Cambridgeshire Systems Engineer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Systems Engineer role in IT contracts within the Cambridgeshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Systems Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

System Engineer
Location Aberdeen Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Ceredigion Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Clitheroe Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Denbighshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Harlow Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Mid Wales Midlands Milton Keynes New Quay Newquay Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Potters Bar Reading Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Asaph Staines Stevenage Stockport Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Wokingham Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	47	45
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	12	28
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.028 %
As % of the category below	1.719 %	2.982 %
Daily rates quoted	4	0
Average minimum daily rate	£269	-
Average daily rate	£307	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£345	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£318	£329
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.25	£45.00
Average hourly rate	£27.25	£46.67
% change on same period last year	-41.60 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.25	£48.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.31	£31.09
% change on same period last year	+3.92 %
Job Titles Cambridgeshire
Matching contract IT job ads	698	939
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.921 %	0.935 %
Daily rates quoted	138	192
Average minimum daily rate	£301	£316
Average daily rate	£324	£332
% change on same period last year	-2.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£346	£349
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	120	146
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.07	£26.05
Average hourly rate	£18.58	£27.53
% change on same period last year	-32.49 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.09	£29.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.68	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.85 %
Systems Engineer East of England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Systems Engineer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Systems Engineer across the Cambridgeshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

Systems Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Systems Engineer across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Engineer within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Cambridge	+3	6	£314	-
Peterborough	+1	4	£300	-

Systems Engineer East of England

Systems Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 6 (33.33 %) Windows 2 5 (27.78 %) Linux 3 4 (22.22 %) TCP/IP 3 4 (22.22 %) Manufacturing 4 3 (16.67 %) Telecoms 4 3 (16.67 %) IVR 4 3 (16.67 %) Subversion 4 3 (16.67 %) WebSphere 4 3 (16.67 %) UNIX 4 3 (16.67 %) WebSphere MQ 4 3 (16.67 %) Oracle Forms 4 3 (16.67 %) SQL 4 3 (16.67 %) Oracle 4 3 (16.67 %) SMS 4 3 (16.67 %) MQSeries

5 2 (11.11 %) Windows NT 5 2 (11.11 %) PL/SQL 5 2 (11.11 %) AS400 5 2 (11.11 %) Nagios 5 2 (11.11 %) Red Hat 5 2 (11.11 %) Wiki 5 2 (11.11 %) Security Cleared 5 2 (11.11 %) Red Hat Linux 6 1 (5.556 %) Finance 6 1 (5.556 %) Government 6 1 (5.556 %) VMware 6 1 (5.556 %) Macrovision 6 1 (5.556 %) Data Management 6 1 (5.556 %) Degree 6 1 (5.556 %) Windows Vista

Systems Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 3 (16.67 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 3 (16.67 %) WebSphere MQ 1 3 (16.67 %) MQSeries 2 1 (5.556 %) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking 1 4 (22.22 %) TCP/IP 2 3 (16.67 %) SMS 3 1 (5.556 %) LAN 3 1 (5.556 %) WAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (5.556 %) SQL Server 2005 1 1 (5.556 %) SQL Server 1 1 (5.556 %) Oracle Reports
Development Applications 1 3 (16.67 %) Subversion 1 3 (16.67 %) Oracle Forms 2 1 (5.556 %) ProC	General 1 4 (22.22 %) Manufacturing 2 3 (16.67 %) Telecoms 3 1 (5.556 %) Finance 3 1 (5.556 %) Government
Miscellaneous 1 3 (16.67 %) IVR 2 2 (11.11 %) AS400 2 2 (11.11 %) Wiki	Operating Systems 1 6 (33.33 %) Windows 2 5 (27.78 %) Linux 3 3 (16.67 %) UNIX 4 2 (11.11 %) Windows NT 4 2 (11.11 %) Red Hat Linux 5 1 (5.556 %) Windows Vista 5 1 (5.556 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 1 (5.556 %) NetWare 5 1 (5.556 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (11.11 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (5.556 %) Data Management 2 1 (5.556 %) DoDAF 2 1 (5.556 %) MODAF 2 1 (5.556 %) Six Sigma 2 1 (5.556 %) CMMI	Programming Languages 1 3 (16.67 %) SQL 2 2 (11.11 %) PL/SQL 3 1 (5.556 %) Shell Script 3 1 (5.556 %) C
Qualifications 1 1 (5.556 %) Degree 1 1 (5.556 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (5.556 %) MCSE	System Software 1 1 (5.556 %) VMware Infrastructure 1 1 (5.556 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 2 (11.11 %) Nagios 2 1 (5.556 %) ARCserve	Vendors 1 3 (16.67 %) Oracle 2 2 (11.11 %) Red Hat 3 1 (5.556 %) VMware 3 1 (5.556 %) Macrovision 3 1 (5.556 %) IBM 3 1 (5.556 %) Microsoft 3 1 (5.556 %) Sun 3 1 (5.556 %) Novell 3 1 (5.556 %) NEC