Support Engineer Contracts in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram 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 Scotland 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 23 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 Scotland 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Support Engineer
Rank 88 73 78
Rank change year-on-year
-15 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 32 35 38
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 1.311% 1.326% 1.350%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.412% 1.415% 1.436%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 16 9
Average daily rate £413 £175 £120
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+135.71% +45.83%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £103 £100 £70
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £270 £353
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £200 £261
% change year-on-year
+24.84% -23.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 7
Average hourly rate £14.00 £18.50 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-24.32% +8.82%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.08 £13.15 £11.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.94 £23.30 £24.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £15.66 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-4.22% +4.41%
All Job Titles
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 2266 2473 2646
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 92.83% 93.71% 94.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1095 1199 1298
Average daily rate £350 £340 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £215 £235
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 112 100
Average hourly rate £14.50 £22.50 £15.44
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.55% +45.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £10.00 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.60 £34.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Support Engineer
UK

Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland Support Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Support Engineer across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Scotland Support Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 23 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
Aberdeen +4 11 £475 +137.50%
Edinburgh +12 8 £144 -30.60%
Fife -1 5 - -
Glasgow -28 4 £93 -47.14%
North Lanarkshire +1 2 - -
Dundee +4 1 - -
Support Engineer
UK

Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 22 (43.14%) Windows
2 12 (23.53%) Active Directory
3 11 (21.57%) C
4 10 (19.61%) Windows XP
5 8 (15.69%) Windows Server 2003
5 8 (15.69%) Windows 7
6 7 (13.73%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (13.73%) VMware
6 7 (13.73%) Blackberry
6 7 (13.73%) MS Exchange
6 7 (13.73%) Cisco
6 7 (13.73%) Microsoft
7 6 (11.76%) Mathematics
8 5 (9.804%) DNS
8 5 (9.804%) MS Office
9 4 (7.843%) Finance
9 4 (7.843%) PRINCE2
9 4 (7.843%) Project Management
9 4 (7.843%) PMI
9 4 (7.843%) PMI Certification
9 4 (7.843%) HP
9 4 (7.843%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (7.843%) Document Management
9 4 (7.843%) Windows Vista
9 4 (7.843%) Exchange Server 2007
9 4 (7.843%) SCCM
10 3 (5.882%) Stakeholder Management
10 3 (5.882%) Avaya
10 3 (5.882%) DHCP
10 3 (5.882%) C++

Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 1 (1.961%) Application Packaging
1 1 (1.961%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 7 (13.73%) MS Exchange
2 4 (7.843%) Exchange Server 2007
3 3 (5.882%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 2 (3.922%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (3.922%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (1.961%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (9.804%) MS Office
2 3 (5.882%) MS Excel
3 1 (1.961%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.804%) DNS
2 3 (5.882%) DHCP
3 2 (3.922%) SAN
3 2 (3.922%) Internet
3 2 (3.922%) LAN
3 2 (3.922%) Cisco IPT
4 1 (1.961%) FTP
4 1 (1.961%) HTTP
4 1 (1.961%) SMS
4 1 (1.961%) VoIP
4 1 (1.961%) WAN
4 1 (1.961%) Firewall
4 1 (1.961%) Wireless
General
1 4 (7.843%) Finance
2 2 (3.922%) Advertising
3 1 (1.961%) Banking
3 1 (1.961%) Retail
3 1 (1.961%) Electronics
3 1 (1.961%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.73%) Blackberry
2 6 (11.76%) Mathematics
3 4 (7.843%) PMI
4 2 (3.922%) Replication
4 2 (3.922%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 22 (43.14%) Windows
2 10 (19.61%) Windows XP
3 8 (15.69%) Windows Server 2003
3 8 (15.69%) Windows 7
4 7 (13.73%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (7.843%) Windows Vista
6 2 (3.922%) Windows 2000
7 1 (1.961%) Windows Phone
7 1 (1.961%) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (7.843%) PRINCE2
1 4 (7.843%) Project Management
1 4 (7.843%) Document Management
2 3 (5.882%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (5.882%) ITIL
3 2 (3.922%) Quality Management
3 2 (3.922%) Incident Management
4 1 (1.961%) Performance Management
4 1 (1.961%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (1.961%) Asset Management
4 1 (1.961%) Information Management
4 1 (1.961%) Service Management
4 1 (1.961%) Migration
4 1 (1.961%) PRINCE
Programming Languages
1 11 (21.57%) C
2 3 (5.882%) C++
3 1 (1.961%) Embedded C
3 1 (1.961%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (7.843%) PMI Certification
1 4 (7.843%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (3.922%) MCP
2 2 (3.922%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (3.922%) CCNP
2 2 (3.922%) CCNA
2 2 (3.922%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.961%) MCSE
3 1 (1.961%) MCSA
3 1 (1.961%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.961%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (23.53%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.922%) vSphere
3 1 (1.961%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.961%) XenApp
3 1 (1.961%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 4 (7.843%) SCCM
2 1 (1.961%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (13.73%) VMware
1 7 (13.73%) Cisco
1 7 (13.73%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.843%) HP
3 3 (5.882%) Avaya
4 2 (3.922%) Sage
4 2 (3.922%) CheckPoint
4 2 (3.922%) Juniper
4 2 (3.922%) Veritas
4 2 (3.922%) SAP
4 2 (3.922%) Nortel
4 2 (3.922%) Citrix
4 2 (3.922%) Aruba
5 1 (1.961%) Mitel
5 1 (1.961%) Blue Coat
5 1 (1.961%) Dell
5 1 (1.961%) IBM
5 1 (1.961%) Symantec
5 1 (1.961%) McAfee
5 1 (1.961%) Sophos
Support/ Deskside Support Engineer
Aberdeen, Scotland
You will be responsible for: ** Providing on-site support following migrations ** Troubleshoot desktop issues reported to the Service Desk ** Liaise with end-users to confirm normal operations following...
Cathcart Associates
Rate: £100 - £150 per day
Posted: 26 April 2013
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