Manchester Support Engineer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Support Engineer role in IT contracts within the Manchester region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Aylesbury Barking Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover Dudley Dundee Durham Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Grimsby Guildford Gwent Halifax Hampshire Hartlepool Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Hitchin Home Counties Hove Hull Huntingdon Immingham Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Kendal Kent Kettering King's Lynn Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Rochester Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark Spalding St Albans St Asaph Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Drayton West Kilbride West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Wirral Witham Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	57	35
Rank change on same period last year	-22
Matching contract IT job ads	24	35
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.032 %	0.035 %
As % of the category below	1.945 %	3.359 %
Daily rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum daily rate	£205	£125
Average daily rate	£205	£150
% change on same period last year	+36.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£205	£175
UK excluding London average daily rate	£226	£252
% change on same period last year	-10.03 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.57	£16.91
Average hourly rate	£13.36	£18.84
% change on same period last year	-29.08 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.14	£20.76
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.72	£18.87
% change on same period last year	-0.83 %
Job Titles Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	1234	1042
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.645 %	1.054 %
Daily rates quoted	230	212
Average minimum daily rate	£315	£313
Average daily rate	£333	£332
% change on same period last year	+0.05 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£352
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	182	116
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.04	£17.86
Average hourly rate	£20.90	£19.30
% change on same period last year	+8.32 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.77	£20.73
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
Support Engineer North West

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Support Engineer across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Support Engineer across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Support Engineer within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Stockport	-2	2	-	-
Bolton	-2	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 24 (61.54 %) Windows 2 13 (33.33 %) Microsoft 3 12 (30.77 %) Active Directory 3 12 (30.77 %) Windows XP 4 8 (20.51 %) MS Office 5 7 (17.95 %) MS Exchange 5 7 (17.95 %) LAN 6 6 (15.38 %) Citrix 6 6 (15.38 %) Cisco 7 5 (12.82 %) Ethernet 7 5 (12.82 %) Windows 2000 7 5 (12.82 %) Exchange Server 2003 8 4 (10.26 %) Exchange Server 2000 8 4 (10.26 %) Windows NT 8 4 (10.26 %) WAN

8 4 (10.26 %) TCP/IP 8 4 (10.26 %) VMware 8 4 (10.26 %) Windows Server 2003 9 3 (7.692 %) AS400 9 3 (7.692 %) VPN 9 3 (7.692 %) MS Excel 9 3 (7.692 %) Cisco Certification 9 3 (7.692 %) Migration 9 3 (7.692 %) LANDesk 10 2 (5.128 %) Degree 10 2 (5.128 %) Mitel 10 2 (5.128 %) Microsoft Certification 10 2 (5.128 %) CCNP 10 2 (5.128 %) DNS 10 2 (5.128 %) DHCP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 7 (17.95 %) MS Exchange 2 5 (12.82 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 4 (10.26 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 2 (5.128 %) Lotus Notes 5 1 (2.564 %) SharePoint 5 1 (2.564 %) GroupWise 5 1 (2.564 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 1 (2.564 %) Exchange Server 2007	Applications 1 8 (20.51 %) MS Office 2 3 (7.692 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 7 (17.95 %) LAN 2 5 (12.82 %) Ethernet 3 4 (10.26 %) TCP/IP 3 4 (10.26 %) WAN 4 3 (7.692 %) VPN 5 2 (5.128 %) DNS 5 2 (5.128 %) DHCP 5 2 (5.128 %) VoIP 6 1 (2.564 %) Intranet 6 1 (2.564 %) Internet 6 1 (2.564 %) Firewall 6 1 (2.564 %) IP Telephony	General 1 2 (5.128 %) Electric 2 1 (2.564 %) Government 2 1 (2.564 %) Manufacturing 2 1 (2.564 %) Local Government 2 1 (2.564 %) Back Office 2 1 (2.564 %) Electronics 2 1 (2.564 %) Construction
Miscellaneous 1 3 (7.692 %) AS400 2 2 (5.128 %) Blackberry 3 1 (2.564 %) Management Information System 3 1 (2.564 %) PDA 3 1 (2.564 %) Danish Language 3 1 (2.564 %) Dutch Language 3 1 (2.564 %) Finnish Language 3 1 (2.564 %) French Language 3 1 (2.564 %) German Language 3 1 (2.564 %) Italian Language 3 1 (2.564 %) Norwegian Language 3 1 (2.564 %) Portuguese Language 3 1 (2.564 %) Spanish Language 3 1 (2.564 %) Swedish Language	Operating Systems 1 24 (61.54 %) Windows 2 12 (30.77 %) Windows XP 3 5 (12.82 %) Windows 2000 4 4 (10.26 %) Windows NT 4 4 (10.26 %) Windows Server 2003 5 2 (5.128 %) UNIX 5 2 (5.128 %) AIX 6 1 (2.564 %) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (7.692 %) Migration 2 1 (2.564 %) Time Management 2 1 (2.564 %) Data Security 2 1 (2.564 %) Validation	Programming Languages 1 2 (5.128 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 3 (7.692 %) Cisco Certification 2 2 (5.128 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (5.128 %) MCSE 2 2 (5.128 %) CCNP 2 2 (5.128 %) Degree 3 1 (2.564 %) MCP 3 1 (2.564 %) CCNA 3 1 (2.564 %) CNA 3 1 (2.564 %) Novell Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.564 %) SLA
System Software 1 12 (30.77 %) Active Directory 2 2 (5.128 %) Backup Exec 3 1 (2.564 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (2.564 %) MetaFrame 3 1 (2.564 %) VMware ESX	Systems Management 1 1 (2.564 %) ZENworks
Vendors 1 13 (33.33 %) Microsoft 2 6 (15.38 %) Citrix 2 6 (15.38 %) Cisco 3 4 (10.26 %) VMware 4 3 (7.692 %) LANDesk 5 2 (5.128 %) Mitel 5 2 (5.128 %) Lotus 6 1 (2.564 %) Novell 6 1 (2.564 %) HP 6 1 (2.564 %) Intel