IT Technician Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the IT 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 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 Technician
Rank 513 565 573
Rank change year-on-year
+52 +8
Contract jobs requiring an IT Technician 16 19 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.034% 0.033% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.035% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
Average daily rate £130 £205 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-36.58% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £130 £205 -
% change year-on-year
-36.58% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 6
Average hourly rate £15.75 £12.75 £11.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+23.52% +8.51%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.50 £11.00 £10.13
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £90.00 £20.00 £21.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.75 £12.75 £11.50
% change year-on-year
+23.52% +10.86%
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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 Technician
Jobs Demand Trend

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

IT Technician Jobs Demand Trend

IT Technician
Daily Rate Trend

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

IT Technician Daily Rate Trend

IT Technician
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing IT Technician within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

IT Technician Daily Rate Histogram

IT Technician
Hourly Rate Trend

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

IT Technician Hourly Rate Trend

IT Technician
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing IT Technician within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

IT Technician Hourly Rate Histogram

IT Technician
Top 18 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT 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 +39 11 £125 -39.02%
South East +15 5 - -
East of England - 4 £125 -
Kent - 3 - -
Cambridgeshire - 3 £125 -
North West +13 2 - -
Manchester +7 1 - -
Buckinghamshire +6 1 - -
Cheshire 0 1 - -
Scotland -8 1 £315 -
Surrey - 1 - -
Hertfordshire - 1 - -
Salford - 1 - -
Maidstone - 1 - -
Hemel Hempstead - 1 - -
Cobham - 1 - -
Aylesbury - 1 - -
Aberdeen - 1 £315 -

IT Technician
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 15 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 12 (44.44%) Windows
3 11 (40.74%) MS Office
4 8 (29.63%) MS Excel
4 8 (29.63%) Windows 7
5 7 (25.93%) Time Management
5 7 (25.93%) ITIL
6 5 (18.52%) DHCP
6 5 (18.52%) DNS
7 4 (14.81%) HP
7 4 (14.81%) Finance
7 4 (14.81%) TOWER Software
7 4 (14.81%) Backup Exec
7 4 (14.81%) Windows 8
7 4 (14.81%) Hyper-V
8 3 (11.11%) Legal
8 3 (11.11%) Document Management
8 3 (11.11%) Windows XP
8 3 (11.11%) SQL
9 2 (7.407%) Linux
9 2 (7.407%) LAN
9 2 (7.407%) Process Management
9 2 (7.407%) Firewall
9 2 (7.407%) Active Directory
9 2 (7.407%) Information Governance
9 2 (7.407%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (7.407%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (3.704%) Telecoms
10 1 (3.704%) Workflow
10 1 (3.704%) Microsoft App-V

IT Technician
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (3.704%) ASP
Applications
1 11 (40.74%) MS Office
2 8 (29.63%) MS Excel
3 2 (7.407%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 5 (18.52%) DHCP
1 5 (18.52%) DNS
2 2 (7.407%) LAN
2 2 (7.407%) Firewall
3 1 (3.704%) VLAN
3 1 (3.704%) Intranet
3 1 (3.704%) WAN
3 1 (3.704%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (3.704%) MSI
1 1 (3.704%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (14.81%) Finance
2 3 (11.11%) Legal
3 1 (3.704%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.704%) Device Driver
1 1 (3.704%) NHS
1 1 (3.704%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 12 (44.44%) Windows
2 8 (29.63%) Windows 7
3 4 (14.81%) Windows 8
4 3 (11.11%) Windows XP
5 2 (7.407%) Linux
5 2 (7.407%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (3.704%) Mac OS X
6 1 (3.704%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.93%) Time Management
1 7 (25.93%) ITIL
2 3 (11.11%) Document Management
3 2 (7.407%) Process Management
3 2 (7.407%) Information Governance
4 1 (3.704%) Workflow
4 1 (3.704%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.11%) SQL
2 1 (3.704%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.704%) VBScript
2 1 (3.704%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (3.704%) MCITP
1 1 (3.704%) Security Cleared
1 1 (3.704%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (3.704%) MCSA
1 1 (3.704%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.704%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) Hyper-V
2 2 (7.407%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.704%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 4 (14.81%) Backup Exec
2 1 (3.704%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.81%) HP
2 4 (14.81%) TOWER Software
3 1 (3.704%) VMware
3 1 (3.704%) Fortinet
3 1 (3.704%) ProCurve
3 1 (3.704%) Adobe
3 1 (3.704%) Cisco
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