Systems Engineer Contracts in the City of London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems 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 Systems Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Engineer
Rank 183 194 220
Rank change year-on-year
+11 +26
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 20 23 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.311% 0.293% 0.165%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.337% 0.320% 0.180%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 11
Average daily rate £369 £410 £358
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.06% +14.68%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £378 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £440 £520 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £391 £375
% change year-on-year
-16.77% +4.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 2
Average hourly rate £11.00 - £21.66
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
-21.42% +34.61%
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 5943 7197 8889
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.48% 91.54% 91.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4362 5164 6490
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £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 141 183 186
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 £135.00 £41.50 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Systems Engineer
London

Systems Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Systems Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Systems Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Systems Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Systems Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Systems Engineer across the City of London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

City of London Systems Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Systems Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Systems Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Systems Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Systems Engineer across the City of London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

City of London Systems Engineer Hourly Rate Histogram

Systems Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 31 (53.45%) Windows
2 20 (34.48%) Linux
2 20 (34.48%) Windows Server 2008
3 19 (32.76%) Active Directory
3 19 (32.76%) VMware
4 15 (25.86%) Windows Server 2003
4 15 (25.86%) Cisco
5 14 (24.14%) Finance
6 13 (22.41%) SQL
7 11 (18.97%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (17.24%) Citrix
8 10 (17.24%) SAN
9 9 (15.52%) Red Hat
9 9 (15.52%) Windows 7
10 8 (13.79%) XenApp
10 8 (13.79%) MCITP
10 8 (13.79%) Telecoms
10 8 (13.79%) CCNA
10 8 (13.79%) MS Exchange
11 7 (12.07%) Microsoft
11 7 (12.07%) HP
11 7 (12.07%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (12.07%) Exchange Server 2003
11 7 (12.07%) Puppet
12 6 (10.34%) VMware ESXi
12 6 (10.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 6 (10.34%) MS Office
12 6 (10.34%) Oracle
12 6 (10.34%) MCSE
12 6 (10.34%) Solaris

