The first table below looks at the demand for the Infrastructure Support Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Somerset region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Infrastructure Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 19 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 Somerset 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Infrastructure Support Engineer
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support Engineer 5 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 2.732% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.976% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £290 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £308 £201 £215
% change year-on-year
+52.79% -6.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £23.75 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.75 £17.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year
+35.71% -16.66%
All Job Titles
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
168 168 200
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 91.80% 97.11% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 90 96
Average daily rate £275 £350 £285
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% +22.80%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £230 £230
10% offered a daily rate of more than £423 £429 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 12 21
Average hourly rate £14.00 £22.69 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-38.29% +51.26%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £9.85 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £27.50 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Infrastructure Support Engineer
South West

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset Infrastructure Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Somerset Infrastructure Support Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Somerset Infrastructure Support Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset region that cited Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Support Engineer in their job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 5 (83.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
3 4 (66.67%) MS Office
3 4 (66.67%) MS Exchange
3 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
4 3 (50.00%) Windows 7
4 3 (50.00%) VoIP
4 3 (50.00%) Oracle
4 3 (50.00%) Windows XP
4 3 (50.00%) Cisco
4 3 (50.00%) VPN
4 3 (50.00%) VMware
5 2 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
5 2 (33.33%) Windows Vista
5 2 (33.33%) SQL
5 2 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (16.67%) vSphere
6 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
6 1 (16.67%) DHCP
6 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
6 1 (16.67%) DNS
6 1 (16.67%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (16.67%) Network Load Balancing
6 1 (16.67%) MCITP

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset region that cited Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) MS Exchange
2 2 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (16.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 4 (66.67%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) VoIP
1 3 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (16.67%) DHCP
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle 8/8i
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Clustering
1 1 (16.67%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 5 (83.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (50.00%) Windows 7
3 3 (50.00%) Windows XP
4 2 (33.33%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) Network Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (16.67%) MCITP
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) vSphere
2 1 (16.67%) VMware ESX
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco
2 3 (50.00%) VMware