Norfolk Support Engineer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Support Engineer role in IT contracts within the Norfolk 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 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Support Engineer
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Amersham Avon Barking Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckfastleigh Buckinghamshire Burnley Buxton Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chichester Chippenham City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Douglas Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Hounslow Hove Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Isleworth Kent Kettering Kidderminster Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Morecambe Motherwell Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northolt Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Sandwich Scarborough Scotland Scottish Borders Sheffield Shropshire Skipton Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Asaph Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Teddington Telford Templecombe Thames Valley Thatcham Thirsk Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Kilbride West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Whitehaven Wiltshire Windlesham Wirral Witham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Wrexham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	30	24
Rank change on same period last year	-6
Matching contract IT job ads	18	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.025 %	0.014 %
As % of the category below	4.128 %	4.035 %
Daily rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£130
Average daily rate	£450	£165
% change on same period last year	+172.72 %
Average maximum daily rate	£500	£200
UK excluding London average daily rate	£231	£231
% change on same period last year	-0.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.18	£15.68
Average hourly rate	£16.15	£17.54
% change on same period last year	-7.93 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.11	£19.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.91	£19.23
% change on same period last year	-1.65 %
Job Titles Norfolk
Matching contract IT job ads	436	347
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.617 %	0.351 %
Daily rates quoted	145	122
Average minimum daily rate	£353	£363
Average daily rate	£377	£384
% change on same period last year	-1.87 %
Average maximum daily rate	£401	£405
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.18 %
Hourly rates quoted	55	33
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.58	£19.36
Average hourly rate	£18.17	£21.27
% change on same period last year	-14.58 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.77	£23.19
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.71	£25.14
% change on same period last year	-5.69 %
Support Engineer East of England

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.

Support Engineer
Demand Trend

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

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Support Engineer across the Norfolk 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 Norfolk 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 Norfolk region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Support Engineer within the Norfolk region over the 3 months to 13 October 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
Norwich	-11	10	£450	+172.72 %
Great Yarmouth	-	1	-	-

Support Engineer East of England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Norfolk 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 18 (54.55 %) Windows 2 14 (42.42 %) Microsoft 3 11 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 4 10 (30.30 %) MS Exchange 5 9 (27.27 %) Active Directory 6 8 (24.24 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 7 (21.21 %) MS Office 8 5 (15.15 %) VMware 8 5 (15.15 %) SQL Server 8 5 (15.15 %) Windows 2000 8 5 (15.15 %) Citrix 8 5 (15.15 %) SAN 9 4 (12.12 %) Windows XP 9 4 (12.12 %) DNS 9 4 (12.12 %) Back Office

9 4 (12.12 %) Windows 2000 Server 10 3 (9.091 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 10 3 (9.091 %) Cisco 10 3 (9.091 %) MS Excel 10 3 (9.091 %) UNIX 11 2 (6.061 %) ITIL 11 2 (6.061 %) Windows NT 11 2 (6.061 %) IBM 11 2 (6.061 %) TCP/IP 11 2 (6.061 %) Novell 11 2 (6.061 %) Dell 11 2 (6.061 %) Intel 11 2 (6.061 %) Service Delivery 11 2 (6.061 %) Symantec 11 2 (6.061 %) Network Design

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Norfolk 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 10 (30.30 %) MS Exchange 2 8 (24.24 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 2 (6.061 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 1 (3.030 %) IIS 4 1 (3.030 %) Exchange Server 5.5	Applications 1 7 (21.21 %) MS Office 2 3 (9.091 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 5 (15.15 %) SAN 2 4 (12.12 %) DNS 3 2 (6.061 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (3.030 %) Firewall 4 1 (3.030 %) IP Telephony 4 1 (3.030 %) Cisco PIX 4 1 (3.030 %) Network Security 4 1 (3.030 %) LAN 4 1 (3.030 %) VoIP 4 1 (3.030 %) WAN 4 1 (3.030 %) DHCP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (15.15 %) SQL Server
General 1 4 (12.12 %) Back Office 2 1 (3.030 %) Finance 2 1 (3.030 %) Government 2 1 (3.030 %) Insurance	Miscellaneous 1 2 (6.061 %) Video Conferencing 2 1 (3.030 %) Clustering
Operating Systems 1 18 (54.55 %) Windows 2 11 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 3 5 (15.15 %) Windows 2000 4 4 (12.12 %) Windows XP 4 4 (12.12 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 3 (9.091 %) UNIX 6 2 (6.061 %) Windows NT 7 1 (3.030 %) AIX 7 1 (3.030 %) Windows Vista 7 1 (3.030 %) Windows Server 2008	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (6.061 %) Network Design 1 2 (6.061 %) ITIL 1 2 (6.061 %) Service Delivery 1 2 (6.061 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (3.030 %) Migration 2 1 (3.030 %) Data Migration 2 1 (3.030 %) SC Cleared 2 1 (3.030 %) CTC Cleared
Programming Languages 1 1 (3.030 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 1 (3.030 %) MCSE 1 1 (3.030 %) CCNA 1 1 (3.030 %) CCA 1 1 (3.030 %) Citrix Certification 1 1 (3.030 %) Cisco Certification 1 1 (3.030 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (3.030 %) ITIL Certification 1 1 (3.030 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software 1 9 (27.27 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 3 (9.091 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 1 (3.030 %) ZENworks 2 1 (3.030 %) MOM
Vendors 1 14 (42.42 %) Microsoft 2 5 (15.15 %) Citrix 2 5 (15.15 %) VMware 3 3 (9.091 %) Cisco 4 2 (6.061 %) IBM 4 2 (6.061 %) Novell 4 2 (6.061 %) Dell 4 2 (6.061 %) Intel 4 2 (6.061 %) Symantec 5 1 (3.030 %) VERITAS 5 1 (3.030 %) HP