1st Line Support Engineer Contracts in the West Midlands
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the 1st Line Support Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited 1st Line Support Engineer 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 advertised for the West Midlands 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
First Line Support Engineer
Rank 91 99 101
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +2
Contract jobs requiring a 1st Line Support Engineer 4 4 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.245% 0.178% 0.053%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.265% 0.193% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £150 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £150 £150 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Average hourly rate £10.50 £8.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+23.52% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.00 £11.00 £11.83
% change year-on-year
+9.09% -6.97%
All Job Titles
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 1508 2071 1748
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 92.35% 92.37% 92.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 682 946 791
Average daily rate £325 £325 £325
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £215 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £463 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 167 154
Average hourly rate £20.00 £16.10 £18.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+24.22% -11.78%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.00 £10.99
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.80 £33.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
1st Line Support Engineer
England

1st Line Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing 1st Line Support Engineer across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

West Midlands 1st Line Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

1st Line Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing 1st Line Support Engineer across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands 1st Line Support Engineer Daily Rate Trend

1st Line Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing 1st Line Support Engineer across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands 1st Line Support Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

1st Line Support Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 1st Line Support Engineer within the West Midlands region 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
Birmingham - 2 £150 -
Solihull +1 1 - -
Wolverhampton - 1 - -
1st Line Support Engineer
England

1st Line Support Engineer
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region that cited 1st Line Support Engineer 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 1st Line Support Engineer in their job title.

1 7 (87.50%) MS Office
2 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
3 3 (37.50%) Windows XP
3 3 (37.50%) Windows
3 3 (37.50%) Windows Vista
3 3 (37.50%) Windows 7
4 2 (25.00%) MS Excel
4 2 (25.00%) MS Exchange
5 1 (12.50%) SLA
5 1 (12.50%) MPLS
5 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
5 1 (12.50%) Telecoms

1st Line Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region that cited 1st Line Support Engineer 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 1st Line Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (87.50%) MS Office
2 2 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) MPLS
General
1 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows XP
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
1 3 (37.50%) Windows Vista
1 3 (37.50%) Windows 7
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
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