The first table below looks at the demand for the Support Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Leicester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 Leicester 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Support Engineer
Rank 20 14 24
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +10
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 2 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicester 1.961% 2.326% 1.905%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.020% 2.564% 1.961%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £240 £202 £263
% change year-on-year
+19.10% -23.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
Average hourly rate £13.00 £15.50 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.12% +29.16%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £15.88 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-5.51% +5.83%
All Job Titles
Leicester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
99 78 102
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicester 97.06% 90.70% 97.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 29 21
Average daily rate £308 £301 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.32% -14.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £150 £190
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £475 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 16 22
Average hourly rate £13.50 £8.50 £33.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+58.82% -74.62%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £8.50 £26.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £25.25 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Support Engineer
Leicestershire

Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicester Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Leicester Support Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leicester Support Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicester region that cited 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 Support Engineer in their job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 9 (90.00%) Active Directory
3 6 (60.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 5 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (40.00%) MCP
5 4 (40.00%) Change Management
5 4 (40.00%) VMware
5 4 (40.00%) Clustering
5 4 (40.00%) Altiris
5 4 (40.00%) SCOM
5 4 (40.00%) Citrix
5 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (40.00%) TCP/IP
5 4 (40.00%) MCSE
5 4 (40.00%) MS Excel
5 4 (40.00%) VBScript
5 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
5 4 (40.00%) IIS
5 4 (40.00%) PowerShell
5 4 (40.00%) NetScaler
5 4 (40.00%) vSphere
6 2 (20.00%) Performance Management
6 2 (20.00%) MS Office
6 2 (20.00%) MS Exchange
6 2 (20.00%) SAN
6 2 (20.00%) Lync
6 2 (20.00%) Unified Communications
6 2 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (20.00%) Windows 7

Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicester region that cited 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 Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) IIS
2 2 (20.00%) MS Exchange
2 2 (20.00%) Lync
2 2 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 4 (40.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (20.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (40.00%) NetScaler
2 2 (20.00%) SAN
2 2 (20.00%) Unified Communications
3 1 (10.00%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (60.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (20.00%) Windows 7
5 1 (10.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Change Management
2 2 (20.00%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) VBScript
1 4 (40.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) MCP
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (40.00%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (90.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (40.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (40.00%) VMware
2 4 (40.00%) Altiris
2 4 (40.00%) Citrix
3 1 (10.00%) Novell