The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical 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 Technical Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Engineer
Rank - 72 61
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Engineer 0 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds - 0.099% 0.147%
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.104% 0.156%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £200
UK excluding London average daily rate £323 £270 £278
% change year-on-year
+19.62% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.50 £17.00 £13.25
% change year-on-year
+8.82% +28.30%
All Job Titles
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
740 963 640
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 93.43% 95.25% 94.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 384 562 307
Average daily rate £300 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £183 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £460 £489
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 46 60
Average hourly rate £15.50 £13.50 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+14.81% -10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.65 £10.00 £8.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £50.00 £29.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Technical Engineer
West Yorkshire

Technical Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds Technical Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Engineer
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) A+ Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Thin Client
2 1 (50.00%) Wyse
2 1 (50.00%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (50.00%) Fat Client
2 1 (50.00%) XenApp
2 1 (50.00%) MS Office
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (50.00%) Windows XP
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft

Technical Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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.

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Office
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Thin Client
1 1 (50.00%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) A+ Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (50.00%) XenApp
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix
1 1 (50.00%) Wyse
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft