The first table below looks at the demand for the Support Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Guildford 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 Guildford 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 29 16 12
Rank change year-on-year
-13 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 3 3 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 1.364% 2.655% 4.839%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.463% 2.941% 5.357%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
Average daily rate £129 - £345
90% offered a daily rate of more than £128 - £309
10% offered a daily rate of more than £130 - £381
UK excluding London average daily rate £240 £202 £263
% change year-on-year
+19.10% -23.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Average hourly rate - £37.50 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +158.62%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £15.88 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-5.51% +5.83%
All Job Titles
Guildford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
205 102 112
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 93.18% 90.27% 90.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 44 45
Average daily rate £330 £350 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.71% +25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £201 £300 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £425 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 12 9
Average hourly rate £37.50 £16.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+127.27% -49.23%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.00 £16.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £56.36 £47.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Support Engineer
Surrey

Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford Support Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 8 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (87.50%) MS Office
3 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
4 4 (50.00%) MS Excel
4 4 (50.00%) SharePoint
5 3 (37.50%) ITIL
5 3 (37.50%) VMware
5 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (37.50%) Windows 2000 Server
6 2 (25.00%) SLA
6 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
6 2 (25.00%) Forefront TMG
6 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
6 2 (25.00%) SAN
6 2 (25.00%) CommVault
6 2 (25.00%) ISA Server
6 2 (25.00%) Linux
6 2 (25.00%) SQL
6 2 (25.00%) LAN
6 2 (25.00%) WAN
6 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
7 1 (12.50%) DNS
7 1 (12.50%) DHCP
7 1 (12.50%) Windows XP
7 1 (12.50%) MS Exchange
7 1 (12.50%) .NET
7 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
7 1 (12.50%) Perl
7 1 (12.50%) PHP

Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 1 (12.50%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 4 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (12.50%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 7 (87.50%) MS Office
2 4 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) SAN
1 2 (25.00%) LAN
1 2 (25.00%) WAN
1 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) DHCP
2 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (12.50%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (37.50%) Windows 2000 Server
3 2 (25.00%) Linux
4 1 (12.50%) Windows XP
4 1 (12.50%) Windows 7
4 1 (12.50%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) ITIL
2 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (12.50%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Perl
2 1 (12.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) MCP
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (25.00%) Forefront TMG
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (25.00%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Norton AntiVirus
1 1 (12.50%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) VMware
3 2 (25.00%) CommVault
4 1 (12.50%) Symantec
4 1 (12.50%) McAfee