East Midlands Systems Engineer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Systems 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 Systems Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

System Engineer
Location Aberdeen Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Clitheroe County Antrim Crawley Cumbria Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Fareham Feltham Filton Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Harlow Hayes Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Reading Rugby Salford Salisbury Scotland Scottish Borders Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Stevenage Stockport Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Wokingham York Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	82	85
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	7	16
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.010 %	0.016 %
As % of the category below	0.436 %	0.827 %
Daily rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£225
Average daily rate	£350	£250
% change on same period last year	+40.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£275
UK excluding London average daily rate	£301	£308
% change on same period last year	-2.42 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	£22.50
Average hourly rate	£20.00	£22.81
% change on same period last year	-12.32 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.00	£23.13
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.28	£29.83
% change on same period last year	+11.58 %
Job Titles East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	1604	1935
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.241 %	1.944 %
Daily rates quoted	481	355
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£330
Average daily rate	£371	£348
% change on same period last year	+6.77 %
Average maximum daily rate	£392	£365
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£353
% change on same period last year	+0.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	203	308
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.14	£18.60
Average hourly rate	£19.40	£20.45
% change on same period last year	-5.16 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.65	£22.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.74	£25.24
% change on same period last year	-5.93 %
Systems 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 Systems 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 Systems 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 Systems Engineer across the East Midlands region.

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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 Systems Engineer within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 6 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	+6	4	£350	-
Northamptonshire	-1	1	-	-
Leicestershire	+14	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 12 (52.17 %) Cisco 2 11 (47.83 %) Citrix 2 11 (47.83 %) Finance 3 10 (43.48 %) Nortel 4 7 (30.43 %) Active Directory 4 7 (30.43 %) Windows 5 6 (26.09 %) Microsoft 5 6 (26.09 %) Microsoft Certification 6 5 (21.74 %) CCNP 6 5 (21.74 %) Cisco Certification 7 4 (17.39 %) Thin Client 7 4 (17.39 %) MCP 7 4 (17.39 %) Fat Client 8 3 (13.04 %) CCNA 8 3 (13.04 %) CCDA

9 2 (8.696 %) Windows Server 2003 9 2 (8.696 %) UNIX 9 2 (8.696 %) CCIE 9 2 (8.696 %) TCP/IP 9 2 (8.696 %) MCSE 9 2 (8.696 %) Banking 9 2 (8.696 %) Network Design 9 2 (8.696 %) Nortel Alteon 10 1 (4.348 %) Incident Management 10 1 (4.348 %) HP AIS 10 1 (4.348 %) HP ASE 10 1 (4.348 %) Network Planning 10 1 (4.348 %) Business Continuity 10 1 (4.348 %) VMware 10 1 (4.348 %) SharePoint

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 Platforms 1 1 (4.348 %) Lotus Notes 1 1 (4.348 %) SharePoint	Communications & Networking 1 2 (8.696 %) TCP/IP 1 2 (8.696 %) Nortel Alteon 2 1 (4.348 %) LAN 2 1 (4.348 %) WAN 2 1 (4.348 %) VPN 2 1 (4.348 %) DNS 2 1 (4.348 %) Internet
General 1 11 (47.83 %) Finance 2 2 (8.696 %) Banking	Miscellaneous 1 4 (17.39 %) Thin Client 1 4 (17.39 %) Fat Client
Operating Systems 1 7 (30.43 %) Windows 2 2 (8.696 %) UNIX 2 2 (8.696 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (4.348 %) Linux 3 1 (4.348 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (4.348 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (8.696 %) Network Design 2 1 (4.348 %) Network Planning 2 1 (4.348 %) Incident Management 2 1 (4.348 %) ITIL 2 1 (4.348 %) Business Continuity
Qualifications 1 6 (26.09 %) Microsoft Certification 2 5 (21.74 %) CCNP 2 5 (21.74 %) Cisco Certification 3 4 (17.39 %) MCP 4 3 (13.04 %) CCNA 4 3 (13.04 %) CCDA 5 2 (8.696 %) MCSE 5 2 (8.696 %) CCIE 6 1 (4.348 %) Citrix Certification 6 1 (4.348 %) CCEA 6 1 (4.348 %) CNE 6 1 (4.348 %) Novell Certification 6 1 (4.348 %) HP AIS 6 1 (4.348 %) HP ASE	System Software 1 7 (30.43 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 1 (4.348 %) ARCserve	Vendors 1 12 (52.17 %) Cisco 2 11 (47.83 %) Citrix 3 10 (43.48 %) Nortel 4 6 (26.09 %) Microsoft 5 1 (4.348 %) HP 5 1 (4.348 %) Oracle 5 1 (4.348 %) CA 5 1 (4.348 %) Lotus 5 1 (4.348 %) VMware