The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Support Officer role in IT contracts advertised for the Wakefield region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Technical Support Officer in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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 advertised for the Wakefield region.

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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Support Officer
Rank - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Support Officer 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wakefield - - -
As % of the Job Titles category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £11.00 £12.50 £14.50
% change year-on-year
-12.00% -13.79%
All Job Titles
Wakefield
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
22 19 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wakefield 100.00% 95.00% 93.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 5
Average daily rate £275 £350 £295
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% +18.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £150 £231
10% offered a daily rate of more than £363 £471 £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 3
Average hourly rate £14.00 £15.50 £11.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.67% +34.78%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Technical Support Officer
West Yorkshire

Technical Support Officer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wakefield Technical Support Officer Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Support Officer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Technical Support Officer across the Wakefield region.

Wakefield Technical Support Officer Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Support Officer
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wakefield region that cited Technical Support Officer 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 Officer in their job title.

1 3 (100.00%) MS Office
1 3 (100.00%) MCP
1 3 (100.00%) HNC
1 3 (100.00%) UNIX
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows 2000
1 3 (100.00%) MCSE
1 3 (100.00%) MCSA
1 3 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 3 (100.00%) LAN
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (100.00%) Internet
1 3 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Vista
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 3 (100.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (33.33%) SCCM
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft App-V

Technical Support Officer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wakefield region that cited Technical Support Officer 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 Officer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 3 (100.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) LAN
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
1 3 (100.00%) Internet
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) UNIX
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows 2000
1 3 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Vista
1 3 (100.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Management
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) MCP
1 3 (100.00%) HNC
1 3 (100.00%) MCSE
1 3 (100.00%) MCSA
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft