The first table below looks at the demand for the PC 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 PC Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PC Engineer
Rank 219 242 232
Rank change year-on-year
+23 -10
Contract jobs requiring a PC Engineer 6 5 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.077% 0.049% 0.117%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.083% 0.053% 0.126%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
Average daily rate - - £95
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 - £100
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 3
Average hourly rate £15.75 £10.50 £14.34
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+50.00% -26.77%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £11.00 £11.74
% change year-on-year
+40.90% -6.26%
All Job Titles
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
7249 9360 9532
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 92.69% 92.54% 92.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3589 4188 4102
Average daily rate £350 £350 £360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -2.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £220 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 578 719 799
Average hourly rate £17.50 £19.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.89% -9.52%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £11.25 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.75 £42.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
PC Engineer
England

PC Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East PC Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

PC Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East PC Engineer Daily Rate Trend

PC Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East PC Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

PC Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PC Engineer within the South East region over the 3 months to 20 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
Hampshire -1 5 - -
Surrey +19 1 - -
PC Engineer
England

PC Engineer
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited PC 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 PC Engineer in their job title.

1 5 (50.00%) MS Office
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (30.00%) Windows XP
2 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (20.00%) SCCM
3 2 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (20.00%) Windows 7
3 2 (20.00%) HP
3 2 (20.00%) Migration
4 1 (10.00%) Backup Exec
4 1 (10.00%) NHS
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (10.00%) Altiris

PC Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Applications
1 5 (50.00%) MS Office
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (30.00%) Windows XP
3 2 (20.00%) Windows 7
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) Migration
1 2 (20.00%) Data Migration
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) SCCM
2 1 (10.00%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) HP
2 1 (10.00%) Altiris
Southampton, Hampshire
Working for a well-established organisation, you will be travelling around a number of sites in the Hampshire area working on an on-going PC Build and rollout...
Connectus
Rate: £14 - £17.5 per hour
Posted: 15 May 2013