East Midlands Server Engineer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Server 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 Server 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 Aberdeen Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Buxton Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Dewsbury Durham East Grinstead East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hayes Kent Kingswinford Leeds Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Redhill Salford Scotland Sheffield South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stockton-on-Tees Surrey Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Witham Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	87	85
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	6	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	0.381 %	0.522 %
Daily rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum daily rate	£250	£250
Average daily rate	£255	£250
% change on same period last year	+2.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£260	£250
UK excluding London average daily rate	£237	£238
% change on same period last year	-0.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.25	£19.50
Average hourly rate	£25.00	£20.50
% change on same period last year	+21.95 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.75	£21.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.48	£24.72
% change on same period last year	+3.09 %
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 %
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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 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 Server 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 Server 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 Server 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 Server 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	-4	3	£255	+2.00 %
Derbyshire	-	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 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 7 (87.50 %) Windows 2 6 (75.00 %) Windows Server 2003 3 5 (62.50 %) Active Directory 4 4 (50.00 %) SQL 5 3 (37.50 %) MS Exchange 5 3 (37.50 %) SQL Server 5 3 (37.50 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 3 (37.50 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 2 (25.00 %) VMware 6 2 (25.00 %) Citrix 6 2 (25.00 %) Back Office 6 2 (25.00 %) Windows 2000 6 2 (25.00 %) MCSE 6 2 (25.00 %) Cisco 6 2 (25.00 %) Microsoft Certification

7 1 (12.50 %) CA 7 1 (12.50 %) Lotus 7 1 (12.50 %) Thin Client 7 1 (12.50 %) Terminal Server 7 1 (12.50 %) Legato 7 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft 7 1 (12.50 %) CCNA 7 1 (12.50 %) HP 7 1 (12.50 %) ARCserve 7 1 (12.50 %) Symantec 7 1 (12.50 %) Blackberry 7 1 (12.50 %) MIMEsweeper 7 1 (12.50 %) Windows NT 7 1 (12.50 %) Windows XP 7 1 (12.50 %) .NET

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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 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 1 (12.50 %) .NET 1 1 (12.50 %) ADO.NET 1 1 (12.50 %) ASP.NET 1 1 (12.50 %) WebServices	Application Platforms 1 3 (37.50 %) MS Exchange 1 3 (37.50 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 5.5 2 1 (12.50 %) IIS 2 1 (12.50 %) Lotus Notes
Communications & Networking 1 1 (12.50 %) LAN 1 1 (12.50 %) WAN 1 1 (12.50 %) TCP/IP 1 1 (12.50 %) DNS 1 1 (12.50 %) Firewall	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (37.50 %) SQL Server
General 1 2 (25.00 %) Back Office	Miscellaneous 1 1 (12.50 %) Thin Client 1 1 (12.50 %) Blackberry 1 1 (12.50 %) Fat Client
Operating Systems 1 7 (87.50 %) Windows 2 6 (75.00 %) Windows Server 2003 3 3 (37.50 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 2 (25.00 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (12.50 %) Windows NT 5 1 (12.50 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (12.50 %) UML 1 1 (12.50 %) OO 1 1 (12.50 %) Validation 1 1 (12.50 %) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages 1 4 (50.00 %) SQL 2 1 (12.50 %) C#	Qualifications 1 2 (25.00 %) MCSE 1 2 (25.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (12.50 %) Degree 2 1 (12.50 %) CCNA 2 1 (12.50 %) Cisco Certification 2 1 (12.50 %) MCP
System Software 1 5 (62.50 %) Active Directory 2 1 (12.50 %) Terminal Server	Systems Management 1 1 (12.50 %) Legato 1 1 (12.50 %) ARCserve 1 1 (12.50 %) MIMEsweeper
Vendors 1 2 (25.00 %) Citrix 1 2 (25.00 %) Cisco 1 2 (25.00 %) VMware 2 1 (12.50 %) LANDesk 2 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft 2 1 (12.50 %) HP 2 1 (12.50 %) CA 2 1 (12.50 %) Lotus 2 1 (12.50 %) Symantec 2 1 (12.50 %) Oracle