Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Contract 2nd Line Support Engineer Skill Set in Staffordshire
Period
to 23 February 2020

The median contractor rate for a 2nd Line Support Engineer was £175 per day in advertised job vacancies in Staffordshire during the 6 months to 23 February 2020.

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

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Second Line Support Engineer
West Midlands > Staffordshire
6 months to
23 Feb 2020		 Same period 2019 Same period 2018
Rank 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a 2nd Line Support Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 0.81% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Staffordshire median daily rate £175 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £225 £200 £135
% change year-on-year +12.50% +48.15% -32.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Staffordshire median hourly rate - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £14.68 £17.50 £13.50
% change year-on-year -16.14% +29.63% -14.83%

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Staffordshire. 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.

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Staffordshire
Contract vacancies in Staffordshire with a recognized job title 114 225 250
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.68% 93.75% 95.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 154 159
Staffordshire median daily rate £325 £375 £375
Median daily rate % change year-on-year -13.33% - +7.14%
10th Percentile £135 £222 £269
90th Percentile £463 £460 £456
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £425 £400
% change year-on-year - +6.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 15 9
Staffordshire median hourly rate £16.20 £45.00 £18.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -64.00% +143.24% -6.33%
10th Percentile £12.09 £14.15 £11.65
90th Percentile £35.00 £59.58 £40.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £16.10 £16.00 £18.58
% change year-on-year +0.63% -13.89% +9.29%

2nd Line Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

Job postings that featured 2nd Line Support Engineer in the job title as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire.

Job vacancy trend for 2nd Line Support Engineer in Staffordshire

2nd Line Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing 2nd Line Support Engineer in Staffordshire.

Contractor daily rate trend for 2nd Line Support Engineer in Staffordshire

2nd Line Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Staffordshire

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing 2nd Line Support Engineer in Staffordshire.

Contractor hourly rate trend for 2nd Line Support Engineer in Staffordshire

2nd Line Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 2nd Line Support Engineer within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 23 February 2020. 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
Job
Vacancies
Cannock - 1 £175 -
2nd Line Support Engineer
West Midlands

2nd Line Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 1 Co-occurring IT Skills in Staffordshire

For the 6 months to 23 February 2020, 2nd Line Support Engineer contract jobs required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Staffordshire region featuring 2nd Line Support Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Windows

2nd Line Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring IT Skills in Staffordshire by Category

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

Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows