City of London Technical Support Engineer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Technical Support 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 Technical Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 8 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Technical Support Engineer
Location Aberdeen Berkshire Bristol Buxton Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Dartford Derbyshire Durham East Midlands East of England England Gloucestershire Godalming Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Leatherhead Leeds London Manchester Middlesex North East North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Rugby Runcorn Scotland South East South West Stockport Surrey Swindon Teddington UK Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	205	197
Rank change on same period last year	-8
Matching contract IT job ads	3	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	0.041 %	0.062 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£160
Average daily rate	-	£170
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£180
UK excluding London average daily rate	£195	£218
% change on same period last year	-10.34 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.45	£17.00
Average hourly rate	£30.45	£18.00
% change on same period last year	+69.16 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.45	£19.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.24	£17.49
% change on same period last year	+4.27 %
Job Titles City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	7250	6442
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	10.15 %	6.608 %
Daily rates quoted	3938	2638
Average minimum daily rate	£408	£444
Average daily rate	£444	£472
% change on same period last year	-5.90 %
Average maximum daily rate	£480	£500
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	315	231
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.89	£23.10
Average hourly rate	£24.72	£24.42
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.55	£25.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.69	£25.16
% change on same period last year	-5.83 %
Technical Support 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.

Technical Support Engineer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Technical Support Engineer across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Technical Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Technical Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Technical Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 3 (37.50 %) Active Directory 1 3 (37.50 %) Lotus 1 3 (37.50 %) Lotus Notes 1 3 (37.50 %) Lotus Domino 2 2 (25.00 %) Banking 2 2 (25.00 %) Investment Banking 2 2 (25.00 %) OSPF 2 2 (25.00 %) BGP 2 2 (25.00 %) Firewall 3 1 (12.50 %) Data Security 3 1 (12.50 %) Blackberry 3 1 (12.50 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 3 1 (12.50 %) X-Windows 3 1 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (12.50 %) Internet

3 1 (12.50 %) Apache 3 1 (12.50 %) Windows XP 3 1 (12.50 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (12.50 %) LAN 3 1 (12.50 %) WAN 3 1 (12.50 %) DNS 3 1 (12.50 %) Sun 3 1 (12.50 %) C 3 1 (12.50 %) Perl 3 1 (12.50 %) MySQL 3 1 (12.50 %) UNIX 3 1 (12.50 %) Windows 3 1 (12.50 %) Solaris 3 1 (12.50 %) Linux 3 1 (12.50 %) Windows 2000

Technical Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 Development 1 1 (12.50 %) X-Windows	Application Platforms 1 3 (37.50 %) Lotus Notes 1 3 (37.50 %) Lotus Domino 2 1 (12.50 %) Apache 2 1 (12.50 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (12.50 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 2 1 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2000
Communications & Networking 1 2 (25.00 %) OSPF 1 2 (25.00 %) BGP 1 2 (25.00 %) Firewall 2 1 (12.50 %) LAN 2 1 (12.50 %) WAN 2 1 (12.50 %) DNS 2 1 (12.50 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (12.50 %) MySQL
General 1 2 (25.00 %) Banking 1 2 (25.00 %) Investment Banking 2 1 (12.50 %) Retail	Miscellaneous 1 1 (12.50 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 1 (12.50 %) UNIX 1 1 (12.50 %) Windows 1 1 (12.50 %) Solaris 1 1 (12.50 %) Linux 1 1 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 1 1 (12.50 %) Windows XP 1 1 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 1 1 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (12.50 %) Data Security
Programming Languages 1 1 (12.50 %) C 1 1 (12.50 %) Perl	System Software 1 3 (37.50 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 3 (37.50 %) Lotus 2 1 (12.50 %) Sun