The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Systems 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 Birmingham 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
System Engineer
Rank - 50 44
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 0 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham - 0.489% 0.200%
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.515% 0.218%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 0
Average daily rate - £375 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £382 £373
% change year-on-year
-14.80% +2.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
-21.42% +34.61%
All Job Titles
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
410 582 458
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 93.61% 94.94% 91.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 316 257
Average daily rate £340 £325 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.61% -4.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £188 £181
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 39 31
Average hourly rate £16.25 £14.00 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.07% +7.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.50 £9.16 £10.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.00 £33.00 £115.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Systems Engineer
West Midlands

Systems Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham Systems Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Systems Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Birmingham Systems Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Systems Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Birmingham Systems Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Systems Engineer
Top 15 Related IT Skills

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

1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) HP
1 3 (100.00%) Citrix
1 3 (100.00%) SCOM
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) XenApp
2 2 (66.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 2 (66.67%) Service Management
3 1 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) SAN
3 1 (33.33%) EMC
3 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft

Systems Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Service Management
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) SCOM
2 2 (66.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) HP
1 3 (100.00%) Citrix
2 1 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) EMC
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft