The first table below looks at the demand for the Support 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 Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Support Engineer
Rank 49 58 60
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 8 5 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.960% 0.460% 0.618%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.019% 0.489% 0.653%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 4
Average daily rate £144 £208 £245
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-30.60% -15.30%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £123 £202 £91
10% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £214 £368
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £200 £263
% change year-on-year
+25.00% -23.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
Average hourly rate £12.71 £27.50 £21.94
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-53.78% +25.35%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.48 £27.50 £13.99
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.94 £27.50 £29.89
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £15.88 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-5.51% +5.83%
All Job Titles
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
785 1022 1226
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 94.24% 94.02% 94.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 508 595
Average daily rate £400 £355 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.67% +1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £238 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 24 36
Average hourly rate £13.93 £23.00 £15.29
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-39.43% +50.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £9.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £32.00 £28.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Support Engineer
Scotland

Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Support Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Support Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region that cited 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 Support Engineer in their job title.

1 8 (53.33%) Windows
2 6 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 5 (33.33%) C
3 5 (33.33%) Windows XP
4 4 (26.67%) Blackberry
4 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
4 4 (26.67%) Mathematics
5 3 (20.00%) Windows 7
5 3 (20.00%) MS Office
5 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (13.33%) Windows 2000
6 2 (13.33%) MS Excel
6 2 (13.33%) Windows Vista
6 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (6.667%) Windows Phone
7 1 (6.667%) Banking
7 1 (6.667%) Asset Management
7 1 (6.667%) Incident Management
7 1 (6.667%) Firewall
7 1 (6.667%) Wireless
7 1 (6.667%) Finance
7 1 (6.667%) VMware
7 1 (6.667%) SharePoint
7 1 (6.667%) MS Exchange
7 1 (6.667%) DHCP
7 1 (6.667%) DNS
7 1 (6.667%) Cisco
7 1 (6.667%) Internet
7 1 (6.667%) HP
7 1 (6.667%) Dell

Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region that cited 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 Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.667%) SharePoint
1 1 (6.667%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) MS Office
2 2 (13.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.667%) Firewall
1 1 (6.667%) Wireless
1 1 (6.667%) DHCP
1 1 (6.667%) DNS
1 1 (6.667%) Internet
General
1 1 (6.667%) Banking
1 1 (6.667%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Blackberry
1 4 (26.67%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) Windows
2 5 (33.33%) Windows XP
3 3 (20.00%) Windows 7
3 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (13.33%) Windows 2000
4 2 (13.33%) Windows Vista
4 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (6.667%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (6.667%) Asset Management
1 1 (6.667%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (6.667%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.667%) VMware
2 1 (6.667%) Cisco
2 1 (6.667%) HP
2 1 (6.667%) Dell
2 1 (6.667%) Apple