The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Systems Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the North East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Senior Systems Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 North East 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior System Engineer
Rank 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Systems Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 0.379% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.408% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £301 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £333 £338 £350
% change year-on-year
-1.48% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.85 £20.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+4.22% -33.33%
All Job Titles
North East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
245 441 408
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 92.80% 92.26% 91.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 223 184
Average daily rate £300 £350 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% +9.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £229 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £550 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 39 26
Average hourly rate £11.00 £20.00 £16.63
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-45.00% +20.30%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.08 £9.95
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.51 £36.50 £25.08
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Senior Systems Engineer
England

Senior Systems Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North East Senior Systems Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Systems Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Systems Engineer within the North East region over the 3 months to 17 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
Tyne and Wear - 1 £301 -
Senior Systems Engineer
England

Senior Systems Engineer
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East region that cited Senior Systems 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 Senior Systems Engineer in their job title.

1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Nagios
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) XenServer

Senior Systems Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East region that cited Senior Systems 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 Senior Systems Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat