The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Support Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Senior Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 Cambridge 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Support Engineer
Rank 34 49 -
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Support Engineer 5 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 1.488% 0.241% -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.656% 0.256% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Average daily rate £205 £175 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.14% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £245 £225 £285
% change year-on-year
+8.88% -21.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £21.86 £36.00
% change year-on-year
- -39.27%
All Job Titles
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
302 391 236
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 89.88% 94.22% 97.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 192 124
Average daily rate £350 £308 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.82% +2.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £200 £242
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £435 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 56 43
Average hourly rate £37.25 £35.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.42% +159.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £10.33 £11.33
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £52.50 £34.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Senior Support Engineer
Cambridgeshire

Senior Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge Senior Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridge Senior Support Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Senior Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region that cited Senior 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 Senior Support Engineer in their job title.

1 8 (61.54%) Oracle
1 8 (61.54%) WebLogic
1 8 (61.54%) Information Security
1 8 (61.54%) Financial Institution
1 8 (61.54%) Finance
1 8 (61.54%) Middleware
1 8 (61.54%) Oracle Fusion
1 8 (61.54%) Hedge funds
2 7 (53.85%) Oracle Identity Manager
2 7 (53.85%) IIS
3 5 (38.46%) SQL
3 5 (38.46%) T-SQL
4 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
5 3 (23.08%) OLAP
5 3 (23.08%) Crystal Reports
5 3 (23.08%) MS Office
5 3 (23.08%) Windows
5 3 (23.08%) Windows XP
5 3 (23.08%) MS Exchange
5 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
5 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
5 3 (23.08%) SQL Server 2008
5 3 (23.08%) Exchange Server 2003
5 3 (23.08%) SQL Server 2005
5 3 (23.08%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (7.692%) Incident Management
6 1 (7.692%) WebSphere
6 1 (7.692%) WebSphere Message Broker
6 1 (7.692%) WebCenter
6 1 (7.692%) WebSphere MQ

Senior Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region that cited Senior 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 Senior Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (61.54%) Middleware
1 8 (61.54%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (7.692%) WebSphere
2 1 (7.692%) WebCenter
Application Platforms
1 8 (61.54%) WebLogic
2 7 (53.85%) IIS
3 3 (23.08%) MS Exchange
3 3 (23.08%) Exchange Server 2003
3 3 (23.08%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (7.692%) WebSphere Message Broker
4 1 (7.692%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 3 (23.08%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
2 3 (23.08%) OLAP
2 3 (23.08%) Crystal Reports
2 3 (23.08%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (23.08%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (7.692%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 8 (61.54%) Financial Institution
1 8 (61.54%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
1 3 (23.08%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Information Security
2 1 (7.692%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) SQL
1 5 (38.46%) T-SQL
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Oracle
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft