Suffolk Network Engineer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Network Engineer role in IT contracts within the Suffolk 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 Network Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Network Engineer
Location Aberdeen Aldershot Angus Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Cobham County Antrim Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ely England Essex Exeter Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Goole Greenford Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hull Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool London Lowestoft Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Redditch Redhill Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Witham Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	25	21
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	4	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	2.721 %	3.817 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£150
Average daily rate	-	£175
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£200
UK excluding London average daily rate	£308	£316
% change on same period last year	-2.42 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.00	£10.00
Average hourly rate	£18.50	£11.50
% change on same period last year	+60.86 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.00	£13.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.87	£26.55
% change on same period last year	-2.55 %
Job Titles Suffolk
Matching contract IT job ads	147	262
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.194 %	0.261 %
Daily rates quoted	38	63
Average minimum daily rate	£318	£319
Average daily rate	£336	£331
% change on same period last year	+1.45 %
Average maximum daily rate	£354	£343
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	40	49
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.57	£23.24
Average hourly rate	£22.47	£24.00
% change on same period last year	-6.36 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.37	£24.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.68	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.85 %
Network Engineer East of 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 Network Engineer across the Suffolk 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 Network Engineer across the Suffolk 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 Network Engineer across the Suffolk region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Network Engineer across the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 20 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 Network Engineer within the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 20 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
Bury St Edmunds	-	3	-	-
Lowestoft	-	1	-	-

Network Engineer East of England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk region that cited Network 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 Network Engineer in their job title.

1 11 (100.00 %) Windows 1 11 (100.00 %) MS Office 2 10 (90.91 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 10 (90.91 %) Firewall 2 10 (90.91 %) Windows Server 2003 2 10 (90.91 %) Windows NT 2 10 (90.91 %) Windows 2000 2 10 (90.91 %) MS Exchange 2 10 (90.91 %) ADSL 2 10 (90.91 %) ISDN 2 10 (90.91 %) Microsoft 2 10 (90.91 %) Active Directory 3 7 (63.64 %) OpenView 3 7 (63.64 %) HP 3 7 (63.64 %) Dell

3 7 (63.64 %) LAN 3 7 (63.64 %) VoIP 3 7 (63.64 %) WAN 3 7 (63.64 %) TCP/IP 3 7 (63.64 %) 3Com 3 7 (63.64 %) McAfee Security 3 7 (63.64 %) Intrusion Detection 3 7 (63.64 %) Cisco 3 7 (63.64 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 3 (27.27 %) Exchange Server 5.5 4 3 (27.27 %) DNS 4 3 (27.27 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 4 3 (27.27 %) DHCP 4 3 (27.27 %) Microsoft Certification 4 3 (27.27 %) MCSE

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms 1 10 (90.91 %) Exchange Server 2003 1 10 (90.91 %) MS Exchange 2 7 (63.64 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 3 (27.27 %) Exchange Server 5.5	Applications 1 11 (100.00 %) MS Office 2 1 (9.091 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 10 (90.91 %) Firewall 1 10 (90.91 %) ADSL 1 10 (90.91 %) ISDN 2 7 (63.64 %) LAN 2 7 (63.64 %) VoIP 2 7 (63.64 %) WAN 2 7 (63.64 %) TCP/IP 2 7 (63.64 %) Intrusion Detection 3 3 (27.27 %) DNS 3 3 (27.27 %) DHCP	Operating Systems 1 11 (100.00 %) Windows 2 10 (90.91 %) Windows Server 2003 2 10 (90.91 %) Windows NT 2 10 (90.91 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (9.091 %) Windows XP
Qualifications 1 3 (27.27 %) Microsoft Certification 1 3 (27.27 %) MCSE 1 3 (27.27 %) MCP	System Software 1 10 (90.91 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 7 (63.64 %) OpenView 2 3 (27.27 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 10 (90.91 %) Microsoft 2 7 (63.64 %) HP 2 7 (63.64 %) Dell 2 7 (63.64 %) 3Com 2 7 (63.64 %) McAfee Security 2 7 (63.64 %) Cisco