The first table below looks at the demand for the 3rd Line Support Specialist role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited 3rd Line Support Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 18 June 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 currently tracked.

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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Third Line Support Specialist
Rank 547 578 579
Rank change year-on-year
+31 +1
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Support Specialist 7 11 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.014% 0.019% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.016% 0.020% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 6
Average daily rate £300 - £275
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 - £275
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £19.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
44867 53712 57592
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.17% 92.50% 92.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 25887 29609 31515
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2132 2587 2980
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.25 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £40.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

3rd Line Support Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing 3rd Line Support Specialist within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

3rd Line Support Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

3rd Line Support Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing 3rd Line Support Specialist within the UK.

3rd Line Support Specialist Daily Rate Trend

3rd Line Support Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing 3rd Line Support Specialist within the UK over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

3rd Line Support Specialist Daily Rate Histogram

3rd Line Support Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing 3rd Line Support Specialist within the UK.

3rd Line Support Specialist Hourly Rate Trend

3rd Line Support Specialist
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 3rd Line Support Specialist within the UK over the 3 months to 18 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +11 7 £300 -
Berkshire +25 1 £300 -
South East +16 1 £300 -
Reading +12 1 £300 -
South Wales - - - -
South West - - - -
Wales - - - -
Buckinghamshire - - - -
Gloucestershire - - - -
Hampshire - - - -
Kent - - - -
City of London - - - -
Cardiff - - - -
Eastleigh - - - -
London - - - -
Maidstone - - - -
Milton Keynes - - - -

3rd Line Support Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited 3rd Line Support Specialist 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 3rd Line Support Specialist in their job title.

1 8 (66.67%) VMware
1 8 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 6 (50.00%) Citrix
2 6 (50.00%) Windows
2 6 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (41.67%) Windows Server 2008
4 4 (33.33%) XenApp
4 4 (33.33%) Migration
4 4 (33.33%) SCCM
4 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 3 (25.00%) HP
5 3 (25.00%) AppSense
5 3 (25.00%) Finance
6 2 (16.67%) Citrix Presentation Server
6 2 (16.67%) SCOM
6 2 (16.67%) Banking
6 2 (16.67%) vSphere
6 2 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (16.67%) Hyper-V
6 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (16.67%) Cisco
6 2 (16.67%) SAN
6 2 (16.67%) MS Exchange
7 1 (8.333%) LAN
7 1 (8.333%) WLAN
7 1 (8.333%) DHCP
7 1 (8.333%) DNS
7 1 (8.333%) MS Excel
7 1 (8.333%) SharePoint
7 1 (8.333%) SQL

3rd Line Support Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited 3rd Line Support Specialist 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 3rd Line Support Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (8.333%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) MS Exchange
1 2 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (8.333%) SharePoint
2 1 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (8.333%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 1 (8.333%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) SAN
2 1 (8.333%) LAN
2 1 (8.333%) WLAN
2 1 (8.333%) DHCP
2 1 (8.333%) DNS
General
1 3 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (8.333%) Local Government
3 1 (8.333%) Manufacturing
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Windows
2 5 (41.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (8.333%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (8.333%) Performance Management
2 1 (8.333%) Analytics
2 1 (8.333%) ITIL
2 1 (8.333%) Service Delivery
2 1 (8.333%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.333%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.333%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 8 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 6 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (33.33%) XenApp
4 2 (16.67%) vSphere
4 2 (16.67%) Citrix Presentation Server
4 2 (16.67%) Hyper-V
5 1 (8.333%) VMware ESX
5 1 (8.333%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) SCCM
2 2 (16.67%) SCOM
3 1 (8.333%) HP Data Protector
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) VMware
2 6 (50.00%) Citrix
3 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 3 (25.00%) HP
4 3 (25.00%) AppSense
5 2 (16.67%) Cisco
6 1 (8.333%) Dell
6 1 (8.333%) NetApp
6 1 (8.333%) Veritas