Berkshire Server Engineer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Server Engineer role in IT contracts within the Berkshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Server Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Chelmsford Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Durham East Midlands East of England England Essex Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Gwent Halifax Hampshire Hartlepool Havant Hayes Hertfordshire Hounslow Kent Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Salford Scotland Slough South East South Wales South West Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Surrey Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Witham Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	115	117
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	14	49
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.018 %	0.049 %
As % of the category below	0.441 %	1.071 %
Daily rates quoted	2	15
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£288
Average daily rate	£350	£315
% change on same period last year	+11.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£343
UK excluding London average daily rate	£226	£283
% change on same period last year	-20.14 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.60	£27.08
Average hourly rate	£19.20	£27.87
% change on same period last year	-31.12 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.80	£28.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.14	£26.94
% change on same period last year	-2.97 %
Job Titles Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	3175	4574
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.190 %	4.555 %
Daily rates quoted	784	1441
Average minimum daily rate	£341	£350
Average daily rate	£360	£367
% change on same period last year	-1.90 %
Average maximum daily rate	£380	£385
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	233	460
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.29	£28.17
Average hourly rate	£24.91	£29.53
% change on same period last year	-15.65 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.53	£30.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.68	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.85 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Server Engineer across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Server Engineer across the Berkshire region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Server Engineer across the Berkshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Server Engineer across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Server Engineer within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Reading	-4	11	£350	-1.26 %
Maidenhead	-	1	-	-
Bracknell	+7	1	-	-
Slough	-4	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region that cited Server 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 Server Engineer in their job title.

1 25 (60.98 %) Windows 2 20 (48.78 %) Microsoft 3 19 (46.34 %) HP 4 16 (39.02 %) Windows Server 2003 5 10 (24.39 %) Active Directory 5 10 (24.39 %) VMware 5 10 (24.39 %) Security Cleared 6 9 (21.95 %) IIS 6 9 (21.95 %) MS Excel 7 8 (19.51 %) Clustering 8 7 (17.07 %) SC Cleared 8 7 (17.07 %) SQL 9 6 (14.63 %) SQL Server 9 6 (14.63 %) SharePoint 9 6 (14.63 %) SAN

9 6 (14.63 %) Citrix 10 5 (12.20 %) Dell 10 5 (12.20 %) Windows 2000 10 5 (12.20 %) Windows 2000 Server 11 4 (9.756 %) Replication 11 4 (9.756 %) Load Balancing 11 4 (9.756 %) SharePoint Portal Server 11 4 (9.756 %) Disaster Recovery 11 4 (9.756 %) Telecoms 11 4 (9.756 %) Validation 11 4 (9.756 %) Windows XP 11 4 (9.756 %) TCP/IP 11 4 (9.756 %) DNS 11 4 (9.756 %) VBScript 11 4 (9.756 %) MS Office

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region that cited Server 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 Server Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 4 (9.756 %) XML 2 3 (7.317 %) HTML 2 3 (7.317 %) Application Packaging 3 2 (4.878 %) .NET 3 2 (4.878 %) ASP.NET 4 1 (2.439 %) JSP 4 1 (2.439 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 9 (21.95 %) IIS 2 6 (14.63 %) SharePoint 3 4 (9.756 %) SharePoint Portal Server 4 2 (4.878 %) MS Exchange 5 1 (2.439 %) Site Server 5 1 (2.439 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 5 1 (2.439 %) Lotus Notes 5 1 (2.439 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 9 (21.95 %) MS Excel 2 4 (9.756 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 6 (14.63 %) SAN 2 4 (9.756 %) TCP/IP 2 4 (9.756 %) DNS 3 3 (7.317 %) 3G 3 3 (7.317 %) SGSN 4 2 (4.878 %) SIGTRAN 4 2 (4.878 %) GGSN 4 2 (4.878 %) Packet Switching 4 2 (4.878 %) GPRS 4 2 (4.878 %) SS7 5 1 (2.439 %) Internet 5 1 (2.439 %) LAN 5 1 (2.439 %) WAN 5 1 (2.439 %) DHCP 5 1 (2.439 %) Firewall 5 1 (2.439 %) Cisco PIX
Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (14.63 %) SQL Server 2 3 (7.317 %) SQL Server 2000 3 2 (4.878 %) BusinessObjects	General 1 4 (9.756 %) Telecoms 2 2 (4.878 %) Pharmaceutical 3 1 (2.439 %) Government
Miscellaneous 1 8 (19.51 %) Clustering 2 4 (9.756 %) Replication 3 1 (2.439 %) Blackberry	Operating Systems 1 25 (60.98 %) Windows 2 16 (39.02 %) Windows Server 2003 3 5 (12.20 %) Windows 2000 3 5 (12.20 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 4 (9.756 %) Windows XP 5 3 (7.317 %) Windows NT 6 2 (4.878 %) Linux 7 1 (2.439 %) Windows Vista 7 1 (2.439 %) Red Hat Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (24.39 %) Security Cleared 2 7 (17.07 %) SC Cleared 3 4 (9.756 %) Load Balancing 3 4 (9.756 %) Disaster Recovery 3 4 (9.756 %) Validation 4 2 (4.878 %) Fault Management 4 2 (4.878 %) DV Cleared 4 2 (4.878 %) Network Design 4 2 (4.878 %) Configuration Management 5 1 (2.439 %) ITIL 5 1 (2.439 %) OOP 5 1 (2.439 %) OO 5 1 (2.439 %) Migration 5 1 (2.439 %) Web Development	Programming Languages 1 7 (17.07 %) SQL 2 4 (9.756 %) VBScript 3 1 (2.439 %) Perl 3 1 (2.439 %) VB
Qualifications 1 2 (4.878 %) MCSE 1 2 (4.878 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (2.439 %) HP APS	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (4.878 %) SLA
System Software 1 10 (24.39 %) Active Directory 2 3 (7.317 %) VMware ESX 2 3 (7.317 %) Backup Exec 3 1 (2.439 %) NetBackup 3 1 (2.439 %) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 3 (7.317 %) Tivoli 1 3 (7.317 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 2 1 (2.439 %) Netcool
Vendors 1 20 (48.78 %) Microsoft 2 19 (46.34 %) HP 3 10 (24.39 %) VMware 4 6 (14.63 %) Citrix 5 5 (12.20 %) Dell 6 4 (9.756 %) IBM 6 4 (9.756 %) NetApp 7 3 (7.317 %) Nokia 7 3 (7.317 %) Siemens 7 3 (7.317 %) Oracle 7 3 (7.317 %) Cisco 7 3 (7.317 %) Altiris 8 2 (4.878 %) Business Objects 9 1 (2.439 %) Compaq 9 1 (2.439 %) Sun 9 1 (2.439 %) Lotus 9 1 (2.439 %) Red Hat 9 1 (2.439 %) CheckPoint