Berkshire Technical Engineer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Technical 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 Technical Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Technical Engineer
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Buxton Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Coventry Dartford Derbyshire Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England Enfield England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Kent Leatherhead Leeds London Manchester Middlesex Milton Keynes North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Runcorn Scotland Shropshire South East South West Surrey Swindon Teddington Telford UK Uxbridge West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	107	103
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	10	39
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.042 %
As % of the category below	0.405 %	1.077 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£250
Average daily rate	£450	£325
% change on same period last year	+38.46 %
Average maximum daily rate	£500	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£285	£268
% change on same period last year	+6.12 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	25
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.00	£22.60
Average hourly rate	£30.50	£23.72
% change on same period last year	+28.58 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.00	£24.84
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.91	£21.72
% change on same period last year	+5.46 %
Job Titles Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	2471	3622
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.892 %	3.881 %
Daily rates quoted	665	1004
Average minimum daily rate	£341	£334
Average daily rate	£363	£354
% change on same period last year	+2.56 %
Average maximum daily rate	£385	£374
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£351
% change on same period last year	+0.72 %
Hourly rates quoted	179	429
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.41	£25.90
Average hourly rate	£22.81	£27.38
% change on same period last year	-16.69 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.21	£28.87
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.37	£24.42
% change on same period last year	-4.31 %
Technical Engineer South East

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.

Technical Engineer
Demand Trend

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

Technical Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Technical Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Engineer within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 November 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	-3	3	-	-

Technical Engineer South East

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 8 (50.00 %) Security Cleared 2 6 (37.50 %) SC Cleared 2 6 (37.50 %) HP 3 5 (31.25 %) Windows 4 4 (25.00 %) Solaris 4 4 (25.00 %) UNIX 5 3 (18.75 %) Time Management 5 3 (18.75 %) Migration 5 3 (18.75 %) Replication 5 3 (18.75 %) Microsoft 6 2 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 6 2 (12.50 %) HPUX 6 2 (12.50 %) DMZ 6 2 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 6 2 (12.50 %) Java

6 2 (12.50 %) SQL 6 2 (12.50 %) MS Excel 6 2 (12.50 %) Electronics 6 2 (12.50 %) Telecoms 6 2 (12.50 %) Dell 6 2 (12.50 %) CA 6 2 (12.50 %) VERITAS 6 2 (12.50 %) Clustering 6 2 (12.50 %) Windows Vista 6 2 (12.50 %) Load Balancing 6 2 (12.50 %) DV Cleared 7 1 (6.250 %) VMware Infrastructure 7 1 (6.250 %) Windows 2000 Server 7 1 (6.250 %) Red Hat Linux 7 1 (6.250 %) Computer Science

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 Development 1 1 (6.250 %) HTML 1 1 (6.250 %) XML 1 1 (6.250 %) XSL	Application Platforms 1 1 (6.250 %) WebLogic
Applications 1 2 (12.50 %) MS Excel 2 1 (6.250 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 2 (12.50 %) DMZ 2 1 (6.250 %) UTRAN 2 1 (6.250 %) DWDM 2 1 (6.250 %) SS7 2 1 (6.250 %) Wireless 2 1 (6.250 %) SIGTRAN 2 1 (6.250 %) ATM 2 1 (6.250 %) SDH 2 1 (6.250 %) Ethernet 2 1 (6.250 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (6.250 %) SQL Server 1 1 (6.250 %) Oracle 8/8i 1 1 (6.250 %) ETL 1 1 (6.250 %) SQLPlus 1 1 (6.250 %) SQL Server 2005	General 1 2 (12.50 %) Electronics 1 2 (12.50 %) Telecoms 2 1 (6.250 %) Government
Miscellaneous 1 3 (18.75 %) Replication 2 2 (12.50 %) Clustering 3 1 (6.250 %) Computer Science	Operating Systems 1 5 (31.25 %) Windows 2 4 (25.00 %) Solaris 2 4 (25.00 %) UNIX 3 2 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (12.50 %) Windows Vista 3 2 (12.50 %) HPUX 3 2 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (6.250 %) Windows NT 4 1 (6.250 %) Windows XP 4 1 (6.250 %) OpenVMS 4 1 (6.250 %) Linux 4 1 (6.250 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 1 (6.250 %) Red Hat Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (50.00 %) Security Cleared 2 6 (37.50 %) SC Cleared 3 3 (18.75 %) Migration 3 3 (18.75 %) Time Management 4 2 (12.50 %) Load Balancing 4 2 (12.50 %) DV Cleared 5 1 (6.250 %) Service Management 5 1 (6.250 %) Disaster Recovery 5 1 (6.250 %) Network Design 5 1 (6.250 %) Data Analysis 5 1 (6.250 %) Web Development	Programming Languages 1 2 (12.50 %) SQL 1 2 (12.50 %) Java 2 1 (6.250 %) JavaScript 2 1 (6.250 %) C 2 1 (6.250 %) Shell Script 2 1 (6.250 %) Korn 2 1 (6.250 %) XPath
Qualifications 1 1 (6.250 %) Degree	System Software 1 1 (6.250 %) NetBackup 1 1 (6.250 %) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management 1 1 (6.250 %) Tivoli 1 1 (6.250 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 1 (6.250 %) Netcool 1 1 (6.250 %) OpenView Configuration Management	Vendors 1 6 (37.50 %) HP 2 3 (18.75 %) Microsoft 3 2 (12.50 %) Dell 3 2 (12.50 %) CA 3 2 (12.50 %) VERITAS 4 1 (6.250 %) Red Hat 4 1 (6.250 %) Proxima 4 1 (6.250 %) VMware 4 1 (6.250 %) Fujitsu 4 1 (6.250 %) Ericsson 4 1 (6.250 %) Sun 4 1 (6.250 %) Oracle 4 1 (6.250 %) Cisco