The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems 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 Systems Support in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Systems Support
Rank - - 99
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Support 0 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey - - 0.110%
As % of the Job Titles category - - 0.117%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £219 £288
% change year-on-year
+37.14% -23.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £18.75 £14.50
% change year-on-year
-17.33% +29.31%
All Job Titles
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1085 1531 1711
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 93.78% 93.01% 93.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 541 814 850
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 £537 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 135 79
Average hourly rate £17.00 £17.50 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.85% -22.22%
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%
Systems Support
South East

Systems Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey Systems Support Jobs Demand Trend

Systems Support
Daily Rate Trend

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

Surrey Systems Support Daily Rate Trend

Systems Support
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Surrey Systems Support Hourly Rate Trend

Systems Support
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region that cited Systems 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 Systems Support in their job title.

1 3 (60.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 3 (60.00%) Statistics
2 1 (20.00%) Web Development
2 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Perl
2 1 (20.00%) PHP
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) SLA
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Sun

Systems Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region that cited Systems 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 Systems Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (60.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Web Development
1 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Perl
1 1 (20.00%) PHP
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Sun