Support Engineer Contracts in Cardiff
 
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 Cardiff 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 24 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 Cardiff 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Support Engineer
Rank 18 33 33
Rank change year-on-year
+15 0
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 11 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 5.978% 0.889% 0.826%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.433% 0.935% 0.866%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 1
Average daily rate £260 £210 £117
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.80% +79.48%
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £200 £263
% change year-on-year
+25.00% -23.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
Average hourly rate £14.00 £15.50 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.67% +29.16%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £15.88 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-5.51% +5.83%
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Cardiff
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 171 214 231
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 92.93% 95.11% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 127 140
Average daily rate £365 £328 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.45% +0.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £175 £117
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 8
Average hourly rate £17.60 £14.25 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+23.50% -25.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.72 £14.00 £9.52
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £15.50 £106.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Support Engineer
South Wales

Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff Support Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 6 (37.50%) Windows
1 6 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
3 4 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 4 (25.00%) WAN
3 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
4 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
4 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (18.75%) Citrix
4 3 (18.75%) Windows 7
4 3 (18.75%) Apple
4 3 (18.75%) Blackberry
4 3 (18.75%) MS Exchange
5 2 (12.50%) LAN
5 2 (12.50%) Windows XP
5 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (12.50%) XenApp
5 2 (12.50%) Final Cut Pro
6 1 (6.250%) HP SIM
6 1 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (6.250%) Change Control
6 1 (6.250%) MCTS
6 1 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2003
6 1 (6.250%) Degree
6 1 (6.250%) Windows Vista
6 1 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (6.250%) SCOM
6 1 (6.250%) Data Migration
6 1 (6.250%) Blackberry Enterprise Server

Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 Platforms
1 3 (18.75%) MS Exchange
2 1 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (6.250%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (6.250%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Final Cut Pro
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (25.00%) WAN
2 2 (12.50%) LAN
3 1 (6.250%) Firewall
3 1 (6.250%) DNS
3 1 (6.250%) DHCP
General
1 1 (6.250%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Windows
2 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (18.75%) Windows 7
3 2 (12.50%) Windows XP
3 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (6.250%) Windows Vista
4 1 (6.250%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (6.250%) Change Control
1 1 (6.250%) Data Migration
1 1 (6.250%) Migration
1 1 (6.250%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.250%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.250%) MCTS
3 1 (6.250%) Degree
3 1 (6.250%) MCSE
3 1 (6.250%) MCSA
3 1 (6.250%) MCP
3 1 (6.250%) HNC
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (12.50%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (6.250%) HP SIM
1 1 (6.250%) SCOM
1 1 (6.250%) NetBackup
1 1 (6.250%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) Citrix
2 3 (18.75%) Apple
3 1 (6.250%) Veritas
3 1 (6.250%) Lotus
3 1 (6.250%) HP
3 1 (6.250%) VMware
3 1 (6.250%) Cisco
3 1 (6.250%) SAP
2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer, Active Directory
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
You must have around 2-3 years hands on desktop skills/commercial experience in Active Directory (new users, including amending group permissions, security), hardware - fault finding & maintenance, PDA’...
Latcom Ltd
Rate: From £118 to £118 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
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