Scotland Field Service Engineer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Field Service Engineer role in IT contracts within the Scotland region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Field Service Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Angus Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire City of London Cornwall Daventry Devon Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Falmouth Fareham Fife Forfar Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Huddersfield Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Maidstone Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Rochester Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Southall Southampton Southwark Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Swindon Taunton Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wellingborough West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	85	110
Rank change on same period last year	+25
Matching contract IT job ads	8	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	0.422 %	0.447 %
Daily rates quoted	7	0
Average minimum daily rate	£127	-
Average daily rate	£131	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£134	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£128	£99
% change on same period last year	+29.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.00	£16.67
Average hourly rate	£17.00	£17.39
% change on same period last year	-2.23 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.00	£18.11
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.29	£20.97
% change on same period last year	+11.06 %
Job Titles Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	1897	3133
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.048 %	3.365 %
Daily rates quoted	429	610
Average minimum daily rate	£312	£317
Average daily rate	£335	£332
% change on same period last year	+0.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£358	£348
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£352
% change on same period last year	+0.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	166	273
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.72	£18.41
Average hourly rate	£22.91	£19.62
% change on same period last year	+16.76 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.10	£20.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.10	£24.04
% change on same period last year	-3.88 %
Field Service Engineer UK

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 Field Service Engineer across the Scotland 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 Field Service Engineer across the Scotland region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Field Service Engineer across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 2 December 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 Field Service Engineer across the Scotland region.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Field Service Engineer within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Edinburgh	+25	4	£137	-
Angus	-	2	£130	-
Fife	-	1	£125	-
Aberdeen	-2	1	£125	-
Dundee	-	1	£125	-

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Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region that cited Field Service 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 Field Service Engineer in their job title.

1 8 (61.54 %) EPoS 2 6 (46.15 %) ATM 2 6 (46.15 %) HP 3 4 (30.77 %) Compaq 4 3 (23.08 %) Dell 5 2 (15.38 %) IBM 5 2 (15.38 %) C 5 2 (15.38 %) Retail 6 1 (7.692 %) PDA 6 1 (7.692 %) DCSE 6 1 (7.692 %) HP APS 6 1 (7.692 %) Microsoft 6 1 (7.692 %) Microsoft Certification 6 1 (7.692 %) A+ Certification

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region that cited Field Service 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 Field Service Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 6 (46.15 %) ATM	General 1 2 (15.38 %) Retail
Miscellaneous 1 8 (61.54 %) EPoS 2 1 (7.692 %) PDA	Programming Languages 1 2 (15.38 %) C
Qualifications 1 1 (7.692 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (7.692 %) A+ Certification 1 1 (7.692 %) DCSE 1 1 (7.692 %) HP APS	Vendors 1 6 (46.15 %) HP 2 4 (30.77 %) Compaq 3 3 (23.08 %) Dell 4 2 (15.38 %) IBM 5 1 (7.692 %) Microsoft