Surrey Server Support Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Server Support role in IT contracts within the Surrey 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 Server Support in their job title over the 3 months to 1 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Server Support
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Buxton Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Croydon Dalkeith Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Essex Glasgow Hammersmith Hampshire Hayes Hertfordshire Hull Kent Leeds Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Rotherham Salford Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stratford-upon-Avon Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Tadworth Thirsk Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Witham Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 1 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	72	107
Rank change on same period last year	+35
Matching contract IT job ads	5	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	0.410 %	0.298 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£300	-
Average daily rate	£325	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£350	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£247	£250
% change on same period last year	-0.93 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.53	£21.67
Average hourly rate	£24.53	£22.50
% change on same period last year	+9.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.53	£23.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.80	£24.18
% change on same period last year	-9.84 %
Job Titles Surrey
Matching contract IT job ads	1220	2348
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.934 %	2.499 %
Daily rates quoted	342	666
Average minimum daily rate	£322	£321
Average daily rate	£345	£339
% change on same period last year	+1.71 %
Average maximum daily rate	£368	£357
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£351
% change on same period last year	+0.46 %
Hourly rates quoted	148	332
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.80	£21.82
Average hourly rate	£22.34	£23.80
% change on same period last year	-6.13 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.89	£25.79
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.14	£24.11
% change on same period last year	-4.03 %
Server Support South East

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.

Server Support
Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Server Support across the Surrey region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Server Support across the Surrey region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Server Support across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 1 December 2008.

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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 Server Support within the Surrey region over the 3 months to 1 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Camberley	-	1	-	-
Egham	-	1	-	-
Tadworth	-	1	£325	-
Weybridge	-	1	-	-

Server Support South East

Server Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region that cited Server 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 Server Support in their job title.

1 7 (63.64 %) Windows 2 5 (45.45 %) Windows Server 2003 3 4 (36.36 %) Microsoft Certification 3 4 (36.36 %) Active Directory 3 4 (36.36 %) MS Exchange 4 3 (27.27 %) MCSE 4 3 (27.27 %) HP 4 3 (27.27 %) Sun 4 3 (27.27 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 3 (27.27 %) Banking 5 2 (18.18 %) Cisco 5 2 (18.18 %) Citrix 5 2 (18.18 %) LAN 5 2 (18.18 %) TCP/IP 5 2 (18.18 %) .NET

5 2 (18.18 %) SQL Server 6 1 (9.091 %) IIS 6 1 (9.091 %) MS Office 6 1 (9.091 %) ASP.NET 6 1 (9.091 %) MCP 6 1 (9.091 %) HPUX 6 1 (9.091 %) Solaris 6 1 (9.091 %) Linux 6 1 (9.091 %) Windows 2000 6 1 (9.091 %) VPN 6 1 (9.091 %) DNS 6 1 (9.091 %) SSL 6 1 (9.091 %) WAN 6 1 (9.091 %) Windows NT 6 1 (9.091 %) SharePoint

Server Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region that cited Server 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 Server Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (18.18 %) .NET 2 1 (9.091 %) ASP.NET	Application Platforms 1 4 (36.36 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (27.27 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (9.091 %) ColdFusion 3 1 (9.091 %) Site Server 3 1 (9.091 %) IIS 3 1 (9.091 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 1 (9.091 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 2 (18.18 %) TCP/IP 1 2 (18.18 %) LAN 2 1 (9.091 %) WAN 2 1 (9.091 %) VPN 2 1 (9.091 %) DNS 2 1 (9.091 %) SSL 2 1 (9.091 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (18.18 %) SQL Server	General 1 3 (27.27 %) Banking
Operating Systems 1 7 (63.64 %) Windows 2 5 (45.45 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (9.091 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 1 (9.091 %) HPUX 3 1 (9.091 %) Solaris 3 1 (9.091 %) Linux 3 1 (9.091 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (9.091 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (9.091 %) Incident Management
Programming Languages 1 1 (9.091 %) C#	Qualifications 1 4 (36.36 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (27.27 %) MCSE 3 1 (9.091 %) MCP
System Software 1 4 (36.36 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 1 (9.091 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 3 (27.27 %) Sun 1 3 (27.27 %) HP 2 2 (18.18 %) Cisco 2 2 (18.18 %) Citrix 3 1 (9.091 %) Avaya 3 1 (9.091 %) Novell 3 1 (9.091 %) Remedy 3 1 (9.091 %) Microsoft 3 1 (9.091 %) Compaq