The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical 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 Technical Support 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Support Engineer
Rank 28 32 -
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Support Engineer 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 0.541% 0.441% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.581% 0.463% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £250 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £183 £160 £263
% change year-on-year
+14.06% -39.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £15.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.50 £20.00 £13.75
% change year-on-year
-17.50% +45.45%
All Job Titles
Cardiff
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
172 216 232
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 92.97% 95.15% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 128 140
Average daily rate £365 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.30% -
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 9
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 £10.29
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £15.50 £103.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Technical Support Engineer
South Wales

Technical Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cardiff Technical Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cardiff Technical Support Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Technical Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cardiff Technical Support Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Support Engineer
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff region that cited Technical 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 Technical Support Engineer in their job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (66.67%) XenApp
1 2 (66.67%) Windows 7
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) Citrix
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
2 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010

Technical Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff region that cited Technical 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 Technical Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
1 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (66.67%) Windows 7
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) XenApp
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) Citrix