Reading Support Engineer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Support Engineer role in IT contracts within the Reading region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Aylesbury Banbury Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bolton Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorset Dover Dudley Dundee Durham Ealing East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Greenford Grimsby Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Hartlepool Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Hull Immingham Inverness Ipswich Jersey Kendal Kent Kettering King's Lynn Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Ormskirk Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Redcar Redditch Redhill Rochester Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Snodland Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark Spalding St Albans St Asaph Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Drayton West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Wirral Witham Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	25	37
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	57	31
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.075 %	0.033 %
As % of the category below	6.013 %	3.388 %
Daily rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum daily rate	£140	£325
Average daily rate	£170	£363
% change on same period last year	-53.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£200	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£214	£244
% change on same period last year	-12.32 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.40	£19.00
Average hourly rate	£18.37	£20.25
% change on same period last year	-9.28 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.35	£21.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.28	£18.91
% change on same period last year	-3.31 %
Job Titles Reading
Matching contract IT job ads	948	915
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.250 %	0.971 %
Daily rates quoted	279	254
Average minimum daily rate	£322	£324
Average daily rate	£340	£344
% change on same period last year	-1.22 %
Average maximum daily rate	£358	£365
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	92	84
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.28	£29.02
Average hourly rate	£22.98	£30.67
% change on same period last year	-25.06 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.69	£32.32
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.28	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
Support Engineer Berkshire

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 Reading 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 Reading region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Support Engineer across the Reading region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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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 Reading region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Support Engineer across the Reading region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 36 (50.00 %) Windows 2 27 (37.50 %) Microsoft 3 22 (30.56 %) Active Directory 4 17 (23.61 %) HP 4 17 (23.61 %) SQL 4 17 (23.61 %) Altiris 5 15 (20.83 %) Unix 6 13 (18.06 %) MS Excel 6 13 (18.06 %) VPN 7 12 (16.67 %) Wireless 7 12 (16.67 %) Blackberry 8 10 (13.89 %) Back Office 8 10 (13.89 %) Windows NT 8 10 (13.89 %) MS Office 8 10 (13.89 %) Exchange Server 2003

9 9 (12.50 %) PeopleSoft 9 9 (12.50 %) Oracle 9 9 (12.50 %) VBScript 9 9 (12.50 %) CRM 9 9 (12.50 %) PL/SQL 9 9 (12.50 %) MS Exchange 9 9 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification 9 9 (12.50 %) Service Delivery 9 9 (12.50 %) Shell Script 9 9 (12.50 %) Singl.eView 9 9 (12.50 %) Remedy 9 9 (12.50 %) Business Continuity 9 9 (12.50 %) BSS 10 7 (9.722 %) Front Office 10 7 (9.722 %) Network Security

