Glasgow Support Engineer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Support Engineer role in IT contracts within the Glasgow 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 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Support Engineer
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Amersham Avon Aylesbury Barking Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Chorley City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Douglas Dudley Dundee Durham East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grimsby Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Hartlepool Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Hitchin Hounslow Hove Hull Huntingdon Immingham Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Kendal Kent Kettering King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northolt Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Rochester Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark Spalding St Asaph Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Kilbride West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Wiltshire Wimbledon Windlesham Windsor Witham Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	51	49
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	7	19
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.019 %
As % of the category below	1.023 %	1.915 %
Daily rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum daily rate	£125	£238
Average daily rate	£125	£245
% change on same period last year	-48.97 %
Average maximum daily rate	£125	£252
UK excluding London average daily rate	£224	£250
% change on same period last year	-10.36 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.50	£12.60
Average hourly rate	£16.33	£13.68
% change on same period last year	+19.39 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.17	£14.76
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.06	£18.35
% change on same period last year	+3.85 %
Job Titles Glasgow
Matching contract IT job ads	684	992
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.912 %	0.990 %
Daily rates quoted	214	288
Average minimum daily rate	£295	£294
Average daily rate	£317	£313
% change on same period last year	+1.29 %
Average maximum daily rate	£340	£333
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£355
% change on same period last year	+0.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	44	83
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.60	£17.53
Average hourly rate	£23.54	£18.68
% change on same period last year	+25.99 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.48	£19.84
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.79	£25.66
% change on same period last year	-7.31 %
Support Engineer Scotland

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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Support Engineer across the Glasgow region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 14 (56.00 %) Microsoft 2 11 (44.00 %) HP 2 11 (44.00 %) Windows 3 6 (24.00 %) Intel 3 6 (24.00 %) A+ Certification 3 6 (24.00 %) Active Directory 4 5 (20.00 %) Windows XP 5 4 (16.00 %) Compaq 5 4 (16.00 %) Dell 6 3 (12.00 %) SharePoint 6 3 (12.00 %) MCSE 6 3 (12.00 %) XML 6 3 (12.00 %) SQL 6 3 (12.00 %) Transact-SQL 6 3 (12.00 %) Microsoft Certification

6 3 (12.00 %) Windows Server 2003 7 2 (8.000 %) Financial Institution 7 2 (8.000 %) Finance 7 2 (8.000 %) Government 7 2 (8.000 %) Service Management 7 2 (8.000 %) .NET 7 2 (8.000 %) SQL Server 7 2 (8.000 %) ASP.NET 7 2 (8.000 %) SOAP 7 2 (8.000 %) WebServices 7 2 (8.000 %) XSLT 7 2 (8.000 %) HND 7 2 (8.000 %) Windows 2000 Server 8 1 (4.000 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 8 1 (4.000 %) SQL Server 2005

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 (12.00 %) XML 2 2 (8.000 %) XSLT 2 2 (8.000 %) .NET 2 2 (8.000 %) ASP.NET 2 2 (8.000 %) SOAP 2 2 (8.000 %) WebServices	Application Platforms 1 3 (12.00 %) SharePoint 2 1 (4.000 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (4.000 %) IIS
Applications 1 1 (4.000 %) MS Office 1 1 (4.000 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (4.000 %) Microsoft CRM
Communications & Networking 1 1 (4.000 %) DHCP 1 1 (4.000 %) TCP/IP 1 1 (4.000 %) DNS 1 1 (4.000 %) SAN 1 1 (4.000 %) Firewall 1 1 (4.000 %) Cisco PIX 1 1 (4.000 %) Network Security 1 1 (4.000 %) Cisco ASA	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (8.000 %) SQL Server 2 1 (4.000 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 2 1 (4.000 %) SQL Server 2005 2 1 (4.000 %) SQL Server Integration Services
General 1 2 (8.000 %) Financial Institution 1 2 (8.000 %) Finance 1 2 (8.000 %) Government	Miscellaneous 1 1 (4.000 %) Clustering
Operating Systems 1 11 (44.00 %) Windows 2 5 (20.00 %) Windows XP 3 3 (12.00 %) Windows Server 2003 4 2 (8.000 %) Windows 2000 Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (8.000 %) Service Management 2 1 (4.000 %) Quality Management 2 1 (4.000 %) Change Management 2 1 (4.000 %) Disaster Recovery 2 1 (4.000 %) Migration 2 1 (4.000 %) ITIL 2 1 (4.000 %) OOP 2 1 (4.000 %) OO 2 1 (4.000 %) Data Modelling 2 1 (4.000 %) CAD
Programming Languages 1 3 (12.00 %) SQL 1 3 (12.00 %) Transact-SQL 2 1 (4.000 %) XPath 2 1 (4.000 %) Java 2 1 (4.000 %) PHP	Qualifications 1 6 (24.00 %) A+ Certification 2 3 (12.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (12.00 %) MCSE 3 2 (8.000 %) HND 4 1 (4.000 %) MCP 4 1 (4.000 %) MCSA 4 1 (4.000 %) CNA 4 1 (4.000 %) Novell Certification 4 1 (4.000 %) Degree
System Software 1 6 (24.00 %) Active Directory 2 1 (4.000 %) NetBackup	Vendors 1 14 (56.00 %) Microsoft 2 11 (44.00 %) HP 3 6 (24.00 %) Intel 4 4 (16.00 %) Compaq 4 4 (16.00 %) Dell 5 1 (4.000 %) Cisco 5 1 (4.000 %) Citrix 5 1 (4.000 %) Nokia 5 1 (4.000 %) Novell 5 1 (4.000 %) CheckPoint 5 1 (4.000 %) Symantec 5 1 (4.000 %) Remedy 5 1 (4.000 %) VMware