Portsmouth Technical Support Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Technical Support role in IT contracts within the Portsmouth 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 Technical Support in their job title over the 3 months to 28 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Technical Support
Location Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cheshire Chichester Cirencester City of London Corby Darlington Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Grimsby Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Hounslow Huntingdon Immingham Inverness Ipswich Kegworth Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Reigate Rochester Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Shropshire Slough Solihull South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Teesside Telford Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 28 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	29	27
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	1	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	0.439 %	0.877 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£250	-
Average daily rate	£265	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£280	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£249	£286
% change on same period last year	-12.78 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£15.00
Average hourly rate	-	£15.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.13	£16.06
% change on same period last year	+6.62 %
Job Titles Portsmouth
Matching contract IT job ads	228	228
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.303 %	0.228 %
Daily rates quoted	24	26
Average minimum daily rate	£306	£271
Average daily rate	£321	£297
% change on same period last year	+8.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£335	£323
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£355
% change on same period last year	+0.27 %
Hourly rates quoted	114	125
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.73	£23.74
Average hourly rate	£28.66	£25.77
% change on same period last year	+11.20 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.59	£27.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.79	£25.66
% change on same period last year	-7.26 %
Technical Support Hampshire

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.

Technical Support
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Technical Support across the Portsmouth 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 Technical Support across the Portsmouth 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 Technical Support across the Portsmouth region.

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Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 28 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Portsmouth 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 2 (66.67 %) Windows 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL 2 1 (33.33 %) VBScript 2 1 (33.33 %) SLA 2 1 (33.33 %) Intel 2 1 (33.33 %) Citrix 2 1 (33.33 %) MetaFrame 2 1 (33.33 %) SAN 2 1 (33.33 %) VERITAS 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 2 1 (33.33 %) MSI 2 1 (33.33 %) InstallShield 2 1 (33.33 %) Change Management 2 1 (33.33 %) VMware 2 1 (33.33 %) NetBackup

2 1 (33.33 %) Civica

Technical Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 28 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Portsmouth 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.

Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) SAN	Development Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) MSI 1 1 (33.33 %) InstallShield
Operating Systems 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) Change Management
Programming Languages 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL 2 1 (33.33 %) VBScript	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (33.33 %) SLA
System Software 1 1 (33.33 %) MetaFrame 1 1 (33.33 %) NetBackup	Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Intel 1 1 (33.33 %) Citrix 1 1 (33.33 %) VERITAS 1 1 (33.33 %) VMware 1 1 (33.33 %) Civica