The first table below looks at the demand for the 3rd Line Support 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 3rd Line Support 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
Third Line Support
Rank 37 55 41
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -14
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Support 4 3 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 1.036% 0.474% 2.472%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.117% 0.496% 2.676%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 2
Average daily rate £425 £338 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.92% +12.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £270 £258 £233
% change year-on-year
+4.85% +10.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £18.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.50 £20.03 £21.50
% change year-on-year
+17.32% -6.83%
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%
3rd Line Support
South East

3rd Line Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Sussex 3rd Line Support Jobs Demand Trend

3rd Line Support
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Sussex 3rd Line Support Daily Rate Trend

3rd Line Support
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Sussex 3rd Line Support Hourly Rate Trend

3rd Line Support
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 3rd Line Support within the West Sussex region over the 3 months to 17 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
Crawley +13 4 £425 +41.66%
3rd Line Support
South East

3rd Line Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (75.00%) XenApp
2 3 (75.00%) vSphere
2 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) DHCP
2 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 3 (75.00%) Citrix
3 2 (50.00%) CheckPoint
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (50.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (50.00%) VPN
3 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) Oracle
3 2 (50.00%) UNIX
3 2 (50.00%) AIX
3 2 (50.00%) Linux
3 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (50.00%) Windows XP
3 2 (50.00%) MS Exchange
3 2 (50.00%) Online Betting
3 2 (50.00%) SCCM
3 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007

3rd Line Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (50.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DHCP
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) IPsec
2 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (50.00%) VPN
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Online Betting
3 1 (25.00%) Back Office
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (50.00%) UNIX
2 2 (50.00%) AIX
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Windows XP
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) XenApp
1 3 (75.00%) vSphere
2 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (25.00%) VMware ESX
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Citrix
1 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) HP
3 1 (25.00%) IBM