The first table below looks at the demand for the IT Support 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 IT Support Technician in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IT Support Technician
Rank 510 566 565
Rank change year-on-year
+56 -1
Contract jobs requiring an IT Support Technician 19 18 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.041% 0.031% 0.031%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.033% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 1
Average daily rate £160 £260 £150
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-38.46% +73.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £160 £183 -
% change year-on-year
-12.32% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 9 9
Average hourly rate £12.00 £17.75 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-32.39% +42.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.80 £9.00 £9.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.90 £25.00 £17.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.00 £20.00 £12.25
% change year-on-year
-40.00% +63.26%
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42733 53947 56601
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.11% 92.50% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24507 29722 30764
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 2112 2572 2930
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 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

IT Support Technician
Jobs Demand Trend

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

IT Support Technician Jobs Demand Trend

IT Support Technician
Daily Rate Trend

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

IT Support Technician Daily Rate Trend

IT Support Technician
Hourly Rate Trend

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

IT Support Technician Hourly Rate Trend

IT Support Technician
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Support Technician within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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 +48 16 £168 -39.09%
South East +13 4 £175 -
East of England +18 3 - -
Berkshire +16 3 £175 -
East Midlands -1 3 - -
Scotland - 3 £150 -
Yorkshire +3 2 £160 -
Maidenhead - 2 £163 -
Harlow - 2 - -
Derby - 2 - -
Derbyshire - 2 - -
South Yorkshire - 2 £160 -
South West - 2 - -
Essex - 2 - -
North West - 2 - -
Isle of Wight - 1 - -
Dorset - 1 - -
Northamptonshire - 1 - -
Midlothian - 1 - -
Lancashire - 1 - -
Cambridgeshire - 1 - -
Dalkeith - 1 - -
Bristol - 1 - -
Weymouth - 1 - -
Sheffield - 1 £160 -
Preston - 1 - -
Peterborough - 1 - -
Glasgow - 1 - -
Dundee - 1 £150 -
Doncaster - 1 - -

IT Support Technician
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited IT 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 IT Support Technician in their job title.

1 34 (82.93%) Windows
2 16 (39.02%) Windows XP
2 16 (39.02%) Microsoft
2 16 (39.02%) Windows 7
3 14 (34.15%) MS Office
4 11 (26.83%) MS Excel
5 10 (24.39%) Active Directory
6 7 (17.07%) TCP/IP
6 7 (17.07%) MS Exchange
7 6 (14.63%) HP
7 6 (14.63%) DNS
7 6 (14.63%) Windows Server 2003
8 5 (12.20%) Cisco
9 4 (9.756%) McAfee
9 4 (9.756%) VMware
9 4 (9.756%) Windows Server 2008
9 4 (9.756%) Video Conferencing
10 3 (7.317%) Telecoms
10 3 (7.317%) Exchange Server 2003
10 3 (7.317%) Service Management
10 3 (7.317%) SAN
10 3 (7.317%) VPN
10 3 (7.317%) SharePoint
10 3 (7.317%) DHCP
10 3 (7.317%) LAN
10 3 (7.317%) WAN
11 2 (4.878%) ISO 9001
11 2 (4.878%) VoIP
11 2 (4.878%) Broadband
11 2 (4.878%) Lotus Notes

IT Support Technician
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited IT 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 IT Support Technician in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 7 (17.07%) MS Exchange
2 3 (7.317%) Exchange Server 2003
2 3 (7.317%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.878%) Lotus Notes
3 2 (4.878%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (2.439%) Exchange Server 2000
4 1 (2.439%) IIS
Applications
1 14 (34.15%) MS Office
2 11 (26.83%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.07%) TCP/IP
2 6 (14.63%) DNS
3 3 (7.317%) SAN
3 3 (7.317%) VPN
3 3 (7.317%) DHCP
3 3 (7.317%) LAN
3 3 (7.317%) WAN
4 2 (4.878%) VoIP
4 2 (4.878%) Broadband
4 2 (4.878%) IP Telephony
4 2 (4.878%) Wireless
5 1 (2.439%) Firewall
5 1 (2.439%) Internet
General
1 3 (7.317%) Telecoms
2 2 (4.878%) Finance
2 2 (4.878%) Local Government
3 1 (2.439%) Retail
3 1 (2.439%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.756%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (2.439%) PDA
2 1 (2.439%) CCTV
2 1 (2.439%) NHS
2 1 (2.439%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 34 (82.93%) Windows
2 16 (39.02%) Windows XP
2 16 (39.02%) Windows 7
3 6 (14.63%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (9.756%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (2.439%) Windows 2000 Server
5 1 (2.439%) Windows Vista
5 1 (2.439%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (7.317%) Service Management
2 2 (4.878%) Time Management
2 2 (4.878%) Network Architecture
3 1 (2.439%) Incident Management
3 1 (2.439%) Change Management
3 1 (2.439%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (2.439%) CAE
3 1 (2.439%) Configuration Management
3 1 (2.439%) Project Management
3 1 (2.439%) ITIL
3 1 (2.439%) CRM
Qualifications
1 2 (4.878%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (4.878%) MCITP
2 1 (2.439%) MCDST
2 1 (2.439%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.439%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.878%) ISO 9001
2 1 (2.439%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (24.39%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.878%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.878%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (2.439%) Norton AntiVirus
1 1 (2.439%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 16 (39.02%) Microsoft
2 6 (14.63%) HP
3 5 (12.20%) Cisco
4 4 (9.756%) McAfee
4 4 (9.756%) VMware
5 2 (4.878%) Intel
5 2 (4.878%) Lotus
5 2 (4.878%) Apple
6 1 (2.439%) Symantec
6 1 (2.439%) Citrix
6 1 (2.439%) Novell
6 1 (2.439%) Siemens
6 1 (2.439%) Dell
6 1 (2.439%) SAP
Southampton, Hampshire
This will involve telephone, email, remote and face to face support across Windows 7. You will also be involved in supporting the general infrastructure for my client as...
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Ltd
Salary: £21000 - £25000 per annum + training
Posted: 22 May 2013