Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Support Engineer role in IT contracts within the 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 Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkSupport Engineer
Location
3 months to
21 Nov 2008
Same period last year
Rank7486
Rank change on same period last yearUp+12
Matching contract IT job ads11431561
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled1.800 %1.673 %
As % of the category below2.188 %1.960 %
Daily rates quoted141268
Average minimum daily rate£249£245
Average daily rate£261£256
% change on same period last year+2.19 %
Average maximum daily rate£274£266
UK excluding London average daily rate£232£190
% change on same period last year+21.98 %
Hourly rates quoted451476
Average minimum hourly rate£18.01£19.49
Average hourly rate£18.89£20.76
% change on same period last year-8.99 %
Average maximum hourly rate£19.76£22.02
UK excluding London average hourly rate£18.67£20.27
% change on same period last year-7.85 %
England IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
England
Matching contract IT job ads5225079626
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled82.30 %85.32 %
Daily rates quoted1686424512
Average minimum daily rate£366£390
Average daily rate£392£414
% change on same period last year-5.34 %
Average maximum daily rate£417£438
UK excluding London average daily rate£353£351
% change on same period last year+0.72 %
Hourly rates quoted51377273
Average minimum hourly rate£22.14£23.57
Average hourly rate£23.59£25.15
% change on same period last year-6.22 %
Average maximum hourly rate£25.04£26.74
UK excluding London average hourly rate£23.37£24.42
% change on same period last year-4.31 %
Support Engineer UKSupport Engineer
UK

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.

Support Engineer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Support Engineer across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

England Support Engineer Demand Trend

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Support Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Support Engineer across the England region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

England Support Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Support Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Support Engineer across the England region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

England Support Engineer Hourly Rate Histogram

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 Support Engineer within the England region over the 3 months to 21 November 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.

LocationRank 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
LondonDown-7366£283-9.06 %
South EastUp+24286£269+28.08 %
East of EnglandUp+10102£146-4.32 %
South WestDown-1097£216+27.81 %
YorkshireUp+1476£193+3.21 %
North WestDown-574£203-7.62 %
West MidlandsUp+762£238+37.01 %
East MidlandsUp+757£226+0.46 %
North EastUp+1115--
MidlandsUp+126--
Support Engineer UKSupport Engineer
UK

Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

11270 (51.21 %)Windows
2634 (25.56 %)Active Directory
3548 (22.10 %)Microsoft
4542 (21.85 %)Windows Server 2003
5483 (19.48 %)Windows XP
6430 (17.34 %)MS Office
7349 (14.07 %)Cisco
8325 (13.10 %)MS Exchange
9290 (11.69 %)Windows 2000
10246 (9.919 %)Microsoft Certification
11234 (9.435 %)MS Excel
12231 (9.315 %)UNIX
13230 (9.274 %)LAN
14220 (8.871 %)HP
15218 (8.790 %)Citrix
16209 (8.427 %)Exchange Server 2003
17194 (7.823 %)TCP/IP
18192 (7.742 %)WAN
19182 (7.339 %)MCSE
20171 (6.895 %)Finance
21170 (6.855 %)Cisco Certification
21170 (6.855 %)DNS
22167 (6.734 %)Firewall
23165 (6.653 %)Windows 2000 Server
24157 (6.331 %)Security Cleared
25156 (6.290 %)Telecoms
26150 (6.048 %)VPN
27145 (5.847 %)SQL
28142 (5.726 %)Linux
29139 (5.605 %)Solaris

Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

England IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
131 (1.250 %).NET
230 (1.210 %)HTML
320 (0.806 %)ASP
416 (0.645 %)J2EE
515 (0.605 %)WebSphere
515 (0.605 %)Application Packaging
614 (0.565 %)JSP
713 (0.524 %)XML
811 (0.444 %)CSS
910 (0.403 %)Middleware
106 (0.242 %)WebServices
114 (0.161 %)Windows SharePoint Services
114 (0.161 %)ASP.NET
114 (0.161 %)XSLT
114 (0.161 %)XHTML
122 (0.081 %)ODBC
122 (0.081 %)CGI
122 (0.081 %)Java RMI
131 (0.040 %)ADSI
131 (0.040 %)WSDL
England IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
1325 (13.10 %)MS Exchange
2209 (8.427 %)Exchange Server 2003
378 (3.145 %)IIS
476 (3.065 %)Lotus Notes
551 (2.056 %)Exchange Server 2000
645 (1.815 %)Exchange Server 2007
736 (1.452 %)Apache
736 (1.452 %)SharePoint
823 (0.927 %)GroupWise
921 (0.847 %)WebLogic
921 (0.847 %)Tomcat
1015 (0.605 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
1114 (0.565 %)Exchange Server 5.5
1212 (0.484 %)CMS
138 (0.323 %)Lotus Domino
138 (0.323 %)SharePoint Server 2007
145 (0.202 %)SharePoint Portal Server
154 (0.161 %)OpenROAD
163 (0.121 %)MQSeries
163 (0.121 %)WorkSite
England IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
1430 (17.34 %)MS Office
2234 (9.435 %)MS Excel
319 (0.766 %)MS Visio
418 (0.726 %)MS PowerPoint
58 (0.323 %)CATIA
66 (0.242 %)Photoshop
66 (0.242 %)MS Project
75 (0.202 %)MATLAB
75 (0.202 %)Simulink
75 (0.202 %)QuarkXPress
75 (0.202 %)Adobe Illustrator
81 (0.040 %)InDesign
81 (0.040 %)Spreadsheet
81 (0.040 %)AutoCAD
81 (0.040 %)Stateflow
England IT Contractor Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
111 (0.444 %)Singl.eView
29 (0.363 %)SoftGrid
35 (0.202 %)Teamcenter
35 (0.202 %)Summit
35 (0.202 %)assyst
43 (0.121 %)Microsoft CRM
52 (0.081 %)SalesLogix
61 (0.040 %)Dynamics NAV
61 (0.040 %)Remedy ITSM
61 (0.040 %)TIBCO BusinessEvents
61 (0.040 %)RMDS
61 (0.040 %)Navision
61 (0.040 %)Oracle 11i
England IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
1230 (9.274 %)LAN
2194 (7.823 %)TCP/IP
3192 (7.742 %)WAN
4170 (6.855 %)DNS
5167 (6.734 %)Firewall
6150 (6.048 %)VPN
7131 (5.282 %)SAN
895 (3.831 %)DHCP
987 (3.508 %)Internet
1068 (2.742 %)VoIP
1167 (2.702 %)Wireless
1257 (2.298 %)3G
1342 (1.694 %)RNC
1440 (1.613 %)OSPF
1538 (1.532 %)Cisco PIX
1637 (1.492 %)BGP
1730 (1.210 %)Ethernet
1730 (1.210 %)Network Security
1828 (1.129 %)IP Telephony
1828 (1.129 %)Intranet
England IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
1101 (4.073 %)SQL Server
219 (0.766 %)SQL Server 2000
314 (0.565 %)RDBMS
413 (0.524 %)SQL Server 2005
413 (0.524 %)MS Access
510 (0.403 %)MySQL
68 (0.323 %)Oracle 9i
68 (0.323 %)Oracle 10g
76 (0.242 %)Oracle Reports
76 (0.242 %)Oracle 8/8i
85 (0.202 %)DB2
94 (0.161 %)SQLPlus
103 (0.121 %)Informix
112 (0.081 %)SQL Server 7
112 (0.081 %)SQL Server Integration Services
112 (0.081 %)Sybase ASE
