The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Systems 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 Gloucestershire 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
System Engineer
Rank 32 60 36
Rank change year-on-year
+28 -24
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 5 9 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 1.825% 1.345% 2.098%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.916% 1.463% 2.244%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
Average daily rate £500 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £391 £375
% change year-on-year
-16.77% +4.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £37.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +5.71%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
-21.42% +34.61%
All Job Titles
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
261 615 401
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 95.26% 91.93% 93.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 358 159
Average daily rate £380 £400 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% +29.03%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £265 £170
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 36 66
Average hourly rate £16.50 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-34.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £23.34 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £37.00 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Systems Engineer
South West

Systems Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire Systems Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Systems Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Gloucestershire Systems Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Systems Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Gloucestershire Systems Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Systems Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire region that cited Systems 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 Systems Engineer in their job title.

1 16 (88.89%) Security Cleared
2 15 (83.33%) DV Cleared
3 13 (72.22%) C
4 9 (50.00%) Windows
4 9 (50.00%) Citrix
5 8 (44.44%) Juniper
5 8 (44.44%) Thin Client
5 8 (44.44%) Firewall
5 8 (44.44%) VPN
5 8 (44.44%) Sophos
5 8 (44.44%) VMware
5 8 (44.44%) Cisco
5 8 (44.44%) Fat Client
5 8 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (44.44%) Lumension
6 7 (38.89%) Software Engineering
7 6 (33.33%) Apache
7 6 (33.33%) Linux
8 5 (27.78%) MySQL
8 5 (27.78%) Python
8 5 (27.78%) Agile Software Development
8 5 (27.78%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (27.78%) User Stories
9 3 (16.67%) Embedded Systems
9 3 (16.67%) Avionics
9 3 (16.67%) DO-178B
9 3 (16.67%) DO-254
9 3 (16.67%) Rational DOORS
10 2 (11.11%) Aerospace
11 1 (5.556%) Automotive

Systems Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire region that cited Systems 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 Systems Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 6 (33.33%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 8 (44.44%) Firewall
1 8 (44.44%) VPN
2 1 (5.556%) DNS
2 1 (5.556%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Rational DOORS
General
1 3 (16.67%) Avionics
2 2 (11.11%) Aerospace
3 1 (5.556%) Automotive
Miscellaneous
1 8 (44.44%) Thin Client
1 8 (44.44%) Fat Client
2 3 (16.67%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (50.00%) Windows
2 6 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (5.556%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Software Engineering
2 5 (27.78%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (27.78%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (27.78%) User Stories
3 1 (5.556%) Validation
3 1 (5.556%) Migration
3 1 (5.556%) ITIL
3 1 (5.556%) UML
3 1 (5.556%) Service Management
3 1 (5.556%) Test Scripting
3 1 (5.556%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 13 (72.22%) C
2 5 (27.78%) Python
3 1 (5.556%) Shell Script
3 1 (5.556%) Korn
3 1 (5.556%) C-shell
3 1 (5.556%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 16 (88.89%) Security Cleared
2 15 (83.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.556%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) DO-178B
1 3 (16.67%) DO-254
System Software
1 8 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.556%) Samba
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) Citrix
2 8 (44.44%) Juniper
2 8 (44.44%) Sophos
2 8 (44.44%) VMware
2 8 (44.44%) Cisco
2 8 (44.44%) Lumension
3 1 (5.556%) Red Hat