The first table below looks at the demand for the Server Support Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Server Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 Kent 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Server Support Engineer
Rank - 36 -
Contract jobs requiring a Server Support Engineer 0 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent - 0.373% -
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.410% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £252 £290
% change year-on-year
+19.16% -13.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £15.94 £21.40
% change year-on-year
+56.86% -25.52%
All Job Titles
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
275 244 293
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 92.28% 91.04% 97.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 117 169
Average daily rate £300 £313 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.00% +4.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £138 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £388
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 25 23
Average hourly rate £16.00 £15.50 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.22% +3.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £10.00 £11.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.75 £27.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Server Support Engineer
South East

Server Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent Server Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Server Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Server Support Engineer across the Kent region.

Kent Server Support Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Server Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Kent Server Support Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Server Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region that cited Server 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 Server Support Engineer in their job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (80.00%) PKI
2 4 (80.00%) SCOM
2 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (80.00%) VBScript
2 4 (80.00%) IPv6
2 4 (80.00%) Firewall
2 4 (80.00%) IPsec
2 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 4 (80.00%) Citrix
2 4 (80.00%) Juniper
2 4 (80.00%) Terminal Services
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (80.00%) SharePoint
2 4 (80.00%) DHCP
2 4 (80.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (80.00%) VPN
2 4 (80.00%) DNS
2 4 (80.00%) Windows 2000 Server
3 3 (60.00%) LAN
3 3 (60.00%) WLAN
3 3 (60.00%) WAN
3 3 (60.00%) HP
3 3 (60.00%) Dell
3 3 (60.00%) EMC
3 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (60.00%) Release Management
4 2 (40.00%) Microsoft

Server Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region that cited Server 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 Server Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 4 (80.00%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) IPv6
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
1 4 (80.00%) IPsec
1 4 (80.00%) DHCP
1 4 (80.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (80.00%) VPN
1 4 (80.00%) DNS
2 3 (60.00%) LAN
2 3 (60.00%) WLAN
2 3 (60.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (80.00%) Windows 2000 Server
3 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (80.00%) VBScript
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (80.00%) Terminal Services
3 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
1 4 (80.00%) Citrix
1 4 (80.00%) Juniper
2 3 (60.00%) HP
2 3 (60.00%) Dell
2 3 (60.00%) EMC
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft