The first table below looks at the demand for the Hardware Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Hardware Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Buckinghamshire 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Hardware Engineer
Rank 71 57 78
Rank change year-on-year
-14 +21
Contract jobs requiring a Hardware Engineer 4 15 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 0.438% 1.569% 0.367%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.474% 1.672% 0.388%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £200 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £100 £285 £285
% change year-on-year
-64.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
Average hourly rate - £30.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -12.85%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.64 £27.50 £34.00
% change year-on-year
-46.78% -19.11%
All Job Titles
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
844 897 1031
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 92.44% 93.83% 94.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 395 393
Average daily rate £325 £325 £345
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.79%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £208 £175 £165
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 67 129
Average hourly rate £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.09 £11.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.75 £32.50 £23.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Hardware Engineer
South East

Hardware Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire Hardware Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Hardware Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Buckinghamshire Hardware Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Hardware Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Buckinghamshire Hardware Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Hardware Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Hardware Engineer within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
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Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
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Vacancies
High Wycombe -2 4 - -
Milton Keynes - - - -
Hardware Engineer
South East

Hardware Engineer
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region that cited Hardware 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 Hardware Engineer in their job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Windows XP
2 4 (66.67%) Dell
2 4 (66.67%) EMC
2 4 (66.67%) Sun
2 4 (66.67%) EqualLogic
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
4 1 (16.67%) Windows 7
4 1 (16.67%) Active Directory

Hardware Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region that cited Hardware 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 Hardware Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Windows XP
2 1 (16.67%) Windows 7
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Dell
1 4 (66.67%) EMC
1 4 (66.67%) Sun
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft