Yorkshire 3rd Line Support Engineer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the 3rd Line Support Engineer role in IT contracts within the Yorkshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited 3rd Line Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 3 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Third Line Support Engineer
Location Abingdon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bletchley Bristol Buckinghamshire Cardiff Cheshire City of London Colchester Coventry Derby Derbyshire Devon East Midlands East of England Enfield England Essex Exeter Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Ipswich Leeds Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Romford Sheffield South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thirsk Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 3 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	95	137
Rank change on same period last year	+42
Matching contract IT job ads	11	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.018 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	0.462 %	0.086 %
Daily rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum daily rate	-	£210
Average daily rate	-	£210
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£210
UK excluding London average daily rate	£220	£181
% change on same period last year	+21.85 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.28	£30.69
Average hourly rate	£27.64	£30.69
% change on same period last year	-9.94 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.00	£30.69
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.60	£22.62
% change on same period last year	+8.79 %
Job Titles Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	2380	3502
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.843 %	3.820 %
Daily rates quoted	534	816
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£324
Average daily rate	£357	£340
% change on same period last year	+5.18 %
Average maximum daily rate	£379	£355
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£352
% change on same period last year	+0.12 %
Hourly rates quoted	274	309
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.37	£20.91
Average hourly rate	£20.61	£22.24
% change on same period last year	-7.33 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.85	£23.57
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.16	£23.97
% change on same period last year	-3.40 %
3rd Line Support Engineer England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

3rd Line Support Engineer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing 3rd Line Support Engineer across the Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing 3rd Line Support Engineer across the Yorkshire region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing 3rd Line Support Engineer across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 3 December 2008.

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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 Engineer within the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 3 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
South Yorkshire	+27	6	-	-
North Yorkshire	-	3	-	-
West Yorkshire	+13	1	-	-

3rd Line Support Engineer England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region that cited 3rd 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 3rd Line Support Engineer in their job title.

1 16 (51.61 %) Windows 2 12 (38.71 %) Solaris 3 11 (35.48 %) Active Directory 3 11 (35.48 %) VERITAS 4 7 (22.58 %) Microsoft Certification 4 7 (22.58 %) Sun 4 7 (22.58 %) MCSE 4 7 (22.58 %) SAN 5 6 (19.35 %) Windows Server 2003 5 6 (19.35 %) Telecoms 5 6 (19.35 %) NetBackup 5 6 (19.35 %) LAN 5 6 (19.35 %) WAN 6 5 (16.13 %) MS Exchange 6 5 (16.13 %) Cisco

6 5 (16.13 %) Finance 7 4 (12.90 %) Migration 7 4 (12.90 %) Change Management 7 4 (12.90 %) TCP/IP 7 4 (12.90 %) EMC 7 4 (12.90 %) HPUX 7 4 (12.90 %) MCP 7 4 (12.90 %) UNIX 8 3 (9.677 %) Linux 8 3 (9.677 %) HP 8 3 (9.677 %) Exchange Server 5.5 8 3 (9.677 %) Exchange Server 2003 9 2 (6.452 %) Brocade 9 2 (6.452 %) Legal 9 2 (6.452 %) ITSM

3rd Line Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region that cited 3rd 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 3rd Line Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (3.226 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 5 (16.13 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (9.677 %) Exchange Server 5.5 2 3 (9.677 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (3.226 %) Lotus Notes 3 1 (3.226 %) Lotus Domino
Communications & Networking 1 7 (22.58 %) SAN 2 6 (19.35 %) LAN 2 6 (19.35 %) WAN 3 4 (12.90 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (3.226 %) Firewall 4 1 (3.226 %) iSCSI 4 1 (3.226 %) LDAP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (3.226 %) SQL Server 1 1 (3.226 %) Informix
General 1 6 (19.35 %) Telecoms 2 5 (16.13 %) Finance 3 2 (6.452 %) Legal 4 1 (3.226 %) Back Office 4 1 (3.226 %) Health	Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.226 %) NHS 1 1 (3.226 %) Management Information System 1 1 (3.226 %) CLARiiON 1 1 (3.226 %) Symmetrix 1 1 (3.226 %) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems 1 16 (51.61 %) Windows 2 12 (38.71 %) Solaris 3 6 (19.35 %) Windows Server 2003 4 4 (12.90 %) UNIX 4 4 (12.90 %) HPUX 5 3 (9.677 %) Linux 6 2 (6.452 %) Windows 2000 6 2 (6.452 %) AIX 7 1 (3.226 %) Windows XP 7 1 (3.226 %) Windows 2000 Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (12.90 %) Change Management 1 4 (12.90 %) Migration 2 2 (6.452 %) ITSM 2 2 (6.452 %) ITIL 3 1 (3.226 %) PRINCE 3 1 (3.226 %) Project Management 3 1 (3.226 %) Service Management
Qualifications 1 7 (22.58 %) MCSE 1 7 (22.58 %) Microsoft Certification 2 4 (12.90 %) MCP 3 1 (3.226 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 1 (3.226 %) SNIA Certification	System Software 1 11 (35.48 %) Active Directory 2 6 (19.35 %) NetBackup 3 2 (6.452 %) NFS
Systems Management 1 1 (3.226 %) OpenView 1 1 (3.226 %) Legato 1 1 (3.226 %) OVPA 1 1 (3.226 %) HP Data Protector	Vendors 1 11 (35.48 %) VERITAS 2 7 (22.58 %) Sun 3 5 (16.13 %) Cisco 4 4 (12.90 %) EMC 5 3 (9.677 %) HP 6 2 (6.452 %) Microsoft 6 2 (6.452 %) NetApp 6 2 (6.452 %) Brocade 7 1 (3.226 %) Oracle 7 1 (3.226 %) Lotus 7 1 (3.226 %) VMware 7 1 (3.226 %) Intel 7 1 (3.226 %) Citrix 7 1 (3.226 %) Juniper