Support Engineer Contracts in Essex
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Support Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Essex 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 21 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 Essex 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Support Engineer
Rank 39 34 47
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +13
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 10 12 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 2.381% 2.941% 0.255%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.611% 3.125% 0.267%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 0
Average daily rate £234 £110 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+112.50% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £240 £202 £263
% change year-on-year
+19.10% -23.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £11.50 £15.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -25.80%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £15.88 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-5.51% +5.83%
All Job Titles
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 383 384 374
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 91.19% 94.12% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 186 169
Average daily rate £313 £288 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.69% -4.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £160 £105 £78
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 58 75
Average hourly rate £30.00 £27.00 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% -1.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.45 £13.00 £13.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.10 £41.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Support Engineer
East of England

Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex Support Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Support Engineer across the Essex region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Essex Support Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

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 Essex region.

Essex Support Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

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 Essex region over the 3 months to 21 May 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
Basildon 0 2 - -
Colchester - 2 £255 -
Brentwood -12 1 - -
Chelmsford - 1 £175 -
Support Engineer
East of England

Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 15 (83.33%) Windows
2 9 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 8 (44.44%) Windows Server 2008
4 7 (38.89%) Active Directory
4 7 (38.89%) Citrix
5 6 (33.33%) Windows 7
6 5 (27.78%) Blackberry
6 5 (27.78%) MS Exchange
6 5 (27.78%) Service Delivery
7 4 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2007
7 4 (22.22%) TCP/IP
7 4 (22.22%) Windows XP
8 3 (16.67%) Configuration Management
8 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (16.67%) HTTP
8 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
8 3 (16.67%) SharePoint
8 3 (16.67%) .NET
8 3 (16.67%) IIS
8 3 (16.67%) ASP.NET
8 3 (16.67%) ITIL
8 3 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2003
8 3 (16.67%) Network Load Balancing
8 3 (16.67%) WCF
8 3 (16.67%) Capacity Management
9 2 (11.11%) XenServer
9 2 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2010
9 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
9 2 (11.11%) iPhone
9 2 (11.11%) Xen

Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 Development
1 3 (16.67%) .NET
1 3 (16.67%) ASP.NET
1 3 (16.67%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 5 (27.78%) MS Exchange
2 4 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2007
3 3 (16.67%) SharePoint
3 3 (16.67%) IIS
3 3 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (5.556%) Lync
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) MS Office
1 2 (11.11%) MS Excel
2 1 (5.556%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) TCP/IP
2 3 (16.67%) HTTP
3 2 (11.11%) DNS
3 2 (11.11%) DHCP
4 1 (5.556%) SAN
4 1 (5.556%) Internet
General
1 1 (5.556%) Local Government
1 1 (5.556%) Back Office
1 1 (5.556%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Blackberry
2 2 (11.11%) iPhone
3 1 (5.556%) Smartphone
3 1 (5.556%) Mobile Computing
Operating Systems
1 15 (83.33%) Windows
2 9 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 8 (44.44%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (33.33%) Windows 7
5 4 (22.22%) Windows XP
6 2 (11.11%) Windows Vista
7 1 (5.556%) Windows 2000
7 1 (5.556%) Android
7 1 (5.556%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Service Delivery
2 3 (16.67%) Configuration Management
2 3 (16.67%) ITIL
2 3 (16.67%) Network Load Balancing
2 3 (16.67%) Capacity Management
3 2 (11.11%) Migration
4 1 (5.556%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.556%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (11.11%) MCSE
3 1 (5.556%) MCSA
3 1 (5.556%) MCP
3 1 (5.556%) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.556%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (38.89%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.11%) XenServer
2 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (11.11%) Xen
3 1 (5.556%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.556%) XenApp
3 1 (5.556%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Backup Exec
2 1 (5.556%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Citrix
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.11%) Symantec
3 2 (11.11%) VMware
4 1 (5.556%) HP
4 1 (5.556%) Dell
4 1 (5.556%) Apple
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