The first table below looks at the demand for the ICT Technician role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ICT Technician in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
ICT Technician
Rank 525 568 584
Rank change year-on-year
+43 +16
Contract jobs requiring an ICT Technician 5 10 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.011% 0.017% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% 0.019% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £350 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 1
Average hourly rate £11.00 £12.13 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.27% -32.63%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £11.00 £12.13 £18.00
% change year-on-year
-9.27% -32.63%
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42797 53993 56874
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.24% 92.65% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 24561 29781 30909
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £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 2134 2552 2929
Average hourly rate £18.50 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.63% -5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%

ICT Technician
Jobs Demand Trend

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

ICT Technician Jobs Demand Trend

ICT Technician
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ICT Technician within the UK.

ICT Technician Daily Rate Trend

ICT Technician
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ICT Technician within the UK.

ICT Technician Hourly Rate Trend

ICT Technician
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ICT Technician within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 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
England +43 5 £350 -
West Midlands - 2 - -
East of England +14 1 £350 -
North West +14 1 - -
Manchester +10 1 - -
South East - 1 - -
Droitwich - 1 - -
Bedford - 1 £350 -
Worcestershire - 1 - -
Staffordshire - 1 - -
Oxfordshire - 1 - -
Bedfordshire - 1 £350 -
Stafford - 1 - -
Oxford - 1 - -

ICT Technician
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited ICT 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 ICT Technician in their job title.

1 3 (30.00%) Windows
1 3 (30.00%) WAN
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (30.00%) Windows 7
2 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) LAN
2 2 (20.00%) MS Office
3 1 (10.00%) Quality Management
3 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (10.00%) Wireless
3 1 (10.00%) Handset
3 1 (10.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) Asset Management
3 1 (10.00%) Network Design
3 1 (10.00%) MCDST
3 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (10.00%) IIS
3 1 (10.00%) ITIL
3 1 (10.00%) DHCP
3 1 (10.00%) DNS
3 1 (10.00%) Network Security
3 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (10.00%) Avaya
3 1 (10.00%) Firmware
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (10.00%) ECDL

ICT Technician
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited ICT 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 ICT Technician in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) WAN
2 2 (20.00%) LAN
3 1 (10.00%) DHCP
3 1 (10.00%) DNS
3 1 (10.00%) Wireless
3 1 (10.00%) Network Security
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Firmware
1 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (10.00%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
1 3 (30.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (10.00%) ITIL
1 1 (10.00%) Quality Management
1 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (10.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (10.00%) Network Design
1 1 (10.00%) Change Control
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (10.00%) ECDL
2 1 (10.00%) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Avaya
2 1 (10.00%) VMware