The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems 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 Systems Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Engineer
Rank 37 45 32
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -13
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 2 4 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.610% 0.948% 1.916%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.683% 1.005% 1.961%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 0
Average daily rate - £325 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £397 £375
% change year-on-year
-18.03% +5.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £20.00 - £33.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £25.44
% change year-on-year
-21.42% +37.59%
All Job Titles
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
293 398 255
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 89.33% 94.31% 97.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 195 136
Average daily rate £350 £310 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.90% +3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £198 £238
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 48 58 45
Average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +159.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £10.25 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £52.50 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Systems Engineer
Cambridgeshire

Systems Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge Systems Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Systems Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) VMware
3 2 (33.33%) LAN
3 2 (33.33%) DHCP
3 2 (33.33%) DNS
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) NetApp
3 2 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (33.33%) WAN
4 1 (16.67%) VMS
4 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (16.67%) Firewall
4 1 (16.67%) Wireless
4 1 (16.67%) BT
4 1 (16.67%) Perforce
4 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
4 1 (16.67%) Windows 7
4 1 (16.67%) vSphere
4 1 (16.67%) Bash shell
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 1 (16.67%) DMZ
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
4 1 (16.67%) Project Management
4 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
4 1 (16.67%) HP

Systems Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 Development
1 1 (16.67%) POSIX
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) IIS
1 1 (16.67%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) LAN
1 2 (33.33%) DHCP
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
1 2 (33.33%) WAN
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) Wireless
2 1 (16.67%) DMZ
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
2 1 (16.67%) VoIP
2 1 (16.67%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) NUnit
1 1 (16.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Linux
3 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (16.67%) VMS
4 1 (16.67%) Windows 7
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (16.67%) UNIX
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (16.67%) Project Management
1 1 (16.67%) ITIL
1 1 (16.67%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bash shell
1 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) RHCE
1 1 (16.67%) RHCA
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
1 1 (16.67%) vSphere
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) NFS
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) NetApp
2 2 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (16.67%) BT
3 1 (16.67%) Perforce
3 1 (16.67%) HP
3 1 (16.67%) EMC