North West Infrastructure Engineer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure 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 Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cheshire City of London Crawley Dorset East Midlands East of England England Essex Glasgow Hackney Hampshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent King's Lynn Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Lincoln Lincolnshire Livingston London Norfolk North West Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Scotland Shropshire Solihull South East South Wales South West Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford UK Uxbridge Wales Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	137	127
Rank change on same period last year	-10
Matching contract IT job ads	6	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	0.170 %	0.294 %
Daily rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum daily rate	£250	£150
Average daily rate	£264	£200
% change on same period last year	+31.87 %
Average maximum daily rate	£278	£250
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£339
% change on same period last year	-2.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£22.50
Average hourly rate	£20.00	£22.50
% change on same period last year	-11.11 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.00	£22.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.64	£21.57
% change on same period last year	+23.47 %
Job Titles North West
Matching contract IT job ads	3534	3747
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.711 %	3.791 %
Daily rates quoted	819	800
Average minimum daily rate	£328	£320
Average daily rate	£346	£336
% change on same period last year	+2.80 %
Average maximum daily rate	£364	£353
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	421	363
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.71	£21.12
Average hourly rate	£22.79	£22.71
% change on same period last year	+0.33 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.86	£24.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
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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 Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer across the North West region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer across the North West region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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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 Infrastructure Engineer within the North West 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
Cheshire	-9	3	£275	-
Lancashire	+11	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer in their job title.

1 9 (69.23 %) Windows 2 6 (46.15 %) Active Directory 2 6 (46.15 %) Windows Server 2003 3 5 (38.46 %) Citrix 4 4 (30.77 %) SAN 4 4 (30.77 %) HP 4 4 (30.77 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 3 (23.08 %) VMware 5 3 (23.08 %) Microsoft Certification 5 3 (23.08 %) Microsoft 5 3 (23.08 %) ITIL 5 3 (23.08 %) SQL 5 3 (23.08 %) MCSE 5 3 (23.08 %) Windows NT 6 2 (15.38 %) SMS

6 2 (15.38 %) Solaris 6 2 (15.38 %) VERITAS 6 2 (15.38 %) TCP/IP 6 2 (15.38 %) DNS 6 2 (15.38 %) Clustering 6 2 (15.38 %) Backup Exec 6 2 (15.38 %) Problem Management 6 2 (15.38 %) Citrix Presentation Server 6 2 (15.38 %) VMware Infrastructure 7 1 (7.692 %) SC Cleared 7 1 (7.692 %) Security Cleared 7 1 (7.692 %) Release Management 7 1 (7.692 %) ServiceCenter 7 1 (7.692 %) Exchange Server 2007 7 1 (7.692 %) Application Packaging

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (7.692 %) Application Packaging	Application Platforms 1 4 (30.77 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (7.692 %) Exchange Server 2007 2 1 (7.692 %) WebLogic 2 1 (7.692 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (7.692 %) WebLogic Portal
Communications & Networking 1 4 (30.77 %) SAN 2 2 (15.38 %) DNS 2 2 (15.38 %) SMS 2 2 (15.38 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (7.692 %) VPN 3 1 (7.692 %) LDAP 3 1 (7.692 %) LAN 3 1 (7.692 %) VoIP 3 1 (7.692 %) WAN 3 1 (7.692 %) DHCP 3 1 (7.692 %) Intranet 3 1 (7.692 %) Extranet 3 1 (7.692 %) Firewall 3 1 (7.692 %) IP Telephony	Development Applications 1 1 (7.692 %) Ant 1 1 (7.692 %) JUnit
General 1 1 (7.692 %) Financial Institution 1 1 (7.692 %) Finance 1 1 (7.692 %) Construction 1 1 (7.692 %) Government 1 1 (7.692 %) Law	Miscellaneous 1 2 (15.38 %) Clustering
Operating Systems 1 9 (69.23 %) Windows 2 6 (46.15 %) Windows Server 2003 3 3 (23.08 %) Windows NT 4 2 (15.38 %) Solaris 5 1 (7.692 %) NetWare	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (23.08 %) ITIL 2 2 (15.38 %) Problem Management 3 1 (7.692 %) Release Management 3 1 (7.692 %) SC Cleared 3 1 (7.692 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (7.692 %) Change Management 3 1 (7.692 %) Data Security 3 1 (7.692 %) Migration 3 1 (7.692 %) Content Management
Programming Languages 1 3 (23.08 %) SQL 2 1 (7.692 %) C	Qualifications 1 3 (23.08 %) MCSE 1 3 (23.08 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (7.692 %) MCDST 2 1 (7.692 %) MCP
System Software 1 6 (46.15 %) Active Directory 2 2 (15.38 %) Backup Exec 2 2 (15.38 %) Citrix Presentation Server 2 2 (15.38 %) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 1 (7.692 %) ServiceCenter
Vendors 1 5 (38.46 %) Citrix 2 4 (30.77 %) HP 3 3 (23.08 %) VMware 3 3 (23.08 %) Microsoft 4 2 (15.38 %) VERITAS 5 1 (7.692 %) Symantec 5 1 (7.692 %) Dell 5 1 (7.692 %) EMC 5 1 (7.692 %) Altiris 5 1 (7.692 %) Sun 5 1 (7.692 %) Oracle 5 1 (7.692 %) Vignette 5 1 (7.692 %) Cisco 5 1 (7.692 %) BEA 5 1 (7.692 %) NetApp 5 1 (7.692 %) Peregrine