The first table below looks at the demand for the Windows Support Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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 London 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Support Engineer
Rank 372 397 427
Rank change year-on-year
+25 +30
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Support Engineer 9 5 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.041% 0.019% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.045% 0.020% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 3
Average daily rate £250 £221 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.99% -31.92%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £148 £317
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £294 £353
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £183 £290
% change year-on-year
+63.50% -36.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Average hourly rate £19.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £11.50 £13.00 £28.20
% change year-on-year
-11.53% -53.90%
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
20013 24845 28392
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.25% 92.53% 92.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 13506 16024 18238
Average daily rate £450 £445 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.12% -6.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 449 607 669
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £41.25 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Windows Support Engineer
England

Windows Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Windows Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Windows Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Windows Support Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Windows Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows Support Engineer across the London region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

London Windows Support Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Windows Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Windows Support Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Windows Support Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Support Engineer within the London region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Barnet - 2 - -
Windows Support Engineer
England

Windows Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Windows 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 Windows Support Engineer in their job title.

1 29 (100.00%) Windows
2 24 (82.76%) Windows 7
3 22 (75.86%) Microsoft
4 20 (68.97%) Windows XP
5 19 (65.52%) ITIL
6 17 (58.62%) MS Office
7 16 (55.17%) .NET
8 15 (51.72%) C#
8 15 (51.72%) VB
8 15 (51.72%) VB.NET
8 15 (51.72%) Acrobat
8 15 (51.72%) Smartcard
8 15 (51.72%) VB6
8 15 (51.72%) Root Cause Analysis
9 7 (24.14%) Active Directory
10 6 (20.69%) Windows Server 2003
10 6 (20.69%) Windows Server 2008
11 5 (17.24%) VMware
11 5 (17.24%) MS Excel
12 4 (13.79%) MCSE
12 4 (13.79%) Linux
12 4 (13.79%) MS Exchange
12 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (10.34%) Citrix
13 3 (10.34%) Red Hat
13 3 (10.34%) Blackberry
13 3 (10.34%) Cisco
13 3 (10.34%) MCSA
13 3 (10.34%) SQL
13 3 (10.34%) SCCM

Windows Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 16 (55.17%) .NET
2 1 (3.448%) ASP.NET
2 1 (3.448%) Web Services
2 1 (3.448%) ADSI
Application Platforms
1 4 (13.79%) MS Exchange
2 2 (6.897%) IIS
2 2 (6.897%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (3.448%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (3.448%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (3.448%) Apache
3 1 (3.448%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (3.448%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 17 (58.62%) MS Office
2 15 (51.72%) Acrobat
3 5 (17.24%) MS Excel
4 1 (3.448%) Google Apps
Business Applications
1 2 (6.897%) 3000 Xtra
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.897%) SAN
1 2 (6.897%) VPN
2 1 (3.448%) DNS
2 1 (3.448%) Internet
2 1 (3.448%) Firewall
2 1 (3.448%) BIG-IP
2 1 (3.448%) Network Security
2 1 (3.448%) NAS
2 1 (3.448%) LAN
2 1 (3.448%) WAN
2 1 (3.448%) DHCP
2 1 (3.448%) FTP
2 1 (3.448%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.448%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.448%) MSI
General
1 2 (6.897%) Banking
1 2 (6.897%) Investment Banking
1 2 (6.897%) Local Government
2 1 (3.448%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 15 (51.72%) Smartcard
2 3 (10.34%) Blackberry
3 1 (3.448%) Clustering
3 1 (3.448%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 29 (100.00%) Windows
2 24 (82.76%) Windows 7
3 20 (68.97%) Windows XP
4 6 (20.69%) Windows Server 2003
4 6 (20.69%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (13.79%) Linux
6 2 (6.897%) UNIX
6 2 (6.897%) Windows NT
6 2 (6.897%) Windows Vista
7 1 (3.448%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (3.448%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (65.52%) ITIL
2 15 (51.72%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (3.448%) E-Commerce
3 1 (3.448%) Migration
3 1 (3.448%) Problem Management
3 1 (3.448%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (3.448%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 15 (51.72%) VB
1 15 (51.72%) VB.NET
1 15 (51.72%) VB6
1 15 (51.72%) C#
2 3 (10.34%) SQL
3 1 (3.448%) VBScript
3 1 (3.448%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) MCSE
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (10.34%) MCSA
3 2 (6.897%) MCP
4 1 (3.448%) MCITP
4 1 (3.448%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.448%) QA
System Software
1 7 (24.14%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.897%) XenApp
2 2 (6.897%) VMware ESX
3 1 (3.448%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (3.448%) ProxySG
3 1 (3.448%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 1 (3.448%) VMware Server
3 1 (3.448%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.448%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.448%) XenDesktop
3 1 (3.448%) vSphere
3 1 (3.448%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) SCCM
2 2 (6.897%) SCOM
3 1 (3.448%) Legato
3 1 (3.448%) NetBackup
3 1 (3.448%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 22 (75.86%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.24%) VMware
3 3 (10.34%) Cisco
3 3 (10.34%) Citrix
3 3 (10.34%) Red Hat
4 2 (6.897%) LANDesk
4 2 (6.897%) HP
4 2 (6.897%) Dell
4 2 (6.897%) Reuters
4 2 (6.897%) Bloomberg
5 1 (3.448%) McAfee
5 1 (3.448%) Sophos
5 1 (3.448%) Altiris
5 1 (3.448%) Blue Coat
5 1 (3.448%) Google
5 1 (3.448%) PlateSpin
5 1 (3.448%) IBM
5 1 (3.448%) BMC
5 1 (3.448%) CommVault
5 1 (3.448%) Veritas