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 Development 1 6 (8.333 %) Application Packaging 2 2 (2.778 %) HTML 3 1 (1.389 %) .NET 3 1 (1.389 %) ASP 3 1 (1.389 %) ASP.NET 3 1 (1.389 %) CSS 3 1 (1.389 %) Windows SharePoint Services	Application Platforms 1 10 (13.89 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 9 (12.50 %) MS Exchange 3 3 (4.167 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 2 (2.778 %) IIS 5 1 (1.389 %) Apache 5 1 (1.389 %) SharePoint 5 1 (1.389 %) Exchange Server 5.5 5 1 (1.389 %) SharePoint Portal Server 5 1 (1.389 %) Office Project Server 5 1 (1.389 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 13 (18.06 %) MS Excel 2 10 (13.89 %) MS Office 3 1 (1.389 %) MS Project 3 1 (1.389 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 9 (12.50 %) Singl.eView
Communications & Networking 1 13 (18.06 %) VPN 2 12 (16.67 %) Wireless 3 9 (12.50 %) BSS 4 7 (9.722 %) Network Security 5 6 (8.333 %) SGSN 5 6 (8.333 %) 3G 6 5 (6.944 %) DNS 7 4 (5.556 %) TCP/IP 8 3 (4.167 %) Broadband 9 2 (2.778 %) WAN 9 2 (2.778 %) SAN 9 2 (2.778 %) Internet 10 1 (1.389 %) DHCP 10 1 (1.389 %) HTTP 10 1 (1.389 %) LAN 10 1 (1.389 %) SMS 10 1 (1.389 %) Firewall	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (2.778 %) SQL Server 2 1 (1.389 %) MSDE 2 1 (1.389 %) Microsoft Analysis Services
General 1 10 (13.89 %) Back Office 2 7 (9.722 %) Front Office 3 6 (8.333 %) Auditing 4 3 (4.167 %) Telecoms 5 2 (2.778 %) Government	Miscellaneous 1 12 (16.67 %) Blackberry 2 4 (5.556 %) Clustering 3 3 (4.167 %) Replication 4 1 (1.389 %) French Language
Operating Systems 1 36 (50.00 %) Windows 2 15 (20.83 %) Unix 3 10 (13.89 %) Windows NT 4 6 (8.333 %) Linux 4 6 (8.333 %) Windows 2000 4 6 (8.333 %) Windows Server 2003 5 4 (5.556 %) Windows XP 6 3 (4.167 %) Solaris 7 2 (2.778 %) HPUX 8 1 (1.389 %) AIX 8 1 (1.389 %) SUSE 8 1 (1.389 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (12.50 %) CRM 1 9 (12.50 %) Service Delivery 1 9 (12.50 %) Business Continuity 2 6 (8.333 %) ITIL 3 3 (4.167 %) Incident Management 4 1 (1.389 %) Web Development 4 1 (1.389 %) Network Load Balancing 4 1 (1.389 %) Unit Testing 4 1 (1.389 %) SC Cleared 4 1 (1.389 %) Security Cleared 4 1 (1.389 %) Migration 4 1 (1.389 %) Project Management 4 1 (1.389 %) Service Management
Programming Languages 1 17 (23.61 %) SQL 2 9 (12.50 %) VBScript 2 9 (12.50 %) PL/SQL 2 9 (12.50 %) Shell Script 3 2 (2.778 %) VB 4 1 (1.389 %) VBA 4 1 (1.389 %) C 4 1 (1.389 %) C# 4 1 (1.389 %) Java 4 1 (1.389 %) JavaScript 4 1 (1.389 %) Perl	Qualifications 1 9 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification 2 6 (8.333 %) MCP 3 3 (4.167 %) Cisco Certification 4 2 (2.778 %) MCDST 4 2 (2.778 %) MCSE 4 2 (2.778 %) CCNA 5 1 (1.389 %) Citrix Certification 5 1 (1.389 %) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (2.778 %) SLA	System Software 1 22 (30.56 %) Active Directory 2 1 (1.389 %) Terminal Server 2 1 (1.389 %) Terminal Services 2 1 (1.389 %) ISA Server 2 1 (1.389 %) VMware ESX 2 1 (1.389 %) NetBackup 2 1 (1.389 %) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management 1 2 (2.778 %) OpenView 1 2 (2.778 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 1 (1.389 %) Norton AntiVirus 2 1 (1.389 %) WSUS 2 1 (1.389 %) Tivoli	Vendors 1 27 (37.50 %) Microsoft 2 17 (23.61 %) HP 2 17 (23.61 %) Altiris 3 9 (12.50 %) Oracle 3 9 (12.50 %) PeopleSoft 3 9 (12.50 %) Remedy 4 6 (8.333 %) Nokia 5 4 (5.556 %) Citrix 6 3 (4.167 %) Cisco 7 2 (2.778 %) Sun 7 2 (2.778 %) VMware 7 2 (2.778 %) VERITAS 7 2 (2.778 %) Red Hat 7 2 (2.778 %) Ericsson 8 1 (1.389 %) CheckPoint 8 1 (1.389 %) Symantec 8 1 (1.389 %) CA 8 1 (1.389 %) Dell 8 1 (1.389 %) EMC 8 1 (1.389 %) IBM