North West Server Engineer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Server 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 Server 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 Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Brentford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chester Chichester Chippenham City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Durham East Midlands East of England England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Gwent Hampshire Hartlepool Havant Hertfordshire Hounslow Kent Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlewich Midlands Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Salford Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Surrey Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Witham Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	127	114
Rank change on same period last year	-13
Matching contract IT job ads	16	24
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.024 %
As % of the category below	0.453 %	0.641 %
Daily rates quoted	1	4
Average minimum daily rate	£450	£275
Average daily rate	£450	£291
% change on same period last year	+54.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£450	£308
UK excluding London average daily rate	£218	£308
% change on same period last year	-29.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.18	£17.75
Average hourly rate	£23.12	£19.75
% change on same period last year	+17.07 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.07	£21.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.26	£28.18
% change on same period last year	-13.88 %
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 Server 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 Server 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 Server 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 Server Engineer across the North West 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 Server 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
Manchester	-13	6	£450	+54.28 %
Cheshire	-12	4	-	-
Cumbria	-	2	-	-
Merseyside	0	1	-	-
Lancashire	+9	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 Server 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 Server Engineer in their job title.

1 27 (79.41 %) Windows 2 25 (73.53 %) Active Directory 3 18 (52.94 %) Windows Server 2003 4 16 (47.06 %) Citrix 4 16 (47.06 %) SAN 5 14 (41.18 %) Microsoft Certification 6 13 (38.24 %) MCSE 6 13 (38.24 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 8 (23.53 %) VMware 7 8 (23.53 %) LAN 7 8 (23.53 %) IIS 7 8 (23.53 %) COM+ 7 8 (23.53 %) DCOM 7 8 (23.53 %) SQL 7 8 (23.53 %) WAN

7 8 (23.53 %) POP3 7 8 (23.53 %) SMTP 8 6 (17.65 %) DHCP 8 6 (17.65 %) DNS 9 5 (14.71 %) PRINCE2 9 5 (14.71 %) Microsoft 9 5 (14.71 %) Windows 2000 9 5 (14.71 %) Clustering 10 4 (11.76 %) EMC 10 4 (11.76 %) Finance 10 4 (11.76 %) SMS 10 4 (11.76 %) Windows NT 10 4 (11.76 %) MS Exchange 10 4 (11.76 %) HP 11 2 (5.882 %) Remedy

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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 Server 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 Server Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 8 (23.53 %) COM+ 1 8 (23.53 %) DCOM 2 1 (2.941 %) ODBC	Application Platforms 1 13 (38.24 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 8 (23.53 %) IIS 3 4 (11.76 %) MS Exchange 4 1 (2.941 %) GroupWise 4 1 (2.941 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 4 1 (2.941 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 1 (2.941 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 16 (47.06 %) SAN 2 8 (23.53 %) LAN 2 8 (23.53 %) WAN 2 8 (23.53 %) POP3 2 8 (23.53 %) SMTP 3 6 (17.65 %) DHCP 3 6 (17.65 %) DNS 4 4 (11.76 %) SMS 5 1 (2.941 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (2.941 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 1 (2.941 %) MSI
General 1 4 (11.76 %) Finance 2 1 (2.941 %) Banking 2 1 (2.941 %) Telecoms	Miscellaneous 1 5 (14.71 %) Clustering 2 1 (2.941 %) NHS 2 1 (2.941 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 27 (79.41 %) Windows 2 18 (52.94 %) Windows Server 2003 3 5 (14.71 %) Windows 2000 4 4 (11.76 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (14.71 %) PRINCE2 2 2 (5.882 %) ITIL 3 1 (2.941 %) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages 1 8 (23.53 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 14 (41.18 %) Microsoft Certification 2 13 (38.24 %) MCSE 3 2 (5.882 %) MCP 4 1 (2.941 %) MCSA
System Software 1 25 (73.53 %) Active Directory 2 1 (2.941 %) Terminal Server	Vendors 1 16 (47.06 %) Citrix 2 8 (23.53 %) VMware 3 5 (14.71 %) Microsoft 4 4 (11.76 %) HP 4 4 (11.76 %) EMC 5 2 (5.882 %) Remedy 5 2 (5.882 %) Cisco 6 1 (2.941 %) IBM 6 1 (2.941 %) Dell 6 1 (2.941 %) Novell 6 1 (2.941 %) VERITAS 6 1 (2.941 %) Lotus 6 1 (2.941 %) CheckPoint 6 1 (2.941 %) McAfee Security