Support Technician Contracts in West Yorkshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the 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 Support Technician in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Support Technician
Rank 90 - 68
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Support Technician 2 0 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.156% - 0.365%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.164% - 0.389%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £125 - £55
UK excluding London average daily rate £175 £217 £210
% change year-on-year
-19.44% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
Average hourly rate £10.30 - £15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £11.50 £12.63 £13.50
% change year-on-year
-8.91% -6.48%
All Job Titles
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 1218 1519 1029
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 94.86% 94.70% 93.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 615 840 477
Average daily rate £313 £338 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.40% +3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £200 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 67 76
Average hourly rate £12.75 £12.50 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.00% +4.16%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.64 £10.30 £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%
Support Technician
Yorkshire

Support Technician
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire Support Technician Jobs Demand Trend

Support Technician
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire Support Technician Daily Rate Trend

Support Technician
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire Support Technician Hourly Rate Trend

Support Technician
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Support Technician within the West Yorkshire 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
Leeds - 2 £125 -
Support Technician
Yorkshire

Support Technician
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) Blackberry
2 2 (66.67%) MS Office
2 2 (66.67%) MS Exchange
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) CLARiiON
3 1 (33.33%) Clustering
3 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (33.33%) Xen
3 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
3 1 (33.33%) Fat Client
3 1 (33.33%) Celerra
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (33.33%) iPhone
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) NAS
3 1 (33.33%) XenDesktop
3 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
3 1 (33.33%) EqualLogic
3 1 (33.33%) iPad
3 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
3 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (33.33%) Windows 8
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (33.33%) SAN
3 1 (33.33%) Mac OS X

Support Technician
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) MS Exchange
2 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (33.33%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) NAS
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Blackberry
2 1 (33.33%) CLARiiON
2 1 (33.33%) Clustering
2 1 (33.33%) Fat Client
2 1 (33.33%) Celerra
2 1 (33.33%) iPhone
2 1 (33.33%) EqualLogic
2 1 (33.33%) iPad
2 1 (33.33%) NHS
2 1 (33.33%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
2 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 8
2 1 (33.33%) Mac OS X
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (33.33%) UNIX
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) Service Management
1 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
1 1 (33.33%) ITSM
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (33.33%) MCSE
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Xen
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) XenDesktop
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) Citrix
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Apple
2 1 (33.33%) Wyse
2 1 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (33.33%) Dell
2 1 (33.33%) EMC
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