The first table below looks at the demand for the Design Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Design Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 Surrey 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Design Engineer
Rank 71 91 98
Rank change year-on-year
+20 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Design Engineer 9 4 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 0.781% 0.248% 0.272%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.832% 0.267% 0.290%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
Average daily rate £315 £400 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.25% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.07% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £37.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +36.36%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.50 £30.50 £29.00
% change year-on-year
- +5.17%
All Job Titles
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1082 1497 1725
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 93.84% 92.92% 93.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 539 803 858
Average daily rate £375 £350 £390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -10.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £538 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 130 78
Average hourly rate £17.00 £17.50 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.85% -23.91%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £10.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £42.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Design Engineer
South East

Design Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey Design Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Design Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Surrey Design Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Design Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Surrey Design Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Design Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Design Engineer within the Surrey region over the 3 months to 24 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
Guildford - 5 £300 -
Design Engineer
South East

Design Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region that cited Design 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 Design Engineer in their job title.

1 10 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 7 (28.00%) .NET
2 7 (28.00%) C#
2 7 (28.00%) SOA
3 5 (20.00%) Oracle
3 5 (20.00%) XML
3 5 (20.00%) Teradata
3 5 (20.00%) NUnit
3 5 (20.00%) WCF
3 5 (20.00%) WPF
3 5 (20.00%) Silverlight
3 5 (20.00%) Moq
4 4 (16.00%) sed
4 4 (16.00%) Nokia Siemens Networks
4 4 (16.00%) Oracle Coherence
4 4 (16.00%) AWK
4 4 (16.00%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (16.00%) Aerospace
4 4 (16.00%) CAD
4 4 (16.00%) Project Management
4 4 (16.00%) Perl
4 4 (16.00%) Python
4 4 (16.00%) Ethernet
4 4 (16.00%) Ericsson
5 3 (12.00%) Regression Testing
5 3 (12.00%) NEC
5 3 (12.00%) Subversion
5 3 (12.00%) JIRA
5 3 (12.00%) QA
5 3 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement

Design Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region that cited Design 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 Design Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (28.00%) .NET
2 5 (20.00%) XML
2 5 (20.00%) WCF
2 5 (20.00%) WPF
2 5 (20.00%) Silverlight
3 2 (8.000%) .NET Framework
3 2 (8.000%) WSDL
3 2 (8.000%) XML Schema
3 2 (8.000%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 4 (16.00%) Oracle Coherence
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) Ethernet
2 2 (8.000%) BGP
2 2 (8.000%) 2G
2 2 (8.000%) MPLS
2 2 (8.000%) 3G
3 1 (4.000%) HTTP
3 1 (4.000%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.000%) ATM
3 1 (4.000%) LAN
3 1 (4.000%) SDH
3 1 (4.000%) WAN
3 1 (4.000%) SMTP
3 1 (4.000%) DNS
3 1 (4.000%) DWDM
3 1 (4.000%) Internet
3 1 (4.000%) OSPF
3 1 (4.000%) EIGRP
3 1 (4.000%) Firewall
3 1 (4.000%) BIG-IP
3 1 (4.000%) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.000%) Oracle 11g
1 2 (8.000%) RDBMS
1 2 (8.000%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (4.000%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (4.000%) MS Access
2 1 (4.000%) GIS
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) NUnit
1 5 (20.00%) Moq
2 3 (12.00%) Subversion
2 3 (12.00%) JIRA
General
1 10 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 4 (16.00%) Aerospace
3 1 (4.000%) Finance
3 1 (4.000%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.000%) Mathematics
1 1 (4.000%) Physics
1 1 (4.000%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (28.00%) SOA
2 4 (16.00%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (16.00%) CAD
2 4 (16.00%) Project Management
3 3 (12.00%) Regression Testing
3 3 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (8.000%) User Stories
4 2 (8.000%) Use Case
4 2 (8.000%) Release Management
4 2 (8.000%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (8.000%) Network Design
4 2 (8.000%) Scrum
4 2 (8.000%) Configuration Management
4 2 (8.000%) Data Modelling
4 2 (8.000%) UML
5 1 (4.000%) E-Commerce
5 1 (4.000%) Requirements Management
5 1 (4.000%) Product Management
5 1 (4.000%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 7 (28.00%) C#
2 4 (16.00%) sed
2 4 (16.00%) AWK
2 4 (16.00%) Perl
2 4 (16.00%) Python
3 2 (8.000%) XPath
Qualifications
1 2 (8.000%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (8.000%) CCIE
2 1 (4.000%) HND
2 1 (4.000%) CCNP
2 1 (4.000%) CCIP
2 1 (4.000%) CCDP
2 1 (4.000%) Degree
2 1 (4.000%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Oracle
1 5 (20.00%) Teradata
2 4 (16.00%) Nokia Siemens Networks
2 4 (16.00%) Ericsson
3 3 (12.00%) NEC
4 2 (8.000%) Cisco
5 1 (4.000%) Mapinfo
5 1 (4.000%) F5
5 1 (4.000%) WSO2
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