East of England Hardware Engineer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Hardware Engineer role in IT contracts within the East of England 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 Hardware Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Hardware Engineer
Location Aberdeen Bath Berkshire Bexley Birmingham Bolton Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Coventry Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Douglas Durham East Midlands East of England Eastleigh England Essex Fareham Feltham Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Guildford Hampshire Havant Hounslow Huntingdon Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Macclesfield Manchester Middlesex Milton Keynes Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Rochester Rugby Scotland Somerset South East South West Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley UK Warwickshire Wells West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	120	127
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	27	26
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.036 %	0.026 %
As % of the category below	0.743 %	0.576 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£80	£80
Average daily rate	£80	£90
% change on same period last year	-11.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£80	£100
UK excluding London average daily rate	£155	£185
% change on same period last year	-16.12 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.24	£25.94
Average hourly rate	£29.01	£26.90
% change on same period last year	+7.85 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.78	£27.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.37	£31.83
% change on same period last year	-36.01 %
Job Titles East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	3633	4514
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.843 %	4.567 %
Daily rates quoted	1141	1383
Average minimum daily rate	£335	£329
Average daily rate	£358	£348
% change on same period last year	+2.71 %
Average maximum daily rate	£380	£367
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	513	588
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.62	£24.06
Average hourly rate	£24.16	£25.39
% change on same period last year	-4.85 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.70	£26.72
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
Hardware 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 Hardware Engineer across the East of England 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 Hardware Engineer across the East of England 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 Hardware Engineer across the East of England region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Hardware Engineer across the East of England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Hardware Engineer within the East of England region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Cambridgeshire	+12	21	-	-
Norfolk	-	4	-	-
Essex	+3	2	£80	-
Suffolk	+3	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region that cited Hardware 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 Hardware Engineer in their job title.

1 17 (38.64 %) HP 2 10 (22.73 %) IBM 3 9 (20.45 %) Compaq 4 7 (15.91 %) Dell 4 7 (15.91 %) Windows 5 6 (13.64 %) EMC 5 6 (13.64 %) ASIC 6 5 (11.36 %) Microsoft 6 5 (11.36 %) Windows XP 6 5 (11.36 %) Validation 6 5 (11.36 %) ASIC Verification 7 4 (9.091 %) Electronics 7 4 (9.091 %) MS Office 8 3 (6.818 %) HNC 8 3 (6.818 %) ISO9001

8 3 (6.818 %) Degree 9 2 (4.545 %) Telecoms 9 2 (4.545 %) VHDL 9 2 (4.545 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 9 2 (4.545 %) Security Cleared 9 2 (4.545 %) NHS 9 2 (4.545 %) Firmware 9 2 (4.545 %) Citrix 10 1 (2.273 %) ITIL Certification 10 1 (2.273 %) Internet 10 1 (2.273 %) CAD 10 1 (2.273 %) Wireless 10 1 (2.273 %) SLA 10 1 (2.273 %) GPRS 10 1 (2.273 %) GSM

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region that cited Hardware 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 Hardware Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 4 (9.091 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 1 (2.273 %) GPRS 1 1 (2.273 %) GSM 1 1 (2.273 %) Internet 1 1 (2.273 %) Wireless
Development Applications 1 1 (2.273 %) Bugzilla	General 1 4 (9.091 %) Electronics 2 2 (4.545 %) Telecoms 3 1 (2.273 %) Aerospace 3 1 (2.273 %) Chemicals 3 1 (2.273 %) Government 3 1 (2.273 %) Manufacturing 3 1 (2.273 %) Banking
Miscellaneous 1 6 (13.64 %) ASIC 2 5 (11.36 %) ASIC Verification 3 2 (4.545 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 3 2 (4.545 %) VHDL 3 2 (4.545 %) NHS 3 2 (4.545 %) Firmware 4 1 (2.273 %) PDA	Operating Systems 1 7 (15.91 %) Windows 2 5 (11.36 %) Windows XP 3 1 (2.273 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (2.273 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (11.36 %) Validation 2 2 (4.545 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (2.273 %) Test Scripting 3 1 (2.273 %) ITIL 3 1 (2.273 %) CAD	Programming Languages 1 1 (2.273 %) C 1 1 (2.273 %) C++ 1 1 (2.273 %) Java 1 1 (2.273 %) Python 1 1 (2.273 %) Embedded C 1 1 (2.273 %) Embedded C++
Qualifications 1 3 (6.818 %) HNC 1 3 (6.818 %) Degree 2 1 (2.273 %) ITIL Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (6.818 %) ISO9001 2 1 (2.273 %) SLA
System Software 1 1 (2.273 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 17 (38.64 %) HP 2 10 (22.73 %) IBM 3 9 (20.45 %) Compaq 4 7 (15.91 %) Dell 5 6 (13.64 %) EMC 6 5 (11.36 %) Microsoft 7 2 (4.545 %) Citrix