The first table below looks at the demand for the 1st Line Support Technician role in IT contracts advertised for the South Yorkshire 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 19 June 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 Yorkshire 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
First Line Support Technician
Rank - - -
Contract jobs requiring a 1st Line Support Technician 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire - - -
As % of the Job Titles category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - £105
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £11.50 £11.50 £9.63
% change year-on-year
- +19.48%
All Job Titles
South Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
242 269 268
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 94.53% 95.39% 94.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 141 174
Average daily rate £300 £318 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.51% -2.30%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £170 £165 £207
10% offered a daily rate of more than £471 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 27 23
Average hourly rate £35.00 £22.00 £34.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+59.09% -35.29%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.44 £10.60 £14.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £30.00 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
1st Line Support Technician
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 South Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

South Yorkshire 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 South Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire 1st Line Support Technician Hourly Rate Trend

1st Line Support Technician
Top 7 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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