The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems 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 Systems 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
System Engineer
Rank 74 75 97
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +22
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 5 22 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 0.432% 1.337% 0.219%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.461% 1.437% 0.234%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 1
Average daily rate £275 £425 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-35.29% +30.76%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £400 £375
% change year-on-year
-18.75% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £25.44
% change year-on-year
-21.42% +37.59%
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%
Systems Engineer
South East

Systems Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey Systems Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Systems Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Surrey Systems Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Systems Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Systems Engineer across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Surrey Systems Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Systems Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Surrey Systems Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Systems Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Systems 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
Reigate - 2 £275 -
Systems Engineer
South East

Systems Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 5 (45.45%) Windows
2 4 (36.36%) Solaris
2 4 (36.36%) Project Management
2 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
3 3 (27.27%) OpenLDAP
3 3 (27.27%) Sendmail
3 3 (27.27%) Firewall
3 3 (27.27%) Blue Coat
3 3 (27.27%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (27.27%) NetScreen
3 3 (27.27%) McAfee
3 3 (27.27%) Configuration Management
3 3 (27.27%) Cisco
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 3 (27.27%) Sun
3 3 (27.27%) Juniper
3 3 (27.27%) Apache
3 3 (27.27%) DNS
3 3 (27.27%) Java
3 3 (27.27%) Oracle
4 2 (18.18%) Perl
4 2 (18.18%) PHP
4 2 (18.18%) SQL
4 2 (18.18%) MS Exchange
4 2 (18.18%) NetApp
4 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
4 2 (18.18%) Telecoms
4 2 (18.18%) VMware
4 2 (18.18%) Clustering

Systems Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (9.091%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 3 (27.27%) Apache
2 2 (18.18%) MS Exchange
2 2 (18.18%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (18.18%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) OpenLDAP
1 3 (27.27%) Firewall
1 3 (27.27%) Intrusion Detection
1 3 (27.27%) NetScreen
1 3 (27.27%) DNS
2 1 (9.091%) Internet
2 1 (9.091%) HTTP
2 1 (9.091%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.091%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (18.18%) Telecoms
2 1 (9.091%) Banking
2 1 (9.091%) Finance
2 1 (9.091%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Clustering
2 1 (9.091%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Windows
2 4 (36.36%) Solaris
3 1 (9.091%) Windows 7
3 1 (9.091%) Windows XP
3 1 (9.091%) Linux
3 1 (9.091%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Project Management
2 3 (27.27%) Configuration Management
3 1 (9.091%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (9.091%) Validation
3 1 (9.091%) Migration
3 1 (9.091%) Software Testing
3 1 (9.091%) Incident Management
3 1 (9.091%) Project Planning
3 1 (9.091%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) Perl
2 2 (18.18%) PHP
2 2 (18.18%) SQL
3 1 (9.091%) Shell Script
3 1 (9.091%) MATLAB
3 1 (9.091%) Python
3 1 (9.091%) VB
3 1 (9.091%) C
3 1 (9.091%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.091%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.091%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Sendmail
2 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 2 (18.18%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (9.091%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Blue Coat
1 3 (27.27%) McAfee
1 3 (27.27%) Cisco
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
1 3 (27.27%) Sun
1 3 (27.27%) Juniper
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle
2 2 (18.18%) NetApp
2 2 (18.18%) VMware
3 1 (9.091%) Red Hat