Herefordshire Support Engineer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Support Engineer role in IT contracts within the Herefordshire 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 Support 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 Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Aylesbury Banbury Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bolton Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorset Dover Dudley Dundee Durham Ealing East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Greenford Grimsby Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Hartlepool Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Hull Immingham Inverness Ipswich Jersey Kendal Kent Kettering King's Lynn Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Ormskirk Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Redditch Redhill Rochester Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Snodland Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark Spalding St Albans St Asaph Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Drayton West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Wirral Witham Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	16	38
Rank change on same period last year	+22
Matching contract IT job ads	1	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.971 %	0.495 %
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	£215	£243
% change on same period last year	-11.70 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£13.00
Average hourly rate	-	£14.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.37	£18.86
% change on same period last year	-2.58 %
Job Titles Herefordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	103	202
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.136 %	0.214 %
Daily rates quoted	29	50
Average minimum daily rate	£270	£304
Average daily rate	£292	£316
% change on same period last year	-7.48 %
Average maximum daily rate	£314	£327
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.83	£15.67
Average hourly rate	£22.58	£17.11
% change on same period last year	+31.98 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.33	£18.56
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.40	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.22 %
Support Engineer West Midlands

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 Herefordshire 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 Herefordshire 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 Herefordshire region.

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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 Support Engineer within the Herefordshire 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
Hemel Hempstead	-	1	-	-

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Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Herefordshire 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 4 (57.14 %) Windows 2 3 (42.86 %) Citrix 3 2 (28.57 %) MS Exchange 3 2 (28.57 %) Microsoft 3 2 (28.57 %) ITIL 3 2 (28.57 %) Lotus 4 1 (14.29 %) Terminal Services 4 1 (14.29 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (14.29 %) X.400 4 1 (14.29 %) X.500 4 1 (14.29 %) AS400 4 1 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2005 4 1 (14.29 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 1 (14.29 %) Exchange Server 2003

4 1 (14.29 %) Problem Management 4 1 (14.29 %) Security Cleared 4 1 (14.29 %) MCP 4 1 (14.29 %) SQL Server 4 1 (14.29 %) MS Office 4 1 (14.29 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (14.29 %) Lotus Notes 4 1 (14.29 %) Lotus Domino 4 1 (14.29 %) MS Excel 4 1 (14.29 %) Active Directory 4 1 (14.29 %) HP 4 1 (14.29 %) MetaFrame 4 1 (14.29 %) Microsoft Certification 4 1 (14.29 %) SAN

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Herefordshire 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 Platforms 1 2 (28.57 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (14.29 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 1 (14.29 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (14.29 %) Lotus Notes 2 1 (14.29 %) Lotus Domino	Applications 1 1 (14.29 %) MS Office 1 1 (14.29 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 1 (14.29 %) SAN 1 1 (14.29 %) X.400 1 1 (14.29 %) X.500	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (14.29 %) SQL Server 1 1 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2000 1 1 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2005
Miscellaneous 1 1 (14.29 %) AS400	Operating Systems 1 4 (57.14 %) Windows 2 1 (14.29 %) Windows 2000 2 1 (14.29 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (28.57 %) ITIL 2 1 (14.29 %) Problem Management 2 1 (14.29 %) Security Cleared	Qualifications 1 1 (14.29 %) MCP 1 1 (14.29 %) Microsoft Certification
System Software 1 1 (14.29 %) Active Directory 1 1 (14.29 %) MetaFrame 1 1 (14.29 %) Terminal Services	Vendors 1 3 (42.86 %) Citrix 2 2 (28.57 %) Lotus 2 2 (28.57 %) Microsoft 3 1 (14.29 %) HP