Surrey Network Support Engineer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Network Support Engineer role in IT contracts within the Surrey 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 Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Network Support Engineer
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Brighton Bristol Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Devon Docklands, London East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Leeds Leicestershire London Lowestoft Luton Merseyside Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Reading Scotland Shropshire South East South West Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	92	90
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	2	27
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.027 %
As % of the category below	0.127 %	1.166 %
Daily rates quoted	1	18
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£351
Average daily rate	£300	£360
% change on same period last year	-16.76 %
Average maximum daily rate	£300	£369
UK excluding London average daily rate	£309	£288
% change on same period last year	+7.46 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	5
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£20.28
Average hourly rate	-	£22.18
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£24.08
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.38	£21.90
% change on same period last year	+15.86 %
Job Titles Surrey
Matching contract IT job ads	1573	2315
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.197 %	2.326 %
Daily rates quoted	398	641
Average minimum daily rate	£316	£329
Average daily rate	£337	£350
% change on same period last year	-3.63 %
Average maximum daily rate	£358	£371
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£353
% change on same period last year	+0.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	195	386
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.51	£19.46
Average hourly rate	£22.91	£21.08
% change on same period last year	+8.67 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.32	£22.71
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.74	£25.24
% change on same period last year	-5.93 %
Network Support Engineer South East

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 Support Engineer across the Surrey 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 Support Engineer across the Surrey 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 Support Engineer across the Surrey region.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Support Engineer within the Surrey region over the 3 months to 6 October 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
Guildford	-	1	£300	-

Network Support Engineer South East

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region that cited Network 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 Network Support Engineer in their job title.

1 10 (35.71 %) SMS 2 8 (28.57 %) Telecoms 3 7 (25.00 %) Windows 4 6 (21.43 %) Active Directory 5 5 (17.86 %) Windows Server 2003 5 5 (17.86 %) MS Exchange 6 4 (14.29 %) Cisco 6 4 (14.29 %) Firewall 6 4 (14.29 %) Migration 7 3 (10.71 %) Windows 2000 Server 7 3 (10.71 %) Citrix 7 3 (10.71 %) Ericsson 7 3 (10.71 %) Microsoft 7 3 (10.71 %) WAN 7 3 (10.71 %) LAN

7 3 (10.71 %) VoIP 8 2 (7.143 %) VPN 8 2 (7.143 %) CCNP 8 2 (7.143 %) Cisco Certification 8 2 (7.143 %) NHS 8 2 (7.143 %) VLAN 8 2 (7.143 %) Exchange Server 2003 8 2 (7.143 %) Exchange Server 2007 8 2 (7.143 %) Cisco PIX 8 2 (7.143 %) Cisco ASA 9 1 (3.571 %) Investment Banking 9 1 (3.571 %) Banking 9 1 (3.571 %) VMware 9 1 (3.571 %) CCSA 9 1 (3.571 %) CheckPoint

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms 1 5 (17.86 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (7.143 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 2 (7.143 %) Exchange Server 2007	Communications & Networking 1 10 (35.71 %) SMS 2 4 (14.29 %) Firewall 3 3 (10.71 %) VoIP 3 3 (10.71 %) WAN 3 3 (10.71 %) LAN 4 2 (7.143 %) VLAN 4 2 (7.143 %) Cisco PIX 4 2 (7.143 %) Cisco ASA 4 2 (7.143 %) VPN 5 1 (3.571 %) DNS 5 1 (3.571 %) Wireless 5 1 (3.571 %) DHCP 5 1 (3.571 %) TCP/IP 5 1 (3.571 %) WLAN
General 1 8 (28.57 %) Telecoms 2 1 (3.571 %) Finance 2 1 (3.571 %) Health 2 1 (3.571 %) Banking 2 1 (3.571 %) Investment Banking	Miscellaneous 1 2 (7.143 %) NHS
Operating Systems 1 7 (25.00 %) Windows 2 5 (17.86 %) Windows Server 2003 3 3 (10.71 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 1 (3.571 %) UNIX 4 1 (3.571 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (3.571 %) Windows NT 4 1 (3.571 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (14.29 %) Migration
Qualifications 1 2 (7.143 %) CCNP 1 2 (7.143 %) Cisco Certification 2 1 (3.571 %) CCSA 2 1 (3.571 %) CCNA	System Software 1 6 (21.43 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 4 (14.29 %) Cisco 2 3 (10.71 %) Microsoft 2 3 (10.71 %) Citrix 2 3 (10.71 %) Ericsson 3 1 (3.571 %) Novell 3 1 (3.571 %) CheckPoint 3 1 (3.571 %) VMware