South Wales 2nd Line Support Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the 2nd Line Support role in IT contracts within the South Wales 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 in their job title over the 3 months to 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Second Line Support
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Banbury Basingstoke Beaconsfield Beckenham Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckfastleigh Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canterbury Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Colchester Cornwall Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dover Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Feltham Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Inverness Isle of Man Kent Kidderminster King's Lynn Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire London Luton Lutterworth Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Redditch Redhill Rugby Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stratford-upon-Avon Stroud Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Thatcham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	48	46
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	3	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	0.568 %	0.763 %
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	£156	£183
% change on same period last year	-14.61 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£9.67	£10.00
Average hourly rate	£12.50	£10.50
% change on same period last year	+19.04 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.33	£11.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£16.11	£16.47
% change on same period last year	-2.17 %
Job Titles South Wales
Matching contract IT job ads	528	524
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.752 %	0.542 %
Daily rates quoted	166	109
Average minimum daily rate	£318	£361
Average daily rate	£336	£394
% change on same period last year	-14.80 %
Average maximum daily rate	£354	£428
UK excluding London average daily rate	£354	£353
% change on same period last year	+0.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	100	74
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.47	£21.39
Average hourly rate	£31.16	£23.10
% change on same period last year	+34.88 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.84	£24.81
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.64	£25.03
% change on same period last year	-5.56 %
2nd Line Support Wales

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
Demand Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing 2nd Line Support across the South Wales region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008.

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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 within the South Wales region over the 3 months to 15 October 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
Bridgend	+5	2	-	-
Gwent	-	1	-	-

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Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales region that cited 2nd 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 2nd Line Support in their job title.

1 10 (76.92 %) Windows 2 8 (61.54 %) Windows Server 2003 3 7 (53.85 %) Windows XP 4 6 (46.15 %) Microsoft 5 5 (38.46 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 4 (30.77 %) MS Office 7 3 (23.08 %) Active Directory 7 3 (23.08 %) Government 8 2 (15.38 %) MS Excel 8 2 (15.38 %) HP 8 2 (15.38 %) Compaq 9 1 (7.692 %) Dell 9 1 (7.692 %) Microsoft Certification 9 1 (7.692 %) Lotus 9 1 (7.692 %) MCP

9 1 (7.692 %) Mainframe 9 1 (7.692 %) LAN 9 1 (7.692 %) WAN 9 1 (7.692 %) TCP/IP 9 1 (7.692 %) Cisco 9 1 (7.692 %) Windows 2000 9 1 (7.692 %) Lotus Notes 9 1 (7.692 %) MCSE 9 1 (7.692 %) MCSA 9 1 (7.692 %) MCDST 9 1 (7.692 %) Manufacturing

2nd Line Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales region that cited 2nd 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 2nd Line Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (7.692 %) Lotus Notes	Applications 1 4 (30.77 %) MS Office 2 2 (15.38 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 1 (7.692 %) LAN 1 1 (7.692 %) WAN 1 1 (7.692 %) TCP/IP	General 1 3 (23.08 %) Government 2 1 (7.692 %) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous 1 1 (7.692 %) Mainframe	Operating Systems 1 10 (76.92 %) Windows 2 8 (61.54 %) Windows Server 2003 3 7 (53.85 %) Windows XP 4 5 (38.46 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 1 (7.692 %) Windows 2000
Qualifications 1 1 (7.692 %) MCP 1 1 (7.692 %) MCSE 1 1 (7.692 %) MCSA 1 1 (7.692 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (7.692 %) MCDST	System Software 1 3 (23.08 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 6 (46.15 %) Microsoft 2 2 (15.38 %) HP 2 2 (15.38 %) Compaq 3 1 (7.692 %) Dell 3 1 (7.692 %) Lotus 3 1 (7.692 %) Cisco