The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Systems 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 Senior Systems 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 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior System Engineer
Rank 218 242 238
Rank change year-on-year
+24 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Systems Engineer 11 4 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.139% 0.039% 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.150% 0.042% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 1
Average daily rate £340 £275 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.63% -15.38%
UK excluding London average daily rate £333 £338 £350
% change year-on-year
-1.48% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Average hourly rate £22.69 £52.50 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-56.78% +40.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.85 £36.25 £33.75
% change year-on-year
-42.49% +7.40%
All Job Titles
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
7340 9547 9507
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 92.65% 92.30% 92.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3646 4278 4096
Average daily rate £350 £350 £357
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.96%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £220 £220
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 588 732 811
Average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £11.25 £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%
Senior Systems Engineer
England

Senior Systems Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East Senior Systems Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Systems Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East Senior Systems Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Senior Systems Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Senior Systems Engineer across the South East region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

South East Senior Systems Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Senior Systems Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East Senior Systems Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Senior Systems Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Systems Engineer within the South East 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
Berkshire +21 9 £333 -
Hampshire - 1 £400 -
Kent - 1 - -
Senior Systems Engineer
England

Senior Systems Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited Senior Systems 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 Senior Systems Engineer in their job title.

1 15 (68.18%) VMware
2 14 (63.64%) Windows
3 13 (59.09%) MS Exchange
4 12 (54.55%) Microsoft
4 12 (54.55%) Exchange Server 2007
4 12 (54.55%) PowerShell
5 11 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
5 11 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 11 (50.00%) Active Directory
6 10 (45.45%) ADSI
6 10 (45.45%) VBScript
6 10 (45.45%) VMware ESX
6 10 (45.45%) Migration
6 10 (45.45%) vSphere
7 9 (40.91%) IIS
8 8 (36.36%) SQL Server
9 7 (31.82%) UNIX
9 7 (31.82%) HP
9 7 (31.82%) Firewall
10 6 (27.27%) Cisco
10 6 (27.27%) SQL
10 6 (27.27%) SQL Server 2008
11 5 (22.73%) Perl
11 5 (22.73%) XML
11 5 (22.73%) Dell
11 5 (22.73%) SQL Server 2005
12 4 (18.18%) Brocade
12 4 (18.18%) SAN
12 4 (18.18%) EMC
12 4 (18.18%) B2B

Senior Systems Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited Senior Systems 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 Senior Systems Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (45.45%) ADSI
2 5 (22.73%) XML
3 4 (18.18%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 13 (59.09%) MS Exchange
2 12 (54.55%) Exchange Server 2007
3 11 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 9 (40.91%) IIS
5 3 (13.64%) SharePoint
6 2 (9.091%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (4.545%) Lync
7 1 (4.545%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 1 (4.545%) MS Office
1 1 (4.545%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 7 (31.82%) Firewall
2 4 (18.18%) SAN
2 4 (18.18%) iSCSI
3 3 (13.64%) Radio Access Network
3 3 (13.64%) TCP/IP
3 3 (13.64%) 3G
3 3 (13.64%) TELNET
3 3 (13.64%) 2G
4 1 (4.545%) DNS
4 1 (4.545%) DHCP
4 1 (4.545%) HTTP
4 1 (4.545%) SMTP
4 1 (4.545%) Intranet
4 1 (4.545%) Extranet
4 1 (4.545%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (36.36%) SQL Server
2 6 (27.27%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (22.73%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (9.091%) MarkLogic
5 1 (4.545%) Oracle 11g
5 1 (4.545%) Oracle 10g
General
1 3 (13.64%) Telecoms
2 1 (4.545%) Publishing
2 1 (4.545%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Clustering
2 1 (4.545%) SCADA
2 1 (4.545%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 14 (63.64%) Windows
2 11 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 7 (31.82%) UNIX
4 3 (13.64%) Solaris
4 3 (13.64%) Linux
5 2 (9.091%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (4.545%) Windows 7
6 1 (4.545%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Migration
2 4 (18.18%) B2B
3 3 (13.64%) Web Development
3 3 (13.64%) Network Management
3 3 (13.64%) Validation
4 2 (9.091%) Six Sigma
4 2 (9.091%) ITIL
5 1 (4.545%) Lean Six Sigma
5 1 (4.545%) Problem Management
5 1 (4.545%) Document Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (54.55%) PowerShell
2 10 (45.45%) VBScript
3 6 (27.27%) SQL
4 5 (22.73%) Perl
5 4 (18.18%) C#
6 3 (13.64%) C++
6 3 (13.64%) PL/SQL
7 2 (9.091%) Korn
7 2 (9.091%) Bash shell
8 1 (4.545%) C-shell
8 1 (4.545%) C
8 1 (4.545%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (9.091%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (4.545%) Degree
System Software
1 11 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 10 (45.45%) VMware ESX
2 10 (45.45%) vSphere
3 4 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (9.091%) NFS
5 1 (4.545%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 1 (4.545%) Samba
Systems Management
1 1 (4.545%) SCCM
1 1 (4.545%) SCOM
1 1 (4.545%) Tivoli
1 1 (4.545%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 15 (68.18%) VMware
2 12 (54.55%) Microsoft
3 7 (31.82%) HP
4 6 (27.27%) Cisco
5 5 (22.73%) Dell
6 4 (18.18%) Brocade
6 4 (18.18%) EMC
6 4 (18.18%) Oracle
7 3 (13.64%) Nokia Siemens Networks
7 3 (13.64%) Nortel
7 3 (13.64%) Ericsson
7 3 (13.64%) Red Hat
8 2 (9.091%) Veritas