Design Engineer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Design Engineer role in IT contracts across the UK compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Design Engineer in their job title over the last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Design Engineer
Location Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Horsham Kent Livingston London M4 Corridor Manchester Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Newport North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Rhondda Cynon Taff Rochester Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	280	267
Rank change on same period last year	-13
Matching contract IT job ads	394	452
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.505 %	0.508 %
As % of the category below	0.556 %	0.556 %
Daily rates quoted	37	46
Average minimum daily rate	£310	£368
Average daily rate	£334	£386
% change on same period last year	-13.41 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£404
UK excluding London average daily rate	£320	£336
% change on same period last year	-4.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	125	70
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.54	£30.80
Average hourly rate	£27.69	£33.38
% change on same period last year	-17.03 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.85	£35.96
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.07	£33.48
% change on same period last year	-19.14 %
Job Titles UK
Matching contract IT job ads	70924	81306
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	90.99 %	91.34 %
Daily rates quoted	22289	22890
Average minimum daily rate	£383	£392
Average daily rate	£410	£418
% change on same period last year	-1.69 %
Average maximum daily rate	£438	£443
UK excluding London average daily rate	£363	£353
% change on same period last year	+2.70 %
Hourly rates quoted	6083	6544
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.19	£23.65
Average hourly rate	£23.90	£25.10
% change on same period last year	-4.78 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.61	£26.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.10
% change on same period last year	-6.32 %

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.

Design Engineer
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Design Engineer across the UK 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 contract IT jobs ads citing Design Engineer across the UK.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Design Engineer across the UK over the past 3 months.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Design Engineer across the UK.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Design Engineer across the UK over the past 3 months.

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Top 30 Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Design Engineer within the UK over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	England	-13	345	£330	-14.19 %
2	South East	+11	90	£353	-20.08 %
3	South West	+11	82	£282	-10.93 %
4	London	-11	38	£384	-8.50 %
5	Wales	+19	35	£372	-9.84 %
6	East of England	-27	34	£319	+5.39 %
6	Hampshire	-1	34	£300	-20.13 %
7	North West	+11	24	£230	-
8	Berkshire	+29	23	£450	-14.28 %
9	West Wales	-	22	-	-
10	Yorkshire	+16	20	£300	-
11	Midlands	+7	18	-	-
11	Scotland	+22	18	-	-
12	Wiltshire	+8	17	-	-
13	West Midlands	-15	16	£275	+34.96 %
14	Hertfordshire	-16	15	£354	+0.35 %
15	Cambridgeshire	-24	12	-	-
15	South Yorkshire	-	12	-	-
16	Cheshire	-14	11	£230	-
16	Bristol	-4	11	£285	-
16	South Coast	+8	11	-	-
17	Glasgow	+8	10	-	-
18	South Wales	-9	9	£372	-9.84 %
19	Thames Valley	+27	8	-	-
19	City of London	-43	8	£438	-10.53 %
19	Cambridge	-1	8	-	-
20	Sheffield	-	7	-	-
20	Portsmouth	+1	7	£300	-20.00 %
21	Reading	-1	6	£450	-
21	Buckinghamshire	-7	6	£393	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the UK citing Design Engineer also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Design Engineer.

1 158 (19.41 %) Cisco 2 155 (19.04 %) Network Design 3 149 (18.30 %) Cisco Certification 4 122 (14.99 %) Telecoms 5 118 (14.50 %) CCNP 6 85 (10.44 %) ASIC 7 75 (9.214 %) LAN 8 74 (9.091 %) WAN 9 71 (8.722 %) VHDL 10 63 (7.740 %) CAD 11 61 (7.494 %) Electric 12 60 (7.371 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 13 55 (6.757 %) MPLS 13 55 (6.757 %) CCDP 14 53 (6.511 %) AutoCAD

14 53 (6.511 %) Degree 15 52 (6.388 %) Aerospace 15 52 (6.388 %) Electronics 16 51 (6.265 %) CCIE 17 49 (6.020 %) 3G 18 48 (5.897 %) C 19 47 (5.774 %) Firewall 20 46 (5.651 %) OSPF 21 43 (5.283 %) Manufacturing 22 42 (5.160 %) BGP 23 38 (4.668 %) Automotive 24 37 (4.545 %) Pro/ENGINEER 25 36 (4.423 %) SolidWorks 26 35 (4.300 %) Finance 27 34 (4.177 %) Military

