South Yorkshire 1st Line Support Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the 1st Line Support role in IT contracts within the South Yorkshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited 1st Line Support in their job title over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Beverley Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bootle Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hampshire Hayes Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hounslow Hull Kegworth Keighley Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Pontypool Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Shields South Wales South West South Yorkshire St Albans St Asaph St Helens Staffordshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Swindon Tadworth Tamworth Taunton Torfaen Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Witham Woking Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	36	24
Rank change on same period last year	-12
Matching contract IT job ads	7	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	1.867 %	3.423 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£120	-
Average daily rate	£123	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£125	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£124	£124
% change on same period last year	+0.12 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£10.18	£9.58
Average hourly rate	£10.91	£9.83
% change on same period last year	+11.02 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£11.64	£10.08
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£12.31	£13.49
% change on same period last year	-8.80 %
Job Titles South Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	375	409
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.494 %	0.434 %
Daily rates quoted	92	50
Average minimum daily rate	£298	£267
Average daily rate	£312	£281
% change on same period last year	+11.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£326	£295
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	81	91
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.59	£21.40
Average hourly rate	£25.97	£22.13
% change on same period last year	+17.35 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.36	£22.86
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.28	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
1st Line Support Yorkshire

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing 1st Line Support across the South Yorkshire 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 1st Line Support across the South Yorkshire 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 1st Line Support across the South Yorkshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing 1st Line Support across the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing 1st Line Support within the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 4 July 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
Sheffield	-4	4	-	-
Doncaster	-	1	-	-

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Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 5 (45.45 %) MS Office 1 5 (45.45 %) Windows 1 5 (45.45 %) Microsoft 2 4 (36.36 %) HP 3 3 (27.27 %) Remedy 3 3 (27.27 %) Active Directory 3 3 (27.27 %) OpenView 3 3 (27.27 %) MS Exchange 3 3 (27.27 %) MS Excel 3 3 (27.27 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 3 (27.27 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 2 (18.18 %) Windows XP 5 1 (9.091 %) Firewall 5 1 (9.091 %) Windows NT 5 1 (9.091 %) Unix

1st Line Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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.

Application Platforms 1 3 (27.27 %) MS Exchange 1 3 (27.27 %) Exchange Server 2000 1 3 (27.27 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 5 (45.45 %) MS Office 2 3 (27.27 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 1 (9.091 %) Firewall	Operating Systems 1 5 (45.45 %) Windows 2 2 (18.18 %) Windows XP 3 1 (9.091 %) Unix 3 1 (9.091 %) Windows NT
System Software 1 3 (27.27 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 3 (27.27 %) OpenView
Vendors 1 5 (45.45 %) Microsoft 2 4 (36.36 %) HP 3 3 (27.27 %) Remedy