The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical 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 Technical 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 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
Technical Engineer
Rank 465 428 481
Rank change year-on-year
-37 +53
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Engineer 67 117 99
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.155% 0.221% 0.173%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.167% 0.239% 0.187%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 46 36
Average daily rate £325 £355 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.45% +18.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £179 £126 £171
10% offered a daily rate of more than £440 £475 £365
UK excluding London average daily rate £323 £270 £278
% change year-on-year
+19.62% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 19
Average hourly rate £18.00 £18.00 £15.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +14.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.05 £16.76 £11.45
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £91.00 £57.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.50 £17.00 £13.25
% change year-on-year
+8.82% +28.30%
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
40014 49001 53004
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.47% 92.53% 92.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23687 27821 29587
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 1959 2399 2806
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.68 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.74% -6.62%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £11.25 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £40.00 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Technical Engineer
UK

Technical Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Technical Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Technical Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Technical Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England Technical Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Technical Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Technical Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

England Technical Engineer Hourly Rate Histogram

Technical Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Engineer within the 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
London -8 24 £325 -18.75% 5
South East +19 21 £321 -19.75% 11
North West +21 9 £325 - 2
Yorkshire +8 5 £298 - 6
West Midlands -4 4 - - 1
East Midlands -1 2 - - 2
South West +29 1 - - 5
East of England +16 1 £425 +165.62% 6
Midlands - - - -
North East - - - -
Technical Engineer
UK

Technical Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Technical 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 Technical Engineer in their job title.

1 74 (62.18%) Windows
2 36 (30.25%) VMware
3 33 (27.73%) Active Directory
4 31 (26.05%) SQL
5 27 (22.69%) Windows 7
6 25 (21.01%) VMware Infrastructure
6 25 (21.01%) Microsoft
7 24 (20.17%) Windows Server 2008
8 23 (19.33%) Citrix
9 22 (18.49%) MS Exchange
9 22 (18.49%) SQL Server
10 21 (17.65%) SAN
11 20 (16.81%) Linux
12 16 (13.45%) TCP/IP
12 16 (13.45%) Exchange Server 2007
13 15 (12.61%) Windows XP
13 15 (12.61%) MS Office
13 15 (12.61%) Windows Server 2003
14 14 (11.76%) HP
14 14 (11.76%) ITIL
14 14 (11.76%) UNIX
14 14 (11.76%) SCCM
14 14 (11.76%) SCOM
14 14 (11.76%) Migration
14 14 (11.76%) XenApp
15 12 (10.08%) Security Cleared
15 12 (10.08%) Exchange Server 2010
15 12 (10.08%) DHCP
15 12 (10.08%) DNS
15 12 (10.08%) MS Excel

Technical Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Technical 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 Technical Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (5.882%) Application Packaging
2 4 (3.361%) Web Services
3 3 (2.521%) SOAP
4 2 (1.681%) RESTful
5 1 (0.840%) Cocoa
5 1 (0.840%) MAPI
5 1 (0.840%) HTML
5 1 (0.840%) .NET
5 1 (0.840%) COM
5 1 (0.840%) XSL
5 1 (0.840%) Middleware
5 1 (0.840%) Cocoa Touch
5 1 (0.840%) REST
5 1 (0.840%) Qt
Application Platforms
1 22 (18.49%) MS Exchange
2 16 (13.45%) Exchange Server 2007
3 12 (10.08%) Exchange Server 2010
4 9 (7.563%) SharePoint
5 8 (6.723%) Exchange Server 2013
6 7 (5.882%) IIS
6 7 (5.882%) Lync
7 4 (3.361%) Exchange Server 2003
8 3 (2.521%) SAS
9 2 (1.681%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.840%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.840%) Confluence
10 1 (0.840%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 15 (12.61%) MS Office
2 12 (10.08%) MS Excel
3 2 (1.681%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.840%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 21 (17.65%) SAN
2 16 (13.45%) TCP/IP
3 12 (10.08%) DHCP
3 12 (10.08%) DNS
4 8 (6.723%) LAN
4 8 (6.723%) WAN
5 6 (5.042%) Internet
5 6 (5.042%) Firewall
6 4 (3.361%) VPN
7 3 (2.521%) HTTP
7 3 (2.521%) VoIP
7 3 (2.521%) DMZ
7 3 (2.521%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (2.521%) iSCSI
8 2 (1.681%) DVB
8 2 (1.681%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.840%) IP Telephony
9 1 (0.840%) Wireless
9 1 (0.840%) SSH
9 1 (0.840%) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (18.49%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.521%) Big Data
3 1 (0.840%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (0.840%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (0.840%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.840%) Cognos Impromptu
3 1 (0.840%) MySQL
3 1 (0.840%) DB2
3 1 (0.840%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (0.840%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 9 (7.563%) Selenium
1 9 (7.563%) WebDriver
2 7 (5.882%) MSI
3 3 (2.521%) JIRA
3 3 (2.521%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.681%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.681%) WATIR
5 1 (0.840%) CruiseControl
5 1 (0.840%) Subversion
General
1 5 (4.202%) Telecoms
2 4 (3.361%) Finance
3 3 (2.521%) Banking
3 3 (2.521%) Manufacturing
3 3 (2.521%) Back Office
4 2 (1.681%) Portuguese Language
5 1 (0.840%) Multimedia
5 1 (0.840%) Games
5 1 (0.840%) Front Office
5 1 (0.840%) Local Government
5 1 (0.840%) German Language
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.042%) Blackberry
2 3 (2.521%) Fat Client
2 3 (2.521%) Clustering
2 3 (2.521%) Thin Client
3 2 (1.681%) SaaS
3 2 (1.681%) HACMP
3 2 (1.681%) Mainframe
3 2 (1.681%) MPEG
3 2 (1.681%) Client/Server
3 2 (1.681%) STB
4 1 (0.840%) Credit Derivative
4 1 (0.840%) IPTV
4 1 (0.840%) Derivative
4 1 (0.840%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.840%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.840%) Video on Demand
4 1 (0.840%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 74 (62.18%) Windows
2 27 (22.69%) Windows 7
3 24 (20.17%) Windows Server 2008
4 20 (16.81%) Linux
5 15 (12.61%) Windows XP
5 15 (12.61%) Windows Server 2003
6 14 (11.76%) UNIX
7 8 (6.723%) Windows 8
8 7 (5.882%) Solaris
8 7 (5.882%) Windows 2000 Server
9 4 (3.361%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (3.361%) SUSE
10 2 (1.681%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (1.681%) Android
10 2 (1.681%) AIX
10 2 (1.681%) Windows 2000
11 1 (0.840%) Windows Vista
11 1 (0.840%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (11.76%) ITIL
1 14 (11.76%) Migration
2 8 (6.723%) Data Protection
2 8 (6.723%) TDD
3 7 (5.882%) Agile Software Development
3 7 (5.882%) Change Control
3 7 (5.882%) BDD
4 6 (5.042%) Automation Testing
4 6 (5.042%) Service Delivery
5 5 (4.202%) Data Migration
6 4 (3.361%) E-Commerce
6 4 (3.361%) Incident Management
6 4 (3.361%) Time Management
7 3 (2.521%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (2.521%) ETL
7 3 (2.521%) Project Management
7 3 (2.521%) Software Deployment
7 3 (2.521%) Network Management
8 2 (1.681%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 2 (1.681%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 31 (26.05%) SQL
2 9 (7.563%) Python
3 6 (5.042%) T-SQL
4 4 (3.361%) Bash shell
5 3 (2.521%) Ruby
6 2 (1.681%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.681%) Java
6 2 (1.681%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.681%) Perl
7 1 (0.840%) Objective-C
7 1 (0.840%) C++
7 1 (0.840%) VBScript
7 1 (0.840%) VB
7 1 (0.840%) VBA
7 1 (0.840%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 12 (10.08%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.882%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (5.882%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.042%) CCNA
4 5 (4.202%) Degree
5 3 (2.521%) CCNP
5 3 (2.521%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.681%) CISSP
6 2 (1.681%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (1.681%) ACSA
7 1 (0.840%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.840%) MCTS
7 1 (0.840%) MCITP
7 1 (0.840%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.840%) MCSE
7 1 (0.840%) MCP
7 1 (0.840%) HNC
7 1 (0.840%) HND
7 1 (0.840%) Avaya Certification
7 1 (0.840%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.244%) SLA
2 10 (8.403%) QA
System Software
1 33 (27.73%) Active Directory
2 25 (21.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (11.76%) XenApp
4 8 (6.723%) Hyper-V
4 8 (6.723%) vSphere
4 8 (6.723%) Forefront TMG
5 5 (4.202%) VMware ESX
5 5 (4.202%) ISA Server
6 4 (3.361%) NFS
7 3 (2.521%) XenDesktop
8 2 (1.681%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (1.681%) Terminal Services
8 2 (1.681%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.840%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.840%) Xen
Systems Management
1 14 (11.76%) SCCM
1 14 (11.76%) SCOM
2 4 (3.361%) Backup Exec
3 3 (2.521%) NetBackup
4 2 (1.681%) WhatsUp Gold
4 2 (1.681%) Norton AntiVirus
4 2 (1.681%) DameWare
5 1 (0.840%) HP Data Protector
5 1 (0.840%) WSUS
5 1 (0.840%) ARCserve
5 1 (0.840%) OpenView Configuration Management
5 1 (0.840%) Splunk
5 1 (0.840%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 36 (30.25%) VMware
2 25 (21.01%) Microsoft
3 23 (19.33%) Citrix
4 14 (11.76%) HP
5 11 (9.244%) Cisco
6 9 (7.563%) Dell
7 7 (5.882%) Oracle
7 7 (5.882%) Veeam
8 5 (4.202%) CommVault
9 3 (2.521%) Avaya
10 2 (1.681%) Red Gate
10 2 (1.681%) Symantec
10 2 (1.681%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.681%) Ab Initio
11 1 (0.840%) NEC
11 1 (0.840%) Wyse
11 1 (0.840%) AppSense
11 1 (0.840%) Mitel
11 1 (0.840%) Tandberg
11 1 (0.840%) Cognos
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