Support Engineer Contracts in Somerset
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend 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 Somerset 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 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Support Engineer
Rank 18 30 32
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 18 5 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 9.783% 2.976% 1.840%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.71% 3.067% 1.935%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £245 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £240 £203 £263
% change year-on-year
+18.51% -22.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
Average hourly rate £15.20 £15.21 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-0.06% -23.95%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £15.66 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-4.22% +4.41%
All Job Titles
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 168 163 155
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 91.30% 97.02% 95.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 91 69
Average daily rate £310 £320 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.12% -8.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £230 £223
10% offered a daily rate of more than £430 £433 £448
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 13 22
Average hourly rate £10.00 £13.25 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-24.52% -11.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Support Engineer
South West

Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset 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 Somerset region over the 3 months to 22 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
Taunton - 7 - -
Yeovil - 4 £290 -
Bath - 4 - -
Support Engineer
South West

Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 24 (100.00%) Windows
2 17 (70.83%) Active Directory
3 15 (62.50%) Windows XP
4 14 (58.33%) MS Office
4 14 (58.33%) Windows 7
5 11 (45.83%) Microsoft
6 10 (41.67%) Windows Server 2008
6 10 (41.67%) Blackberry
7 9 (37.50%) Windows Server 2003
8 8 (33.33%) Apple
8 8 (33.33%) Kaspersky
8 8 (33.33%) SCCM
9 7 (29.17%) McAfee
10 6 (25.00%) VMware
10 6 (25.00%) MS Exchange
10 6 (25.00%) TCP/IP
11 5 (20.83%) Cisco
12 4 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2007
12 4 (16.67%) VPN
12 4 (16.67%) VoIP
12 4 (16.67%) DHCP
12 4 (16.67%) HP
12 4 (16.67%) Oracle
13 3 (12.50%) SQL
13 3 (12.50%) Internet
13 3 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2003
13 3 (12.50%) Windows Vista
13 3 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2010
14 2 (8.333%) Change Control
14 2 (8.333%) nginx

Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 Platforms
1 6 (25.00%) MS Exchange
2 4 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2007
3 3 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2003
3 3 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (8.333%) nginx
4 2 (8.333%) Apache
5 1 (4.167%) IIS
5 1 (4.167%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 14 (58.33%) MS Office
2 2 (8.333%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (16.67%) VPN
2 4 (16.67%) VoIP
2 4 (16.67%) DHCP
3 3 (12.50%) Internet
4 2 (8.333%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.333%) MySQL
2 1 (4.167%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (4.167%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.167%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (8.333%) Subversion
1 2 (8.333%) Git (software)
Miscellaneous
1 10 (41.67%) Blackberry
2 2 (8.333%) Open Source
3 1 (4.167%) Clustering
3 1 (4.167%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 24 (100.00%) Windows
2 15 (62.50%) Windows XP
3 14 (58.33%) Windows 7
4 10 (41.67%) Windows Server 2008
5 9 (37.50%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (12.50%) Windows Vista
7 2 (8.333%) Mac OS X Server
7 2 (8.333%) UNIX
7 2 (8.333%) Solaris
7 2 (8.333%) Linux
7 2 (8.333%) FreeBSD
8 1 (4.167%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (8.333%) Change Control
2 1 (4.167%) ITIL
2 1 (4.167%) Network Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.50%) SQL
2 2 (8.333%) C
2 2 (8.333%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (8.333%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.167%) MCSE
2 1 (4.167%) MCITP
System Software
1 17 (70.83%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.333%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (8.333%) VMware ESX
3 1 (4.167%) XenApp
3 1 (4.167%) VMware Server
3 1 (4.167%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (33.33%) SCCM
2 2 (8.333%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (45.83%) Microsoft
2 8 (33.33%) Apple
2 8 (33.33%) Kaspersky
3 7 (29.17%) McAfee
4 6 (25.00%) VMware
5 5 (20.83%) Cisco
6 4 (16.67%) HP
6 4 (16.67%) Oracle
7 2 (8.333%) Citrix
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