3rd Line Support Contracts in the South East

Third Line Support
England > South East

The median Third Line Support daily rate in the South East is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 185 202 237
Rank change year-on-year +17 +35 -46
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Support 14 22 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.25% 0.38% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.40% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 14 18
10th Percentile £294 £313 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £268
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £296
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +68.78% -3.27%
75th Percentile £533 £525 £375
90th Percentile £675 £543 £403
England median daily rate £375 £380 £314
% change year-on-year -1.32% +21.12% +0.40%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 5,138 5,513 7,438
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 94.48% 95.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,081 3,840 5,034
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £615 £603 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 480 241 339
10th Percentile £12.78 £18.08 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.16 £15.81
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -13.40%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.59 £43.85
90th Percentile £76.87 £75.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%

3rd Line Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured 3rd Line Support in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Support in the South East

3rd Line Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Support in the South East.

Daily rate trend for 3rd Line Support in the South East

3rd Line Support
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Support in the South East over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for 3rd Line Support in the South East

3rd Line Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Support in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for 3rd Line Support in the South East

3rd Line Support
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 3rd Line Support within the South East region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hampshire +2 10 £463 -7.50% 6
Thames Valley +8 4 £375 -30.94% 10
Berkshire -9 3 £375 -30.94% 3
Oxfordshire +6 1 - - 7
3rd Line Support
England

3rd Line Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, 3rd Line Support contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South East region featuring 3rd Line Support in the job title.

1 10 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 8 (57.14%) VMware
3 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (50.00%) SC Cleared
4 6 (42.86%) Cisco
4 6 (42.86%) Cisco Firepower
5 5 (35.71%) Mentoring
5 5 (35.71%) Windows
5 5 (35.71%) Linux
5 5 (35.71%) Juniper
5 5 (35.71%) DV Cleared
6 4 (28.57%) PowerShell
6 4 (28.57%) Active Directory
6 4 (28.57%) Performance Monitoring
6 4 (28.57%) Network Virtualisation
7 3 (21.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (21.43%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (21.43%) Ansible
7 3 (21.43%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (21.43%) Windows Server
7 3 (21.43%) vCenter Server
7 3 (21.43%) Patch Management
7 3 (21.43%) DNS
7 3 (21.43%) DHCP
7 3 (21.43%) MySQL
7 3 (21.43%) Oracle
7 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
7 3 (21.43%) SAN

3rd Line Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
2 1 (7.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) Cisco Firepower
2 3 (21.43%) DHCP
2 3 (21.43%) DNS
2 3 (21.43%) NAS
2 3 (21.43%) SAN
3 2 (14.29%) BGP
3 2 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (14.29%) Firewall
3 2 (14.29%) HSRP
3 2 (14.29%) IPsec
3 2 (14.29%) OSPF
3 2 (14.29%) Spanning Tree
3 2 (14.29%) VLAN
3 2 (14.29%) VPN
4 1 (7.14%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (7.14%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (21.43%) MySQL
1 3 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (7.14%) Legal
1 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
1 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Fat Client
1 3 (21.43%) PKI
1 3 (21.43%) Thin Client
2 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Linux
1 5 (35.71%) Windows
2 3 (21.43%) Ubuntu
2 3 (21.43%) Windows Server
2 3 (21.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Mentoring
2 4 (28.57%) Network Virtualisation
2 4 (28.57%) Performance Monitoring
3 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (21.43%) Patch Management
4 2 (14.29%) Agile
4 2 (14.29%) Software Deployment
4 2 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (7.14%) Business Continuity
5 1 (7.14%) Data Protection
5 1 (7.14%) Data Security
5 1 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (7.14%) Incident Management
5 1 (7.14%) ITIL
5 1 (7.14%) Process Improvement
5 1 (7.14%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 7 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (35.71%) DV Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) CCNP
4 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (28.57%) Active Directory
3 3 (21.43%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 3 (21.43%) Ansible
1 3 (21.43%) Nessus
1 3 (21.43%) Red Hat Satellite
1 3 (21.43%) vCenter Server
1 3 (21.43%) WSUS
1 3 (21.43%) ZABBIX
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) VMware
2 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (42.86%) Cisco
4 5 (35.71%) Juniper
5 3 (21.43%) Oracle
5 3 (21.43%) Red Hat
5 3 (21.43%) Veeam
6 2 (14.29%) F5
7 1 (7.14%) Citrix
7 1 (7.14%) Google
7 1 (7.14%) Siemens