The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Lancashire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Technical Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 Lancashire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Engineer
Rank 31 39 30
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Engineer 3 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 1.422% 0.728% 0.862%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.493% 0.789% 0.930%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £240 - £235
UK excluding London average daily rate £225 £233 £263
% change year-on-year
-3.22% -11.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Average hourly rate £30.00 £29.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.69% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £13.75
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +45.45%
All Job Titles
Lancashire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
201 380 215
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 95.26% 92.23% 92.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 202 88
Average daily rate £285 £375 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-24.00% +20.96%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £201 £273 £188
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £500 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 22 33
Average hourly rate £19.02 £18.00 £38.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.66% -52.63%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.50 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £30.00 £41.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Technical Engineer
North West

Technical Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire Technical Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Lancashire Technical Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Technical Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Lancashire Technical Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Engineer
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire region that cited Technical 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 Technical Engineer in their job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Backup Exec
2 3 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 3 (50.00%) SCOM
2 3 (50.00%) iSCSI
2 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (50.00%) XenApp
2 3 (50.00%) XenDesktop
2 3 (50.00%) vSphere
2 3 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
2 3 (50.00%) Solaris
2 3 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 3 (50.00%) SAS
2 3 (50.00%) NFS
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco
2 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (50.00%) Citrix
2 3 (50.00%) SAN
2 3 (50.00%) VMware
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (50.00%) IIS
2 3 (50.00%) UNIX

Technical Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire region that cited Technical 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 Technical Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 3 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (50.00%) SAS
1 3 (50.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) iSCSI
1 3 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
1 3 (50.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (50.00%) Solaris
2 3 (50.00%) UNIX
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (50.00%) XenApp
1 3 (50.00%) XenDesktop
1 3 (50.00%) vSphere
1 3 (50.00%) NFS
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Backup Exec
1 3 (50.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco
1 3 (50.00%) Citrix
1 3 (50.00%) VMware