Staffordshire 1st Line Support Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the 1st Line Support role in IT contracts within the Staffordshire 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 1st Line Support in their job title over the 3 months to 7 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

First Line Support
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Airdrie Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bellshill Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Braintree Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chelmsford Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Clydebank Coatbridge Colchester Cornwall Coventry Crawley Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorchester Dorset Dudley Durham East Ayrshire East Grinstead East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Eynsham Fareham Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Hounslow Kegworth Kidlington Kilmarnock Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newcastle North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rugby Scotland Shropshire Sidcup Slough Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Swindon Tadworth Telford Thirsk Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Warwickshire West Dunbartonshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Wiltshire Winchester Witham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	32	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	2	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.995 %	0.000 %
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	£144	£118
% change on same period last year	+22.43 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£8.50	-
Average hourly rate	£9.75	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£11.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£11.82	£11.75
% change on same period last year	+0.64 %
Job Titles Staffordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	201	122
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.401 %	0.153 %
Daily rates quoted	70	37
Average minimum daily rate	£297	£334
Average daily rate	£334	£349
% change on same period last year	-4.29 %
Average maximum daily rate	£372	£365
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£357
% change on same period last year	-2.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	29	28
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.00	£27.24
Average hourly rate	£17.56	£29.01
% change on same period last year	-39.46 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.13	£30.78
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.14	£23.50
% change on same period last year	-1.52 %
1st Line Support West Midlands

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.

1st Line Support
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing 1st Line Support across the Staffordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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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 Staffordshire region.

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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 1st Line Support within the Staffordshire 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
Stafford	-	1	-	-
Stoke-on-Trent	-	1	-	-

1st Line Support West Midlands

1st Line Support
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 2 (66.67 %) Windows 1 2 (66.67 %) MS Exchange 1 2 (66.67 %) Citrix 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows Server 2003 1 2 (66.67 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (33.33 %) Mitel 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005 2 1 (33.33 %) MetaFrame 2 1 (33.33 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows XP 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2 1 (33.33 %) MS Office

1st Line Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 2 (66.67 %) MS Exchange 1 2 (66.67 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005
Operating Systems 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows Server 2003 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows XP	System Software 1 1 (33.33 %) MetaFrame
Vendors 1 2 (66.67 %) Citrix 2 1 (33.33 %) Mitel