Systems Support Contracts in the West Midlands

Systems Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Systems Support
Daily Rate Trend

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

Systems Support
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Systems Support
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Support within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 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
Worcestershire	-	2	£168	-
Systems Support England

Systems Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region that cited Systems 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 Systems Support in their job title.

1 14 (58.33%) Windows 2 13 (54.17%) LAN 2 13 (54.17%) TCP/IP 3 11 (45.83%) WAN 4 10 (41.67%) Oracle 5 9 (37.50%) ITIL 5 9 (37.50%) Active Directory 5 9 (37.50%) VMware 6 8 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008 6 8 (33.33%) xDSL 6 8 (33.33%) MS Exchange 6 8 (33.33%) Terminal Services 6 8 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003 6 8 (33.33%) DHCP 6 8 (33.33%) DNS

7 7 (29.17%) SAN 8 5 (20.83%) Service Management 8 5 (20.83%) Firewall 8 5 (20.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 5 (20.83%) NAS 8 5 (20.83%) Red Hat 8 5 (20.83%) Microsoft 8 5 (20.83%) Cisco 8 5 (20.83%) MySQL 8 5 (20.83%) UNIX 8 5 (20.83%) Linux 9 4 (16.67%) SQL Server 9 4 (16.67%) MS Excel 9 4 (16.67%) SLA 9 4 (16.67%) Finance

Systems Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region that cited Systems 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 Systems Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 8 (33.33%) MS Exchange	Applications 1 4 (16.67%) MS Excel
Business Applications 1 1 (4.167%) Oracle 11i	Communications & Networking 1 13 (54.17%) LAN 1 13 (54.17%) TCP/IP 2 11 (45.83%) WAN 3 8 (33.33%) xDSL 3 8 (33.33%) DHCP 3 8 (33.33%) DNS 4 7 (29.17%) SAN 5 5 (20.83%) Firewall 5 5 (20.83%) NAS 6 2 (8.333%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (20.83%) MySQL 2 4 (16.67%) SQL Server	General 1 4 (16.67%) Finance 1 4 (16.67%) Manufacturing 2 1 (4.167%) Banking 2 1 (4.167%) Retail
Operating Systems 1 14 (58.33%) Windows 2 8 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008 2 8 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003 3 5 (20.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 5 (20.83%) UNIX 3 5 (20.83%) Linux 4 1 (4.167%) AIX 4 1 (4.167%) HPUX	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (37.50%) ITIL 2 5 (20.83%) Service Management 3 4 (16.67%) Service Delivery 3 4 (16.67%) Change Management 3 4 (16.67%) Resource Management
Programming Languages 1 1 (4.167%) Shell Script	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (16.67%) SLA
System Software 1 9 (37.50%) Active Directory 2 8 (33.33%) Terminal Services 3 2 (8.333%) VMware Server 4 1 (4.167%) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 1 (4.167%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors 1 10 (41.67%) Oracle 2 9 (37.50%) VMware 3 5 (20.83%) Red Hat 3 5 (20.83%) Microsoft 3 5 (20.83%) Cisco 4 1 (4.167%) IBM 4 1 (4.167%) HP