Hampshire Design Engineer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Design Engineer role in IT contracts within the Hampshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Design Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 7 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire East Midlands East of England England Essex Feltham Fife Glasgow Glenrothes Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Kent Livingston London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Midlands Milton Keynes North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Portsmouth Reading Rochester Rugby Salisbury Scotland Shropshire Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West Southampton Stevenage Stockport Sussex Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales Wiltshire Winchester Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	71	83
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	31	43
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.041 %	0.046 %
As % of the category below	1.472 %	1.648 %
Daily rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum daily rate	£375	£350
Average daily rate	£375	£375
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£375	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£321	£364
% change on same period last year	-11.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.06	£35.33
Average hourly rate	£33.06	£38.33
% change on same period last year	-13.74 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.06	£41.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.41	£34.29
% change on same period last year	-14.23 %
Job Titles Hampshire
Matching contract IT job ads	2106	2609
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.772 %	2.765 %
Daily rates quoted	463	662
Average minimum daily rate	£351	£343
Average daily rate	£374	£365
% change on same period last year	+2.41 %
Average maximum daily rate	£396	£387
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	391	517
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.52	£28.51
Average hourly rate	£27.35	£30.13
% change on same period last year	-9.23 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.18	£31.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.40	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.22 %
Design Engineer South East

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 Design Engineer across the Hampshire 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 Design Engineer across the Hampshire 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 Design Engineer across the Hampshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Design Engineer across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 7 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Design Engineer within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 7 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Winchester	-	5	-	-
Portsmouth	-4	3	-	-
Southampton	+2	1	-	-
Basingstoke	+9	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region that cited Design 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 Design Engineer in their job title.

1 32 (41.03 %) Telecoms 2 22 (28.21 %) ASIC 3 18 (23.08 %) Network Design 4 13 (16.67 %) AutoCAD 4 13 (16.67 %) Cisco 5 11 (14.10 %) Cisco Certification 5 11 (14.10 %) CCNP 5 11 (14.10 %) Security Cleared 6 9 (11.54 %) CAD 7 8 (10.26 %) WAN 7 8 (10.26 %) SC Cleared 7 8 (10.26 %) Electric 7 8 (10.26 %) Health 7 8 (10.26 %) VHDL 7 8 (10.26 %) Electronics

8 7 (8.974 %) Firewall 8 7 (8.974 %) VPN 8 7 (8.974 %) VoIP 9 6 (7.692 %) Windows 9 6 (7.692 %) OSPF 10 5 (6.410 %) BGP 10 5 (6.410 %) Juniper 10 5 (6.410 %) C 10 5 (6.410 %) HNC 10 5 (6.410 %) HND 10 5 (6.410 %) Unix 10 5 (6.410 %) LAN 11 4 (5.128 %) MS Exchange 11 4 (5.128 %) Perl 11 4 (5.128 %) Windows NT

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region that cited Design 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 Design Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (1.282 %) .NET 1 1 (1.282 %) XML 1 1 (1.282 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 4 (5.128 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 13 (16.67 %) AutoCAD 2 2 (2.564 %) CATIA 3 1 (1.282 %) MATLAB 3 1 (1.282 %) MS Office 3 1 (1.282 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 8 (10.26 %) WAN 2 7 (8.974 %) VPN 2 7 (8.974 %) Firewall 2 7 (8.974 %) VoIP 3 6 (7.692 %) OSPF 4 5 (6.410 %) BGP 4 5 (6.410 %) LAN 5 3 (3.846 %) 3G 6 2 (2.564 %) MPLS 6 2 (2.564 %) ATM 7 1 (1.282 %) Broadband 7 1 (1.282 %) GSM 7 1 (1.282 %) UMTS 7 1 (1.282 %) TCP/IP 7 1 (1.282 %) DSL 7 1 (1.282 %) DVB 7 1 (1.282 %) IPsec 7 1 (1.282 %) TETRA 7 1 (1.282 %) LLU
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (1.282 %) RDBMS	Development Applications 1 1 (1.282 %) NUnit
General 1 32 (41.03 %) Telecoms 2 8 (10.26 %) Electric 2 8 (10.26 %) Health 2 8 (10.26 %) Electronics 3 3 (3.846 %) Military 4 2 (2.564 %) Government 4 2 (2.564 %) Finance 5 1 (1.282 %) Aerospace 5 1 (1.282 %) Marketing	Miscellaneous 1 22 (28.21 %) ASIC 2 8 (10.26 %) VHDL 3 3 (3.846 %) Handset 4 2 (2.564 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 5 1 (1.282 %) Physics 5 1 (1.282 %) Computer Science 5 1 (1.282 %) Fat Client 5 1 (1.282 %) Client/Server 5 1 (1.282 %) Thin Client
Operating Systems 1 6 (7.692 %) Windows 2 5 (6.410 %) Unix 3 4 (5.128 %) Windows NT 4 3 (3.846 %) Solaris 5 2 (2.564 %) Tru64 6 1 (1.282 %) Windows XP 6 1 (1.282 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 18 (23.08 %) Network Design 2 11 (14.10 %) Security Cleared 3 9 (11.54 %) CAD 4 8 (10.26 %) SC Cleared 5 4 (5.128 %) Configuration Management 6 3 (3.846 %) Business Development 7 2 (2.564 %) Project Management 7 2 (2.564 %) Validation 7 2 (2.564 %) UML 7 2 (2.564 %) OO 7 2 (2.564 %) Incident Management 8 1 (1.282 %) RUP 8 1 (1.282 %) CAE 8 1 (1.282 %) Unified Process 8 1 (1.282 %) IC Design 8 1 (1.282 %) TDD 8 1 (1.282 %) Finite Element Analysis 8 1 (1.282 %) Unit Testing 8 1 (1.282 %) DV Cleared 8 1 (1.282 %) Network Planning
Programming Languages 1 5 (6.410 %) C 2 4 (5.128 %) Perl 3 3 (3.846 %) Assembly Language 3 3 (3.846 %) Tcl 4 2 (2.564 %) C++ 5 1 (1.282 %) Java 5 1 (1.282 %) C# 5 1 (1.282 %) Fortran	Qualifications 1 11 (14.10 %) CCNP 1 11 (14.10 %) Cisco Certification 2 5 (6.410 %) HNC 2 5 (6.410 %) HND 3 3 (3.846 %) Degree 4 2 (2.564 %) CCIP 5 1 (1.282 %) CCNA 5 1 (1.282 %) CCDA 5 1 (1.282 %) CCDP 5 1 (1.282 %) Citrix Certification 5 1 (1.282 %) CCEA 5 1 (1.282 %) MCSE 5 1 (1.282 %) PhD 5 1 (1.282 %) CCIE 5 1 (1.282 %) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (2.564 %) SLA	System Software 1 1 (1.282 %) Active Directory 1 1 (1.282 %) Terminal Server 1 1 (1.282 %) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management 1 1 (1.282 %) Netcool	Vendors 1 13 (16.67 %) Cisco 2 5 (6.410 %) Juniper 3 2 (2.564 %) Sun 4 1 (1.282 %) HP 4 1 (1.282 %) EMC 4 1 (1.282 %) Nortel 4 1 (1.282 %) Citrix 4 1 (1.282 %) CheckPoint 4 1 (1.282 %) IBM