The first table below looks at the demand for the Support Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Gatwick 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 Gatwick 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 - 16 12
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 0 7 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gatwick - 6.796% 16.33%
As % of the Job Titles category - 6.863% 18.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £288
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £200 £263
% change year-on-year
+25.00% -23.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £17.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £15.88 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-5.51% +5.83%
All Job Titles
Gatwick
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
34 102 87
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gatwick 100.00% 99.03% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 51 40
Average daily rate £450 £300 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+50.00% -25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £305 £275 £335
10% offered a daily rate of more than £585 £390 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 5
Average hourly rate £42.50 £32.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+30.76% +85.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.50 £32.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £32.50 £28.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Support Engineer
West Sussex

Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gatwick 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 Gatwick region.

Gatwick 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 Gatwick region.

Gatwick Support Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Support Engineer
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gatwick 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 2 (100.00%) MS Office
1 2 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 2 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 2 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (50.00%) Blackberry

Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gatwick 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 2 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 2 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) MS Office
1 2 (100.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Blackberry
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft