Surrey Systems Engineer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Systems 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 Systems Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

System Engineer
Location Aberdeen Ascot Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Ceredigion Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Denbighshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Elgin England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Harlow Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Hull Inverness Kent Kingston Upon Thames Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Mid Wales Midlands Moray New Quay Newbury Newquay Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Rochdale Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire St Albans St Asaph Staines Surbiton Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Wells West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wokingham Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	102	102
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	10	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	0.530 %	0.403 %
Daily rates quoted	4	1
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£300
Average daily rate	£331	£300
% change on same period last year	+10.41 %
Average maximum daily rate	£363	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£333
% change on same period last year	-2.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£35.00	£31.75
% change on same period last year	+10.23 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£33.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.03	£33.22
% change on same period last year	-9.58 %
Job Titles Surrey
Matching contract IT job ads	1888	2236
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.517 %	2.262 %
Daily rates quoted	567	597
Average minimum daily rate	£317	£330
Average daily rate	£338	£348
% change on same period last year	-2.93 %
Average maximum daily rate	£358	£366
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	227	280
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.71	£20.21
Average hourly rate	£21.02	£21.22
% change on same period last year	-0.95 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.33	£22.24
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
Systems 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.

Systems Engineer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Systems 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 Systems Engineer across the Surrey region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Systems Engineer across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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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 Systems Engineer within the Surrey region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Staines	-	3	£375	-
Camberley	-	2	£325	-

Systems Engineer South East

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 6 (30.00 %) MS Exchange 1 6 (30.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 4 (20.00 %) SC Cleared 2 4 (20.00 %) Security Cleared 2 4 (20.00 %) Firewall 2 4 (20.00 %) Microsoft 2 4 (20.00 %) Active Directory 3 3 (15.00 %) Cisco 3 3 (15.00 %) Symantec 3 3 (15.00 %) SharePoint 3 3 (15.00 %) SQL Server 3 3 (15.00 %) WebServices 3 3 (15.00 %) ITIL 3 3 (15.00 %) Windows 3 3 (15.00 %) BizTalk Server

3 3 (15.00 %) Government 3 3 (15.00 %) Validation 3 3 (15.00 %) VMware 3 3 (15.00 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 3 (15.00 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 3 (15.00 %) WSUS 4 2 (10.00 %) Banking 4 2 (10.00 %) Finance 4 2 (10.00 %) Migration 4 2 (10.00 %) Windows Server 2003 4 2 (10.00 %) Solaris 4 2 (10.00 %) Linux 4 2 (10.00 %) Financial Institution 4 2 (10.00 %) UNIX 4 2 (10.00 %) SAN

Systems Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 3 (15.00 %) WebServices	Application Platforms 1 6 (30.00 %) MS Exchange 1 6 (30.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 3 (15.00 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 3 (15.00 %) Exchange Server 2007 2 3 (15.00 %) BizTalk Server 2 3 (15.00 %) SharePoint
Communications & Networking 1 4 (20.00 %) Firewall 2 2 (10.00 %) SAN 3 1 (5.000 %) IPCC 3 1 (5.000 %) LAN 3 1 (5.000 %) VoIP 3 1 (5.000 %) WAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (15.00 %) SQL Server
General 1 3 (15.00 %) Government 2 2 (10.00 %) Banking 2 2 (10.00 %) Investment Banking 2 2 (10.00 %) Financial Institution 2 2 (10.00 %) Finance 3 1 (5.000 %) Telecoms	Miscellaneous 1 1 (5.000 %) SCADA
Operating Systems 1 3 (15.00 %) Windows 2 2 (10.00 %) Solaris 2 2 (10.00 %) Linux 2 2 (10.00 %) UNIX 2 2 (10.00 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (5.000 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (20.00 %) SC Cleared 1 4 (20.00 %) Security Cleared 2 3 (15.00 %) Validation 2 3 (15.00 %) ITIL 3 2 (10.00 %) Migration 4 1 (5.000 %) UML 4 1 (5.000 %) OO 4 1 (5.000 %) ERP
Programming Languages 1 1 (5.000 %) C 1 1 (5.000 %) C++ 1 1 (5.000 %) Ada	Qualifications 1 1 (5.000 %) HNC 1 1 (5.000 %) HND 1 1 (5.000 %) CCNP 1 1 (5.000 %) CCNA 1 1 (5.000 %) Cisco Certification 1 1 (5.000 %) Degree
System Software 1 4 (20.00 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 3 (15.00 %) WSUS
Vendors 1 4 (20.00 %) Microsoft 2 3 (15.00 %) Symantec 2 3 (15.00 %) VMware 2 3 (15.00 %) Cisco 3 2 (10.00 %) VERITAS 4 1 (5.000 %) SonicWALL