Hertfordshire Systems Engineer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Systems Engineer role in IT contracts within the Hertfordshire 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 Systems Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

System Engineer
Location Aberdeen Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bletchley Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canterbury Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Crawley Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorking Dorset Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Fareham Feltham Filton Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hayes Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hull Ipswich Kent Knaresborough Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Midlands Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Rugby Salisbury Scotland Scottish Borders Sheffield Shetland Islands Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	61	90
Rank change on same period last year	+29
Matching contract IT job ads	10	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	1.086 %	0.313 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£400	-
Average daily rate	£440	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£480	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£290	£334
% change on same period last year	-13.18 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.50	£33.00
Average hourly rate	£33.19	£33.00
% change on same period last year	+0.56 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.88	£33.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.01	£31.27
% change on same period last year	+2.34 %
Job Titles Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	921	1599
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.480 %	1.717 %
Daily rates quoted	284	619
Average minimum daily rate	£337	£324
Average daily rate	£357	£344
% change on same period last year	+3.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£378	£364
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£352
% change on same period last year	+0.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	112	194
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.57	£23.77
Average hourly rate	£27.67	£24.98
% change on same period last year	+10.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.76	£26.19
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.10	£24.04
% change on same period last year	-3.88 %
Systems Engineer East of England

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.

Systems Engineer
Demand Trend

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

Systems Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Systems Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Systems Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Systems Engineer across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

Systems Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Engineer within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 2 December 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
Stevenage	-	7	£440	-
Welwyn Garden City	-	2	-	-
Watford	-	1	-	-

Systems Engineer East of England

Systems Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 4 (16.67 %) Electric 1 4 (16.67 %) Degree 1 4 (16.67 %) Physics 1 4 (16.67 %) Security Cleared 2 3 (12.50 %) Aerospace 2 3 (12.50 %) NASTRAN 2 3 (12.50 %) Requirements Management 2 3 (12.50 %) Telecoms 2 3 (12.50 %) Military 2 3 (12.50 %) Windows 2 3 (12.50 %) VB 2 3 (12.50 %) NCR 2 3 (12.50 %) MATLAB 3 2 (8.333 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (8.333 %) Citrix

3 2 (8.333 %) MS Project 3 2 (8.333 %) MS Office 3 2 (8.333 %) UNIX 3 2 (8.333 %) C 3 2 (8.333 %) C++ 3 2 (8.333 %) EMC 3 2 (8.333 %) Document Management 3 2 (8.333 %) Time Management 4 1 (4.167 %) SC Cleared 4 1 (4.167 %) Finite Element Analysis 4 1 (4.167 %) Application Packaging 4 1 (4.167 %) Software Engineering 4 1 (4.167 %) Manufacturing 4 1 (4.167 %) Migration 4 1 (4.167 %) WebSphere

Systems Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 Development 1 1 (4.167 %) Middleware 1 1 (4.167 %) WebSphere 1 1 (4.167 %) Application Packaging	Application Platforms 1 1 (4.167 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (4.167 %) WPS
Applications 1 3 (12.50 %) MATLAB 1 3 (12.50 %) NASTRAN 2 2 (8.333 %) MS Project 2 2 (8.333 %) MS Office 3 1 (4.167 %) MS Excel 3 1 (4.167 %) MS PowerPoint	Communications & Networking 1 1 (4.167 %) ATM 1 1 (4.167 %) LAN 1 1 (4.167 %) WAN 1 1 (4.167 %) SMTP 1 1 (4.167 %) FTP 1 1 (4.167 %) HTTP 1 1 (4.167 %) SNMP 1 1 (4.167 %) VPN 1 1 (4.167 %) Wireless 1 1 (4.167 %) Frame Relay 1 1 (4.167 %) 2G 1 1 (4.167 %) BSS
Development Applications 1 1 (4.167 %) RequisitePro 1 1 (4.167 %) ClearQuest	General 1 4 (16.67 %) Electric 2 3 (12.50 %) Telecoms 2 3 (12.50 %) Aerospace 2 3 (12.50 %) Military 3 1 (4.167 %) Finance 3 1 (4.167 %) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous 1 4 (16.67 %) Physics 2 1 (4.167 %) NHS	Operating Systems 1 3 (12.50 %) Windows 2 2 (8.333 %) UNIX 2 2 (8.333 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (4.167 %) AIX 3 1 (4.167 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (16.67 %) Security Cleared 2 3 (12.50 %) Requirements Management 3 2 (8.333 %) Time Management 3 2 (8.333 %) Document Management 4 1 (4.167 %) Software Engineering 4 1 (4.167 %) UML 4 1 (4.167 %) Migration 4 1 (4.167 %) Data Management 4 1 (4.167 %) SC Cleared 4 1 (4.167 %) Project Planning 4 1 (4.167 %) Finite Element Analysis	Programming Languages 1 3 (12.50 %) VB 2 2 (8.333 %) C 2 2 (8.333 %) C++
Qualifications 1 4 (16.67 %) Degree 2 1 (4.167 %) MCSE 2 1 (4.167 %) Citrix Certification 2 1 (4.167 %) Microsoft Certification	System Software 1 1 (4.167 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 3 (12.50 %) NCR 2 2 (8.333 %) Citrix 2 2 (8.333 %) EMC 3 1 (4.167 %) Nortel 3 1 (4.167 %) Cisco 3 1 (4.167 %) IBM 3 1 (4.167 %) Microsoft 3 1 (4.167 %) AppSense 3 1 (4.167 %) Altiris