Glasgow Technical Support Engineer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Technical 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 Technical Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Technical Support Engineer
Location Berkshire Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cheshire City of London Darlington Durham East Midlands East of England England Glasgow Grimsby Hertfordshire Highlands Hinckley Huntingdon Immingham Inverness Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire London Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Milton Keynes North East North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Oxford Oxfordshire Redditch Rochester Rugby Runcorn Scotland South East South West South Yorkshire Stockport Swindon UK Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	55	68
Rank change on same period last year	+13
Matching contract IT job ads	2	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.281 %	0.099 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£213	£220
% change on same period last year	-3.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.50	£18.00
Average hourly rate	£14.50	£21.50
% change on same period last year	-32.55 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.50	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.19	£18.25
% change on same period last year	-0.34 %
Job Titles Glasgow
Matching contract IT job ads	711	1014
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.938 %	1.010 %
Daily rates quoted	215	300
Average minimum daily rate	£296	£297
Average daily rate	£318	£315
% change on same period last year	+1.06 %
Average maximum daily rate	£340	£333
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.32 %
Hourly rates quoted	45	79
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.33	£16.66
Average hourly rate	£23.18	£17.88
% change on same period last year	+29.64 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.02	£19.09
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.60	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-8.13 %
Technical 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.

Technical Support Engineer
Demand Trend

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

Technical Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Technical Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region that cited Technical 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 Technical Support Engineer in their job title.

1 4 (57.14 %) HP 1 4 (57.14 %) Compaq 1 4 (57.14 %) Dell 2 2 (28.57 %) Financial Institution 2 2 (28.57 %) Finance 2 2 (28.57 %) Government 3 1 (14.29 %) Service Management 3 1 (14.29 %) Quality Management 3 1 (14.29 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (14.29 %) CNA 3 1 (14.29 %) Novell Certification 3 1 (14.29 %) Novell 3 1 (14.29 %) Remedy 3 1 (14.29 %) MCP 3 1 (14.29 %) MCSE

3 1 (14.29 %) Microsoft

Technical Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region that cited Technical 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 Technical Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

General 1 2 (28.57 %) Financial Institution 1 2 (28.57 %) Finance 1 2 (28.57 %) Government	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (14.29 %) Service Management 1 1 (14.29 %) Quality Management
Qualifications 1 1 (14.29 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (14.29 %) CNA 1 1 (14.29 %) Novell Certification 1 1 (14.29 %) MCP 1 1 (14.29 %) MCSE	Vendors 1 4 (57.14 %) HP 1 4 (57.14 %) Compaq 1 4 (57.14 %) Dell 2 1 (14.29 %) Novell 2 1 (14.29 %) Remedy 2 1 (14.29 %) Microsoft