Systems Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 (5.172%) HTML
1 3 (5.172%) CSS
2 1 (1.724%) Middleware
2 1 (1.724%) SOAP
2 1 (1.724%) XML
Application Platforms
1 8 (13.79%) MS Exchange
2 7 (12.07%) Exchange Server 2003
3 4 (6.897%) SharePoint
3 4 (6.897%) Apache
4 3 (5.172%) LiveLink
4 3 (5.172%) IIS
5 2 (3.448%) Amazon AWS
5 2 (3.448%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (1.724%) CMS
6 1 (1.724%) Tomcat
6 1 (1.724%) MS Project Server
6 1 (1.724%) Confluence
6 1 (1.724%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (1.724%) Rackspace Cloud
Applications
1 6 (10.34%) MS Office
1 6 (10.34%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.724%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (1.724%) Remedy AR System
Communications & Networking
1 10 (17.24%) SAN
2 5 (8.621%) Firewall
3 3 (5.172%) LDAP
3 3 (5.172%) DNS
3 3 (5.172%) NAS
3 3 (5.172%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (3.448%) SSL
4 2 (3.448%) VPN
4 2 (3.448%) HTTP
4 2 (3.448%) SNMP
4 2 (3.448%) VoIP
4 2 (3.448%) Internet
5 1 (1.724%) SSH
5 1 (1.724%) WAN
5 1 (1.724%) DHCP
5 1 (1.724%) FTP
5 1 (1.724%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.724%) LAN
5 1 (1.724%) PBX
5 1 (1.724%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.621%) SQL Server
1 5 (8.621%) MySQL
2 2 (3.448%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (1.724%) EDRMS
3 1 (1.724%) CouchDB
3 1 (1.724%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (1.724%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.724%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (3.448%) MSI
2 1 (1.724%) JIRA
2 1 (1.724%) Git (software)
2 1 (1.724%) Gerrit
2 1 (1.724%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (24.14%) Finance
2 8 (13.79%) Telecoms
3 2 (3.448%) Law
3 2 (3.448%) Legal
4 1 (1.724%) Back Office
4 1 (1.724%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.172%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.448%) New Media
2 2 (3.448%) iPad
2 2 (3.448%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (1.724%) Blackberry
3 1 (1.724%) Cryptography
3 1 (1.724%) Replication
3 1 (1.724%) PDA
3 1 (1.724%) Mathematics
3 1 (1.724%) iPhone
3 1 (1.724%) SaaS
3 1 (1.724%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 31 (53.45%) Windows
2 20 (34.48%) Linux
2 20 (34.48%) Windows Server 2008
3 15 (25.86%) Windows Server 2003
4 9 (15.52%) Windows 7
5 6 (10.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (10.34%) Solaris
6 5 (8.621%) UNIX
6 5 (8.621%) Windows XP
7 3 (5.172%) Ubuntu
8 2 (3.448%) Debian
9 1 (1.724%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (8.621%) Migration
2 4 (6.897%) ITIL
2 4 (6.897%) Content Management
3 3 (5.172%) Document Management
3 3 (5.172%) E-Discovery
4 2 (3.448%) Software Deployment
4 2 (3.448%) Change Control
4 2 (3.448%) Enterprise Content Management
4 2 (3.448%) Problem Management
4 2 (3.448%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (3.448%) E-Commerce
4 2 (3.448%) Configuration Management
4 2 (3.448%) Project Management
4 2 (3.448%) Change Management
4 2 (3.448%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (1.724%) Service Management
5 1 (1.724%) Service Delivery
5 1 (1.724%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (1.724%) Software Testing
5 1 (1.724%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 13 (22.41%) SQL
2 4 (6.897%) C
3 3 (5.172%) JavaScript
3 3 (5.172%) Perl
3 3 (5.172%) PHP
4 2 (3.448%) Bash shell
4 2 (3.448%) VBScript
4 2 (3.448%) Python
5 1 (1.724%) Ruby
5 1 (1.724%) Java
5 1 (1.724%) C++
5 1 (1.724%) Korn
5 1 (1.724%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (18.97%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (13.79%) MCITP
2 8 (13.79%) CCNA
3 7 (12.07%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (10.34%) MCSE
5 4 (6.897%) MCSA
6 2 (3.448%) Degree
6 2 (3.448%) RHCE
6 2 (3.448%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (3.448%) CCSE
7 1 (1.724%) RHCT
7 1 (1.724%) MCDBA
7 1 (1.724%) CCDA
7 1 (1.724%) CCDP
7 1 (1.724%) CCIE
7 1 (1.724%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.724%) SLA
1 1 (1.724%) QA
System Software
1 19 (32.76%) Active Directory
2 8 (13.79%) XenApp
3 6 (10.34%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (8.621%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (6.897%) VMware ESX
6 2 (3.448%) vSphere
6 2 (3.448%) XenDesktop
6 2 (3.448%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 2 (3.448%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (1.724%) Terminal Server
7 1 (1.724%) Terminal Services
7 1 (1.724%) Samba
7 1 (1.724%) Xen
7 1 (1.724%) Squid
7 1 (1.724%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 7 (12.07%) Puppet
2 4 (6.897%) Backup Exec
3 3 (5.172%) Nagios
3 3 (5.172%) SCCM
4 2 (3.448%) Tivoli Endpoint Manager
4 2 (3.448%) CFEngine
4 2 (3.448%) SCOM
4 2 (3.448%) Tivoli
5 1 (1.724%) BMC Performance Manager
5 1 (1.724%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 19 (32.76%) VMware
2 15 (25.86%) Cisco
3 10 (17.24%) Citrix
4 9 (15.52%) Red Hat
5 7 (12.07%) Microsoft
5 7 (12.07%) HP
6 6 (10.34%) Oracle
7 4 (6.897%) EMC
7 4 (6.897%) Siebel
7 4 (6.897%) Open Text
8 3 (5.172%) Apple
8 3 (5.172%) Symantec
8 3 (5.172%) Rackspace
9 2 (3.448%) Joyent
9 2 (3.448%) IBM
9 2 (3.448%) Avaya
9 2 (3.448%) BMC
9 2 (3.448%) NetApp
9 2 (3.448%) CheckPoint
10 1 (1.724%) Websense
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