The first table below looks at the demand for the Design Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Design Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Leeds 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Design Engineer
Rank - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Design Engineer 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds - - -
As % of the Job Titles category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.07% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.50 £30.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year
-0.81% +2.50%
All Job Titles
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
706 845 596
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 94.77% 94.94% 95.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 480 279
Average daily rate £300 £330 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.09% -5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £213 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £434 £453 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 47 44
Average hourly rate £12.50 £12.50 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -16.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £10.00 £6.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.75 £32.80 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Design Engineer
West Yorkshire

Design Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds Design Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Design Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Leeds Design Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Design Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leeds Design Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Design Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region that cited Design 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 Design Engineer in their job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (50.00%) ZENworks
2 3 (50.00%) Application Packaging
2 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (33.33%) F5
3 2 (33.33%) ITIL V2
3 2 (33.33%) Software Deployment
3 2 (33.33%) Business Desktop Deployment
3 2 (33.33%) Problem Management
3 2 (33.33%) Release Management
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 2 (33.33%) Change Management
3 2 (33.33%) Novell
3 2 (33.33%) MCSE
3 2 (33.33%) VB
3 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (33.33%) SLA
4 1 (16.67%) Cisco
4 1 (16.67%) UNIX
4 1 (16.67%) MCSA
4 1 (16.67%) Windows XP

Design Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region that cited Design 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 Design Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (50.00%) Application Packaging
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) LAN
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) WAAS
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (16.67%) Windows 7
4 1 (16.67%) UNIX
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Vista
4 1 (16.67%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL
1 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
1 2 (33.33%) Change Management
1 2 (33.33%) Migration
1 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
1 2 (33.33%) Problem Management
1 2 (33.33%) Release Management
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL V2
1 2 (33.33%) Software Deployment
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Management
2 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
2 1 (16.67%) Document Management
2 1 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) VB
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) MCSE
3 1 (16.67%) MCSA
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) ZENworks
2 2 (33.33%) Business Desktop Deployment
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Novell
2 2 (33.33%) F5
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) CheckPoint