Support Specialist Contracts in the South East
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Support Specialist role in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Support Specialist 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 South East 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
Support Specialist
Rank 209 230 236
Rank change year-on-year
+21 +6
Contract jobs requiring a Support Specialist 11 15 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.139% 0.148% 0.166%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.150% 0.160% 0.179%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 12
Average daily rate £290 £250 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.00% -16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £231 £225 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £313 £373
UK excluding London average daily rate £270 £275 £300
% change year-on-year
-1.81% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 4
Average hourly rate £12.50 £27.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-54.54% +37.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £25.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-24.00% +21.95%
All Job Titles
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 7336 9394 9506
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 92.60% 92.47% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3629 4201 4116
Average daily rate £350 £350 £355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £220 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £501 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 587 724 798
Average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.77% -14.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £11.38 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.00 £42.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Support Specialist
England

Support Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Support Specialist across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

South East Support Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Support Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Support Specialist across the South East region.

South East Support Specialist Daily Rate Trend

Support Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Support Specialist across the South East region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

South East Support Specialist Daily Rate Histogram

Support Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Support Specialist across the South East region.

South East Support Specialist Hourly Rate Trend

Support Specialist
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Support Specialist within the South East 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
Surrey +18 5 £290 -
Berkshire +10 4 £425 +47.82%
Hampshire -15 2 £233 -7.00%
Support Specialist
England

Support Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited Support Specialist 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 Support Specialist in their job title.

1 10 (47.62%) Windows
2 9 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 7 (33.33%) ITIL
4 5 (23.81%) Oracle Applications
4 5 (23.81%) Oracle
5 4 (19.05%) SQL Server
5 4 (19.05%) SQL
5 4 (19.05%) Linux
5 4 (19.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (14.29%) Incident Management
6 3 (14.29%) SharePoint Server
6 3 (14.29%) Problem Management
6 3 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (14.29%) General Ledger
6 3 (14.29%) Change Control
6 3 (14.29%) Digital Media
6 3 (14.29%) WebLogic
6 3 (14.29%) Active Directory
6 3 (14.29%) SharePoint
6 3 (14.29%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (14.29%) Telecoms
6 3 (14.29%) Finance
6 3 (14.29%) Hyperion
6 3 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (9.524%) Baan
7 2 (9.524%) Sage
7 2 (9.524%) Banking
7 2 (9.524%) VB6
7 2 (9.524%) Document Management
7 2 (9.524%) WinForms

Support Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (9.524%) WinForms
1 2 (9.524%) COM
2 1 (4.762%) XML
2 1 (4.762%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 3 (14.29%) SharePoint Server
1 3 (14.29%) WebLogic
1 3 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 2 (9.524%) MS Exchange
2 2 (9.524%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (9.524%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (4.762%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (4.762%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (4.762%) CloudStack
3 1 (4.762%) IIS
3 1 (4.762%) Apache
3 1 (4.762%) Tomcat
3 1 (4.762%) Documentum
Applications
1 2 (9.524%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Oracle Applications
2 3 (14.29%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (9.524%) Line 50
4 1 (4.762%) Cerner Millennium
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.524%) HTTP
2 1 (4.762%) HTTPS
2 1 (4.762%) ISDN
2 1 (4.762%) Internet
2 1 (4.762%) DAB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) SQL Server
1 4 (19.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 3 (14.29%) General Ledger
1 3 (14.29%) Telecoms
1 3 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (9.524%) Banking
2 2 (9.524%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Digital Media
2 2 (9.524%) AS400
3 1 (4.762%) Streaming Media
3 1 (4.762%) NHS
3 1 (4.762%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 10 (47.62%) Windows
2 4 (19.05%) Linux
3 3 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (4.762%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (4.762%) UNIX
4 1 (4.762%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) ITIL
2 3 (14.29%) Incident Management
2 3 (14.29%) Problem Management
2 3 (14.29%) Change Control
3 2 (9.524%) Document Management
4 1 (4.762%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (19.05%) SQL
2 2 (9.524%) VB6
2 2 (9.524%) C#
2 2 (9.524%) VB
3 1 (4.762%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.762%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.762%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.762%) BC Cleared
1 1 (4.762%) Security Cleared
1 1 (4.762%) MCSE
1 1 (4.762%) MCP
1 1 (4.762%) MCSD
1 1 (4.762%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 2 (9.524%) XenApp
3 1 (4.762%) XenServer
3 1 (4.762%) XenDesktop
3 1 (4.762%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.762%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.762%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 2 (9.524%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 5 (23.81%) Oracle
3 3 (14.29%) Hyperion
4 2 (9.524%) Baan
4 2 (9.524%) Sage
4 2 (9.524%) Citrix
4 2 (9.524%) Cisco
4 2 (9.524%) Kaspersky
5 1 (4.762%) Akamai
5 1 (4.762%) Twitter
5 1 (4.762%) JBoss
5 1 (4.762%) Adobe
5 1 (4.762%) Cerner
5 1 (4.762%) VMware
5 1 (4.762%) AppSense
5 1 (4.762%) Remedy
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