Support Engineer Contracts in Oxfordshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Support Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire 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 35 36 35
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 16 21 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 3.509% 3.393% 2.808%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.738% 3.535% 2.921%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Average daily rate £145 £250 £260
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-42.00% -3.84%
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £200 £263
% change year-on-year
+25.00% -23.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 14 7
Average hourly rate £14.50 £16.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.12% -17.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.25 £11.00 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.25 £20.06 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £15.88 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-5.51% +5.83%
Search 6 Support Engineer jobs in Oxfordshire
All Job Titles
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 428 594 445
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 93.86% 95.96% 96.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 282 199
Average daily rate £340 £350 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.85% +16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £217 £225 £183
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £493 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 79 66
Average hourly rate £15.00 £16.50 £14.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.09% +11.86%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.33 £11.00 £11.31
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.50 £30.00 £26.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Support Engineer
South East

Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire 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
Oxford -2 4 - -
Abingdon +4 3 £145 -
Banbury - 3 - -
Support Engineer
South East

Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 24 (70.59%) Windows
2 12 (35.29%) Windows XP
2 12 (35.29%) Windows Server 2008
2 12 (35.29%) Windows 7
3 10 (29.41%) VMware
4 9 (26.47%) Active Directory
4 9 (26.47%) Windows Server 2003
5 7 (20.59%) Internet
5 7 (20.59%) LAN
5 7 (20.59%) MS Office
6 6 (17.65%) TCP/IP
6 6 (17.65%) Microsoft
7 5 (14.71%) WAN
7 5 (14.71%) MS Exchange
7 5 (14.71%) MS Excel
7 5 (14.71%) SharePoint
8 4 (11.76%) Windows Vista
8 4 (11.76%) Cisco
8 4 (11.76%) DNS
9 3 (8.824%) CCNA
9 3 (8.824%) Intranet
9 3 (8.824%) Citrix
9 3 (8.824%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (8.824%) Linux
9 3 (8.824%) Exchange Server 2007
9 3 (8.824%) SCCM
9 3 (8.824%) Security Cleared
9 3 (8.824%) VMware Infrastructure
10 2 (5.882%) PDA
10 2 (5.882%) SC Cleared

Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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.

Application Platforms
1 5 (14.71%) MS Exchange
1 5 (14.71%) SharePoint
2 3 (8.824%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (2.941%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 7 (20.59%) MS Office
2 5 (14.71%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (20.59%) Internet
1 7 (20.59%) LAN
2 6 (17.65%) TCP/IP
3 5 (14.71%) WAN
4 4 (11.76%) DNS
5 3 (8.824%) Intranet
6 2 (5.882%) VoIP
6 2 (5.882%) VPN
7 1 (2.941%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.941%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (5.882%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.882%) PDA
2 1 (2.941%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (2.941%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 24 (70.59%) Windows
2 12 (35.29%) Windows XP
2 12 (35.29%) Windows Server 2008
2 12 (35.29%) Windows 7
3 9 (26.47%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (11.76%) Windows Vista
5 3 (8.824%) Linux
6 2 (5.882%) Windows 2000
7 1 (2.941%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (5.882%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.882%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (8.824%) CCNA
1 3 (8.824%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (8.824%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.882%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.882%) MCP
2 2 (5.882%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.941%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.941%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (26.47%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.824%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.941%) VMware ESX
3 1 (2.941%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.941%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (8.824%) SCCM
2 1 (2.941%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 10 (29.41%) VMware
2 6 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 4 (11.76%) Cisco
4 3 (8.824%) Citrix
5 2 (5.882%) SAP
5 2 (5.882%) Sage
Windows Support Engineer (Abingdon)
Abingdon, South East
This role for a Windows Desktop support Engineer is to join a small but busy team providing 1st / 2nd and some 3rd level support at a satellite office...
Claremont Consulting
Rate: £120 - £170 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
Windows Support Engineer (Abingdon)
Abingdon, Oxfordshire
This role for a Windows Desktop support Engineer is to join a small but busy team providing 1st / 2nd and some 3rd level support at a satellite office...
Claremont Consulting Ltd
Rate: £120 - £170 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
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