The first table below looks at the demand for the 3rd Line Server Support role in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited 3rd Line Server Support in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 Reading 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Third Line Server Support
Rank 72 80 78
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -2
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Server Support 1 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.117% 0.090% 0.097%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.128% 0.099% 0.110%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Average daily rate £425 £275 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+54.54% +37.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £247 £290
% change year-on-year
+21.58% -14.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £20.06 -
% change year-on-year
+34.59% -
All Job Titles
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
783 1015 908
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 91.47% 91.86% 88.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 354 342 407
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £218 £230
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 57 38
Average hourly rate £18.00 £15.50 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.12% +24.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.60 £11.25 £10.09
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £24.00 £34.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
3rd Line Server Support
Berkshire

3rd Line Server Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 3rd Line Server Support Jobs Demand Trend

3rd Line Server Support
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading 3rd Line Server Support Daily Rate Trend

3rd Line Server Support
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading 3rd Line Server Support Hourly Rate Trend

3rd Line Server Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region that cited 3rd Line Server 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 Server Support in their job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) LDAP
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) Remedy
2 1 (50.00%) MIIS
2 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) SLA
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) MCSE
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) IIS
2 1 (50.00%) MCP
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Games
2 1 (50.00%) Clustering
2 1 (50.00%) PKI
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Vista
2 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
2 1 (50.00%) NLBS
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 2000 Server
2 1 (50.00%) NAS

3rd Line Server Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region that cited 3rd Line Server 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 Server Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) LDAP
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
2 1 (50.00%) NAS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Vista
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 2000 Server
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (50.00%) MCSE
1 1 (50.00%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) MIIS
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Remedy
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft