The first table below looks at the demand for the 3rd Line Server Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited 3rd Line Server Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Reading 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Third Line Server Engineer
Rank 69 - 79
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Server Engineer 1 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.120% - 0.095%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.131% - 0.107%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £425 - £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £246 £263
% change year-on-year
+21.95% -6.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £23.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+17.39% -34.28%
All Job Titles
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
763 974 932
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 91.93% 91.54% 88.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 323 416
Average daily rate £375 £350 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -3.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £188 £215 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 55 39
Average hourly rate £17.50 £15.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.90% +10.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.70 £11.00 £10.34
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £20.40 £33.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
3rd Line Server Engineer
Berkshire

3rd Line Server Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 3rd Line Server Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

3rd Line Server Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing 3rd Line Server Engineer across the Reading region.

Reading 3rd Line Server Engineer Daily Rate Trend

3rd Line Server Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing 3rd Line Server Engineer across the Reading region.

Reading 3rd Line Server Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

3rd Line Server Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region that cited 3rd Line Server 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 3rd Line Server Engineer in their job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) IIS
2 1 (50.00%) MCP
2 1 (50.00%) MCSD
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) NLBS
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) NAS
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Management
2 1 (50.00%) MCSE
2 1 (50.00%) LDAP
2 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) SLA
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) Remedy

3rd Line Server Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region that cited 3rd Line Server 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 3rd Line Server Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) IIS
2 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) NAS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) MCP
1 1 (50.00%) MCSD
1 1 (50.00%) MCSE
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) NLBS
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Remedy