Support Engineer Contracts in Cambridge
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the 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 Support 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 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Support Engineer
Rank 18 42 23
Rank change year-on-year
+24 -19
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 23 7 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 6.725% 1.675% 3.600%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.492% 1.781% 3.673%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 5 3
Average daily rate £300 £160 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+87.50% -44.82%
UK excluding London average daily rate £239 £200 £263
% change year-on-year
+19.37% -23.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 1
Average hourly rate £13.75 £12.75 £11.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.84% +13.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £16.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
All Job Titles
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 307 393 245
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 89.77% 94.02% 98.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 198 124
Average daily rate £350 £310 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.90% -0.80%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £200 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 51 47
Average hourly rate £35.00 £36.25 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.44% +168.51%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.75 £10.38 £11.78
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £52.50 £37.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Support Engineer
Cambridgeshire

Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridge Support Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Support Engineer across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Cambridge Support Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridge Support Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 32 (48.48%) SQL
2 30 (45.45%) Oracle
3 29 (43.94%) T-SQL
3 29 (43.94%) Microsoft
4 28 (42.42%) SQL Server
5 20 (30.30%) MS Office
6 19 (28.79%) SQL Server 2005
7 18 (27.27%) SQL Server 2008
7 18 (27.27%) Windows
8 17 (25.76%) Finance
8 17 (25.76%) Financial Institution
8 17 (25.76%) Hedge funds
9 16 (24.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 16 (24.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 15 (22.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 15 (22.73%) Oracle Fusion
10 15 (22.73%) WebLogic
10 15 (22.73%) Business Intelligence
10 15 (22.73%) PL/SQL
11 14 (21.21%) Middleware
12 12 (18.18%) Active Directory
13 10 (15.15%) Information Security
14 9 (13.64%) Windows XP
15 8 (12.12%) IIS
15 8 (12.12%) Incident Management
15 8 (12.12%) Degree
15 8 (12.12%) WebCenter
16 7 (10.61%) Oracle Identity Manager
16 7 (10.61%) SharePoint
17 6 (9.091%) VoIP

Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 15 (22.73%) Oracle Fusion
2 14 (21.21%) Middleware
3 8 (12.12%) WebCenter
4 4 (6.061%) .NET
5 2 (3.030%) JRules
5 2 (3.030%) WebSphere
6 1 (1.515%) Cocoa
6 1 (1.515%) CSS
6 1 (1.515%) Web Services
6 1 (1.515%) XML
6 1 (1.515%) OpenGL
6 1 (1.515%) iOS SDK
6 1 (1.515%) Direct3D
6 1 (1.515%) OpenGL ES
6 1 (1.515%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 15 (22.73%) WebLogic
2 8 (12.12%) IIS
3 7 (10.61%) SharePoint
4 5 (7.576%) MS Exchange
5 3 (4.545%) Exchange Server 2003
5 3 (4.545%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (3.030%) Exchange Server 2007
6 2 (3.030%) WebSphere MQ
7 1 (1.515%) WebSphere Message Broker
Applications
1 20 (30.30%) MS Office
2 2 (3.030%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.091%) VoIP
1 6 (9.091%) VPN
2 3 (4.545%) WAN
2 3 (4.545%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (4.545%) Wireless
2 3 (4.545%) LAN
3 1 (1.515%) VLAN
3 1 (1.515%) Network Security
3 1 (1.515%) DHCP
3 1 (1.515%) HTTP
3 1 (1.515%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.515%) DNS
3 1 (1.515%) DMZ
3 1 (1.515%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (42.42%) SQL Server
2 19 (28.79%) SQL Server 2005
3 18 (27.27%) SQL Server 2008
4 16 (24.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 16 (24.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 15 (22.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 4 (6.061%) OLAP
7 3 (4.545%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (3.030%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 1 (1.515%) Xcode
General
1 17 (25.76%) Financial Institution
1 17 (25.76%) Finance
2 2 (3.030%) Front Office
3 1 (1.515%) Back Office
3 1 (1.515%) Games
3 1 (1.515%) Multimedia
Miscellaneous
1 17 (25.76%) Hedge funds
2 5 (7.576%) iPad
3 3 (4.545%) iPhone
4 2 (3.030%) Blackberry
5 1 (1.515%) 3D Graphics
5 1 (1.515%) Computer Science
5 1 (1.515%) Augmented Reality
Operating Systems
1 18 (27.27%) Windows
2 9 (13.64%) Windows XP
3 3 (4.545%) Mac OS X
4 2 (3.030%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (3.030%) Windows 7
5 1 (1.515%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.515%) Windows Phone
5 1 (1.515%) Android
5 1 (1.515%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (22.73%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (15.15%) Information Security
3 8 (12.12%) Incident Management
4 2 (3.030%) Time Management
4 2 (3.030%) BPMN
5 1 (1.515%) Computer Architecture
5 1 (1.515%) Game Development
5 1 (1.515%) Embedded Software Development
5 1 (1.515%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (1.515%) Project Management
5 1 (1.515%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (1.515%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 32 (48.48%) SQL
2 29 (43.94%) T-SQL
3 15 (22.73%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.515%) C++
4 1 (1.515%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 8 (12.12%) Degree
2 2 (3.030%) Avaya Certification
3 1 (1.515%) MCTS
3 1 (1.515%) MCITP
3 1 (1.515%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.515%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 12 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.515%) ISA Server
2 1 (1.515%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (10.61%) Oracle Identity Manager
2 2 (3.030%) Control-M
Vendors
1 30 (45.45%) Oracle
2 29 (43.94%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.061%) Cisco
3 4 (6.061%) IBM
4 2 (3.030%) Avaya
4 2 (3.030%) BMC
5 1 (1.515%) Remedy
5 1 (1.515%) BT
5 1 (1.515%) VMware
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