Kent Field Engineer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Field Engineer role in IT contracts within the Kent 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 Field Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aldershot Barry Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Beverley Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bristol Broxbourne Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire Chippenham City of London Cornwall Coventry Crewe Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Diss Dorset Dudley Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ely England Essex Falmouth Fareham Glasgow Godalming Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Huddersfield Hull Kent Kettering Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Reading Rhondda Cynon Taff Sale Scotland Sheffield Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southall Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Swindon Taunton Thetford Towcester Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wakefield Wales Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Wiltshire Woking York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	35	51
Rank change on same period last year	+16
Matching contract IT job ads	12	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	3.158 %	0.958 %
Daily rates quoted	5	1
Average minimum daily rate	£100	£120
Average daily rate	£113	£120
% change on same period last year	-5.83 %
Average maximum daily rate	£126	£120
UK excluding London average daily rate	£106	£140
% change on same period last year	-24.32 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.25	£10.00
Average hourly rate	£22.13	£11.00
% change on same period last year	+101.13 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.00	£12.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.01	£17.98
% change on same period last year	+16.82 %
Job Titles Kent
Matching contract IT job ads	380	626
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.540 %	0.632 %
Daily rates quoted	126	136
Average minimum daily rate	£289	£327
Average daily rate	£306	£345
% change on same period last year	-11.46 %
Average maximum daily rate	£322	£363
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	56	109
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.19	£19.73
Average hourly rate	£18.71	£21.35
% change on same period last year	-12.38 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.23	£22.98
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.69	£25.18
% change on same period last year	-5.93 %
Field 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 Field Engineer across the Kent 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 Field Engineer across the Kent region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Field Engineer across the Kent region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

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

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Field Engineer within the Kent region over the 3 months to 7 October 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
Maidstone	+10	9	£115	-
Dartford	-	1	£110	-

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Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region that cited Field 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 Field Engineer in their job title.

1 6 (46.15 %) Dell 2 5 (38.46 %) DCSE 3 2 (15.38 %) HP 4 1 (7.692 %) HP APS 4 1 (7.692 %) Dell Certification 4 1 (7.692 %) MPLS 4 1 (7.692 %) MS Office 4 1 (7.692 %) Windows 4 1 (7.692 %) MS Excel 4 1 (7.692 %) Windows XP 4 1 (7.692 %) LAN 4 1 (7.692 %) WAN 4 1 (7.692 %) Active Directory

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Applications 1 1 (7.692 %) MS Office 1 1 (7.692 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 1 (7.692 %) LAN 1 1 (7.692 %) WAN 1 1 (7.692 %) MPLS
Operating Systems 1 1 (7.692 %) Windows 1 1 (7.692 %) Windows XP	Qualifications 1 5 (38.46 %) DCSE 2 1 (7.692 %) HP APS 2 1 (7.692 %) Dell Certification
System Software 1 1 (7.692 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 6 (46.15 %) Dell 2 2 (15.38 %) HP