Scotland 2nd Line Support Engineer Contracts

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

Second Line Support Engineer
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Chelmsford City of London Coventry Cumbria Darlington Devon Durham East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Enfield England Essex Exeter Farnham Glasgow Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Grimsby Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Hull Isle of Man Kent Kidderminster Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Lowestoft Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Redditch Scotland Shropshire Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding Stafford Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thatcham Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wirral Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	90	122
Rank change on same period last year	+32
Matching contract IT job ads	3	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	0.158 %	0.064 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£155	£176
% change on same period last year	-12.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£10.00	£18.25
Average hourly rate	£12.00	£19.97
% change on same period last year	-39.90 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.00	£21.69
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£14.58	£17.60
% change on same period last year	-17.17 %
Job Titles Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	1897	3133
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.048 %	3.365 %
Daily rates quoted	429	610
Average minimum daily rate	£312	£317
Average daily rate	£335	£332
% change on same period last year	+0.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£358	£348
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£352
% change on same period last year	+0.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	166	273
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.72	£18.41
Average hourly rate	£22.91	£19.62
% change on same period last year	+16.76 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.10	£20.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.10	£24.04
% change on same period last year	-3.88 %
2nd Line Support Engineer UK

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.

2nd Line Support Engineer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing 2nd Line Support Engineer across the Scotland 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 Engineer across the Scotland region.

2nd Line Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing 2nd Line Support Engineer across the Scotland region.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 2nd Line Support Engineer within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Glasgow	-	1	-	-
Aberdeen	-	1	-	-

2nd Line Support Engineer UK

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Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region that cited 2nd Line Support Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title.

1 6 (85.71 %) Windows 2 4 (57.14 %) Windows Server 2003 3 3 (42.86 %) HP 3 3 (42.86 %) Windows XP 4 1 (14.29 %) MS Exchange 4 1 (14.29 %) LAN 4 1 (14.29 %) WAN 4 1 (14.29 %) Cisco 4 1 (14.29 %) IBM 4 1 (14.29 %) Microsoft 4 1 (14.29 %) Oracle 10g 4 1 (14.29 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (14.29 %) MCSE 4 1 (14.29 %) Oracle 9i 4 1 (14.29 %) MS Excel

4 1 (14.29 %) Oracle 4 1 (14.29 %) SQL Server 4 1 (14.29 %) MS Office 4 1 (14.29 %) MCP 4 1 (14.29 %) UNIX 4 1 (14.29 %) Dell 4 1 (14.29 %) Microsoft Certification 4 1 (14.29 %) Novell 4 1 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (14.29 %) VMware 4 1 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2005 4 1 (14.29 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 1 (14.29 %) Windows 2000 Server

2nd Line Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region that cited 2nd Line Support Engineer 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 Engineer 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 1 (14.29 %) MS Office 1 1 (14.29 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 1 (14.29 %) LAN 1 1 (14.29 %) WAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (14.29 %) SQL Server 1 1 (14.29 %) Oracle 9i 1 1 (14.29 %) Oracle 10g 1 1 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2000 1 1 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2005
Operating Systems 1 6 (85.71 %) Windows 2 4 (57.14 %) Windows Server 2003 3 3 (42.86 %) Windows XP 4 1 (14.29 %) UNIX 4 1 (14.29 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (14.29 %) Windows 2000 Server	Qualifications 1 1 (14.29 %) MCP 1 1 (14.29 %) MCSE 1 1 (14.29 %) Microsoft Certification
Vendors 1 3 (42.86 %) HP 2 1 (14.29 %) Dell 2 1 (14.29 %) Novell 2 1 (14.29 %) VMware 2 1 (14.29 %) Oracle 2 1 (14.29 %) Cisco 2 1 (14.29 %) IBM 2 1 (14.29 %) Microsoft