The first table below looks at the demand for the Support 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 Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Support Engineer
Rank 57 45 63
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +18
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 22 57 38
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 1.901% 3.463% 2.084%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.028% 3.723% 2.221%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 9
Average daily rate £130 £180 £210
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-27.87% -14.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £127 £140 £158
10% offered a daily rate of more than £155 £311 £330
UK excluding London average daily rate £240 £203 £263
% change year-on-year
+18.51% -22.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 31 18
Average hourly rate £14.00 £12.50 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.00% -16.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £15.66 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-4.22% +4.41%
All Job Titles
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1085 1531 1711
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 93.78% 93.01% 93.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 541 814 850
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 £213 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £537 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 135 79
Average hourly rate £17.00 £17.50 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.85% -22.22%
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%
Support Engineer
South East

Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Surrey Support Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Surrey Support Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Support Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Support Engineer within the Surrey region over the 3 months to 22 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
Staines +5 5 - -
Camberley -4 3 - -
Guildford -11 3 £129 -
Redhill -2 2 - -
Woking 0 1 £175 -39.65%
Addlestone - 1 £133 -
Tadworth - 1 - -
Weybridge - 1 £150 -
Chertsey - 1 £150 -
Godalming - 1 £125 -
Support Engineer
South East

Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region that cited 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 Support Engineer in their job title.

1 48 (84.21%) Windows
2 24 (42.11%) MS Office
3 21 (36.84%) Windows XP
3 21 (36.84%) Active Directory
3 21 (36.84%) Windows 7
4 17 (29.82%) Microsoft
5 15 (26.32%) ITIL
6 14 (24.56%) MS Excel
6 14 (24.56%) Windows Server 2008
7 13 (22.81%) VMware
8 12 (21.05%) Windows 2000 Server
9 11 (19.30%) VMware Infrastructure
9 11 (19.30%) SharePoint
10 9 (15.79%) MS Exchange
10 9 (15.79%) SAN
11 8 (14.04%) CommVault
11 8 (14.04%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (14.04%) HP
11 8 (14.04%) Cisco
11 8 (14.04%) Windows Server 2003
11 8 (14.04%) Windows Vista
11 8 (14.04%) Hyper-V
11 8 (14.04%) Forefront TMG
12 7 (12.28%) Blackberry
12 7 (12.28%) ISA Server
12 7 (12.28%) MCP
13 6 (10.53%) LAN
13 6 (10.53%) WAN
13 6 (10.53%) TCP/IP
13 6 (10.53%) Dell

Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region that cited 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 Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (3.509%) SAP PI
1 2 (3.509%) SAP Basis
2 1 (1.754%) Application Packaging
2 1 (1.754%) SAP ALE
2 1 (1.754%) XML
2 1 (1.754%) .NET
2 1 (1.754%) EDI
2 1 (1.754%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 11 (19.30%) SharePoint
2 9 (15.79%) MS Exchange
3 4 (7.018%) Exchange Server 2003
3 4 (7.018%) Exchange Server 2007
4 3 (5.263%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 2 (3.509%) NetWeaver
6 1 (1.754%) Lotus Notes
6 1 (1.754%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 24 (42.11%) MS Office
2 14 (24.56%) MS Excel
3 2 (3.509%) Google Apps
4 1 (1.754%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.754%) 3000 Xtra
Communications & Networking
1 9 (15.79%) SAN
2 6 (10.53%) LAN
2 6 (10.53%) WAN
2 6 (10.53%) TCP/IP
3 4 (7.018%) DHCP
3 4 (7.018%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (5.263%) Firewall
4 3 (5.263%) VPN
5 2 (3.509%) Cisco IPT
5 2 (3.509%) CTI
5 2 (3.509%) PBX
5 2 (3.509%) VoIP
6 1 (1.754%) IP Telephony
6 1 (1.754%) LDAP
6 1 (1.754%) DNS
6 1 (1.754%) 3G
6 1 (1.754%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.509%) BusinessObjects
1 2 (3.509%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.754%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (1.754%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (1.754%) SQL Server 2000
2 1 (1.754%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.754%) NWDI
General
1 4 (7.018%) Telecoms
2 2 (3.509%) Retail
3 1 (1.754%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.28%) Blackberry
2 1 (1.754%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.754%) Computer Science
2 1 (1.754%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (1.754%) Fat Client
2 1 (1.754%) Smartphone
2 1 (1.754%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 48 (84.21%) Windows
2 21 (36.84%) Windows XP
2 21 (36.84%) Windows 7
3 14 (24.56%) Windows Server 2008
4 12 (21.05%) Windows 2000 Server
5 8 (14.04%) Windows Server 2003
5 8 (14.04%) Windows Vista
6 3 (5.263%) Linux
7 2 (3.509%) Windows 8
7 2 (3.509%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (3.509%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.754%) Android
8 1 (1.754%) Windows 2000
8 1 (1.754%) UNIX
8 1 (1.754%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (26.32%) ITIL
2 4 (7.018%) Migration
3 3 (5.263%) Service Management
3 3 (5.263%) Service Delivery
3 3 (5.263%) Data Migration
3 3 (5.263%) Incident Management
4 2 (3.509%) Change Control
4 2 (3.509%) Project Management
4 2 (3.509%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (3.509%) CRM
4 2 (3.509%) Logistics
4 2 (3.509%) Workflow
5 1 (1.754%) ITSM
5 1 (1.754%) Change Management
5 1 (1.754%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (1.754%) SAP Implementation
5 1 (1.754%) Web Development
5 1 (1.754%) PRINCE2
5 1 (1.754%) Software Distribution
5 1 (1.754%) ITIL V3
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.018%) SQL
2 1 (1.754%) Perl
2 1 (1.754%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (14.04%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (12.28%) MCP
3 4 (7.018%) MCSE
4 2 (3.509%) MCSA
5 1 (1.754%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.754%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.754%) MCDST
5 1 (1.754%) MCITP
5 1 (1.754%) A+ Certification
5 1 (1.754%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.772%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (36.84%) Active Directory
2 11 (19.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (14.04%) Hyper-V
3 8 (14.04%) Forefront TMG
4 7 (12.28%) ISA Server
5 2 (3.509%) XenDesktop
6 1 (1.754%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (1.754%) XenApp
6 1 (1.754%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (10.53%) Backup Exec
2 4 (7.018%) Norton AntiVirus
2 4 (7.018%) SCCM
3 2 (3.509%) HP SIM
3 2 (3.509%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (1.754%) SCOM
Vendors
1 17 (29.82%) Microsoft
2 13 (22.81%) VMware
3 8 (14.04%) CommVault
3 8 (14.04%) HP
3 8 (14.04%) Cisco
4 6 (10.53%) Dell
5 4 (7.018%) Citrix
5 4 (7.018%) Symantec
5 4 (7.018%) McAfee
6 2 (3.509%) Verint
6 2 (3.509%) Genesys
6 2 (3.509%) Nortel
6 2 (3.509%) SAP
6 2 (3.509%) Sybase
6 2 (3.509%) Business Objects
6 2 (3.509%) NETGEAR
7 1 (1.754%) Wyse
7 1 (1.754%) AppSense
7 1 (1.754%) LANDesk
7 1 (1.754%) IBM
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