121 (0.040 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
121 (0.040 %)BusinessObjects
121 (0.040 %)Crystal Reports
121 (0.040 %)DTS
England IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
119 (0.766 %)ClearCase
28 (0.323 %)Flash
36 (0.242 %)Ant
45 (0.202 %)MSI
45 (0.202 %)CruiseControl
54 (0.161 %)Subversion
63 (0.121 %)Eclipse
72 (0.081 %)Visual Studio
72 (0.081 %)Oracle Forms
72 (0.081 %)TestDirector
72 (0.081 %)ProC
72 (0.081 %)ClearQuest
81 (0.040 %)LoadRunner
81 (0.040 %)StarTeam
81 (0.040 %)yacc
81 (0.040 %)JUnit
81 (0.040 %)Dreamweaver
81 (0.040 %)Rational Rose
England IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
1171 (6.895 %)Finance
2156 (6.290 %)Telecoms
3101 (4.073 %)Banking
496 (3.871 %)Government
550 (2.016 %)Back Office
646 (1.855 %)Investment Banking
732 (1.290 %)Financial Institution
831 (1.250 %)Education
929 (1.169 %)Front Office
1026 (1.048 %)Health
1122 (0.887 %)Legal
1221 (0.847 %)Auditing
1319 (0.766 %)Publishing
1415 (0.605 %)Aerospace
1514 (0.565 %)Manufacturing
1612 (0.484 %)Law
179 (0.363 %)Retail
179 (0.363 %)Insurance
188 (0.323 %)Local Government
197 (0.282 %)Electric
England IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
1114 (4.597 %)Blackberry
272 (2.903 %)NHS
347 (1.895 %)Clustering
422 (0.887 %)PDA
515 (0.605 %)Video Conferencing
613 (0.524 %)EPoS
711 (0.444 %)CLARiiON
711 (0.444 %)Client/Server
711 (0.444 %)Handset
810 (0.403 %)Management Information System
98 (0.323 %)French Language
107 (0.282 %)IPTV
107 (0.282 %)Mainframe
116 (0.242 %)Thin Client
116 (0.242 %)Fixed Income
116 (0.242 %)Fat Client
125 (0.202 %)German Language
125 (0.202 %)Symmetrix
125 (0.202 %)Replication
134 (0.161 %)AS400
England IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
11270 (51.21 %)Windows
2542 (21.85 %)Windows Server 2003
3483 (19.48 %)Windows XP
4290 (11.69 %)Windows 2000
5231 (9.315 %)UNIX
6165 (6.653 %)Windows 2000 Server
7142 (5.726 %)Linux
8139 (5.605 %)Solaris
9102 (4.113 %)Windows Vista
1083 (3.347 %)Windows NT
1141 (1.653 %)NetWare
1230 (1.210 %)HPUX
1329 (1.169 %)Windows Server 2008
1424 (0.968 %)Red Hat Linux
1424 (0.968 %)AIX
1514 (0.565 %)Mac OS X
168 (0.323 %)Windows Mobile
177 (0.282 %)Mac OS X Server
186 (0.242 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
195 (0.202 %)VMS
England IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
1157 (6.331 %)Security Cleared
2121 (4.879 %)ITIL
383 (3.347 %)SC Cleared
460 (2.419 %)Migration
556 (2.258 %)Change Management
630 (1.210 %)Disaster Recovery
724 (0.968 %)Service Delivery
724 (0.968 %)Asset Management
823 (0.927 %)Service Management
922 (0.887 %)Business Continuity
1021 (0.847 %)CRM
1120 (0.806 %)Incident Management
1219 (0.766 %)Problem Management
1219 (0.766 %)DV Cleared
1317 (0.685 %)Project Management
1416 (0.645 %)E-Commerce
1515 (0.605 %)BC Cleared
1613 (0.524 %)Revenue Management
1712 (0.484 %)Configuration Management
1712 (0.484 %)Time Management
England IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
1145 (5.847 %)SQL
246 (1.855 %)Shell Script
340 (1.613 %)Java
438 (1.532 %)Perl
438 (1.532 %)C
529 (1.169 %)VBScript
618 (0.726 %)PL/SQL
717 (0.685 %)PHP
816 (0.645 %)C++
914 (0.565 %)JavaScript
1011 (0.444 %)VB
117 (0.282 %)Python
124 (0.161 %)C#
133 (0.121 %)VBA
133 (0.121 %)Korn
142 (0.081 %)VB.NET
142 (0.081 %)Transact-SQL
142 (0.081 %)DHTML
151 (0.040 %)VC++
151 (0.040 %)Tcl
England IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
1246 (9.919 %)Microsoft Certification
2182 (7.339 %)MCSE
3170 (6.855 %)Cisco Certification
4131 (5.282 %)CCNA
5101 (4.073 %)MCP
666 (2.661 %)CCNP
735 (1.411 %)Degree
824 (0.968 %)MCSA
920 (0.806 %)Novell Certification
920 (0.806 %)A+ Certification
1014 (0.565 %)CNE
1112 (0.484 %)HND
129 (0.363 %)CCIE
129 (0.363 %)Citrix Certification
129 (0.363 %)CCVP
138 (0.323 %)MOS
147 (0.282 %)ITIL Certification
147 (0.282 %)CCIP
147 (0.282 %)HNC
156 (0.242 %)CCA
England IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
169 (2.782 %)SLA
24 (0.161 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
24 (0.161 %)QA
31 (0.040 %)HL7
31 (0.040 %)HMG Infosec
31 (0.040 %)BS7799
31 (0.040 %)ISO9001
England IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
1634 (25.56 %)Active Directory
252 (2.097 %)NetBackup
350 (2.016 %)Backup Exec
438 (1.532 %)VMware Infrastructure
530 (1.210 %)Citrix Presentation Server
625 (1.008 %)Terminal Services
722 (0.887 %)VMware ESX
821 (0.847 %)NFS
914 (0.565 %)ISA Server
1013 (0.524 %)Novell eDirectory
1111 (0.444 %)NDS
128 (0.323 %)MetaFrame
128 (0.323 %)Terminal Server
128 (0.323 %)BorderManager
133 (0.121 %)Samba
133 (0.121 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
133 (0.121 %)VMware Workstation
133 (0.121 %)VMware Server
141 (0.040 %)Xen
141 (0.040 %)MailMarshal
England IT Contractor Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
155 (2.218 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
243 (1.734 %)OpenView
328 (1.129 %)Netcool
328 (1.129 %)MOM
418 (0.726 %)Norton AntiVirus
517 (0.685 %)Tivoli
616 (0.645 %)ZENworks
713 (0.524 %)HP Data Protector
713 (0.524 %)WSUS
713 (0.524 %)Netcool/Proviso
812 (0.484 %)DameWare
812 (0.484 %)CiscoWorks
97 (0.282 %)SCCM
106 (0.242 %)Legato
106 (0.242 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
106 (0.242 %)ARCserve
115 (0.202 %)AutoSys
115 (0.202 %)MIIS
115 (0.202 %)NNM
124 (0.161 %)BMC PATROL
England IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
1548 (22.10 %)Microsoft
2349 (14.07 %)Cisco
3220 (8.871 %)HP
4218 (8.790 %)Citrix
5122 (4.919 %)VMware
6108 (4.355 %)VERITAS
788 (3.548 %)Oracle
885 (3.427 %)Dell
980 (3.226 %)Lotus
1078 (3.145 %)Nokia
1176 (3.065 %)Sun
1272 (2.903 %)Novell
1348 (1.935 %)CheckPoint
1446 (1.855 %)Symantec
1545 (1.815 %)Remedy
1545 (1.815 %)IBM
1643 (1.734 %)EMC
1740 (1.613 %)Altiris
1838 (1.532 %)Nortel
1933 (1.331 %)McAfee Security