3rd Line Support Contracts in Oxford
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the 3rd Line Support role in IT contracts advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited 3rd Line 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 Oxford 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
Third Line Support
Rank 35 37 22
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -15
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Support 1 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 0.452% 0.578% 1.266%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.465% 0.599% 1.342%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £250 £250 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £270 £258 £233
% change year-on-year
+4.85% +10.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.50 £20.03 £21.50
% change year-on-year
+17.32% -6.83%
All Job Titles
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 215 334 149
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 97.29% 96.53% 94.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 189 77
Average daily rate £340 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.85% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £225 £183
10% offered a daily rate of more than £460 £500 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 43 19
Average hourly rate £14.63 £12.50 £18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.00% -32.43%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £30.00 £29.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
3rd Line Support
Oxfordshire

3rd Line Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 3rd Line Support Jobs Demand Trend

3rd Line Support
Daily Rate Trend

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

Oxford 3rd Line Support Daily Rate Trend

3rd Line Support
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Oxford 3rd Line Support Hourly Rate Trend

3rd Line Support
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford region that cited 3rd 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 3rd Line Support in their job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows 7
2 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (33.33%) UNIX
2 1 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) VMware ESX
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) SCCM
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows XP
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix
2 1 (33.33%) CCA
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003

3rd Line Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford region that cited 3rd 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 3rd Line Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows 7
2 1 (33.33%) UNIX
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows XP
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCA
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) VMware ESX
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix
1 1 (33.33%) VMware
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