The first table below looks at the demand for the 3rd Line Server Engineer role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited 3rd Line Server 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 currently tracked.

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
Third Line Server Engineer
Rank 501 552 566
Rank change year-on-year
+51 +14
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Server Engineer 28 32 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.060% 0.055% 0.029%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.066% 0.059% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 19 15
Average daily rate £300 £243 £235
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.45% +3.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £207 £170
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £279 £323
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £243 £250
% change year-on-year
+23.45% -2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Average hourly rate £27.00 £23.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.39% -34.28%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £23.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+17.39% -34.28%
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42733 53947 56601
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.11% 92.50% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24507 29722 30764
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2112 2572 2930
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

3rd Line Server Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing 3rd Line Server Engineer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

3rd Line Server Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

3rd Line Server Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing 3rd Line Server Engineer within the UK.

3rd Line Server Engineer Daily Rate Trend

3rd Line Server Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing 3rd Line Server Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

3rd Line Server Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

3rd Line Server Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing 3rd Line Server Engineer within the UK.

3rd Line Server Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

3rd Line Server Engineer
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 3rd Line Server Engineer within the UK 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
England +44 27 £300 +23.45%
South East +21 17 £300 +25.00%
Hampshire -9 9 £300 +25.00%
Berkshire - 7 £321 -
Southampton - 6 £300 -
Bracknell - 5 £300 -
London +34 3 £284 +7.07%
North West +13 3 £230 +15.00%
South West - 3 £350 -
Eastleigh - 3 £250 -
Devon - 2 £350 -
Plymouth - 2 £350 -
City of London +11 1 £320 -
Manchester +8 1 - -
Wales +8 1 £350 -
Oxfordshire +6 1 £263 -
Cardiff +4 1 £350 -
South Wales 0 1 £350 -
Cheshire -2 1 £230 -
East Midlands -5 1 - -
Chester -6 1 £230 -
Hackney - 1 £248 -
Somerset - 1 £300 -
Lancashire - 1 - -
Derbyshire - 1 - -
Wigan - 1 - -
Street - 1 £300 -
Reading - 1 £425 -
Lancaster - 1 - -
Chesterfield - 1 - -

3rd Line Server Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited 3rd Line Server 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 3rd Line Server Engineer in their job title.

1 35 (83.33%) Windows
2 27 (64.29%) Active Directory
3 19 (45.24%) VMware
4 18 (42.86%) Windows Server 2003
4 18 (42.86%) Citrix
5 17 (40.48%) Microsoft
5 17 (40.48%) Windows Server 2008
6 14 (33.33%) Security Cleared
6 14 (33.33%) SC Cleared
7 13 (30.95%) VMware Infrastructure
8 12 (28.57%) SAN
9 11 (26.19%) Windows 7
10 10 (23.81%) Clustering
10 10 (23.81%) MS Exchange
11 9 (21.43%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (21.43%) Exchange Server 2007
12 8 (19.05%) Migration
12 8 (19.05%) MCSE
12 8 (19.05%) SQL
13 7 (16.67%) Windows XP
13 7 (16.67%) IBM
13 7 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2010
13 7 (16.67%) PowerShell
13 7 (16.67%) SCCM
14 6 (14.29%) SCOM
14 6 (14.29%) XenApp
14 6 (14.29%) XenServer
14 6 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
14 6 (14.29%) Websense
14 6 (14.29%) Backup Exec

3rd Line Server Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited 3rd Line Server 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 3rd Line Server Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (2.381%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 10 (23.81%) MS Exchange
2 9 (21.43%) Exchange Server 2007
3 7 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (7.143%) Exchange Server 2003
5 2 (4.762%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (4.762%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 12 (28.57%) SAN
2 3 (7.143%) Firewall
3 2 (4.762%) DHCP
3 2 (4.762%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.762%) DNS
4 1 (2.381%) NAS
4 1 (2.381%) LDAP
4 1 (2.381%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.381%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (2.381%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (2.381%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (4.762%) Military
2 1 (2.381%) Telecoms
2 1 (2.381%) Law
2 1 (2.381%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 10 (23.81%) Clustering
2 3 (7.143%) Blackberry
3 1 (2.381%) iPhone
3 1 (2.381%) CLARiiON
3 1 (2.381%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.381%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 35 (83.33%) Windows
2 18 (42.86%) Windows Server 2003
3 17 (40.48%) Windows Server 2008
4 11 (26.19%) Windows 7
5 7 (16.67%) Windows XP
6 6 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (2.381%) Windows Vista
7 1 (2.381%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (19.05%) Migration
2 5 (11.90%) Configuration Management
3 4 (9.524%) Change Control
4 1 (2.381%) Asset Management
4 1 (2.381%) Incident Management
4 1 (2.381%) Problem Management
4 1 (2.381%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (2.381%) Capacity Management
4 1 (2.381%) PRINCE
4 1 (2.381%) ITIL
4 1 (2.381%) PRINCE2
4 1 (2.381%) Project Management
4 1 (2.381%) Business Continuity
4 1 (2.381%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 8 (19.05%) SQL
2 7 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 6 (14.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (33.33%) Security Cleared
1 14 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 9 (21.43%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (19.05%) MCSE
4 4 (9.524%) CCNA
4 4 (9.524%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (9.524%) DV Cleared
5 3 (7.143%) MCP
6 2 (4.762%) MCSA
7 1 (2.381%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (2.381%) MCTS
7 1 (2.381%) MCITP
7 1 (2.381%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.381%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (64.29%) Active Directory
2 13 (30.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (14.29%) XenApp
3 6 (14.29%) XenServer
4 3 (7.143%) vSphere
5 1 (2.381%) Xen
5 1 (2.381%) NLBS
5 1 (2.381%) VMware Server
5 1 (2.381%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.381%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 7 (16.67%) SCCM
2 6 (14.29%) SCOM
2 6 (14.29%) Backup Exec
3 1 (2.381%) Opalis
3 1 (2.381%) MIMEsweeper
Vendors
1 19 (45.24%) VMware
2 18 (42.86%) Citrix
3 17 (40.48%) Microsoft
4 7 (16.67%) IBM
5 6 (14.29%) Websense
6 4 (9.524%) CA
7 3 (7.143%) HP
8 2 (4.762%) Dell
9 1 (2.381%) Brocade
9 1 (2.381%) EMC
9 1 (2.381%) NetApp
9 1 (2.381%) Oracle
9 1 (2.381%) Symantec
9 1 (2.381%) Remedy
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