Birmingham Support Engineer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Support Engineer role in IT contracts within the Birmingham 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 Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Aylesbury Barking Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover Dudley Dundee Durham Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Grimsby Guildford Gwent Halifax Hampshire Hartlepool Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Hitchin Home Counties Hove Hull Huntingdon Immingham Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Kendal Kent Kettering King's Lynn Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Rochester Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark Spalding St Albans St Asaph Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Drayton West Kilbride West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Wirral Witham Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	40	30
Rank change on same period last year	-10
Matching contract IT job ads	12	42
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.042 %
As % of the category below	1.794 %	4.343 %
Daily rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum daily rate	£153	£196
Average daily rate	£163	£199
% change on same period last year	-18.30 %
Average maximum daily rate	£173	£201
UK excluding London average daily rate	£226	£252
% change on same period last year	-10.03 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.19	£18.12
Average hourly rate	£15.94	£18.66
% change on same period last year	-14.55 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.69	£19.19
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.72	£18.87
% change on same period last year	-0.83 %
Job Titles Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads	669	967
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.892 %	0.978 %
Daily rates quoted	164	207
Average minimum daily rate	£307	£339
Average daily rate	£331	£357
% change on same period last year	-7.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£354	£375
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	56	137
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.13	£16.39
Average hourly rate	£19.41	£17.40
% change on same period last year	+11.54 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.70	£18.42
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
Support Engineer West Midlands

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 Support Engineer across the Birmingham 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 Support Engineer across the Birmingham 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 Support Engineer across the Birmingham region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Support Engineer across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 17 (39.53 %) Windows 1 17 (39.53 %) Microsoft 2 7 (16.28 %) Active Directory 2 7 (16.28 %) Citrix 3 6 (13.95 %) HP 3 6 (13.95 %) MS Office 3 6 (13.95 %) MS Exchange 4 5 (11.63 %) NHS 5 4 (9.302 %) Wireless 5 4 (9.302 %) MS Excel 5 4 (9.302 %) Cisco 5 4 (9.302 %) Windows XP 5 4 (9.302 %) TCP/IP 6 3 (6.977 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 3 (6.977 %) BC Cleared

6 3 (6.977 %) Security Cleared 6 3 (6.977 %) DNS 6 3 (6.977 %) Dell 6 3 (6.977 %) VMware 7 2 (4.651 %) Education 7 2 (4.651 %) Government 7 2 (4.651 %) Manufacturing 7 2 (4.651 %) Telecoms 7 2 (4.651 %) Windows Server 2003 7 2 (4.651 %) Cisco Certification 7 2 (4.651 %) SLA 7 2 (4.651 %) DHCP 7 2 (4.651 %) CCNA 7 2 (4.651 %) Windows NT 7 2 (4.651 %) Windows 2000

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 (2.326 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 6 (13.95 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (6.977 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (2.326 %) Lotus Notes 3 1 (2.326 %) Apache 3 1 (2.326 %) CMS 3 1 (2.326 %) Exchange Server 5.5 3 1 (2.326 %) Exchange Server 2000
Applications 1 6 (13.95 %) MS Office 2 4 (9.302 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (2.326 %) SoftGrid
Communications & Networking 1 4 (9.302 %) TCP/IP 1 4 (9.302 %) Wireless 2 3 (6.977 %) DNS 3 2 (4.651 %) DHCP 4 1 (2.326 %) Internet 4 1 (2.326 %) LAN 4 1 (2.326 %) WAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (2.326 %) MySQL
General 1 2 (4.651 %) Education 1 2 (4.651 %) Government 1 2 (4.651 %) Manufacturing 1 2 (4.651 %) Telecoms 2 1 (2.326 %) Finance 2 1 (2.326 %) Retail 2 1 (2.326 %) Insurance	Miscellaneous 1 5 (11.63 %) NHS 2 1 (2.326 %) PDA 2 1 (2.326 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 17 (39.53 %) Windows 2 4 (9.302 %) Windows XP 3 2 (4.651 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (4.651 %) Windows 2000 3 2 (4.651 %) Windows NT 4 1 (2.326 %) Solaris 4 1 (2.326 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (6.977 %) BC Cleared 1 3 (6.977 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (2.326 %) E-Commerce 2 1 (2.326 %) Project Management 2 1 (2.326 %) SC Cleared
Programming Languages 1 1 (2.326 %) C 1 1 (2.326 %) PHP 1 1 (2.326 %) SQL 1 1 (2.326 %) VB.NET	Qualifications 1 2 (4.651 %) CCNA 1 2 (4.651 %) Cisco Certification 2 1 (2.326 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (2.326 %) Avaya Certification 2 1 (2.326 %) Degree 2 1 (2.326 %) MCSE 2 1 (2.326 %) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (4.651 %) SLA	System Software 1 7 (16.28 %) Active Directory 2 2 (4.651 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (2.326 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 3 1 (2.326 %) Citrix Presentation Server
Vendors 1 17 (39.53 %) Microsoft 2 7 (16.28 %) Citrix 3 6 (13.95 %) HP 4 4 (9.302 %) Cisco 5 3 (6.977 %) Dell 5 3 (6.977 %) VMware 6 1 (2.326 %) Nortel 6 1 (2.326 %) SAP 6 1 (2.326 %) Compaq 6 1 (2.326 %) Avaya 6 1 (2.326 %) Novell 6 1 (2.326 %) Lotus