The first table below looks at the demand for the Server Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Server Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 18 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 Edinburgh 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Server Engineer
Rank - 58 67
Contract jobs requiring a Server Engineer 0 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh - 0.282% 0.075%
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.298% 0.080%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 1
Average daily rate - £268 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -23.57%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £258 £275
% change year-on-year
+16.50% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £34.89 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-28.34% +74.45%
All Job Titles
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
872 1008 1247
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 94.27% 94.92% 93.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 381 468 616
Average daily rate £400 £365 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.58% -2.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £238 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 14 29
Average hourly rate £13.93 £20.00 £15.29
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-30.35% +30.80%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.00 £9.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.40 £32.00 £31.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Server Engineer
Scotland

Server Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh Server Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Server Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Server Engineer across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Server Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Server Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Server Engineer across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Server Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Server Engineer
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region that cited Server 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 Server Engineer in their job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) DHCP
2 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (33.33%) Intel
3 1 (33.33%) Citrix
3 1 (33.33%) SAN
3 1 (33.33%) IBM
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Marketing
3 1 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
3 1 (33.33%) DFS Replication

Server Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region that cited Server 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 Server Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) SAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) DFS Replication
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Intel
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix