The first table below looks at the demand for the Network Support Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Network Support 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 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Support Engineer
Rank 509 495 545
Rank change year-on-year
-14 +50
Contract jobs requiring a Network Support Engineer 26 54 34
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.059% 0.102% 0.059%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.064% 0.110% 0.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 25 13
Average daily rate £263 £275 £265
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.54% +3.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £216 £140 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £375 £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £259 £165 £300
% change year-on-year
+56.81% -45.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 4
Average hourly rate £34.00 £16.50 £19.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+106.06% -14.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £26.40 £15.00 £12.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.78 £16.50 £32.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.00 £16.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+106.06% -34.00%
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
40481 49067 52965
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.47% 92.55% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23980 27814 29579
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1993 2429 2822
Average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £11.35 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.30 £40.00 £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Network Support Engineer
UK

Network Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Network Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Network Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Network Support Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Network Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Network Support Engineer across the England region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

England Network Support Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Network Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Network Support Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Network Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Network Support Engineer across the England region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

England Network Support Engineer Hourly Rate Histogram

Network Support Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Support Engineer within the England region over the 3 months to 18 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
South East +5 8 £258 +83.92% 5
West Midlands +10 6 £190 -22.44%
London +7 6 £280 -21.40% 6
East of England +15 2 £255 - 2
Yorkshire 0 2 - - 1
East Midlands -5 2 £276 -
North West - - - - 1
South West - - - - 1
Network Support Engineer
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Network Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 25 (49.02%) Cisco
2 23 (45.10%) Firewall
3 21 (41.18%) LAN
4 18 (35.29%) WAN
5 17 (33.33%) TCP/IP
6 13 (25.49%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (25.49%) Wireless
6 13 (25.49%) BGP
7 12 (23.53%) CCNP
7 12 (23.53%) VoIP
7 12 (23.53%) Windows
8 11 (21.57%) MPLS
9 10 (19.61%) CCNA
9 10 (19.61%) ITIL
9 10 (19.61%) EIGRP
10 9 (17.65%) CheckPoint
11 8 (15.69%) Juniper
11 8 (15.69%) HP
11 8 (15.69%) Ethernet
11 8 (15.69%) Project Management
11 8 (15.69%) Telecoms
11 8 (15.69%) Windows Server 2008
12 7 (13.73%) Migration
12 7 (13.73%) Microsoft
12 7 (13.73%) VPN
13 6 (11.76%) DNS
13 6 (11.76%) OSPF
13 6 (11.76%) Windows Server 2003
13 6 (11.76%) DHCP
13 6 (11.76%) MS Exchange

Network Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 (1.961%) CSS
1 1 (1.961%) WAP
1 1 (1.961%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 6 (11.76%) MS Exchange
2 4 (7.843%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (5.882%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (3.922%) IIS
5 1 (1.961%) Apache
5 1 (1.961%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.961%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (1.961%) Lync
Applications
1 3 (5.882%) MS Office
2 1 (1.961%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 23 (45.10%) Firewall
2 21 (41.18%) LAN
3 18 (35.29%) WAN
4 17 (33.33%) TCP/IP
5 13 (25.49%) BGP
5 13 (25.49%) Wireless
6 12 (23.53%) VoIP
7 11 (21.57%) MPLS
8 10 (19.61%) EIGRP
9 8 (15.69%) Ethernet
10 7 (13.73%) VPN
11 6 (11.76%) DNS
11 6 (11.76%) OSPF
11 6 (11.76%) DHCP
11 6 (11.76%) Cisco ASA
12 5 (9.804%) UMTS
12 5 (9.804%) GPRS
12 5 (9.804%) GSM
13 4 (7.843%) SAN
13 4 (7.843%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.961%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (1.961%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 8 (15.69%) Telecoms
2 3 (5.882%) Finance
3 2 (3.922%) Law
4 1 (1.961%) Advertising
4 1 (1.961%) Publishing
4 1 (1.961%) Local Government
4 1 (1.961%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (1.961%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.922%) ASIC
1 2 (3.922%) Handset
2 1 (1.961%) SecurID
2 1 (1.961%) CMDB
2 1 (1.961%) FMCG
2 1 (1.961%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 12 (23.53%) Windows
2 8 (15.69%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (11.76%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (7.843%) Windows 7
4 4 (7.843%) Linux
4 4 (7.843%) Windows XP
5 2 (3.922%) UNIX
6 1 (1.961%) Windows 8
6 1 (1.961%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.961%) VMS
6 1 (1.961%) HPUX
6 1 (1.961%) Solaris
6 1 (1.961%) Windows 2000 Server
6 1 (1.961%) CentOS
6 1 (1.961%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (19.61%) ITIL
2 8 (15.69%) Project Management
3 7 (13.73%) Migration
4 6 (11.76%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (9.804%) Network Design
6 4 (7.843%) Load Balancing
7 3 (5.882%) Problem Management
7 3 (5.882%) Network Management
7 3 (5.882%) Integration Testing
8 2 (3.922%) Configuration Management
8 2 (3.922%) Incident Management
8 2 (3.922%) Change Management
8 2 (3.922%) PRINCE2
8 2 (3.922%) PRINCE
9 1 (1.961%) BPR
9 1 (1.961%) Service Management
9 1 (1.961%) Quality Management
9 1 (1.961%) Service Delivery
9 1 (1.961%) Disaster Recovery
9 1 (1.961%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.843%) SQL
2 3 (5.882%) Perl
3 2 (3.922%) C
3 2 (3.922%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (25.49%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (23.53%) CCNP
3 10 (19.61%) CCNA
4 3 (5.882%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (5.882%) Degree
5 2 (3.922%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.922%) Security Cleared
5 2 (3.922%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.961%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (1.961%) MCITP
6 1 (1.961%) CCDP
6 1 (1.961%) CCIP
6 1 (1.961%) VCP5
6 1 (1.961%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.961%) ISO/IEC 17799
1 1 (1.961%) SLA
1 1 (1.961%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (11.76%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.882%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.961%) Forefront TMG
3 1 (1.961%) UAG
3 1 (1.961%) ProxySG
3 1 (1.961%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.961%) NDS
Systems Management
1 2 (3.922%) MOM
2 1 (1.961%) SCOM
2 1 (1.961%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 25 (49.02%) Cisco
2 9 (17.65%) CheckPoint
3 8 (15.69%) HP
3 8 (15.69%) Juniper
4 7 (13.73%) Microsoft
5 5 (9.804%) ProCurve
5 5 (9.804%) F5
6 4 (7.843%) VMware
6 4 (7.843%) Blue Coat
7 3 (5.882%) SolarWinds
7 3 (5.882%) Nokia
8 2 (3.922%) Anite
8 2 (3.922%) Agilent
8 2 (3.922%) TippingPoint
9 1 (1.961%) Oracle
9 1 (1.961%) Nokia Siemens Networks
9 1 (1.961%) Trapeze
9 1 (1.961%) Brocade
9 1 (1.961%) NetScout
9 1 (1.961%) Fortinet
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