The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Slough region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Systems Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Slough 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Engineer
Rank 37 28 37
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +9
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 2 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough 0.816% 1.053% 0.318%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.862% 1.136% 0.338%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
Average daily rate £325 £288 £270
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.04% +6.48%
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £310 £400
% change year-on-year
+1.61% -22.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £36.25 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-17.24% +36.79%
All Job Titles
Slough
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
232 176 296
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough 94.69% 92.63% 94.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 102 136
Average daily rate £344 £450 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.61% +50.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £134 £250 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 2 41
Average hourly rate £35.00 £11.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+218.18% -74.11%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Systems Engineer
Berkshire

Systems Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Slough Systems Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Systems Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Slough Systems Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Systems Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Slough Systems Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Systems Engineer
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Slough region that cited Systems 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 Systems Engineer in their job title.

1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Clustering
2 1 (50.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Server
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) CentOS
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Bash shell
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Management
2 1 (50.00%) C
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) MS Office
2 1 (50.00%) UNIX
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Solaris
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (50.00%) Broadband
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (50.00%) DSL
2 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi

Systems Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Slough region that cited Systems 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 Systems Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Broadband
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) DSL
1 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) CentOS
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Solaris
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Project Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash shell
1 1 (50.00%) C
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Server
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft