Support Engineer Contracts in Aberdeen
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Support Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Aberdeen region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 Aberdeen 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Support Engineer
Rank 15 18 22
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 11 10 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Aberdeen 7.143% 5.208% 3.226%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.801% 5.714% 3.529%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 2
Average daily rate £475 £200 £155
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+137.50% +29.03%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £426 £136 £109
10% offered a daily rate of more than £507 £325 £201
UK excluding London average daily rate £240 £203 £263
% change year-on-year
+18.51% -22.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 3
Average hourly rate £15.77 £15.61 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.02% -8.17%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £15.66 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-4.22% +4.41%
All Job Titles
Aberdeen
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 141 175 170
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Aberdeen 91.56% 91.15% 91.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 73 63
Average daily rate £350 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £150 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £422
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 17
Average hourly rate £15.77 £17.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.23% +13.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £14.30 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.60 £33.10 £31.44
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Support Engineer
Scotland

Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Aberdeen Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Support Engineer across the Aberdeen region.

Aberdeen Support Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Support Engineer across the Aberdeen region.

Aberdeen Support Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region that cited 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 Support Engineer in their job title.

1 9 (47.37%) Windows
2 5 (26.32%) VMware
2 5 (26.32%) Windows Server 2008
2 5 (26.32%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (21.05%) Cisco
4 3 (15.79%) Document Management
4 3 (15.79%) Windows 7
4 3 (15.79%) Exchange Server 2007
4 3 (15.79%) DNS
4 3 (15.79%) MS Exchange
4 3 (15.79%) PRINCE2
4 3 (15.79%) Blackberry
4 3 (15.79%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 3 (15.79%) Project Management
4 3 (15.79%) Active Directory
4 3 (15.79%) Avaya
4 3 (15.79%) PMI
4 3 (15.79%) PMI Certification
5 2 (10.53%) Juniper
5 2 (10.53%) Veritas
5 2 (10.53%) CheckPoint
5 2 (10.53%) HP
5 2 (10.53%) Nortel
5 2 (10.53%) Citrix
5 2 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (10.53%) Quality Management
5 2 (10.53%) Windows XP
5 2 (10.53%) ITIL
5 2 (10.53%) SCCM
5 2 (10.53%) vSphere

Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region that cited 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 Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 3 (15.79%) Exchange Server 2007
1 3 (15.79%) MS Exchange
1 3 (15.79%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (10.53%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (5.263%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 1 (5.263%) MS PowerPoint
1 1 (5.263%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) DNS
2 2 (10.53%) Cisco IPT
2 2 (10.53%) HTTP
3 1 (5.263%) SMS
3 1 (5.263%) DHCP
3 1 (5.263%) FTP
General
1 2 (10.53%) Advertising
2 1 (5.263%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Blackberry
1 3 (15.79%) PMI
2 2 (10.53%) Replication
3 1 (5.263%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 9 (47.37%) Windows
2 5 (26.32%) Windows Server 2008
2 5 (26.32%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (15.79%) Windows 7
4 2 (10.53%) Windows XP
4 2 (10.53%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (15.79%) Document Management
1 3 (15.79%) PRINCE2
1 3 (15.79%) Project Management
2 2 (10.53%) Quality Management
2 2 (10.53%) ITIL
2 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (5.263%) Information Management
3 1 (5.263%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.263%) C
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) PMI Certification
2 2 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (10.53%) CCNP
2 2 (10.53%) CCNA
3 1 (5.263%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.263%) MCP
3 1 (5.263%) MCSE
3 1 (5.263%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.263%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) VMware
2 4 (21.05%) Cisco
3 3 (15.79%) Avaya
4 2 (10.53%) Juniper
4 2 (10.53%) Veritas
4 2 (10.53%) CheckPoint
4 2 (10.53%) HP
4 2 (10.53%) Nortel
4 2 (10.53%) Citrix
4 2 (10.53%) Aruba
5 1 (5.263%) Mitel
5 1 (5.263%) Blue Coat
5 1 (5.263%) Microsoft
Support/ Deskside Support Engineer
Aberdeen, Scotland
You will be responsible for: ** Providing on-site support following migrations ** Troubleshoot desktop issues reported to the Service Desk ** Liaise with end-users to confirm normal operations following...
Cathcart Associates
Rate: £100 - £150 per day
Posted: 26 April 2013
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