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

The first table below looks at the demand for the Support 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 Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Support Engineer
Rank 57 60 74
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +14
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 220 281 244
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 2.815% 2.766% 2.335%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.037% 2.991% 2.521%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 55 77
Average daily rate £225 £240 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% -12.72%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £128 £140 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £363 £312 £365
UK excluding London average daily rate £239 £200 £263
% change year-on-year
+19.37% -23.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 87 67
Average hourly rate £15.77 £16.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.43% +6.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.92 £10.50 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 £28.10 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £16.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
All Job Titles
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 7243 9396 9678
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 92.69% 92.50% 92.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3591 4212 4167
Average daily rate £350 £350 £360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -2.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £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 582 721 805
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 £11.03 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.00 £42.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Support Engineer
England

Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East Support Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Support Engineer across the South East region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

South East Support Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East Support Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Support Engineer across the South East region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

South East Support Engineer Hourly Rate Histogram

Support Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Support Engineer within the South East region over the 3 months to 17 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 -11 81 £270 +3.84%
Hampshire +2 42 £265 +10.41%
Surrey -7 22 £129 -28.57%
West Sussex +20 19 £175 +25.00%
Buckinghamshire +20 18 £238 -34.70%
Oxfordshire +4 16 £145 -42.00%
Kent -3 9 £110 -45.67%
East Sussex +11 7 - -
Isle of Wight - 1 - -
Support Engineer
England

Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited 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 Support Engineer in their job title.

1 275 (61.52%) Windows
2 172 (38.48%) Active Directory
3 119 (26.62%) Microsoft
4 104 (23.27%) MS Office
5 99 (22.15%) Windows 7
6 91 (20.36%) Windows XP
7 86 (19.24%) Windows Server 2008
8 83 (18.57%) VMware
9 82 (18.34%) Windows Server 2003
10 69 (15.44%) MS Exchange
11 67 (14.99%) ITIL
12 61 (13.65%) MS Excel
13 59 (13.20%) Citrix
14 53 (11.86%) HP
15 52 (11.63%) Cisco
15 52 (11.63%) Security Cleared
16 50 (11.19%) TCP/IP
17 44 (9.843%) LAN
18 39 (8.725%) Linux
18 39 (8.725%) WAN
18 39 (8.725%) SC Cleared
19 37 (8.277%) VMware Infrastructure
20 36 (8.054%) SQL
21 34 (7.606%) SharePoint
21 34 (7.606%) DNS
22 33 (7.383%) Telecoms
23 29 (6.488%) DHCP
23 29 (6.488%) SAN
23 29 (6.488%) UNIX
24 28 (6.264%) SQL Server

Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited 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 Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (1.790%) .NET
2 5 (1.119%) CSS
3 3 (0.671%) Application Packaging
4 2 (0.447%) SAP PI
4 2 (0.447%) HTML
4 2 (0.447%) SAP Basis
5 1 (0.224%) SAP ALE
5 1 (0.224%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.224%) Java EE
5 1 (0.224%) Web Services
5 1 (0.224%) XML
5 1 (0.224%) EDI
5 1 (0.224%) Middleware
5 1 (0.224%) J2EE
5 1 (0.224%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 69 (15.44%) MS Exchange
2 34 (7.606%) SharePoint
3 25 (5.593%) Exchange Server 2010
4 24 (5.369%) Exchange Server 2007
5 14 (3.132%) Exchange Server 2003
6 12 (2.685%) IIS
7 5 (1.119%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 5 (1.119%) Lync
8 4 (0.895%) Lotus Notes
9 2 (0.447%) Documentum
9 2 (0.447%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.224%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.224%) Apache
10 1 (0.224%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.224%) CMS
10 1 (0.224%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.224%) Exchange Server 5.5
10 1 (0.224%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.224%) ESB
10 1 (0.224%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 104 (23.27%) MS Office
2 61 (13.65%) MS Excel
3 8 (1.790%) Office 365
4 2 (0.447%) Google Apps
4 2 (0.447%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.224%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.224%) 3000 Xtra
Communications & Networking
1 50 (11.19%) TCP/IP
2 44 (9.843%) LAN
3 39 (8.725%) WAN
4 34 (7.606%) DNS
5 29 (6.488%) DHCP
5 29 (6.488%) SAN
6 25 (5.593%) Internet
7 22 (4.922%) VPN
8 20 (4.474%) Firewall
9 15 (3.356%) Wireless
10 14 (3.132%) MPLS
10 14 (3.132%) BGP
11 12 (2.685%) 3G
11 12 (2.685%) VoIP
12 11 (2.461%) GSM
12 11 (2.461%) Ethernet
12 11 (2.461%) NAS
13 8 (1.790%) Intranet
13 8 (1.790%) UMTS
13 8 (1.790%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (6.264%) SQL Server
2 12 (2.685%) MySQL
3 5 (1.119%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (0.895%) MS Access
5 3 (0.671%) SQL Server 2005
5 3 (0.671%) SQL Server 2008
6 2 (0.447%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (0.447%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.224%) SQL Server 2000
7 1 (0.224%) EDRMS
7 1 (0.224%) Oracle 8/8i
7 1 (0.224%) Cognos Impromptu
7 1 (0.224%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 4 (0.895%) StarTeam
2 1 (0.224%) NWDI
2 1 (0.224%) Ant
General
1 33 (7.383%) Telecoms
2 16 (3.579%) Finance
3 15 (3.356%) Retail
4 10 (2.237%) Back Office
5 5 (1.119%) Electronics
5 5 (1.119%) Military
6 2 (0.447%) Banking
6 2 (0.447%) Manufacturing
6 2 (0.447%) Advertising
7 1 (0.224%) Publishing
7 1 (0.224%) Games
7 1 (0.224%) Billing
7 1 (0.224%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.224%) Local Government
7 1 (0.224%) Music
7 1 (0.224%) Marketing
7 1 (0.224%) French Language
7 1 (0.224%) German Language
7 1 (0.224%) Online Betting
7 1 (0.224%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 25 (5.593%) Blackberry
2 11 (2.461%) Clustering
3 7 (1.566%) NHS
3 7 (1.566%) PDA
3 7 (1.566%) Computer Science
4 5 (1.119%) Fat Client
4 5 (1.119%) Thin Client
4 5 (1.119%) iSeries
4 5 (1.119%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (0.895%) EPoS
5 4 (0.895%) PKI
6 3 (0.671%) Video Conferencing
6 3 (0.671%) Handset
7 2 (0.447%) Mathematics
7 2 (0.447%) Smartphone
7 2 (0.447%) Client/Server
7 2 (0.447%) SecurID
7 2 (0.447%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.224%) ASIC
8 1 (0.224%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 275 (61.52%) Windows
2 99 (22.15%) Windows 7
3 91 (20.36%) Windows XP
4 86 (19.24%) Windows Server 2008
5 82 (18.34%) Windows Server 2003
