The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Support Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Senior Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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 West 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Support Engineer
Rank 109 - 125
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Support Engineer 2 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.100% - 0.070%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.106% - 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £308 £225 £285
% change year-on-year
+36.66% -21.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £21.86 £36.00
% change year-on-year
- -39.27%
All Job Titles
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1891 3019 2707
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 94.08% 93.04% 94.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1135 1811 1344
Average daily rate £350 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £230 £200
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 136 187 244
Average hourly rate £15.30 £22.50 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-32.00% +2.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £12.80 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £38.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Senior Support Engineer
England

Senior Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West Senior Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

South West Senior Support Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Senior Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South West Senior Support Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Senior Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region that cited Senior 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 Senior Support Engineer in their job title.

1 4 (80.00%) VMware
1 4 (80.00%) HP
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco
3 2 (40.00%) IBM
3 2 (40.00%) Compuware
3 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (40.00%) OpenView
3 2 (40.00%) Windows
3 2 (40.00%) MS Exchange
3 2 (40.00%) SNMP
3 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (40.00%) CiscoWorks
3 2 (40.00%) Citrix
3 2 (40.00%) Juniper
3 2 (40.00%) SAN
3 2 (40.00%) Terminal Services
3 2 (40.00%) Tivoli
3 2 (40.00%) Netcool
3 2 (40.00%) Netcool/OMNIbus
3 2 (40.00%) IP Telephony
3 2 (40.00%) Statistics
3 2 (40.00%) OPNET
3 2 (40.00%) Wireshark
3 2 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (40.00%) SolarWinds
3 2 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (40.00%) F5
4 1 (20.00%) C
4 1 (20.00%) Mathematics
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco IPT

Senior Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region that cited Senior 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 Senior Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) SNMP
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (40.00%) SAN
1 2 (40.00%) IP Telephony
1 2 (40.00%) Wireshark
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco IPT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Statistics
2 1 (20.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (20.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) OpenView
1 2 (40.00%) CiscoWorks
1 2 (40.00%) Tivoli
1 2 (40.00%) Netcool
1 2 (40.00%) Netcool/OMNIbus
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
1 4 (80.00%) HP
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco
3 2 (40.00%) IBM
3 2 (40.00%) Compuware
3 2 (40.00%) Citrix
3 2 (40.00%) Juniper
3 2 (40.00%) OPNET
3 2 (40.00%) SolarWinds
3 2 (40.00%) F5