The first table below looks at the demand for the Support Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Devon region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Support 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 Devon 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
Support Engineer
Rank 16 29 26
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 13 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Devon 7.471% 0.549% 2.113%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.738% 0.578% 2.206%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 1
Average daily rate £260 - £175
UK excluding London average daily rate £240 £202 £263
% change year-on-year
+19.10% -23.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £14.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £15.88 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-5.51% +5.83%
All Job Titles
Devon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
168 173 136
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Devon 96.55% 95.05% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 83 59
Average daily rate £310 £325 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.61% +13.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £220 £100
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £475 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 28 20
Average hourly rate £19.39 £16.00 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+21.18% -41.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.10 £11.15 £8.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.50 £31.50 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Support Engineer
South West

Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Devon Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Devon Support Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Devon Support Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Devon Support Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Support Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Support Engineer within the Devon region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Plymouth - 11 £260 -
Exeter -1 2 £175 -
Support Engineer
South West

Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Devon region that cited 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 Support Engineer in their job title.

1 12 (41.38%) VMware
2 9 (31.03%) Windows
2 9 (31.03%) SC Cleared
2 9 (31.03%) Security Cleared
3 8 (27.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (27.59%) Active Directory
3 8 (27.59%) Remedy
4 7 (24.14%) ITSM
4 7 (24.14%) BMC
4 7 (24.14%) SQL
4 7 (24.14%) Web Services
4 7 (24.14%) XML
4 7 (24.14%) ITIL
4 7 (24.14%) CMDB
4 7 (24.14%) Remedy ITSM
5 6 (20.69%) MS Exchange
5 6 (20.69%) Migration
6 4 (13.79%) Citrix
6 4 (13.79%) SAN
6 4 (13.79%) vSphere
6 4 (13.79%) UAG
6 4 (13.79%) FalconStor
6 4 (13.79%) Exchange Server 2010
6 4 (13.79%) Office 365
7 3 (10.34%) Windows 7
8 2 (6.897%) Military
8 2 (6.897%) Clustering
8 2 (6.897%) Microsoft
8 2 (6.897%) Linux
8 2 (6.897%) DV Cleared

Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Devon region that cited 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 Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (24.14%) Web Services
1 7 (24.14%) XML
Application Platforms
1 6 (20.69%) MS Exchange
2 4 (13.79%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (3.448%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Office 365
2 1 (3.448%) MS Excel
2 1 (3.448%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 7 (24.14%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) SAN
General
1 2 (6.897%) Military
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) CMDB
2 2 (6.897%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 9 (31.03%) Windows
2 3 (10.34%) Windows 7
3 2 (6.897%) Linux
4 1 (3.448%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (3.448%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.448%) Windows XP
4 1 (3.448%) Mac OS X
4 1 (3.448%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (24.14%) ITSM
1 7 (24.14%) ITIL
2 6 (20.69%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 7 (24.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (31.03%) SC Cleared
1 9 (31.03%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.897%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 8 (27.59%) VMware Infrastructure
1 8 (27.59%) Active Directory
2 4 (13.79%) vSphere
2 4 (13.79%) UAG
Vendors
1 12 (41.38%) VMware
2 8 (27.59%) Remedy
3 7 (24.14%) BMC
4 4 (13.79%) Citrix
4 4 (13.79%) FalconStor
5 2 (6.897%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.448%) Red Hat