The first table below looks at the demand for the Server Support role in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Server Support in their job title over the 3 months to 23 May 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 Surrey 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Server Support
Rank 79 95 84
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Server Support 1 3 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 0.087% 0.186% 0.855%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.093% 0.200% 0.910%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Average daily rate £110 £363 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-69.65% +16.93%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £254 £300
% change year-on-year
+8.37% -15.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £29.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £20.06 £23.50
% change year-on-year
+24.62% -14.63%
All Job Titles
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1079 1498 1759
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 93.83% 93.04% 94.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 537 798 876
Average daily rate £375 £350 £390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -10.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 133 80
Average hourly rate £17.00 £17.65 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.68% -23.26%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £10.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £42.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Server Support
South East

Server Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey Server Support Jobs Demand Trend

Server Support
Daily Rate Trend

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

Surrey Server Support Daily Rate Trend

Server Support
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Surrey Server Support Hourly Rate Trend

Server Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, 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 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (70.00%) MS Exchange
2 7 (70.00%) Active Directory
3 6 (60.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 6 (60.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (50.00%) ITIL
4 5 (50.00%) Hyper-V
5 4 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2003
5 4 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2007
5 4 (40.00%) HP
5 4 (40.00%) DHCP
5 4 (40.00%) Cisco
5 4 (40.00%) Windows 2000 Server
6 3 (30.00%) Telecoms
6 3 (30.00%) TCP/IP
6 3 (30.00%) VPN
6 3 (30.00%) Dell
6 3 (30.00%) Windows XP
6 3 (30.00%) Clustering
6 3 (30.00%) Windows Vista
6 3 (30.00%) Windows 7
6 3 (30.00%) DFS Replication
7 2 (20.00%) VMware
7 2 (20.00%) MS Office
7 2 (20.00%) MS Excel
7 2 (20.00%) ISA Server
7 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery
7 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
8 1 (10.00%) Firewall

Server Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, 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 1 (10.00%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 7 (70.00%) MS Exchange
2 4 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 4 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MS Office
1 2 (20.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) DHCP
2 3 (30.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (30.00%) VPN
3 1 (10.00%) Firewall
3 1 (10.00%) SAN
3 1 (10.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 3 (30.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (10.00%) Back Office
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (60.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 6 (60.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (40.00%) Windows 2000 Server
4 3 (30.00%) Windows XP
4 3 (30.00%) Windows Vista
4 3 (30.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (10.00%) Workflow
3 1 (10.00%) Workflow Management
3 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) C#
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
1 1 (10.00%) VB
1 1 (10.00%) VB6
System Software
1 7 (70.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (50.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (30.00%) DFS Replication
4 2 (20.00%) ISA Server
4 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (10.00%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Backup Exec
1 1 (10.00%) McAfee ePO
1 1 (10.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) HP
1 4 (40.00%) Cisco
2 3 (30.00%) Dell
3 2 (20.00%) VMware
4 1 (10.00%) McAfee
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (10.00%) Citrix
4 1 (10.00%) CommVault