1st Line Support Engineer Contracts in County Antrim

First Line Support Engineer
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The median First Line Support Engineer daily rate in County Antrim is £210 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a 1st Line Support Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in County Antrim 1.53% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.60% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £210 - -
Northern Ireland median daily rate £210 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
County Antrim

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in County Antrim. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in County Antrim with a recognized job title 125 148 176
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.42% 89.70% 93.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 72 83
10th Percentile £173 £172 £145
25th Percentile £300 £293 £296
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £419 £413
Median % change year-on-year +7.46% +1.52% +3.13%
75th Percentile £575 £504 £500
90th Percentile £650 £636 £535
Northern Ireland median daily rate £450 £419 £413
% change year-on-year +7.46% +1.52% +3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 16
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.09 £10.22
25th Percentile £12.44 £14.00 £10.64
Median hourly rate £15.75 £15.00 £13.89
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +7.99% +16.82%
75th Percentile £16.12 £16.13 £21.00
90th Percentile £31.88 £16.99 £22.63
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £15.38 £15.00 £17.33
% change year-on-year +2.53% -13.44% +33.31%

1st Line Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

Job postings that featured 1st Line Support Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in County Antrim.

Job vacancy trend for 1st Line Support Engineer in County Antrim

1st Line Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in County Antrim

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 1st Line Support Engineer within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Belfast - 2 £210 - 1
1st Line Support Engineer
Northern Ireland

1st Line Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in County Antrim

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, 1st Line Support Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the County Antrim region featuring 1st Line Support Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Coaching
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (50.00%) SAP
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (50.00%) Progress
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Apple
1 1 (50.00%) Electronics
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
1 1 (50.00%) Mitel
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Marketing

1st Line Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in County Antrim by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 1 (50.00%) Electronics
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Coaching
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Apple
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Mitel
1 1 (50.00%) Progress
1 1 (50.00%) SAP