The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Systems Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 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 of England 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Engineer
Rank 107 96 106
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +10
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 11 40 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.498% 1.325% 0.864%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.530% 1.412% 0.919%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 3
Average daily rate £250 £305 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.03% -1.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £241 £282
10% offered a daily rate of more than £390 £338 £422
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £310 £400
% change year-on-year
+3.22% -22.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 10 6
Average hourly rate £32.50 £37.50 £29.14
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% +28.70%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.97 £31.25 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.80 £49.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £36.25 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-17.24% +36.79%
All Job Titles
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2077 2832 2612
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 93.94% 93.77% 94.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1064 1329 1164
Average daily rate £338 £338 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £188 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £468 £460 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 323 328
Average hourly rate £26.00 £22.88 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.66% +30.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £40.00 £37.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Systems Engineer
England

Systems Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England Systems Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Systems Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

East of England Systems Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Systems Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Systems Engineer across the East of England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

East of England Systems Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Systems Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East of England Systems Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Systems Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Systems Engineer across the East of England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

East of England Systems Engineer Hourly Rate Histogram

Systems 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 Engineer within the East of England region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Cambridgeshire +9 3 £319 - 10
Hertfordshire +7 3 £250 -16.66% 1
Suffolk - 3 - - 2
Essex -15 2 - -
Norfolk - - - -
Bedfordshire - - - -
Systems Engineer
England

Systems Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 18 (69.23%) Windows
2 10 (38.46%) Linux
3 7 (26.92%) Microsoft
3 7 (26.92%) VMware
4 5 (19.23%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (19.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (19.23%) Red Hat
4 5 (19.23%) Perl
5 4 (15.38%) Subversion
5 4 (15.38%) Degree
6 3 (11.54%) SUSE
6 3 (11.54%) Hyper-V
6 3 (11.54%) NAS
6 3 (11.54%) Test Management
6 3 (11.54%) Bash shell
6 3 (11.54%) SQL
6 3 (11.54%) Python
6 3 (11.54%) MS Excel
6 3 (11.54%) MS Access
6 3 (11.54%) WAN
6 3 (11.54%) Regression Testing
6 3 (11.54%) Electronics
6 3 (11.54%) Automotive
6 3 (11.54%) Validation
6 3 (11.54%) UNIX
6 3 (11.54%) IBM
6 3 (11.54%) RHCE
6 3 (11.54%) SAN
6 3 (11.54%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 2 (7.692%) NetApp

Systems Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 Development
1 2 (7.692%) LAMP
2 1 (3.846%) COM
2 1 (3.846%) SOAP
2 1 (3.846%) .NET
2 1 (3.846%) POSIX
2 1 (3.846%) Middleware
2 1 (3.846%) OpenGL
2 1 (3.846%) DirectX
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.846%) IIS
1 1 (3.846%) MS Exchange
1 1 (3.846%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (11.54%) MS Excel
2 1 (3.846%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (3.846%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.846%) AutoCAD
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.54%) NAS
1 3 (11.54%) WAN
1 3 (11.54%) SAN
2 2 (7.692%) Kerberos
3 1 (3.846%) LAN
3 1 (3.846%) DHCP
3 1 (3.846%) HTTP
3 1 (3.846%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) MS Access
2 1 (3.846%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.846%) DB2
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Subversion
2 2 (7.692%) Git (software)
3 1 (3.846%) NUnit
3 1 (3.846%) JIRA
3 1 (3.846%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (3.846%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.846%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (3.846%) Rational Rhapsody
3 1 (3.846%) Visual Studio
3 1 (3.846%) Eclipse
3 1 (3.846%) ClearCase
3 1 (3.846%) ClearQuest
General
1 3 (11.54%) Electronics
1 3 (11.54%) Automotive
2 2 (7.692%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.846%) French Language
3 1 (3.846%) Italian Language
3 1 (3.846%) Military
3 1 (3.846%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.846%) SCADA
1 1 (3.846%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 18 (69.23%) Windows
2 10 (38.46%) Linux
3 5 (19.23%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (19.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (11.54%) SUSE
4 3 (11.54%) UNIX
5 2 (7.692%) VMS
5 2 (7.692%) Windows 7
5 2 (7.692%) Debian
6 1 (3.846%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (3.846%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (11.54%) Test Management
1 3 (11.54%) Regression Testing
1 3 (11.54%) Validation
2 2 (7.692%) ERP
2 2 (7.692%) Software Deployment
2 2 (7.692%) Load Testing
2 2 (7.692%) Security Testing
2 2 (7.692%) Automated Testing
3 1 (3.846%) Software Engineering
3 1 (3.846%) SysML
3 1 (3.846%) Project Planning
3 1 (3.846%) Data Analysis
3 1 (3.846%) Programme Management
3 1 (3.846%) Manual Testing
3 1 (3.846%) Test Strategy
3 1 (3.846%) Waterfall
3 1 (3.846%) SOA
3 1 (3.846%) UML
3 1 (3.846%) Six Sigma
3 1 (3.846%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (19.23%) Perl
2 3 (11.54%) Bash shell
2 3 (11.54%) SQL
2 3 (11.54%) Python
3 1 (3.846%) VBScript
3 1 (3.846%) VB
3 1 (3.846%) VB.NET
3 1 (3.846%) C
3 1 (3.846%) C#
3 1 (3.846%) C++
3 1 (3.846%) Java
3 1 (3.846%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) Degree
2 3 (11.54%) RHCE
3 2 (7.692%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.692%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.846%) RHCA
4 1 (3.846%) HNC
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) Hyper-V
2 2 (7.692%) Postfix
2 2 (7.692%) Sendmail
3 1 (3.846%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.846%) vSphere
3 1 (3.846%) NFS
3 1 (3.846%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 2 (7.692%) Nagios
2 2 (7.692%) Puppet
2 2 (7.692%) Red Hat Satellite
2 2 (7.692%) SCCM
2 2 (7.692%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (3.846%) SCOM
3 1 (3.846%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) Microsoft
1 7 (26.92%) VMware
2 5 (19.23%) Red Hat
3 3 (11.54%) IBM
4 2 (7.692%) NetApp
4 2 (7.692%) Oracle
5 1 (3.846%) Wonderware
5 1 (3.846%) Serena
5 1 (3.846%) Allen-Bradley
5 1 (3.846%) Perforce
5 1 (3.846%) Cisco
5 1 (3.846%) HP
5 1 (3.846%) EMC
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