Firmware Contracts in the South East
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Firmware 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 Firmware over the 3 months to 24 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firmware
Rank 214 217 214
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -3
Contract jobs citing Firmware 10 22 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.128% 0.217% 0.376%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.640% 1.149% 1.998%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 12
Average daily rate £438 £300 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+45.83% -3.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £360 £248 £262
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £300 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £413 £300 £275
% change year-on-year
+37.50% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 9
Average hourly rate £35.00 £24.43 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+43.29% -30.21%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.25 £33.50
% change year-on-year
+12.00% -6.71%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 1563 1915 1952
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 20.05% 18.87% 18.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 717 810 808
Average daily rate £375 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £220 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £475 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 177 180
Average hourly rate £22.50 £27.50 £30.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-18.18% -10.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £12.60 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £45.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Firmware
England

Firmware
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East Firmware Jobs Demand Trend

Firmware
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East Firmware Daily Rate Trend

Firmware
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Firmware across the South East region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

South East Firmware Daily Rate Histogram

Firmware
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East Firmware Hourly Rate Trend

Firmware
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the South East region over the 3 months to 24 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
Surrey +20 6 £444 -
Hampshire -18 2 - -
Kent - 1 £325 -
Oxfordshire - 1 - -
Firmware
England

Firmware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Firmware also 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 that cited Firmware.

1 7 (41.18%) Linux
1 7 (41.18%) EMC
1 7 (41.18%) Migration
2 6 (35.29%) SAN
2 6 (35.29%) C
2 6 (35.29%) Veritas
2 6 (35.29%) UNIX
2 6 (35.29%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 6 (35.29%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 5 (29.41%) NAS
3 5 (29.41%) Solaris
4 4 (23.53%) C++
4 4 (23.53%) Windows
4 4 (23.53%) Electronics
5 3 (17.65%) Finance
5 3 (17.65%) Banking
5 3 (17.65%) Investment Banking
5 3 (17.65%) AIX
5 3 (17.65%) IBM
5 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
5 3 (17.65%) NetApp
5 3 (17.65%) Degree
6 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (11.76%) Shell Script
6 2 (11.76%) VxWorks
6 2 (11.76%) HP
6 2 (11.76%) Hitachi
6 2 (11.76%) Intel
6 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification

Firmware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Firmware also 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 that cited Firmware. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Business Applications
1 1 (5.882%) EMB Igloo
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) SAN
2 5 (29.41%) NAS
3 2 (11.76%) Bluetooth
3 2 (11.76%) Broadband
3 2 (11.76%) Ethernet
3 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP
3 2 (11.76%) ZigBee
Development Applications
1 1 (5.882%) LabVIEW
General
1 4 (23.53%) Electronics
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Banking
2 3 (17.65%) Investment Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Automotive
4 1 (5.882%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (17.65%) Systems Engineer
1 3 (17.65%) Administrator
1 3 (17.65%) Software Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) FPGA Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Wintel Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Firmware Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Wintel Systems Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Consultant
2 2 (11.76%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (11.76%) UNIX Consultant
2 2 (11.76%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Design Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) UNIX Administrator
3 1 (5.882%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.882%) Storage Administrator
3 1 (5.882%) UNIX Engineer
3 1 (5.882%) Electronics Engineer
3 1 (5.882%) Cisco Specialist
3 1 (5.882%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (5.882%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
1 2 (11.76%) Device Driver
2 1 (5.882%) VHDL
2 1 (5.882%) Equities
2 1 (5.882%) Cryptography
2 1 (5.882%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (5.882%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) Linux
2 6 (35.29%) UNIX
3 5 (29.41%) Solaris
4 4 (23.53%) Windows
5 3 (17.65%) AIX
6 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (11.76%) VxWorks
6 2 (11.76%) HPUX
6 2 (11.76%) Windows 2000
6 2 (11.76%) Windows NT
7 1 (5.882%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (5.882%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Migration
2 1 (5.882%) CMMI
2 1 (5.882%) Communications Security
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) C
2 4 (23.53%) C++
3 2 (11.76%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.882%) Embedded C
4 1 (5.882%) Embedded C++
4 1 (5.882%) MATLAB
4 1 (5.882%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (11.76%) MCSE
3 1 (5.882%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.882%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 6 (35.29%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 2 (11.76%) NFS
3 1 (5.882%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.882%) PowerHA
3 1 (5.882%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.882%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (5.882%) SCCM
1 1 (5.882%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) EMC
2 6 (35.29%) Veritas
3 3 (17.65%) IBM
3 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 3 (17.65%) NetApp
4 2 (11.76%) HP
4 2 (11.76%) Hitachi
4 2 (11.76%) Intel
5 1 (5.882%) VMware
5 1 (5.882%) Xilinx
5 1 (5.882%) Cisco
5 1 (5.882%) Actel
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Camberley, Surrey
A leading investment bank requires a senior UNIX engineer to work within their infrastructure area. The successful candidate will need: Requirements: * Deep knowledge of Linux and Solaris Operating...
iKas International
Rate: £400 - £475 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
Infrastructure Engineer
Southampton, Hampshire
We are therefore looking for an person who has very good knowledge of the following technologies; Migration to and deployment of Windows 2012 servers Active Directory Virtualisation deployment...
Lorien Resourcing
Rate: Market Rate
Posted: 20 May 2013
Project Manager - Defence/Aerospace
Middlesex
Project risk management... *High competency in Project Management techniques including: Earned Value Management, Critical Path & Pert Analysis. *Risk Management... *Relevant degree in an Engineering subject. *Professional qualifications i...
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Ltd
Rate: £300 - £375 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
Waveform Systems Engineer
Portsmouth, Hampshire
Additional duties will include supporting embedded software and firmware teams throughout the implementation and integration test phases as well as working alongside Systems Engineering and Systems VV&T...
s-com
Rate: £35 - £40 per hour
Posted: 20 May 2013
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