1st/2nd Line Support Contracts in Merseyside

1st/2nd Line Support
North West > Merseyside

The median 1st/2nd Line Support daily rate in Merseyside is £188 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 - 45
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a 1st/2nd Line Support 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 0.45% - 0.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% - 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £128
25th Percentile £181 - £131
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £188 - £140
75th Percentile £194 - £166
90th Percentile - - £179
North West median daily rate £190 £200 £175
% change year-on-year -5.00% +14.29% +16.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Merseyside

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Merseyside. 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 Merseyside with a recognized job title 213 334 347
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.09% 96.53% 94.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 246 244
10th Percentile £147 £241 £168
25th Percentile £230 £400 £286
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £475 £439
Median % change year-on-year -18.42% +8.26% +18.58%
75th Percentile £475 £550 £538
90th Percentile £588 £681 £638
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £465
% change year-on-year -1.40% +7.53% +9.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 14 16
10th Percentile - £10.09 £9.23
25th Percentile £15.50 £10.26 £12.03
Median hourly rate £19.97 £16.19 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.35% +7.90% -6.25%
75th Percentile £34.80 £18.75 £18.75
90th Percentile £43.09 £23.75 £35.80
North West median hourly rate £26.53 £30.54 £20.49
% change year-on-year -13.15% +49.05% +12.41%

1st/2nd Line Support
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

Job postings that featured 1st/2nd Line Support in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Merseyside.

Job vacancy trend for 1st/2nd Line Support in Merseyside

1st/2nd Line Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 1st/2nd Line Support in Merseyside.

Daily rate trend for 1st/2nd Line Support in Merseyside

1st/2nd Line Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 1st/2nd Line Support in Merseyside.

Hourly rate trend for 1st/2nd Line Support in Merseyside

1st/2nd Line Support
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 1st/2nd Line Support within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 26 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
Liverpool - 1 £188 -
1st/2nd Line Support
North West

1st/2nd Line Support Skill Set
Top 18 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, 1st/2nd Line Support 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 Merseyside region featuring 1st/2nd Line Support in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Time Management
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Environments
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service

1st/2nd Line Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Time Management
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Environments
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware