Design Engineer Contracts in the South East
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Design Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Design Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 South East 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Design Engineer
Rank 137 68 147
Rank change year-on-year
-69 +79
Contract jobs requiring a Design Engineer 84 234 108
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 1.060% 2.303% 1.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.145% 2.491% 1.136%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 18 10
Average daily rate £300 £270 £356
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% -24.21%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £273 £184 £296
10% offered a daily rate of more than £315 £383 £433
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.07% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 15
Average hourly rate £26.00 £30.00 £33.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% -10.44%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.50 £31.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
-1.61% +3.33%
All Job Titles
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 7336 9394 9506
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 92.60% 92.47% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3629 4201 4116
Average daily rate £350 £350 £355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £220 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £501 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 587 724 798
Average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.77% -14.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £11.38 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.00 £42.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Design Engineer
England

Design Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East Design Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Design Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East Design Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Design Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East Design Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Design Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Design Engineer within the South East region over the 3 months to 21 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
Berkshire -48 60 £274 +1.38%
Surrey +23 9 £315 -21.25%
Hampshire -7 6 - -
West Sussex +17 3 - -
Oxfordshire -2 1 - -
Buckinghamshire -5 1 - -
Middlesex - 1 £300 -
Design Engineer
England

Design Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited Design 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 Design Engineer in their job title.

1 120 (60.30%) Telecoms
2 76 (38.19%) Ethernet
2 76 (38.19%) Nokia Siemens Networks
3 75 (37.69%) ATM
4 70 (35.18%) LTE
5 69 (34.67%) 3G
6 63 (31.66%) Project Management
7 62 (31.16%) MPLS
8 61 (30.65%) Radio Access Network
9 55 (27.64%) Ericsson
10 54 (27.14%) Network Design
11 45 (22.61%) SDH
12 35 (17.59%) 2G
13 28 (14.07%) 3GPP
14 27 (13.57%) UTRAN
15 26 (13.07%) Huawei
16 24 (12.06%) Capacity Planning
17 22 (11.06%) Resource Management
18 21 (10.55%) OSPF
19 20 (10.05%) BGP
19 20 (10.05%) Handset
19 20 (10.05%) Cisco
20 16 (8.040%) VPN
20 16 (8.040%) NEC
20 16 (8.040%) Security Cleared
21 15 (7.538%) Cisco Certification
22 14 (7.035%) BT
23 13 (6.533%) SC Cleared
23 13 (6.533%) Nokia
24 12 (6.030%) 4G

Design Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited Design 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 Design Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (3.518%) .NET
2 5 (2.513%) WCF
2 5 (2.513%) WPF
2 5 (2.513%) Silverlight
2 5 (2.513%) XML
3 2 (1.005%) WSDL
3 2 (1.005%) XML Schema
3 2 (1.005%) XSLT
3 2 (1.005%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.503%) OpenGL
Application Platforms
1 4 (2.010%) MS Exchange
1 4 (2.010%) SharePoint
1 4 (2.010%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 6 (3.015%) Pro/ENGINEER
2 5 (2.513%) MS Office
3 2 (1.005%) MS Excel
3 2 (1.005%) AutoCAD
Communications & Networking
1 76 (38.19%) Ethernet
2 75 (37.69%) ATM
3 70 (35.18%) LTE
4 69 (34.67%) 3G
5 62 (31.16%) MPLS
6 61 (30.65%) Radio Access Network
7 45 (22.61%) SDH
8 35 (17.59%) 2G
9 28 (14.07%) 3GPP
10 27 (13.57%) UTRAN
11 21 (10.55%) OSPF
12 20 (10.05%) BGP
13 16 (8.040%) VPN
14 12 (6.030%) 4G
15 11 (5.528%) HSRP
15 11 (5.528%) RNC
15 11 (5.528%) DWDM
15 11 (5.528%) RSVP
15 11 (5.528%) VRRP
15 11 (5.528%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.005%) Oracle 10g
1 2 (1.005%) RDBMS
1 2 (1.005%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (0.503%) GIS
2 1 (0.503%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.503%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (0.503%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (0.503%) MS Access
2 1 (0.503%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.503%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 5 (2.513%) NUnit
1 5 (2.513%) Moq
2 3 (1.508%) JIRA
2 3 (1.508%) Subversion
3 2 (1.005%) LabVIEW
General
1 120 (60.30%) Telecoms
2 6 (3.015%) Electronics
3 4 (2.010%) Aerospace
3 4 (2.010%) Manufacturing
4 3 (1.508%) Finance
5 2 (1.005%) Billing
6 1 (0.503%) Banking
6 1 (0.503%) Multimedia
6 1 (0.503%) Military
6 1 (0.503%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.05%) Handset
2 4 (2.010%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
3 2 (1.005%) Firmware
3 2 (1.005%) Verilog
3 2 (1.005%) Computer Science
4 1 (0.503%) Mathematics
4 1 (0.503%) Physics
4 1 (0.503%) PKI
4 1 (0.503%) Derivative
4 1 (0.503%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (0.503%) Device Driver
4 1 (0.503%) 3D Graphics
4 1 (0.503%) VHDL
4 1 (0.503%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.518%) Windows
2 4 (2.010%) Linux
3 3 (1.508%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.508%) SUSE
3 3 (1.508%) Solaris
4 1 (0.503%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.503%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (31.66%) Project Management
2 54 (27.14%) Network Design
3 24 (12.06%) Capacity Planning
4 22 (11.06%) Resource Management
5 9 (4.523%) Validation
5 9 (4.523%) Capacity Management
6 7 (3.518%) SOA
7 6 (3.015%) CAD
8 5 (2.513%) Load Balancing
8 5 (2.513%) Project Planning
8 5 (2.513%) Disaster Recovery
9 4 (2.010%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (2.010%) Agile Software Development
10 3 (1.508%) Migration
10 3 (1.508%) Regression Testing
10 3 (1.508%) Configuration Management
11 2 (1.005%) Business Intelligence
11 2 (1.005%) Data Modelling
11 2 (1.005%) UML
11 2 (1.005%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (3.518%) C
1 7 (3.518%) C#
2 4 (2.010%) Python
2 4 (2.010%) C++
2 4 (2.010%) Perl
2 4 (2.010%) AWK
2 4 (2.010%) sed
3 2 (1.005%) XPath
4 1 (0.503%) GLSL
4 1 (0.503%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.503%) MATLAB
4 1 (0.503%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (8.040%) Security Cleared
2 15 (7.538%) Cisco Certification
3 13 (6.533%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.518%) CCIE
5 5 (2.513%) CCNA
6 4 (2.010%) CCSP
6 4 (2.010%) JNCIP
6 4 (2.010%) JNCIE
6 4 (2.010%) Degree
7 3 (1.508%) HNC
7 3 (1.508%) CISSP
8 2 (1.005%) CCDP
8 2 (1.005%) HND
9 1 (0.503%) CCNP
9 1 (0.503%) CCIP
9 1 (0.503%) Check Point Certification
9 1 (0.503%) EMC Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.508%) QA
2 2 (1.005%) SLA
3 1 (0.503%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (3.518%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.513%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.503%) VMware Server
3 1 (0.503%) vSphere
3 1 (0.503%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 2 (1.005%) OpenView
2 1 (0.503%) WSUS
Vendors
1 76 (38.19%) Nokia Siemens Networks
2 55 (27.64%) Ericsson
3 26 (13.07%) Huawei
4 20 (10.05%) Cisco
5 16 (8.040%) NEC
6 14 (7.035%) BT
7 13 (6.533%) Nokia
8 11 (5.528%) Oracle
9 9 (4.523%) Juniper
10 6 (3.015%) SAP
11 5 (2.513%) Teradata
11 5 (2.513%) VMware
11 5 (2.513%) Nortel
12 4 (2.010%) Microsoft
12 4 (2.010%) 3Com
13 3 (1.508%) Red Hat
14 2 (1.005%) HP
14 2 (1.005%) EMC
14 2 (1.005%) Business Objects
14 2 (1.005%) Altera
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