Design Engineer Contracts in Reading
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Design 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 Design 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 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Design Engineer
Rank 49 12 62
Rank change year-on-year
-37 +50
Contract jobs requiring a Design Engineer 21 93 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 2.515% 8.341% 2.207%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.763% 9.047% 2.508%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 1
Average daily rate £274 £270 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.38% -15.62%
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.07% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.50 £30.50 £29.00
% change year-on-year
- +5.17%
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All Job Titles
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 760 1028 917
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 91.02% 92.20% 88.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 347 409
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £225
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 42 61 42
Average hourly rate £18.00 £15.58 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.56% +24.60%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.70 £11.50 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £22.60 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Design Engineer
Berkshire

Design Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Design Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Design Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading Design Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Design Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading Design Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Design Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 61 (93.85%) Telecoms
2 44 (67.69%) ATM
3 41 (63.08%) Ethernet
4 40 (61.54%) Radio Access Network
5 39 (60.00%) Nokia Siemens Networks
6 37 (56.92%) 3G
7 36 (55.38%) LTE
8 34 (52.31%) Project Management
9 31 (47.69%) MPLS
10 29 (44.62%) SDH
11 26 (40.00%) Ericsson
12 25 (38.46%) Network Design
13 20 (30.77%) UTRAN
14 19 (29.23%) 3GPP
14 19 (29.23%) Huawei
15 18 (27.69%) Resource Management
15 18 (27.69%) 2G
16 15 (23.08%) Handset
17 13 (20.00%) OSPF
17 13 (20.00%) BGP
18 12 (18.46%) VPN
18 12 (18.46%) Capacity Planning
19 11 (16.92%) HSRP
19 11 (16.92%) RSVP
19 11 (16.92%) VRRP
20 9 (13.85%) Validation
20 9 (13.85%) DWDM
21 8 (12.31%) Nokia
21 8 (12.31%) BT
22 7 (10.77%) RNC

Design Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Applications
1 5 (7.692%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 44 (67.69%) ATM
2 41 (63.08%) Ethernet
3 40 (61.54%) Radio Access Network
4 37 (56.92%) 3G
5 36 (55.38%) LTE
6 31 (47.69%) MPLS
7 29 (44.62%) SDH
8 20 (30.77%) UTRAN
9 19 (29.23%) 3GPP
10 18 (27.69%) 2G
11 13 (20.00%) OSPF
11 13 (20.00%) BGP
12 12 (18.46%) VPN
13 11 (16.92%) HSRP
13 11 (16.92%) RSVP
13 11 (16.92%) VRRP
14 9 (13.85%) DWDM
15 7 (10.77%) RNC
16 6 (9.231%) 4G
17 1 (1.538%) VoIP
General
1 61 (93.85%) Telecoms
2 1 (1.538%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 15 (23.08%) Handset
2 1 (1.538%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (52.31%) Project Management
2 25 (38.46%) Network Design
3 18 (27.69%) Resource Management
4 12 (18.46%) Capacity Planning
5 9 (13.85%) Validation
6 5 (7.692%) Project Planning
7 1 (1.538%) Load Balancing
Qualifications
1 1 (1.538%) CCIE
1 1 (1.538%) CCSP
1 1 (1.538%) CCDP
1 1 (1.538%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (1.538%) Check Point Certification
1 1 (1.538%) JNCIP
1 1 (1.538%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.538%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 39 (60.00%) Nokia Siemens Networks
2 26 (40.00%) Ericsson
3 19 (29.23%) Huawei
4 8 (12.31%) Nokia
4 8 (12.31%) BT
5 5 (7.692%) NEC
6 2 (3.077%) Cisco
7 1 (1.538%) Juniper
7 1 (1.538%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.538%) Cadence
7 1 (1.538%) Redback
Electrical Design Engineer needed ASAP
Reading, Thames Valley
Experience in: Electrical Design Control Panel Design Wiring & Cable Diagrams CAD Systems preferable Knowledge of PLC and SCADA systems The role involves elements of Electrical and Control panel...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £20 - £50 per hour
Posted: 22 May 2013
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