The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Oxford 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 19 June 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 Oxford 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Engineer
Rank 22 - 8
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 11 0 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 5.140% - 11.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.288% - 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 13
Average daily rate £340 - £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £310 £400
% change year-on-year
+3.22% -22.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
Average hourly rate - - £27.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £36.25 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-17.24% +36.79%
All Job Titles
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
208 305 172
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 97.20% 98.39% 97.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 169 92
Average daily rate £350 £375 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £490 £500 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 42 24
Average hourly rate £15.00 £14.00 £18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -24.32%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Systems Engineer
Oxfordshire

Systems Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford Systems Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Systems Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Systems Engineer across the Oxford region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Oxford Systems Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

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 Oxford region.

Oxford Systems Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Systems Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 (66.67%) Windows
2 9 (60.00%) Linux
3 8 (53.33%) UNIX
4 6 (40.00%) Oracle
4 6 (40.00%) WebLogic
4 6 (40.00%) SOA
4 6 (40.00%) IBM
4 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
4 6 (40.00%) Middleware
4 6 (40.00%) WebSphere
4 6 (40.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (33.33%) Degree
5 5 (33.33%) VMware
6 4 (26.67%) Incident Management
6 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (26.67%) MCSE
6 4 (26.67%) MS Excel
6 4 (26.67%) MS Exchange
6 4 (26.67%) Web Services
7 3 (20.00%) vSphere
7 3 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2003
7 3 (20.00%) Migration
8 2 (13.33%) Firewall
8 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (13.33%) Publishing
8 2 (13.33%) Wireshark
8 2 (13.33%) Release Management
8 2 (13.33%) Test Scripting
8 2 (13.33%) Windows 7

Systems Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 Development
1 6 (40.00%) Middleware
1 6 (40.00%) WebSphere
2 4 (26.67%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 6 (40.00%) WebLogic
1 6 (40.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (26.67%) MS Exchange
3 3 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 4 (26.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
1 2 (13.33%) Wireshark
1 2 (13.33%) Broadband
1 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
1 2 (13.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.667%) MarkLogic
General
1 2 (13.33%) Publishing
2 1 (6.667%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.667%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 10 (66.67%) Windows
2 9 (60.00%) Linux
3 8 (53.33%) UNIX
4 2 (13.33%) Windows 7
5 1 (6.667%) Solaris
5 1 (6.667%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) SOA
2 4 (26.67%) Incident Management
3 3 (20.00%) Migration
4 2 (13.33%) Release Management
4 2 (13.33%) Test Scripting
4 2 (13.33%) Benchmarking
5 1 (6.667%) ITIL
5 1 (6.667%) Six Sigma
5 1 (6.667%) Compatibility Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.667%) Perl
1 1 (6.667%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Degree
2 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (26.67%) MCSE
3 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (13.33%) CCNA
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) vSphere
2 1 (6.667%) NFS
2 1 (6.667%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (6.667%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Oracle
1 6 (40.00%) IBM
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (33.33%) VMware
3 2 (13.33%) Cisco
4 1 (6.667%) HP
4 1 (6.667%) Veritas
4 1 (6.667%) Red Hat