The first table below looks at the demand for the Installations Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Installations 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 City of London 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
Installation Engineer
Rank 199 212 244
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +32
Contract jobs requiring an Installations Engineer 4 6 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.063% 0.076% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% 0.083% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £200 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £236 £220 £160
% change year-on-year
+7.38% +37.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Average hourly rate £18.00 - £10.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £14.00 £13.50
% change year-on-year
+15.71% +3.70%
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5894 7192 8993
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.40% 91.44% 91.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4333 5169 6545
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 186 197
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £133.00 £41.28 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Installations Engineer
London

Installations Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Installations Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Installations Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Installations Engineer across the City of London region.

City of London Installations Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Installations Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Installations Engineer across the City of London region.

City of London Installations Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Installations Engineer
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Installations 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 Installations Engineer in their job title.

1 1 (20.00%) MS Office
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (20.00%) Windows XP
1 1 (20.00%) SDH
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) EPoS
1 1 (20.00%) Thin Client
1 1 (20.00%) 3G
1 1 (20.00%) DWDM
1 1 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (20.00%) Wireless
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Legal
1 1 (20.00%) Retail
1 1 (20.00%) Fat Client
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) VeriFone

Installations Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Installations 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 Installations Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Office
1 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) SDH
1 1 (20.00%) 3G
1 1 (20.00%) DWDM
1 1 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (20.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Legal
1 1 (20.00%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) EPoS
1 1 (20.00%) Thin Client
1 1 (20.00%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows XP
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) VeriFone