Technical Support Consultant Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Support Consultant role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Technical Support Consultant 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
Technical Support Consultant
Rank 526 577 584
Rank change year-on-year
+51 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Support Consultant 4 1 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.009% 0.002% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.009% 0.002% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Average daily rate £475 £363 £520
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+31.03% -30.28%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £363 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
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%

Technical Support Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Technical Support Consultant Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Support Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

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

Technical Support Consultant Daily Rate Trend

Technical Support Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Technical Support Consultant Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Support Consultant
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Support Consultant 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 +50 3 £475 +31.03%
London - 2 £475 -
South East +24 1 - -
Bromley - 1 £475 -

Technical Support Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 3 (33.33%) Windows
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 3 (33.33%) Cisco
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) WAN
2 2 (22.22%) Migration
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (22.22%) Backup Exec
2 2 (22.22%) HP
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 2 (22.22%) MS Exchange
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (11.11%) Symantec
3 1 (11.11%) Blackberry
3 1 (11.11%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (11.11%) Mainframe
3 1 (11.11%) SOA
3 1 (11.11%) LAN
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) Service Management
3 1 (11.11%) Quality Management
3 1 (11.11%) Wireless
3 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) MS Office
3 1 (11.11%) ITIL
3 1 (11.11%) MCP
3 1 (11.11%) AIX
3 1 (11.11%) MCSE

Technical Support Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (11.11%) ISPF
Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) MS Exchange
2 1 (11.11%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Teamcenter
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) WAN
2 1 (11.11%) SAN
2 1 (11.11%) Wireless
2 1 (11.11%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
1 1 (11.11%) Banking
1 1 (11.11%) Retail
1 1 (11.11%) Wholesale Banking
1 1 (11.11%) French Language
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Firmware
1 1 (11.11%) Blackberry
1 1 (11.11%) Mainframe
1 1 (11.11%) Video Conferencing
1 1 (11.11%) iPhone
1 1 (11.11%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (11.11%) AIX
3 1 (11.11%) Windows XP
3 1 (11.11%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) Migration
2 1 (11.11%) PLM
2 1 (11.11%) ITIL V3
2 1 (11.11%) ITIL
2 1 (11.11%) SOA
2 1 (11.11%) Service Management
2 1 (11.11%) Quality Management
2 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
1 1 (11.11%) REXX
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) MCP
1 1 (11.11%) MCSE
1 1 (11.11%) MCSA
1 1 (11.11%) CCNA
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Backup Exec
2 1 (11.11%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Cisco
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) HP
3 1 (11.11%) Alcatel-Lucent
3 1 (11.11%) Sage
3 1 (11.11%) Symantec
3 1 (11.11%) VMware
3 1 (11.11%) ProCurve
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle
Technical Support Consultant - Mainframe, JLC, CA7- £550/day
Bromley, Kent
The successful candidate will have extensive Mainframe IMS, TSO and ISPF experience and will have excellent JLC and Rexx coding skills and techniques. The candidate will also have...
Thomson Keene Associates
Rate: £400 - £550 per day
Posted: 14 May 2013
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