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the UK citing Design Engineer also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Design Engineer. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 11 (1.351 %) .NET 2 4 (0.491 %) MFC 2 4 (0.491 %) JSP 2 4 (0.491 %) XML 2 4 (0.491 %) OpenGL 3 2 (0.246 %) JDBC 3 2 (0.246 %) Hibernate 3 2 (0.246 %) Spring 3 2 (0.246 %) .NET Framework 3 2 (0.246 %) JSTL 3 2 (0.246 %) Taglibs 3 2 (0.246 %) Servlets 3 2 (0.246 %) Struts 3 2 (0.246 %) EJB 3 2 (0.246 %) J2EE 4 1 (0.123 %) CSS 4 1 (0.123 %) WebServices 4 1 (0.123 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 10 (1.229 %) MS Exchange 2 6 (0.737 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 2 (0.246 %) SharePoint Portal Server 3 2 (0.246 %) ATG Dynamo 3 2 (0.246 %) JBoss 3 2 (0.246 %) Apache 3 2 (0.246 %) Tomcat 3 2 (0.246 %) SharePoint 4 1 (0.123 %) Live Communications Server 4 1 (0.123 %) ArcGIS 4 1 (0.123 %) WebLogic
Applications 1 53 (6.511 %) AutoCAD 2 37 (4.545 %) Pro/ENGINEER 3 21 (2.580 %) MS Office 4 17 (2.088 %) CATIA 5 11 (1.351 %) MATLAB 6 3 (0.369 %) MS Excel 7 2 (0.246 %) MS Visio 8 1 (0.123 %) Simulink 8 1 (0.123 %) MS Project 8 1 (0.123 %) MS PowerPoint 8 1 (0.123 %) NASTRAN	Business Applications 1 2 (0.246 %) Oracle EBS 2 1 (0.123 %) Teamcenter 2 1 (0.123 %) SMARTEAM
Communications & Networking 1 75 (9.214 %) LAN 2 74 (9.091 %) WAN 3 55 (6.757 %) MPLS 4 49 (6.020 %) 3G 5 47 (5.774 %) Firewall 6 46 (5.651 %) OSPF 7 42 (5.160 %) BGP 8 28 (3.440 %) VoIP 9 25 (3.071 %) Wireless 10 22 (2.703 %) TCP/IP 11 19 (2.334 %) GSM 11 19 (2.334 %) DSL 12 18 (2.211 %) 2G 12 18 (2.211 %) Network Security 13 17 (2.088 %) EIGRP 13 17 (2.088 %) VPN 14 16 (1.966 %) Ethernet 15 15 (1.843 %) UMTS 16 12 (1.474 %) Broadband 17 10 (1.229 %) SIGTRAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (0.369 %) Datawarehouse 1 3 (0.369 %) Star Schema 2 2 (0.246 %) RDBMS 3 1 (0.123 %) Data Mart 3 1 (0.123 %) ETL 3 1 (0.123 %) SQL Server 3 1 (0.123 %) MS Access
Development Applications 1 7 (0.860 %) NUnit 2 6 (0.737 %) QARun 2 6 (0.737 %) WATIR 2 6 (0.737 %) FitNesse 2 6 (0.737 %) WinRunner 2 6 (0.737 %) QuickTest Pro 2 6 (0.737 %) LoadRunner 3 3 (0.369 %) Flash 4 2 (0.246 %) ClearCase 4 2 (0.246 %) Rational Rose 4 2 (0.246 %) Ant 4 2 (0.246 %) JUnit 5 1 (0.123 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 1 (0.123 %) ARTiSAN 5 1 (0.123 %) LabVIEW 5 1 (0.123 %) Telelogic DOORS 5 1 (0.123 %) Subversion	General 1 122 (14.99 %) Telecoms 2 61 (7.494 %) Electric 3 52 (6.388 %) Aerospace 3 52 (6.388 %) Electronics 4 43 (5.283 %) Manufacturing 5 38 (4.668 %) Automotive 6 35 (4.300 %) Finance 7 34 (4.177 %) Military 8 22 (2.703 %) Government 9 18 (2.211 %) Banking 9 18 (2.211 %) Education 10 15 (1.843 %) Multimedia 11 12 (1.474 %) Health 12 10 (1.229 %) Construction 13 4 (0.491 %) Publishing 14 3 (0.369 %) Investment Banking 14 3 (0.369 %) Marketing 14 3 (0.369 %) Auditing 