The first table below looks at the demand for the 2nd Line Support Technician role in IT contracts advertised for the Taunton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited 2nd Line Support Technician 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 Taunton 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
Second Line Support Technician
Rank 15 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a 2nd Line Support Technician 4 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Taunton 5.714% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 6.349% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £160 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
Average hourly rate £10.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £10.00 £12.75 £13.33
% change year-on-year
-21.56% -4.31%
All Job Titles
Taunton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
63 57 42
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Taunton 90.00% 96.61% 89.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 36 13
Average daily rate £325 £358 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.09% +10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £236 £235 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £420 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 4
Average hourly rate £10.00 - £13.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
2nd Line Support Technician
Somerset

2nd Line Support Technician
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing 2nd Line Support Technician across the Taunton region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Taunton 2nd Line Support Technician Jobs Demand Trend

2nd Line Support Technician
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing 2nd Line Support Technician across the Taunton region.

Taunton 2nd Line Support Technician Daily Rate Trend

2nd Line Support Technician
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing 2nd Line Support Technician across the Taunton region.

Taunton 2nd Line Support Technician Hourly Rate Trend

2nd Line Support Technician
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Taunton region that cited 2nd Line 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 2nd Line Support Technician in their job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Windows
1 10 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 10 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 10 (100.00%) VMware
1 10 (100.00%) SCCM
1 10 (100.00%) Video Conferencing
1 10 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 10 (100.00%) Kaspersky
2 9 (90.00%) MS Office
2 9 (90.00%) Blackberry
2 9 (90.00%) Windows 7
2 9 (90.00%) Apple
2 9 (90.00%) Cisco
2 9 (90.00%) MS Excel
3 1 (10.00%) McAfee

2nd Line Support Technician
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Taunton region that cited 2nd Line 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 2nd Line Support Technician in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 9 (90.00%) MS Office
1 9 (90.00%) MS Excel
Miscellaneous
1 10 (100.00%) Video Conferencing
2 9 (90.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
1 10 (100.00%) Windows XP
2 9 (90.00%) Windows 7
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 10 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 10 (100.00%) VMware
1 10 (100.00%) Kaspersky
2 9 (90.00%) Apple
2 9 (90.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) McAfee