The first table below looks at the demand for the 3rd Line Support Technician role in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited 3rd Line Support Technician 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 Yorkshire 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
Third Line Support Technician
Rank - - -
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Support Technician 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire - - -
As % of the Job Titles category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 - £225
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.88 £23.25
% change year-on-year
-3.82% -1.61%
All Job Titles
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1185 1480 1059
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 94.42% 94.57% 94.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 603 828 495
Average daily rate £313 £340 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.08% +4.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £200 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 67 74
Average hourly rate £12.75 £15.00 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-15.00% +20.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.53 £10.00 £7.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.00 £32.50 £24.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
3rd Line Support Technician
Yorkshire

3rd Line Support Technician
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 3rd Line Support Technician Jobs Demand Trend

3rd Line Support Technician
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire 3rd Line Support Technician Hourly Rate Trend

3rd Line Support Technician
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region that cited 3rd Line Support Technician 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 Technician in their job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) EMC
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) NHS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) CLARiiON
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) Celerra
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) XenDesktop
1 1 (100.00%) EqualLogic
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010

3rd Line Support Technician
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region that cited 3rd Line Support Technician 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 Technician in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) NHS
1 1 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (100.00%) CLARiiON
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Celerra
1 1 (100.00%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) XenDesktop
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) EMC
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) VMware