Northampton Support Engineer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Support Engineer role in IT contracts within the Northampton 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 Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bletchley Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckfastleigh Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Buxton Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Dunbar Dundee Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Great Yarmouth Grimsby Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hayes Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hove Hull Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Isleworth Kent Kettering Kidderminster Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Margate Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Morecambe Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Sandwich Scarborough Scotland Scottish Borders Sheffield Shetland Islands Shropshire Skelmersdale Skipton Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Teddington Teesside Telford Templecombe Thames Valley Thatcham Thirsk Tidworth Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Whitehaven Wiltshire Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Wrexham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	19	21
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	3	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	1.974 %	4.639 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£226	£230
Average daily rate	£226	£230
% change on same period last year	-1.57 %
Average maximum daily rate	£227	£230
UK excluding London average daily rate	£232	£190
% change on same period last year	+21.98 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	£20.00
Average hourly rate	£15.00	£21.00
% change on same period last year	-28.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.00	£22.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.67	£20.27
% change on same period last year	-7.85 %
Job Titles Northampton
Matching contract IT job ads	152	194
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.239 %	0.208 %
Daily rates quoted	84	65
Average minimum daily rate	£385	£342
Average daily rate	£407	£357
% change on same period last year	+13.90 %
Average maximum daily rate	£429	£373
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£351
% change on same period last year	+0.72 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	28
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.19	£13.72
Average hourly rate	£17.52	£14.78
% change on same period last year	+18.49 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.84	£15.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.37	£24.42
% change on same period last year	-4.31 %
Support Engineer Northamptonshire

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 Support Engineer across the Northampton 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 Support Engineer across the Northampton 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 Support Engineer across the Northampton region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northampton 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 3 (18.75 %) Active Directory 2 2 (12.50 %) Windows 2 2 (12.50 %) Windows XP 2 2 (12.50 %) SMS 2 2 (12.50 %) VoIP 2 2 (12.50 %) Cisco 2 2 (12.50 %) IBM 2 2 (12.50 %) Microsoft 2 2 (12.50 %) Migration 2 2 (12.50 %) VMware 3 1 (6.250 %) CCTV 3 1 (6.250 %) Fat Client 3 1 (6.250 %) ProCurve 3 1 (6.250 %) MS Office 3 1 (6.250 %) Firewall

3 1 (6.250 %) CCIP 3 1 (6.250 %) SLA 3 1 (6.250 %) LAN 3 1 (6.250 %) HP 3 1 (6.250 %) Dell 3 1 (6.250 %) Intel 3 1 (6.250 %) Citrix 3 1 (6.250 %) Cisco Certification 3 1 (6.250 %) SAN 3 1 (6.250 %) Thin Client 3 1 (6.250 %) CheckPoint 3 1 (6.250 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (6.250 %) MPLS 3 1 (6.250 %) OSPF 3 1 (6.250 %) BGP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northampton 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 1 (6.250 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 2 (12.50 %) SMS 1 2 (12.50 %) VoIP 2 1 (6.250 %) SAN 2 1 (6.250 %) MPLS 2 1 (6.250 %) OSPF 2 1 (6.250 %) BGP 2 1 (6.250 %) Firewall 2 1 (6.250 %) LAN
Miscellaneous 1 1 (6.250 %) Thin Client 1 1 (6.250 %) CCTV 1 1 (6.250 %) Fat Client	Operating Systems 1 2 (12.50 %) Windows 1 2 (12.50 %) Windows XP 2 1 (6.250 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (12.50 %) Migration	Qualifications 1 1 (6.250 %) CCIP 1 1 (6.250 %) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (6.250 %) SLA	System Software 1 3 (18.75 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 2 (12.50 %) Cisco 1 2 (12.50 %) IBM 1 2 (12.50 %) Microsoft 1 2 (12.50 %) VMware 2 1 (6.250 %) ProCurve 2 1 (6.250 %) HP 2 1 (6.250 %) Dell 2 1 (6.250 %) Intel 2 1 (6.250 %) Citrix 2 1 (6.250 %) CheckPoint