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Support Engineer Contracts in Bedfordshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Support Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire 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 19 June 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 Bedfordshire 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
19 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Support Engineer
Rank 29 31 35
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 2 4 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 1.015% 1.527% 3.213%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.070% 1.646% 3.419%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 3
Average daily rate - £200 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -11.11%
UK excluding London average daily rate £253 £200 £250
% change year-on-year
+26.25% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £13.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.76 £15.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year
+1.67% +3.33%
All Job Titles
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 187 243 234
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 94.92% 92.75% 93.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 128 103
Average daily rate £350 £375 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +20.96%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £200 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 15
Average hourly rate £35.50 £18.00 £27.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+97.22% -33.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.62 £12.00 £12.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £38.65 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Support Engineer
East of England

Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire 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 Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire 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 Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire Support Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Support Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Support Engineer within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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		 Find
Job
Vacancies
Luton -5 2 - - 1
Bedford - - - -
Dunstable - - - -
Support Engineer
East of England

Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 4 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) MS Exchange
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) SAN
2 3 (37.50%) VMware
2 3 (37.50%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (25.00%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
3 2 (25.00%) SolarWinds
3 2 (25.00%) Windows 7
3 2 (25.00%) VCP4
3 2 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (25.00%) NetBackup
3 2 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (25.00%) WSUS
3 2 (25.00%) UNIX
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (25.00%) Symantec
3 2 (25.00%) HP
3 2 (25.00%) MCSE
3 2 (25.00%) MS Excel
3 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (25.00%) Windows XP
4 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
4 1 (12.50%) C
4 1 (12.50%) SQL
4 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
4 1 (12.50%) DB2
4 1 (12.50%) IIS
4 1 (12.50%) MS Office

Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 Development
1 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) MS Exchange
1 3 (37.50%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (12.50%) IIS
3 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
2 1 (12.50%) MS Office
2 1 (12.50%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Agresso
1 1 (12.50%) Dynamics GP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) SAN
2 1 (12.50%) HTTP
2 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 1 (12.50%) Wireless
2 1 (12.50%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
1 1 (12.50%) DB2
General
1 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
1 1 (12.50%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Thin Client
1 1 (12.50%) Mathematics
1 1 (12.50%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Windows 7
2 2 (25.00%) UNIX
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (25.00%) Windows XP
3 1 (12.50%) Windows 2000
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (12.50%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (12.50%) Migration
1 1 (12.50%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) C
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) VCP4
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (25.00%) MCSE
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Terminal Server
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (12.50%) VMware ESX
1 1 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
1 2 (25.00%) NetBackup
1 2 (25.00%) WSUS
2 1 (12.50%) ZENworks
2 1 (12.50%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
1 3 (37.50%) VMware
2 2 (25.00%) SolarWinds
2 2 (25.00%) Symantec
2 2 (25.00%) HP
3 1 (12.50%) Citrix
3 1 (12.50%) Novell
3 1 (12.50%) Twitter
Desktop Support Engineer
Luton, South East
Exchange e-mail system, Agresso ,Workmate - Microsoft Server technologies: Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2003 Server, SQL Server, Exchange (E-mail services) - Microsoft Desktop technologies: Windows 2000, Windows XP,...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: Negotiable
Posted: 14 June 2013
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