North West Hardware Engineer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Hardware Engineer role in IT contracts within the North West 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 Hardware Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Hardware Engineer
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Berkshire Bolton Bracknell Bradford Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire City of London Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire London Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Norfolk North East North Shields North Wales North West Northampton Northamptonshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Rochester Salisbury Scotland Somerset South Coast South East South West St Asaph Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Wales Warrington Wells West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	121	135
Rank change on same period last year	+14
Matching contract IT job ads	6	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	0.179 %	0.297 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£85	-
Average daily rate	£85	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£85	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£168	£125
% change on same period last year	+34.44 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.67	£40.00
Average hourly rate	£19.50	£40.00
% change on same period last year	-51.25 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.33	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.29	£25.17
% change on same period last year	-7.46 %
Job Titles North West
Matching contract IT job ads	3344	4045
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.708 %	4.088 %
Daily rates quoted	783	827
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£320
Average daily rate	£341	£338
% change on same period last year	+0.96 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£356
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	467	456
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.62	£20.30
Average hourly rate	£23.40	£21.94
% change on same period last year	+6.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.19	£23.58
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.76	£25.22
% change on same period last year	-5.77 %
Hardware Engineer 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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Hardware Engineer across the North West 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 Hardware Engineer across the North West 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 Hardware Engineer across the North West region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Hardware Engineer across the North West region over the 3 months to 10 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 Hardware Engineer within the North West region over the 3 months to 10 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
Manchester	-1	4	£85	-
Cheshire	+6	2	-	-
Lancashire	-	1	-	-

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Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited Hardware 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 Hardware Engineer in their job title.

1 7 (43.75 %) Windows 2 5 (31.25 %) HP 3 4 (25.00 %) Microsoft 3 4 (25.00 %) Active Directory 4 3 (18.75 %) Cisco 4 3 (18.75 %) IBM 4 3 (18.75 %) Windows Server 2003 4 3 (18.75 %) Electronics 4 3 (18.75 %) Toshiba 5 2 (12.50 %) SC Cleared 5 2 (12.50 %) Security Cleared 5 2 (12.50 %) AutoCAD 5 2 (12.50 %) Dell 5 2 (12.50 %) EMC 5 2 (12.50 %) Linux

5 2 (12.50 %) Windows XP 5 2 (12.50 %) MS Visio 6 1 (6.250 %) Siemens 6 1 (6.250 %) EPoS 6 1 (6.250 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 6 1 (6.250 %) Fujitsu Siemens 6 1 (6.250 %) SCADA 6 1 (6.250 %) Management Information System

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited Hardware 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 Hardware Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 2 (12.50 %) MS Visio 1 2 (12.50 %) AutoCAD	General 1 3 (18.75 %) Electronics
Miscellaneous 1 1 (6.250 %) EPoS 1 1 (6.250 %) Management Information System 1 1 (6.250 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 1 1 (6.250 %) SCADA	Operating Systems 1 7 (43.75 %) Windows 2 3 (18.75 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (12.50 %) Linux 3 2 (12.50 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (12.50 %) SC Cleared 1 2 (12.50 %) Security Cleared	System Software 1 4 (25.00 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 5 (31.25 %) HP 2 4 (25.00 %) Microsoft 3 3 (18.75 %) Cisco 3 3 (18.75 %) IBM 3 3 (18.75 %) Toshiba 4 2 (12.50 %) Dell 4 2 (12.50 %) EMC 5 1 (6.250 %) Siemens 5 1 (6.250 %) Fujitsu Siemens