The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems Support Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the East Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Systems Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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 East Midlands 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Support Engineer
Rank 82 - 80
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Support Engineer 1 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 0.080% - 0.071%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.088% - 0.076%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £354 £318
% change year-on-year
-15.31% +11.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £13.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.88 - £13.50
All Job Titles
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1140 1290 1313
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 91.42% 93.68% 92.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 653 531
Average daily rate £330 £325 £348
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.53% -6.47%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £175 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £476 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 94 132
Average hourly rate £14.00 £13.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.70% -35.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.38 £8.50 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £34.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Systems Support Engineer
England

Systems Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands Systems Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Systems Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

East Midlands Systems Support Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Systems Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East Midlands Systems Support Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Systems 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 Systems Support Engineer within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 23 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
Nottinghamshire - 1 - -
Systems Support Engineer
England

Systems Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region that cited Systems 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 Systems Support Engineer in their job title.

1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) VBScript
2 4 (80.00%) Change Management
2 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 4 (80.00%) Clustering
2 4 (80.00%) Altiris
2 4 (80.00%) SCOM
2 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (80.00%) vSphere
2 4 (80.00%) NetScaler
2 4 (80.00%) IIS
2 4 (80.00%) MCP
2 4 (80.00%) MCSE
2 4 (80.00%) MS Excel
2 4 (80.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (80.00%) Citrix
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (20.00%) Tivoli
3 1 (20.00%) Tivoli Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Novell
3 1 (20.00%) IBM
3 1 (20.00%) UNIX
3 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (20.00%) Linux

Systems Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region that cited Systems 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 Systems Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 4 (80.00%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (80.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) NetScaler
1 4 (80.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (20.00%) UNIX
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) VBScript
1 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) MCP
1 4 (80.00%) MCSE
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) vSphere
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) SCOM
2 1 (20.00%) Tivoli
2 1 (20.00%) Tivoli Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
1 4 (80.00%) Altiris
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (80.00%) Citrix
2 1 (20.00%) Novell
2 1 (20.00%) IBM