Support Technician Contracts in 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 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 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 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Support Technician
Rank 105 108 96
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -12
Contract jobs requiring a Support Technician 8 4 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.421% 0.175% 0.275%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.446% 0.184% 0.293%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
Average daily rate £143 £353 £55
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-59.57% +540.90%
UK excluding London average daily rate £180 £200 £210
% change year-on-year
-10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
Average hourly rate £10.30 £9.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+14.44% -40.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.06 £9.00 £9.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.66 £9.00 £25.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £11.50 £13.00 £13.50
% change year-on-year
-11.53% -3.70%
All Job Titles
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 1792 2173 1705
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 94.42% 94.81% 93.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 912 1162 788
Average daily rate £320 £330 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.03% +1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £200 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £459 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 104 127
Average hourly rate £14.00 £13.00 £15.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -16.12%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.30 £10.30 £7.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.30 £30.50 £33.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Support Technician
England

Support Technician
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 Yorkshire region.

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 Yorkshire region.

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 Yorkshire 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
South Yorkshire +1 5 £160 -54.60%
West Yorkshire - 2 £125 -
East Yorkshire - 1 - -
Support Technician
England

Support Technician
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 12 (92.31%) Windows
2 9 (69.23%) MS Office
3 8 (61.54%) Active Directory
4 7 (53.85%) Microsoft
5 4 (30.77%) HP
5 4 (30.77%) MS Exchange
5 4 (30.77%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (23.08%) Exchange Server 2003
6 3 (23.08%) Blackberry
6 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (23.08%) Windows XP
6 3 (23.08%) Windows 7
6 3 (23.08%) Apple iOS
7 2 (15.38%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (15.38%) OpenView
7 2 (15.38%) Citrix
7 2 (15.38%) Mac OS X
7 2 (15.38%) Apple
7 2 (15.38%) NHS
7 2 (15.38%) VoIP
7 2 (15.38%) ITIL
7 2 (15.38%) Service Management
7 2 (15.38%) VMware
7 2 (15.38%) Wireless
7 2 (15.38%) OVSD
7 2 (15.38%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (7.692%) Fat Client
8 1 (7.692%) Celerra
8 1 (7.692%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (7.692%) PowerShell

Support Technician
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 4 (30.77%) MS Exchange
2 3 (23.08%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (15.38%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (15.38%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (7.692%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (7.692%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 9 (69.23%) MS Office
2 1 (7.692%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) VoIP
1 2 (15.38%) Wireless
2 1 (7.692%) NAS
2 1 (7.692%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.692%) VPN
2 1 (7.692%) DNS
2 1 (7.692%) SSL
2 1 (7.692%) SAN
2 1 (7.692%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.692%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (7.692%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Blackberry
2 2 (15.38%) NHS
3 1 (7.692%) Thin Client
3 1 (7.692%) CLARiiON
3 1 (7.692%) Clustering
3 1 (7.692%) Fat Client
3 1 (7.692%) Celerra
3 1 (7.692%) iPhone
3 1 (7.692%) EqualLogic
3 1 (7.692%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 12 (92.31%) Windows
2 4 (30.77%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (23.08%) Windows 7
3 3 (23.08%) Apple iOS
3 3 (23.08%) Windows XP
3 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (15.38%) Mac OS X
5 1 (7.692%) Linux
5 1 (7.692%) Windows 2000
5 1 (7.692%) Windows 8
5 1 (7.692%) Windows Vista
5 1 (7.692%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (15.38%) Service Management
1 2 (15.38%) ITIL
2 1 (7.692%) Configuration Management
2 1 (7.692%) Project Management
2 1 (7.692%) Service Delivery
2 1 (7.692%) Change Management
2 1 (7.692%) ITSM
2 1 (7.692%) Migration
2 1 (7.692%) Data Management
2 1 (7.692%) Incident Management
2 1 (7.692%) Problem Management
2 1 (7.692%) Software Distribution
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.692%) SQL
1 1 (7.692%) VBScript
1 1 (7.692%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (7.692%) MCSE
1 1 (7.692%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (7.692%) MCDST
1 1 (7.692%) MCITP
1 1 (7.692%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.692%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (61.54%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.692%) Xen
2 1 (7.692%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.692%) Hyper-V
2 1 (7.692%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) OpenView
1 2 (15.38%) OVSD
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Microsoft
2 4 (30.77%) HP
3 2 (15.38%) Citrix
3 2 (15.38%) Apple
3 2 (15.38%) VMware
4 1 (7.692%) Cisco
4 1 (7.692%) Wyse
4 1 (7.692%) Siemens
4 1 (7.692%) Lotus
4 1 (7.692%) Dell
4 1 (7.692%) EMC
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