East of England Network Support Engineer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Network Support 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 Network Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Network Support Engineer
Location Aberdeen Aldershot Aylesbury Berkshire Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire City of London Croydon Devon East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ely England Essex Guildford Hampshire Kent Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire London Luton Maidenhead Midlands Milton Keynes Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Scotland Shropshire South East South West Suffolk Surrey Telford Thames Valley UK Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	140	148
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	7	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	0.193 %	0.111 %
Daily rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum daily rate	£135	£227
Average daily rate	£136	£252
% change on same period last year	-46.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£136	£277
UK excluding London average daily rate	£254	£287
% change on same period last year	-11.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.67	-
Average hourly rate	£17.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.33	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.91	£24.07
% change on same period last year	-21.45 %
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 %
Network Support 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 Network Support 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 Network Support Engineer across the East of England region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Network Support 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 Network Support 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 Network Support 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	+3	3	-	-
Essex	-	3	£136	-
Suffolk	+7	3	-	-
Norfolk	-	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 Network 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 Network Support Engineer in their job title.

1 24 (77.42 %) Windows 1 24 (77.42 %) Cisco 2 20 (64.52 %) Windows NT 2 20 (64.52 %) Firewall 3 17 (54.84 %) Microsoft 4 15 (48.39 %) TCP/IP 5 14 (45.16 %) Active Directory 5 14 (45.16 %) MS Exchange 5 14 (45.16 %) MS Office 6 13 (41.94 %) LAN 6 13 (41.94 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 12 (38.71 %) Cisco Certification 8 11 (35.48 %) Microsoft Certification 8 11 (35.48 %) WAN 8 11 (35.48 %) ISDN

8 11 (35.48 %) ADSL 8 11 (35.48 %) Windows 2000 9 10 (32.26 %) VoIP 9 10 (32.26 %) HP 10 9 (29.03 %) CCNA 10 9 (29.03 %) MCP 10 9 (29.03 %) McAfee Security 10 9 (29.03 %) Exchange Server 2000 11 8 (25.81 %) Intrusion Detection 11 8 (25.81 %) 3Com 11 8 (25.81 %) Dell 11 8 (25.81 %) OpenView 12 5 (16.13 %) DNS 12 5 (16.13 %) DHCP 12 5 (16.13 %) MCSE

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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 Network 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 Network Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (3.226 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 14 (45.16 %) MS Exchange 2 13 (41.94 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 9 (29.03 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 3 (9.677 %) Exchange Server 5.5 5 1 (3.226 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 14 (45.16 %) MS Office 2 1 (3.226 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 20 (64.52 %) Firewall 2 15 (48.39 %) TCP/IP 3 13 (41.94 %) LAN 4 11 (35.48 %) ADSL 4 11 (35.48 %) ISDN 4 11 (35.48 %) WAN 5 10 (32.26 %) VoIP 6 8 (25.81 %) Intrusion Detection 7 5 (16.13 %) Cisco IOS 7 5 (16.13 %) DHCP 7 5 (16.13 %) DNS 8 3 (9.677 %) Wireless 8 3 (9.677 %) OSPF 8 3 (9.677 %) NetScreen 9 2 (6.452 %) ATM 10 1 (3.226 %) SDH 10 1 (3.226 %) Ethernet 10 1 (3.226 %) Frame Relay 10 1 (3.226 %) IP Telephony 10 1 (3.226 %) Internet
General 1 1 (3.226 %) Telecoms 1 1 (3.226 %) Government 1 1 (3.226 %) Health	Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.226 %) NHS 1 1 (3.226 %) PDA
Operating Systems 1 24 (77.42 %) Windows 2 20 (64.52 %) Windows NT 3 11 (35.48 %) Windows 2000 4 3 (9.677 %) Linux 5 2 (6.452 %) UNIX 5 2 (6.452 %) Windows Server 2003 6 1 (3.226 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (3.226 %) Security Cleared
Qualifications 1 12 (38.71 %) Cisco Certification 2 11 (35.48 %) Microsoft Certification 3 9 (29.03 %) MCP 3 9 (29.03 %) CCNA 4 5 (16.13 %) MCSE 5 3 (9.677 %) CCNP 6 2 (6.452 %) MCDST	System Software 1 14 (45.16 %) Active Directory 2 1 (3.226 %) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management 1 8 (25.81 %) OpenView 2 3 (9.677 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 24 (77.42 %) Cisco 2 17 (54.84 %) Microsoft 3 10 (32.26 %) HP 4 9 (29.03 %) McAfee Security 5 8 (25.81 %) 3Com 5 8 (25.81 %) Dell 6 3 (9.677 %) Juniper 7 2 (6.452 %) Novell 8 1 (3.226 %) iSOFT 8 1 (3.226 %) VMware 8 1 (3.226 %) Nortel