The first table below looks at the demand for the Server 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 Server Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 18 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Server Engineer
Rank 32 - 33
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Server Engineer 2 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 1.047% - 1.471%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.136% - 1.531%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £290 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £258 £275
% change year-on-year
+16.50% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £15.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £34.89 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-28.34% +74.45%
All Job Titles
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
176 172 196
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 92.15% 96.63% 96.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 93 90
Average daily rate £284 £350 £293
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.92% +19.65%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £230 £231
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £428 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 12 23
Average hourly rate £10.58 £22.69 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-53.37% +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 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Server Engineer
South West

Server Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset Server Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Server Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Somerset Server Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Server Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Somerset Server Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Server Engineer
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset region that cited Server 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 Server Engineer in their job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) Clustering
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (66.67%) SAN
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) VMware ESX
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Workstation
2 1 (33.33%) NetApp
2 1 (33.33%) Internet
2 1 (33.33%) Blackberry
2 1 (33.33%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (33.33%) vSphere
2 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (33.33%) MCITP
2 1 (33.33%) Network Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Server
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) MS Office
2 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) DNS

Server Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset region that cited Server 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 Server Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
1 1 (33.33%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) SAN
2 1 (33.33%) Internet
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Clustering
2 1 (33.33%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Network Load Balancing
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (33.33%) MCITP
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (33.33%) vSphere
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) VMware ESX
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Workstation
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Server
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) NetApp