6 39 (8.725%) Linux
7 29 (6.488%) UNIX
8 18 (4.027%) Windows 2000 Server
8 18 (4.027%) Windows Vista
9 15 (3.356%) Windows 2000
10 7 (1.566%) Solaris
11 6 (1.342%) CentOS
11 6 (1.342%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 6 (1.342%) HPUX
12 5 (1.119%) Windows Mobile
13 3 (0.671%) Windows 8
14 2 (0.447%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.447%) VMS
15 1 (0.224%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.224%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (14.99%) ITIL
2 26 (5.817%) Migration
3 12 (2.685%) Project Management
3 12 (2.685%) Root Cause Analysis
4 9 (2.013%) Incident Management
4 9 (2.013%) Release Management
5 8 (1.790%) Asset Management
5 8 (1.790%) Service Delivery
6 7 (1.566%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (1.566%) Network Design
6 7 (1.566%) Workforce Management Optimization
6 7 (1.566%) Software Deployment
7 6 (1.342%) Software Distribution
7 6 (1.342%) Integration Testing
7 6 (1.342%) CRM
8 5 (1.119%) ERP
8 5 (1.119%) Change Management
8 5 (1.119%) Time Management
8 5 (1.119%) Workflow
8 5 (1.119%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (8.054%) SQL
2 21 (4.698%) PowerShell
3 13 (2.908%) Perl
4 8 (1.790%) C
5 7 (1.566%) T-SQL
6 6 (1.342%) VBScript
7 4 (0.895%) VB
7 4 (0.895%) VB.NET
7 4 (0.895%) C#
8 3 (0.671%) VBA
9 2 (0.447%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.447%) PHP
9 2 (0.447%) Bash shell
10 1 (0.224%) Java
10 1 (0.224%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.224%) Jython
Qualifications
1 52 (11.63%) Security Cleared
2 39 (8.725%) SC Cleared
3 27 (6.040%) Cisco Certification
3 27 (6.040%) Microsoft Certification
4 21 (4.698%) CCNA
5 17 (3.803%) MCSE
6 15 (3.356%) CCNP
7 14 (3.132%) MCP
8 10 (2.237%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.790%) Degree
10 7 (1.566%) HNC
11 5 (1.119%) MCSA
11 5 (1.119%) CCIE
11 5 (1.119%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.895%) HND
13 3 (0.671%) CCIP
13 3 (0.671%) CCSA
13 3 (0.671%) CCSE
13 3 (0.671%) CCA
13 3 (0.671%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.593%) SLA
2 1 (0.224%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 172 (38.48%) Active Directory
2 37 (8.277%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (4.474%) Hyper-V
4 15 (3.356%) VMware ESXi
5 11 (2.461%) VMware ESX
6 8 (1.790%) ISA Server
6 8 (1.790%) Forefront TMG
7 7 (1.566%) Terminal Services
8 6 (1.342%) XenApp
8 6 (1.342%) vSphere
9 3 (0.671%) XenDesktop
9 3 (0.671%) VMware Workstation
9 3 (0.671%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (0.671%) ProxySG
9 3 (0.671%) NLBS
9 3 (0.671%) NFS
10 2 (0.447%) MetaFrame
11 1 (0.224%) NDS
11 1 (0.224%) Citrix Presentation Server
11 1 (0.224%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 23 (5.145%) SCCM
2 17 (3.803%) Backup Exec
3 9 (2.013%) WSUS
4 7 (1.566%) ZENworks
5 6 (1.342%) SCOM
6 4 (0.895%) Norton AntiVirus
6 4 (0.895%) NetBackup
6 4 (0.895%) OpenView Configuration Management
7 2 (0.447%) HP Quality Center
7 2 (0.447%) McAfee ePO
7 2 (0.447%) HP SIM
7 2 (0.447%) Cisco UCCX
8 1 (0.224%) OVSD
8 1 (0.224%) HP NNM
8 1 (0.224%) ARCserve
8 1 (0.224%) OpenView
8 1 (0.224%) CiscoWorks
8 1 (0.224%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.224%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 119 (26.62%) Microsoft
2 83 (18.57%) VMware
3 59 (13.20%) Citrix
4 53 (11.86%) HP
5 52 (11.63%) Cisco
6 22 (4.922%) Dell
7 18 (4.027%) McAfee
8 14 (3.132%) CheckPoint
9 10 (2.237%) Oracle
10 9 (2.013%) Juniper
10 9 (2.013%) Symantec
10 9 (2.013%) NetApp
10 9 (2.013%) Verint
11 8 (1.790%) CommVault
12 7 (1.566%) Novell
13 6 (1.342%) Remedy
14 5 (1.119%) Red Hat
14 5 (1.119%) IBM
14 5 (1.119%) SAP
14 5 (1.119%) Blue Coat
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