The first table below looks at the demand for the Support Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Shropshire 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 22 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 Shropshire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Support Engineer
Rank - 24 22
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 0 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Shropshire - 1.575% 1.000%
As % of the Job Titles category - 1.653% 1.149%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £240 £203 £263
% change year-on-year
+18.51% -22.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £10.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £15.66 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-4.22% +4.41%
All Job Titles
Shropshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
103 121 87
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Shropshire 88.03% 95.28% 87.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 75 37
Average daily rate £325 £325 £325
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £265 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £560 £500 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Average hourly rate £10.00 £10.00 £11.20
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -10.71%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Support Engineer
West Midlands

Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Shropshire 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 Shropshire region.

Shropshire Support Engineer Daily Rate Trend

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 Shropshire region.

Shropshire Support Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Support Engineer
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Shropshire 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 4 (66.67%) MS Office
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (50.00%) Windows XP
2 3 (50.00%) Windows Vista
2 3 (50.00%) Windows 7
3 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Firewall
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (16.67%) OSPF
4 1 (16.67%) BGP
4 1 (16.67%) MS Exchange
4 1 (16.67%) LAN
4 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
4 1 (16.67%) SLA
4 1 (16.67%) Windows 2000
4 1 (16.67%) Web Services
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
4 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2003

Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Shropshire 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 (16.67%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) MS Exchange
1 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 4 (66.67%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) OSPF
2 1 (16.67%) BGP
2 1 (16.67%) LAN
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Windows XP
2 3 (50.00%) Windows Vista
2 3 (50.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (16.67%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco