The first table below looks at the demand for the Support Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the North Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 Yorkshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Support Engineer
Rank 21 18 27
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +9
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 4 9 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in North Yorkshire 2.649% 5.143% 1.596%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.797% 5.455% 1.667%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 0
Average daily rate £94 £110 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.77% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £200 £263
% change year-on-year
+25.00% -23.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £13.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £15.88 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-5.51% +5.83%
All Job Titles
North Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
143 165 180
As % of all contract IT jobs located in North Yorkshire 94.70% 94.29% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 82 69
Average daily rate £355 £320 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.93% +16.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £218 £213 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £425 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 21 12
Average hourly rate £16.88 £16.50 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.27% -41.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.65 £10.50 £14.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.00 £20.00 £37.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Support Engineer
Yorkshire

Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North Yorkshire Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

North Yorkshire Support Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North Yorkshire Support Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Support Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Support Engineer within the North Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
York -6 2 £94 -21.87%
Harrogate +2 1 - -
Support Engineer
Yorkshire

Support Engineer
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire region that cited Support 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 Support Engineer in their job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (85.71%) Active Directory
3 4 (57.14%) MS Excel
3 4 (57.14%) MS Office
4 3 (42.86%) ITIL
4 3 (42.86%) LAN
5 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
5 1 (14.29%) Software Deployment
5 1 (14.29%) Finance
5 1 (14.29%) Legal
5 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
5 1 (14.29%) Cisco
5 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
5 1 (14.29%) Windows XP

Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire region that cited Support 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 Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 4 (57.14%) MS Excel
1 4 (57.14%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) LAN
2 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Legal
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (14.29%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) ITIL
2 1 (14.29%) Software Deployment
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft