Systems Engineer Contracts in the North West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Systems Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 West 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Engineer
Rank 104 127 127
Rank change year-on-year
+23 0
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 15 8 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.635% 0.254% 0.100%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.681% 0.277% 0.107%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 1
Average daily rate £289 £391 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-26.05% -2.37%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £391 £375
% change year-on-year
-16.77% +4.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
Average hourly rate £25.00 £28.75 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.04% -4.16%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
-21.42% +34.61%
All Job Titles
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 2202 2887 2793
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 93.27% 91.53% 92.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1041 1432 1395
Average daily rate £333 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.30% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £225 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £473
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 174 190
Average hourly rate £18.00 £19.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.26% +8.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £33.30 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Systems Engineer
England

Systems Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West Systems Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Systems Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Systems Engineer across the North West region.

North West Systems Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Systems Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West Systems Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

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 Systems Engineer within the North West region over the 3 months to 21 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
Manchester +23 10 £289 -
Lancashire +10 3 - -
Cheshire - 1 - -
Systems Engineer
England

Systems Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited 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 Systems Engineer in their job title.

1 10 (37.04%) Windows
1 10 (37.04%) VMware
2 9 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 9 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 8 (29.63%) UNIX
3 8 (29.63%) Linux
3 8 (29.63%) Telecoms
4 7 (25.93%) C
4 7 (25.93%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (22.22%) Perl
5 6 (22.22%) Red Hat
5 6 (22.22%) DNS
5 6 (22.22%) Netcool
5 6 (22.22%) Nagios
6 5 (18.52%) VMware ESX
6 5 (18.52%) Ruby
6 5 (18.52%) IBM
6 5 (18.52%) MS Excel
6 5 (18.52%) MS Visio
6 5 (18.52%) DHCP
6 5 (18.52%) SAN
6 5 (18.52%) SQL Server
6 5 (18.52%) Apache
6 5 (18.52%) vSphere
6 5 (18.52%) SCCM
6 5 (18.52%) Network Security
6 5 (18.52%) Puppet
7 4 (14.81%) Wiki
7 4 (14.81%) Windows Server 2008
7 4 (14.81%) LDAP

Systems Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited 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 Systems Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 5 (18.52%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (18.52%) MS Excel
1 5 (18.52%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.704%) MS Office
2 1 (3.704%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (7.407%) SyteLine
Communications & Networking
1 6 (22.22%) DNS
2 5 (18.52%) DHCP
2 5 (18.52%) SAN
2 5 (18.52%) Network Security
3 4 (14.81%) LDAP
4 3 (11.11%) SNMP
5 1 (3.704%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.704%) ClearQuest
1 1 (3.704%) ClearCase
1 1 (3.704%) Rational DOORS
General
1 8 (29.63%) Telecoms
2 3 (11.11%) Finance
2 3 (11.11%) Military
3 1 (3.704%) Avionics
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Wiki
2 3 (11.11%) Mathematics
3 2 (7.407%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.704%) Clustering
4 1 (3.704%) NHS
4 1 (3.704%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 10 (37.04%) Windows
2 8 (29.63%) UNIX
2 8 (29.63%) Linux
3 4 (14.81%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (3.704%) AIX
4 1 (3.704%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (11.11%) Information Security
1 3 (11.11%) Integration Testing
1 3 (11.11%) Network Management
2 2 (7.407%) Migration
3 1 (3.704%) Configuration Management
3 1 (3.704%) Validation
3 1 (3.704%) Requirements Management
3 1 (3.704%) ITIL
3 1 (3.704%) Load Testing
3 1 (3.704%) Trend Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.93%) C
2 6 (22.22%) Perl
3 5 (18.52%) Ruby
4 4 (14.81%) JavaScript
4 4 (14.81%) SQL
5 3 (11.11%) Java
6 1 (3.704%) Bash shell
6 1 (3.704%) sed
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (11.11%) CCNA
2 3 (11.11%) MCSE
3 1 (3.704%) MCP
3 1 (3.704%) HND
System Software
1 9 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 7 (25.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (18.52%) VMware ESX
3 5 (18.52%) vSphere
4 1 (3.704%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (22.22%) Netcool
1 6 (22.22%) Nagios
2 5 (18.52%) SCCM
2 5 (18.52%) Puppet
3 2 (7.407%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (3.704%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 10 (37.04%) VMware
2 9 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 6 (22.22%) Red Hat
4 5 (18.52%) IBM
5 3 (11.11%) Oracle
5 3 (11.11%) HP
5 3 (11.11%) Cisco
6 1 (3.704%) McAfee
6 1 (3.704%) Veritas
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