Stockport Support Technician Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Support Technician role in IT contracts within the Stockport 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 Support Technician in their job title over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Support Technician
Location Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Chelmsford Cheshire City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Dartford Devon Doncaster Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Farnborough Folkestone Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grimsby Hampshire Henlow Hertfordshire Hull Huntingdon Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Romford Rotherham Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Helens Stockport Suffolk Surrey Thatcham Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Warrington West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Wiltshire Woking Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	4	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	14.29 %	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	£182	£214
% change on same period last year	-15.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£14.39	£14.59
% change on same period last year	-1.33 %
Job Titles Stockport
Matching contract IT job ads	7	24
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.026 %
Daily rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum daily rate	£245	£200
Average daily rate	£245	£210
% change on same period last year	+16.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£245	£220
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£351
% change on same period last year	+0.72 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.90	£26.13
Average hourly rate	£27.15	£30.73
% change on same period last year	-11.63 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.40	£35.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.37	£24.42
% change on same period last year	-4.31 %
Support Technician Manchester

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Support Technician across the Stockport 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 Support Technician across the Stockport region.

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Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Stockport region that cited Support Technician 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 Support Technician in their job title.

1 2 (66.67 %) MS Office 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2 1 (33.33 %) MS Excel 2 1 (33.33 %) MS Access 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows XP 2 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 2 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory 2 1 (33.33 %) NHS

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Stockport region that cited Support Technician 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 Support Technician in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 2 (66.67 %) MS Office 2 1 (33.33 %) MS Excel	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Access
Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) NHS	Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows XP
System Software 1 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft