South Yorkshire 3rd Line Support Engineer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the 3rd Line Support Engineer 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 jobs that have cited 3rd Line Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 7 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Abingdon Banbury Basingstoke Bellshill Berkshire Bletchley Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cheshire City of London Coatbridge Colchester Devon East Midlands East of England Enfield England Essex Exeter Hampshire Hertfordshire Ipswich London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North Lanarkshire North West Northampton Northamptonshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Romford Scotland Sheffield South East South West South Yorkshire Southam Suffolk Surrey Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	29	53
Rank change on same period last year	+24
Matching contract IT job ads	5	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.010 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	1.887 %	0.379 %
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	£161	£224
% change on same period last year	-28.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.30	£30.69
Average hourly rate	£30.30	£30.69
% change on same period last year	-1.27 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.30	£30.69
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.89	£23.39
% change on same period last year	+10.68 %
Job Titles South Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	265	528
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.529 %	0.661 %
Daily rates quoted	73	87
Average minimum daily rate	£333	£295
Average daily rate	£352	£311
% change on same period last year	+13.13 %
Average maximum daily rate	£370	£327
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£357
% change on same period last year	-2.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	68	125
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.46	£23.39
Average hourly rate	£24.32	£24.64
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.17	£25.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.14	£23.50
% change on same period last year	-1.52 %
3rd Line Support Engineer 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.

3rd Line Support Engineer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing 3rd Line Support Engineer across the South Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

3rd Line Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing 3rd Line Support Engineer 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 3rd Line Support Engineer 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 3rd Line Support Engineer across the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 7 January 2009.

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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 3rd Line Support Engineer within the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 7 January 2009. 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	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
Sheffield	+22	4	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire region that cited 3rd Line Support Engineer 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 3rd Line Support Engineer in their job title.

1 12 (80.00 %) Solaris 2 11 (73.33 %) VERITAS 3 8 (53.33 %) Windows 4 7 (46.67 %) Sun 5 6 (40.00 %) SAN 5 6 (40.00 %) Finance 5 6 (40.00 %) NetBackup 6 5 (33.33 %) UNIX 7 4 (26.67 %) EMC 7 4 (26.67 %) Legal 7 4 (26.67 %) Telecoms 7 4 (26.67 %) Change Management 8 3 (20.00 %) HPUX 9 2 (13.33 %) NFS 9 2 (13.33 %) Cisco

9 2 (13.33 %) AIX 9 2 (13.33 %) Linux 9 2 (13.33 %) NetApp 9 2 (13.33 %) Active Directory 9 2 (13.33 %) HP 9 2 (13.33 %) Brocade 10 1 (6.667 %) OVPA 10 1 (6.667 %) HP Data Protector 10 1 (6.667 %) iSCSI 10 1 (6.667 %) Health 10 1 (6.667 %) Service Management 10 1 (6.667 %) ITSM 10 1 (6.667 %) Back Office 10 1 (6.667 %) SNIA Certification 10 1 (6.667 %) VMware

3rd Line Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire region that cited 3rd Line Support Engineer 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 3rd Line Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (6.667 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 1 (6.667 %) Lotus Notes 1 1 (6.667 %) Lotus Domino 1 1 (6.667 %) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking 1 6 (40.00 %) SAN 2 1 (6.667 %) iSCSI 2 1 (6.667 %) LDAP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (6.667 %) SQL Server 1 1 (6.667 %) Informix
General 1 6 (40.00 %) Finance 2 4 (26.67 %) Telecoms 2 4 (26.67 %) Legal 3 1 (6.667 %) Back Office 3 1 (6.667 %) Health	Miscellaneous 1 1 (6.667 %) CLARiiON 1 1 (6.667 %) Symmetrix
Operating Systems 1 12 (80.00 %) Solaris 2 8 (53.33 %) Windows 3 5 (33.33 %) UNIX 4 3 (20.00 %) HPUX 5 2 (13.33 %) AIX 5 2 (13.33 %) Linux 6 1 (6.667 %) Windows 2000 6 1 (6.667 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (26.67 %) Change Management 2 1 (6.667 %) ITSM 2 1 (6.667 %) ITIL 2 1 (6.667 %) Service Management
Qualifications 1 1 (6.667 %) MCSE 1 1 (6.667 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (6.667 %) SNIA Certification	System Software 1 6 (40.00 %) NetBackup 2 2 (13.33 %) NFS 2 2 (13.33 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 1 (6.667 %) OpenView 1 1 (6.667 %) Legato 1 1 (6.667 %) OVPA 1 1 (6.667 %) HP Data Protector	Vendors 1 11 (73.33 %) VERITAS 2 7 (46.67 %) Sun 3 4 (26.67 %) EMC 4 2 (13.33 %) NetApp 4 2 (13.33 %) HP 4 2 (13.33 %) Cisco 4 2 (13.33 %) Brocade 5 1 (6.667 %) Lotus 5 1 (6.667 %) VMware 5 1 (6.667 %) Microsoft 5 1 (6.667 %) Oracle 5 1 (6.667 %) Intel 5 1 (6.667 %) Citrix