South West Hardware Engineer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Hardware Engineer role in IT contracts within the South West 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 Hardware Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Berkshire Bolton Bracknell Bradford Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Douglas Durham East Midlands East of England England Essex Fareham Feltham Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Guildford Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire Huntingdon Isle of Man Lancashire London Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Milton Keynes Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Rugby Scotland Somerset South Coast South East South West Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley UK Warrington Warwickshire Wells West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	133	115
Rank change on same period last year	-18
Matching contract IT job ads	19	55
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.025 %	0.055 %
As % of the category below	0.434 %	0.956 %
Daily rates quoted	1	5
Average minimum daily rate	£110	£171
Average daily rate	£110	£173
% change on same period last year	-36.49 %
Average maximum daily rate	£110	£175
UK excluding London average daily rate	£182	£154
% change on same period last year	+18.34 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	21
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.46	£27.02
Average hourly rate	£31.63	£27.40
% change on same period last year	+15.40 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.79	£27.79
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.73	£29.78
% change on same period last year	-30.38 %
Job Titles South West
Matching contract IT job ads	4373	5752
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	5.771 %	5.729 %
Daily rates quoted	1408	1536
Average minimum daily rate	£347	£341
Average daily rate	£369	£360
% change on same period last year	+2.51 %
Average maximum daily rate	£391	£379
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.32 %
Hourly rates quoted	572	696
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.25	£24.90
Average hourly rate	£27.16	£26.57
% change on same period last year	+2.21 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.07	£28.24
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.60	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-8.13 %
Hardware 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 Hardware Engineer across the South West 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 Hardware Engineer across the South West 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 Hardware Engineer across the South West region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Hardware Engineer across the South West region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Hardware Engineer within the South West region over the 3 months to 21 August 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
Wiltshire	-9	4	£110	-
Gloucestershire	-8	2	-	-
Somerset	+3	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region that cited Hardware 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 Hardware Engineer in their job title.

1 11 (32.35 %) Security Cleared 2 9 (26.47 %) SC Cleared 2 9 (26.47 %) Electronics 3 6 (17.65 %) Aerospace 4 5 (14.71 %) Government 4 5 (14.71 %) CAD 4 5 (14.71 %) EMC 5 4 (11.76 %) LabVIEW 6 3 (8.824 %) Education 6 3 (8.824 %) Telecoms 6 3 (8.824 %) C 6 3 (8.824 %) HP 7 2 (5.882 %) DV Cleared 7 2 (5.882 %) Gigabit Ethernet 7 2 (5.882 %) Windows

7 2 (5.882 %) HNC 7 2 (5.882 %) Ethernet 7 2 (5.882 %) Electric 8 1 (2.941 %) Wireless 8 1 (2.941 %) CAE 8 1 (2.941 %) Configuration Management 8 1 (2.941 %) MATLAB 8 1 (2.941 %) Simulink 8 1 (2.941 %) Automotive 8 1 (2.941 %) Microsoft 8 1 (2.941 %) Embedded C 8 1 (2.941 %) Active Directory 8 1 (2.941 %) UNIX 8 1 (2.941 %) Microsoft Certification 8 1 (2.941 %) Windows Server 2003

Hardware Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region that cited Hardware 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 Hardware Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (2.941 %) JSP	Applications 1 1 (2.941 %) MATLAB 1 1 (2.941 %) Simulink
Business Applications 1 1 (2.941 %) Summit	Communications & Networking 1 2 (5.882 %) Gigabit Ethernet 1 2 (5.882 %) Ethernet 2 1 (2.941 %) Wireless
Development Applications 1 4 (11.76 %) LabVIEW 2 1 (2.941 %) Flash	General 1 9 (26.47 %) Electronics 2 6 (17.65 %) Aerospace 3 5 (14.71 %) Government 4 3 (8.824 %) Education 4 3 (8.824 %) Telecoms 5 2 (5.882 %) Electric 6 1 (2.941 %) Automotive
Miscellaneous 1 1 (2.941 %) VHDL 1 1 (2.941 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array	Operating Systems 1 2 (5.882 %) Windows 2 1 (2.941 %) UNIX 2 1 (2.941 %) Windows Server 2003 2 1 (2.941 %) Linux 2 1 (2.941 %) Windows NT 2 1 (2.941 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (32.35 %) Security Cleared 2 9 (26.47 %) SC Cleared 3 5 (14.71 %) CAD 4 2 (5.882 %) DV Cleared 5 1 (2.941 %) CAE 5 1 (2.941 %) Configuration Management 5 1 (2.941 %) Test Scripting	Programming Languages 1 3 (8.824 %) C 2 1 (2.941 %) Embedded C 2 1 (2.941 %) Python 2 1 (2.941 %) C++ 2 1 (2.941 %) Perl
Qualifications 1 2 (5.882 %) HNC 2 1 (2.941 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (2.941 %) MCSE 2 1 (2.941 %) MCP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.941 %) JSP 440
System Software 1 1 (2.941 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 5 (14.71 %) EMC 2 3 (8.824 %) HP 3 1 (2.941 %) Microsoft 3 1 (2.941 %) Xilinx