The first table below looks at the demand for the 3rd Line Support Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Staffordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited 3rd Line Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Staffordshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Third Line Support Engineer
Rank 20 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Support Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 2.128% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.273% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £258 £220
% change year-on-year
+16.50% +17.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.50 £22.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
+20.45% +7.31%
All Job Titles
Staffordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
88 201 230
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 93.62% 99.01% 95.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 83 94
Average daily rate £325 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £214 £248 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £380 £388 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 21 10
Average hourly rate £11.63 £17.50 £13.45
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-33.54% +30.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £8.00 £12.67 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.89 £35.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
3rd Line Support Engineer
West Midlands

3rd Line Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing 3rd Line Support Engineer across the Staffordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Staffordshire 3rd Line Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

3rd Line Support Engineer
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2000
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 2000
2 1 (50.00%) Windows XP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco

3rd Line Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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.

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 2000
2 1 (50.00%) Windows XP
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix
1 1 (50.00%) VMware