The first table below looks at the demand for the 1st Line Support Technician role in IT contracts advertised for the Sheffield region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited 1st Line Support Technician in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 Sheffield 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
First Line Support Technician
Rank 21 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a 1st Line Support Technician 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Sheffield 0.680% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.746% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - £110
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £10.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £11.50 £11.50 £9.63
% change year-on-year
- +19.48%
All Job Titles
Sheffield
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
134 139 148
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Sheffield 91.16% 95.86% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 73 72
Average daily rate £300 £281 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £165 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 10 20
Average hourly rate £12.44 £20.06 £36.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-37.98% -45.04%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.79 £11.83 £25.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £30.00 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
1st Line Support Technician
South Yorkshire

1st Line Support Technician
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing 1st Line Support Technician across the Sheffield region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Sheffield 1st Line Support Technician Jobs Demand Trend

1st Line Support Technician
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing 1st Line Support Technician across the Sheffield region.

Sheffield 1st Line Support Technician Hourly Rate Trend

1st Line Support Technician
Top 7 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield region that cited 1st Line Support Technician 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 1st Line Support Technician in their job title.

1 3 (100.00%) MS Office
1 3 (100.00%) HP
2 2 (66.67%) OVSD
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) OpenView

1st Line Support Technician
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield region that cited 1st Line Support Technician 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 1st Line Support Technician in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 3 (100.00%) MS Office
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) OVSD
1 2 (66.67%) OpenView
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) HP
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft