City of London Server Engineer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Server Engineer role in IT contracts within the City of London 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 Server Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Brentford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chester Chichester Chippenham City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Durham East Midlands East of England England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Gwent Hampshire Hartlepool Havant Hertfordshire Hounslow Kent Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlewich Midlands Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Salford Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Surrey Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Witham Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	174	175
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	41	20
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.055 %	0.020 %
As % of the category below	0.516 %	0.298 %
Daily rates quoted	17	2
Average minimum daily rate	£298	£275
Average daily rate	£321	£313
% change on same period last year	+2.58 %
Average maximum daily rate	£343	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£218	£308
% change on same period last year	-29.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.34	£32.67
Average hourly rate	£26.48	£34.67
% change on same period last year	-23.61 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.62	£36.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.26	£28.18
% change on same period last year	-13.88 %
Job Titles City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	7953	6709
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	10.60 %	6.788 %
Daily rates quoted	4281	2795
Average minimum daily rate	£424	£449
Average daily rate	£461	£482
% change on same period last year	-4.22 %
Average maximum daily rate	£499	£515
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	323	234
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.30	£21.75
Average hourly rate	£26.00	£23.02
% change on same period last year	+12.95 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.69	£24.28
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
Server Engineer London

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Server Engineer across the City of London 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 Server Engineer across the City of London region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Server Engineer across the City of London region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 Server Engineer across the City of London region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Server Engineer across the City of London region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Server 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 Server Engineer in their job title.

1 52 (76.47 %) Windows 2 31 (45.59 %) Active Directory 3 27 (39.71 %) HP 4 25 (36.76 %) VMware 5 24 (35.29 %) Finance 6 19 (27.94 %) Windows Server 2003 7 18 (26.47 %) Citrix 7 18 (26.47 %) Microsoft Certification 7 18 (26.47 %) SAN 7 18 (26.47 %) MCSE 8 16 (23.53 %) Exchange Server 2003 9 14 (20.59 %) Banking 10 13 (19.12 %) Microsoft 10 13 (19.12 %) DNS 11 12 (17.65 %) DHCP

11 12 (17.65 %) SQL Server 12 11 (16.18 %) Windows NT 12 11 (16.18 %) Dell 13 10 (14.71 %) TCP/IP 14 9 (13.24 %) VMware Infrastructure 15 8 (11.76 %) Investment Banking 15 8 (11.76 %) MS Exchange 15 8 (11.76 %) Windows 2000 15 8 (11.76 %) SQL 16 7 (10.29 %) IBM 17 6 (8.824 %) Clustering 17 6 (8.824 %) ITIL 18 5 (7.353 %) IIS 18 5 (7.353 %) SharePoint 18 5 (7.353 %) SQL Server 2000

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Server 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 Server Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (4.412 %) .NET 2 2 (2.941 %) COM+ 2 2 (2.941 %) DCOM 3 1 (1.471 %) WMI 3 1 (1.471 %) ASP.NET 2.0 3 1 (1.471 %) ASP.NET	Application Platforms 1 16 (23.53 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 8 (11.76 %) MS Exchange 3 5 (7.353 %) IIS 3 5 (7.353 %) SharePoint 4 4 (5.882 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 4 (5.882 %) Lotus Notes 5 3 (4.412 %) Lotus Domino 6 2 (2.941 %) Exchange Server 2000 7 1 (1.471 %) SAS
Applications 1 4 (5.882 %) MS Visio 2 3 (4.412 %) MS Project 3 1 (1.471 %) MS Office 3 1 (1.471 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 18 (26.47 %) SAN 2 13 (19.12 %) DNS 3 12 (17.65 %) DHCP 4 10 (14.71 %) TCP/IP 5 3 (4.412 %) LAN 5 3 (4.412 %) WAN 6 2 (2.941 %) POP3 6 2 (2.941 %) SMTP 6 2 (2.941 %) SNMP 7 1 (1.471 %) VoIP 7 1 (1.471 %) Internet 7 1 (1.471 %) Firewall 7 1 (1.471 %) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (17.65 %) SQL Server 2 5 (7.353 %) SQL Server 2000 3 4 (5.882 %) SQL Server 2005 4 1 (1.471 %) DB2 4 1 (1.471 %) DTS 4 1 (1.471 %) SQL Server 7	General 1 24 (35.29 %) Finance 2 14 (20.59 %) Banking 3 8 (11.76 %) Investment Banking 4 4 (5.882 %) Financial Institution 5 3 (4.412 %) Insurance 5 3 (4.412 %) Auditing 6 2 (2.941 %) Telecoms 7 1 (1.471 %) Health
Miscellaneous 1 6 (8.824 %) Clustering 2 1 (1.471 %) Client/Server 2 1 (1.471 %) CLARiiON	Operating Systems 1 52 (76.47 %) Windows 2 19 (27.94 %) Windows Server 2003 3 11 (16.18 %) Windows NT 4 8 (11.76 %) Windows 2000 5 3 (4.412 %) Windows XP 5 3 (4.412 %) Windows Vista 5 3 (4.412 %) Linux 6 2 (2.941 %) UNIX 6 2 (2.941 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (8.824 %) ITIL 2 5 (7.353 %) Migration 3 3 (4.412 %) Business Continuity 3 3 (4.412 %) Service Management 3 3 (4.412 %) Problem Management 4 2 (2.941 %) Logistics 4 2 (2.941 %) PRINCE2 4 2 (2.941 %) E-Commerce 5 1 (1.471 %) Service Delivery 5 1 (1.471 %) Disaster Recovery 5 1 (1.471 %) Validation	Programming Languages 1 8 (11.76 %) SQL 2 2 (2.941 %) C# 2 2 (2.941 %) VB.NET 2 2 (2.941 %) JCL 3 1 (1.471 %) PowerShell 3 1 (1.471 %) C 3 1 (1.471 %) Transact-SQL
Qualifications 1 18 (26.47 %) MCSE 1 18 (26.47 %) Microsoft Certification 2 4 (5.882 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 3 3 (4.412 %) CCNA 3 3 (4.412 %) Cisco Certification 4 1 (1.471 %) MCSA 4 1 (1.471 %) MCTS 4 1 (1.471 %) MCITP 4 1 (1.471 %) Dell Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (2.941 %) SLA 1 2 (2.941 %) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software 1 31 (45.59 %) Active Directory 2 9 (13.24 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 4 (5.882 %) VMware ESX 4 2 (2.941 %) NetBackup 5 1 (1.471 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 5 1 (1.471 %) Citrix Presentation Server 5 1 (1.471 %) VMware Server 5 1 (1.471 %) ISA Server	Systems Management 1 4 (5.882 %) ARCserve 2 2 (2.941 %) RepliStor 2 2 (2.941 %) Nessus 2 2 (2.941 %) MOM 2 2 (2.941 %) Legato 3 1 (1.471 %) Tivoli 3 1 (1.471 %) Tivoli Monitoring 3 1 (1.471 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 3 1 (1.471 %) OpenView
Vendors 1 27 (39.71 %) HP 2 25 (36.76 %) VMware 3 18 (26.47 %) Citrix 4 13 (19.12 %) Microsoft 5 11 (16.18 %) Dell 6 7 (10.29 %) IBM 7 4 (5.882 %) Lotus 7 4 (5.882 %) Altiris 8 3 (4.412 %) Novell 8 3 (4.412 %) EMC 8 3 (4.412 %) Sun 8 3 (4.412 %) Oracle 8 3 (4.412 %) Symbian 8 3 (4.412 %) Cisco 9 2 (2.941 %) Compaq 10 1 (1.471 %) Sybase 10 1 (1.471 %) NetApp 10 1 (1.471 %) Reuters 10 1 (1.471 %) Bloomberg 10 1 (1.471 %) Brocade