The first table below looks at the demand for the 1st Line Support Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the West Sussex 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 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 advertised for the West Sussex 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
First Line Support Engineer
Rank - - 51
Contract jobs requiring a 1st Line Support Engineer 0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex - - 0.225%
As % of the Job Titles category - - 0.243%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £135 £150 -
% change year-on-year
-10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £10.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £11.50 £10.00 £12.00
% change year-on-year
+15.00% -16.66%
All Job Titles
West Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
358 605 411
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 92.75% 95.58% 92.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 362 192
Average daily rate £380 £350 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.57% -3.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £275 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £490 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 24 46
Average hourly rate £25.38 £22.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.34% +4.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £11.75 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.25 £33.50 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
1st Line Support Engineer
South East

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 Sussex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

West Sussex 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 Sussex region.

West Sussex 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 Sussex region.

West Sussex 1st Line Support Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

1st Line Support Engineer
Top 6 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 2 (100.00%) MS Office
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V

1st Line Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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.

Applications
1 2 (100.00%) MS Office
1 2 (100.00%) MS Excel
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware