South East Network Support Engineer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Network Support Engineer role in IT contracts within the South East region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Network Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Network Support Engineer
Location Aberdeen Aldershot Berkshire Birmingham Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire City of London Croydon Devon Docklands, London East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Ely England Essex Exeter Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire London Lowestoft Luton Maidenhead Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Reading Scotland Shropshire South East South West Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	224	251
Rank change on same period last year	+27
Matching contract IT job ads	29	49
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.039 %	0.048 %
As % of the category below	0.254 %	0.303 %
Daily rates quoted	3	17
Average minimum daily rate	£417	£351
Average daily rate	£417	£360
% change on same period last year	+15.88 %
Average maximum daily rate	£417	£368
UK excluding London average daily rate	£327	£294
% change on same period last year	+11.51 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	13
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£22.22
Average hourly rate	-	£23.26
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£24.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.82	£22.37
% change on same period last year	-6.93 %
Job Titles South East
Matching contract IT job ads	11411	16150
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	15.42 %	15.93 %
Daily rates quoted	2943	4160
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£339
Average daily rate	£356	£357
% change on same period last year	-0.29 %
Average maximum daily rate	£376	£375
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£355
% change on same period last year	-0.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	1352	2039
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.46	£25.59
Average hourly rate	£23.96	£27.04
% change on same period last year	-11.37 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.47	£28.49
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.85	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.14 %
Network Support Engineer England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Network Support Engineer across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Support Engineer within the South East region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Berkshire	+48	16	£475	-
Surrey	-10	4	£300	-16.56 %
Hampshire	-	3	-	-
Kent	-	2	-	-
Thames Valley	+11	2	-	-
Buckinghamshire	+9	1	-	-
East Sussex	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited Network 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 Network Support Engineer in their job title.

1 29 (32.95 %) Cisco 2 19 (21.59 %) Active Directory 3 18 (20.45 %) Nokia 3 18 (20.45 %) Network Security 4 17 (19.32 %) SGSN 4 17 (19.32 %) Auditing 4 17 (19.32 %) Front Office 4 17 (19.32 %) 3G 4 17 (19.32 %) Windows 5 16 (18.18 %) Cisco Certification 5 16 (18.18 %) Firewall 5 16 (18.18 %) Telecoms 6 14 (15.91 %) Cisco PIX 7 13 (14.77 %) Ericsson 7 13 (14.77 %) LAN

8 12 (13.64 %) CCNA 8 12 (13.64 %) VPN 9 11 (12.50 %) CCNP 9 11 (12.50 %) TCP/IP 10 10 (11.36 %) SMS 10 10 (11.36 %) WAN 10 10 (11.36 %) SLA 10 10 (11.36 %) Windows Server 2003 11 9 (10.23 %) Microsoft 11 9 (10.23 %) Cisco ASA 12 8 (9.091 %) CheckPoint 13 7 (7.955 %) Windows 2000 Server 13 7 (7.955 %) DNS 13 7 (7.955 %) VoIP 13 7 (7.955 %) MS Exchange

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited Network 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 Network Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 7 (7.955 %) MS Exchange 2 4 (4.545 %) GroupWise 2 4 (4.545 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 3 (3.409 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 1 (1.136 %) Apache	Applications 1 3 (3.409 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 18 (20.45 %) Network Security 2 17 (19.32 %) 3G 2 17 (19.32 %) SGSN 3 16 (18.18 %) Firewall 4 14 (15.91 %) Cisco PIX 5 13 (14.77 %) LAN 6 12 (13.64 %) VPN 7 11 (12.50 %) TCP/IP 8 10 (11.36 %) SMS 8 10 (11.36 %) WAN 9 9 (10.23 %) Cisco ASA 10 7 (7.955 %) VoIP 10 7 (7.955 %) DNS 11 6 (6.818 %) VLAN 12 5 (5.682 %) OSPF 12 5 (5.682 %) DHCP 13 4 (4.545 %) MPLS 14 3 (3.409 %) BGP 14 3 (3.409 %) EIGRP 14 3 (3.409 %) WLAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (1.136 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 1 (1.136 %) MSI	General 1 17 (19.32 %) Front Office 1 17 (19.32 %) Auditing 2 16 (18.18 %) Telecoms 3 1 (1.136 %) Finance 3 1 (1.136 %) Government 3 1 (1.136 %) Health 3 1 (1.136 %) Banking 3 1 (1.136 %) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous 1 3 (3.409 %) NHS 2 1 (1.136 %) Statistics	Operating Systems 1 17 (19.32 %) Windows 2 10 (11.36 %) Windows Server 2003 3 7 (7.955 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 4 (4.545 %) NetWare 5 3 (3.409 %) Linux 5 3 (3.409 %) Windows 2000 5 3 (3.409 %) Windows NT 5 3 (3.409 %) Windows XP 6 2 (2.273 %) UNIX 7 1 (1.136 %) Solaris 7 1 (1.136 %) Red Hat Linux 7 1 (1.136 %) SUSE 7 1 (1.136 %) Debian
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (5.682 %) Migration 2 4 (4.545 %) Time Management 3 3 (3.409 %) Service Delivery 4 2 (2.273 %) Security Cleared 5 1 (1.136 %) SC Cleared 5 1 (1.136 %) Load Balancing	Programming Languages 1 1 (1.136 %) C 1 1 (1.136 %) PHP 1 1 (1.136 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 16 (18.18 %) Cisco Certification 2 12 (13.64 %) CCNA 3 11 (12.50 %) CCNP 4 5 (5.682 %) MCSE 4 5 (5.682 %) Microsoft Certification 5 3 (3.409 %) MCP 6 2 (2.273 %) CCIE 6 2 (2.273 %) CCSA 7 1 (1.136 %) CNE 7 1 (1.136 %) Novell Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 10 (11.36 %) SLA
System Software 1 19 (21.59 %) Active Directory 2 4 (4.545 %) ISA Server 3 3 (3.409 %) NDS	Systems Management 1 1 (1.136 %) OpenView
Vendors 1 29 (32.95 %) Cisco 2 18 (20.45 %) Nokia 3 13 (14.77 %) Ericsson 4 9 (10.23 %) Microsoft 5 8 (9.091 %) CheckPoint 6 6 (6.818 %) Citrix 7 5 (5.682 %) Novell 8 4 (4.545 %) VMware 9 3 (3.409 %) Nortel 10 2 (2.273 %) Blue Coat 10 2 (2.273 %) Juniper 10 2 (2.273 %) HP 11 1 (1.136 %) Red Hat 11 1 (1.136 %) Motorola 11 1 (1.136 %) Huawei 11 1 (1.136 %) Fortinet