Warwickshire 3rd Line Support Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the 3rd Line Support role in IT contracts within the Warwickshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited 3rd Line Support in their job title over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Third Line Support
Location Aberdeen Ascot Basingstoke Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canterbury Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chichester City of London Colchester Cornwall Coventry Devon Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire London Loughborough Luton Maidenhead Manchester Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Snodland Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Stevenage Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Torpoint Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Windsor Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	37	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.332 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£250	£263
% change on same period last year	-5.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.75	£24.22
% change on same period last year	-1.92 %
Job Titles Warwickshire
Matching contract IT job ads	301	356
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.397 %	0.378 %
Daily rates quoted	74	49
Average minimum daily rate	£305	£280
Average daily rate	£319	£302
% change on same period last year	+5.75 %
Average maximum daily rate	£333	£324
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	48	124
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.58	£32.63
Average hourly rate	£20.61	£35.65
% change on same period last year	-42.19 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.63	£38.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.28	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
3rd Line Support West Midlands

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

3rd Line Support
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing 3rd Line Support across the Warwickshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing 3rd Line Support across the Warwickshire region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing 3rd Line Support across the Warwickshire region.

3rd Line Support
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Warwickshire region that cited 3rd Line Support 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 3rd Line Support in their job title.

1 3 (50.00 %) Windows 2 2 (33.33 %) AIX 2 2 (33.33 %) Solaris 2 2 (33.33 %) Linux 2 2 (33.33 %) Oracle 2 2 (33.33 %) Active Directory 2 2 (33.33 %) Apache 2 2 (33.33 %) Tomcat 2 2 (33.33 %) Unix 2 2 (33.33 %) WebSphere 3 1 (16.67 %) C 3 1 (16.67 %) Migration 3 1 (16.67 %) MS Excel 3 1 (16.67 %) Windows XP 3 1 (16.67 %) MS Exchange

3 1 (16.67 %) Microsoft 3 1 (16.67 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (16.67 %) CA 3 1 (16.67 %) Lotus 3 1 (16.67 %) Unicenter 3 1 (16.67 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (16.67 %) MS Office 3 1 (16.67 %) ITIL 3 1 (16.67 %) MCP 3 1 (16.67 %) Lotus Notes 3 1 (16.67 %) MCSE 3 1 (16.67 %) MCSA

3rd Line Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Warwickshire region that cited 3rd Line Support 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 3rd Line Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (33.33 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 2 (33.33 %) Apache 1 2 (33.33 %) Tomcat 2 1 (16.67 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (16.67 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 1 (16.67 %) MS Office 1 1 (16.67 %) MS Excel	Operating Systems 1 3 (50.00 %) Windows 2 2 (33.33 %) AIX 2 2 (33.33 %) Solaris 2 2 (33.33 %) Linux 2 2 (33.33 %) Unix 3 1 (16.67 %) Windows XP 3 1 (16.67 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (16.67 %) ITIL 1 1 (16.67 %) Migration	Programming Languages 1 1 (16.67 %) C
Qualifications 1 1 (16.67 %) MCP 1 1 (16.67 %) MCSE 1 1 (16.67 %) MCSA 1 1 (16.67 %) Microsoft Certification	System Software 1 2 (33.33 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 1 (16.67 %) Unicenter	Vendors 1 2 (33.33 %) Oracle 2 1 (16.67 %) Microsoft 2 1 (16.67 %) CA 2 1 (16.67 %) Lotus