The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical 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 Technical Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Engineer
Rank - - 36
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Engineer 0 0 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire - - 1.361%
As % of the Job Titles category - - 1.476%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £225 £248 £275
% change year-on-year
-9.09% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £13.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +42.85%
All Job Titles
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
176 261 271
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 95.14% 92.55% 92.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 125 125
Average daily rate £350 £363 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.44% +11.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £188 £225 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 18 14
Average hourly rate £20.70 £29.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-28.63% +114.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.96 £12.00 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £42.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Technical Engineer
East of England

Technical Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire Technical Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bedfordshire Technical Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Technical Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bedfordshire Technical Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Engineer
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region that cited Technical 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 Technical Engineer in their job title.

1 3 (100.00%) DHCP
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
1 3 (100.00%) HP
1 3 (100.00%) Citrix
1 3 (100.00%) SAN
1 3 (100.00%) DMZ
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) IIS
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Forefront TMG
2 2 (66.67%) MS Exchange
2 2 (66.67%) NetBackup
2 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) WhatsUp Gold
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (66.67%) Symantec
2 2 (66.67%) Norton AntiVirus
2 2 (66.67%) Project Management
2 2 (66.67%) Change Management
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) Back Office
3 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing

Technical Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region that cited Technical 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 Technical Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) IIS
2 2 (66.67%) MS Exchange
2 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2007
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DHCP
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
1 3 (100.00%) SAN
1 3 (100.00%) DMZ
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
General
1 2 (66.67%) Back Office
2 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Project Management
1 2 (66.67%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Forefront TMG
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Norton AntiVirus
1 2 (66.67%) NetBackup
1 2 (66.67%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) HP
1 3 (100.00%) Citrix
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Symantec