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Support
Daily Rate Trend

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

Nottingham Technical Support Daily Rate Trend

Technical Support
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Nottingham Technical Support Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Support
Top 14 Related IT Skills

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

1 1 (33.33%) IIS
1 1 (33.33%) MS Office
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 2000
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
1 1 (33.33%) Windows XP
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) VMware
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Vista
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) UAG

Technical Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) IIS
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Office
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 2000
1 1 (33.33%) Windows XP
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Vista
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) UAG
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) VMware