3rd Line Support Contracts in the South West

Third Line Support
England > South West

The median Third Line Support daily rate in the South West is £258 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 140 166 157
Rank change year-on-year +26 -9 -37
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Support 8 10 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.25% 0.27% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.29% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 13
10th Percentile - £305 -
25th Percentile £213 £334 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £258 £400 £265
Median % change year-on-year -35.63% +50.94% -18.46%
75th Percentile £313 £531 £338
90th Percentile £375 £588 £441
England median daily rate £375 £378 £313
% change year-on-year -0.66% +20.80% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 West with a recognized job title 2,988 3,434 3,586
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 92.29% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,952 2,572 2,551
10th Percentile £210 £251 £225
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £588
90th Percentile £706 £713 £658
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 369 283 195
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.00 £15.90
25th Percentile £25.00 £51.31 £16.77
Median hourly rate £47.83 £65.00 £45.20
Median % change year-on-year -26.42% +43.81% +5.73%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £62.38
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.40 £69.05
England median hourly rate £34.21 £43.63 £22.29
% change year-on-year -21.59% +95.74% -0.58%

3rd Line Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

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

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

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

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

3rd Line Support
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Support in the South West over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

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

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

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

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

3rd Line Support
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 16 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
Wiltshire +6 4 £300 -12.41% 1
Gloucestershire +11 3 £225 -60.87% 1
Bristol +14 1 £300 -33.33%
3rd Line Support
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 West region featuring 3rd Line Support in the job title.

1 7 (87.50%) Windows
1 7 (87.50%) Windows Server
2 6 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (75.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (50.00%) VMware
3 4 (50.00%) Windows 10
4 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
5 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (25.00%) Azure
5 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
6 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
6 1 (12.50%) Antivirus Management
6 1 (12.50%) WhatsApp
6 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
6 1 (12.50%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
6 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity Planning
6 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
6 1 (12.50%) Patch Management
6 1 (12.50%) ITIL
6 1 (12.50%) WAN
6 1 (12.50%) HP
6 1 (12.50%) SAN
6 1 (12.50%) BCP
6 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity
6 1 (12.50%) WSUS

3rd Line Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) SAN
1 1 (12.50%) WAN
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Windows
1 7 (87.50%) Windows Server
2 4 (50.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (12.50%) Antivirus Management
2 1 (12.50%) BCP
2 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity
2 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity Planning
2 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
2 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (12.50%) ITIL
2 1 (12.50%) Patch Management
2 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) HP