1st Line Support Contracts in Shropshire
 
Demand Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the 1st Line Support role in IT contracts advertised for the Shropshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited 1st Line 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 Shropshire 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
First Line Support
Rank 19 26 21
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -5
Contract jobs requiring a 1st Line Support 3 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Shropshire 2.500% 1.600% 0.952%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.830% 1.681% 1.087%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £110 £105 £88
% change year-on-year
+4.76% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £10.00 £9.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +5.26%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £11.50 £11.20 £11.36
% change year-on-year
+2.70% -1.43%
All Job Titles
Shropshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 106 119 92
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Shropshire 88.33% 95.20% 87.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 75 40
Average daily rate £330 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.53% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £265 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £560 £500 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
Average hourly rate £10.00 £10.00 £9.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +5.26%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
1st Line Support
West Midlands

1st Line Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Shropshire 1st Line Support Jobs Demand Trend

1st Line Support
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Shropshire 1st Line Support Hourly Rate Trend

1st Line Support
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 1st Line Support within the Shropshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Telford - 3 - -
1st Line Support
West Midlands

1st Line Support
Top 7 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Shropshire region that cited 1st 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 1st Line Support in their job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Vista
2 3 (75.00%) Windows 7
2 3 (75.00%) MS Office

1st Line Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Shropshire region that cited 1st 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 1st Line Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 3 (75.00%) MS Office
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows XP
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Vista
2 3 (75.00%) Windows 7
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
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