East Midlands Design Engineer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Design Engineer role in IT contracts within the East Midlands 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 Design Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Alcester Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire City of London Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Livingston London Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Paddington Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Rochester Rugby Salford Scotland Sevenoaks Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South West Stevenage Stroud Suffolk Surrey Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley UK Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	87	84
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	6	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	0.381 %	0.574 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£329
% change on same period last year	+1.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	-
Average hourly rate	£27.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.49	£36.01
% change on same period last year	-9.75 %
Job Titles East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	1573	1915
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.242 %	1.980 %
Daily rates quoted	452	349
Average minimum daily rate	£351	£335
Average daily rate	£373	£352
% change on same period last year	+5.83 %
Average maximum daily rate	£394	£369
UK excluding London average daily rate	£354	£353
% change on same period last year	+0.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	222	300
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.71	£18.70
Average hourly rate	£18.88	£20.51
% change on same period last year	-7.93 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.06	£22.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.64	£25.03
% change on same period last year	-5.56 %
Design Engineer England

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 Design Engineer across the East Midlands 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 Design Engineer across the East Midlands region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Design Engineer across the East Midlands region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Design Engineer across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Design Engineer within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Nottinghamshire	-	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region that cited Design 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 Design Engineer in their job title.

1 5 (35.71 %) Electric 2 4 (28.57 %) AutoCAD 2 4 (28.57 %) Citrix 3 3 (21.43 %) Cisco Certification 3 3 (21.43 %) Cisco 3 3 (21.43 %) CCNP 3 3 (21.43 %) CCNA 3 3 (21.43 %) CCDA 3 3 (21.43 %) Finance 3 3 (21.43 %) Nortel 4 2 (14.29 %) VHDL 4 2 (14.29 %) Project Management 4 2 (14.29 %) Games 4 2 (14.29 %) Network Design 4 2 (14.29 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array

4 2 (14.29 %) Embedded C 4 2 (14.29 %) C 4 2 (14.29 %) Ethernet 4 2 (14.29 %) EMC 5 1 (7.143 %) Citrix Certification 5 1 (7.143 %) CCEA 5 1 (7.143 %) Microsoft Certification 5 1 (7.143 %) CNE 5 1 (7.143 %) Novell Certification 5 1 (7.143 %) MCSE 5 1 (7.143 %) HP 5 1 (7.143 %) Nortel Alteon 5 1 (7.143 %) Incident Management 5 1 (7.143 %) Security Cleared 5 1 (7.143 %) HP AIS

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region that cited Design 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 Design Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 4 (28.57 %) AutoCAD 2 1 (7.143 %) CATIA	Communications & Networking 1 2 (14.29 %) Ethernet 2 1 (7.143 %) Nortel Alteon
General 1 5 (35.71 %) Electric 2 3 (21.43 %) Finance 3 2 (14.29 %) Games	Miscellaneous 1 2 (14.29 %) VHDL 1 2 (14.29 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (14.29 %) Project Management 1 2 (14.29 %) Network Design 2 1 (7.143 %) Incident Management 2 1 (7.143 %) Security Cleared	Programming Languages 1 2 (14.29 %) C 1 2 (14.29 %) Embedded C
Qualifications 1 3 (21.43 %) CCNP 1 3 (21.43 %) CCNA 1 3 (21.43 %) CCDA 1 3 (21.43 %) Cisco Certification 2 1 (7.143 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (7.143 %) CNE 2 1 (7.143 %) Novell Certification 2 1 (7.143 %) HP AIS 2 1 (7.143 %) HP ASE 2 1 (7.143 %) Citrix Certification 2 1 (7.143 %) CCEA 2 1 (7.143 %) MCSE	Vendors 1 4 (28.57 %) Citrix 2 3 (21.43 %) Cisco 2 3 (21.43 %) Nortel 3 2 (14.29 %) EMC 4 1 (7.143 %) HP 4 1 (7.143 %) VMware