15 2 (0.246 %) Pharmaceutical 15 2 (0.246 %) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous 1 85 (10.44 %) ASIC 2 71 (8.722 %) VHDL 3 60 (7.371 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 4 31 (3.808 %) Verilog 5 24 (2.948 %) Handset 6 7 (0.860 %) Computer Science 7 4 (0.491 %) Mathematics 8 3 (0.369 %) STB 9 2 (0.246 %) ASIC Verification 9 2 (0.246 %) Replication 9 2 (0.246 %) Clustering 9 2 (0.246 %) MPEG 9 2 (0.246 %) PDA 9 2 (0.246 %) SCADA 9 2 (0.246 %) Data Extraction 10 1 (0.123 %) Data Integration 10 1 (0.123 %) German Language 10 1 (0.123 %) Fat Client 10 1 (0.123 %) Client/Server 10 1 (0.123 %) Firmware	Operating Systems 1 28 (3.440 %) Windows 2 16 (1.966 %) Linux 2 16 (1.966 %) Unix 3 8 (0.983 %) Windows Server 2003 4 5 (0.614 %) Windows XP 4 5 (0.614 %) Solaris 5 4 (0.491 %) Windows NT 6 2 (0.246 %) Tru64 6 2 (0.246 %) Windows Vista 7 1 (0.123 %) Embedded Linux 7 1 (0.123 %) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies 1 155 (19.04 %) Network Design 2 63 (7.740 %) CAD 3 22 (2.703 %) IC Design 4 14 (1.720 %) Migration 4 14 (1.720 %) Configuration Management 4 14 (1.720 %) Finite Element Analysis 4 14 (1.720 %) Risk Analysis 5 12 (1.474 %) Validation 6 10 (1.229 %) Project Management 6 10 (1.229 %) UML 6 10 (1.229 %) Project Planning 7 9 (1.106 %) Test Scripting 8 7 (0.860 %) OO 8 7 (0.860 %) Disaster Recovery 9 5 (0.614 %) Data Modelling 10 4 (0.491 %) Requirements Analysis 10 4 (0.491 %) Unit Testing 11 3 (0.369 %) Incident Management 11 3 (0.369 %) PDM 11 3 (0.369 %) Load Balancing	Programming Languages 1 48 (5.897 %) C 2 27 (3.317 %) Perl 3 13 (1.597 %) Assembly Language 3 13 (1.597 %) Tcl 4 12 (1.474 %) C++ 5 11 (1.351 %) Java 6 10 (1.229 %) Embedded C 7 7 (0.860 %) VB 8 5 (0.614 %) SQL 9 4 (0.491 %) C# 9 4 (0.491 %) Shell Script 10 3 (0.369 %) VBScript 10 3 (0.369 %) VB.NET 11 2 (0.246 %) Korn 11 2 (0.246 %) Embedded C++ 12 1 (0.123 %) VC++
Qualifications 1 149 (18.30 %) Cisco Certification 2 118 (14.50 %) CCNP 3 55 (6.757 %) CCDP 4 53 (6.511 %) Degree 5 51 (6.265 %) CCIE 6 20 (2.457 %) CCIP 6 20 (2.457 %) CCNA 7 16 (1.966 %) HND 8 15 (1.843 %) CCDA 9 7 (0.860 %) HNC 10 5 (0.614 %) Chartered Engineer 11 4 (0.491 %) CCSP 12 2 (0.246 %) Postgraduate 13 1 (0.123 %) MCSE 13 1 (0.123 %) Citrix Certification 13 1 (0.123 %) CCEA 13 1 (0.123 %) Microsoft Certification 13 1 (0.123 %) CCSA 13 1 (0.123 %) CCVP 13 1 (0.123 %) CCSE	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (0.246 %) ISO9001 1 2 (0.246 %) SLA 1 2 (0.246 %) JSP 440 2 1 (0.123 %) BS7799 2 1 (0.123 %) ISO27001 2 1 (0.123 %) CESG Infosec
System Software 1 6 (0.737 %) Active Directory 2 5 (0.614 %) VMware GSX 2 5 (0.614 %) VMware ESX 3 2 (0.246 %) Backup Exec 3 2 (0.246 %) Terminal Services 4 1 (0.123 %) Terminal Server 4 1 (0.123 %) AquaLogic 4 1 (0.123 %) Citrix Presentation Server	Systems Management 1 2 (0.246 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 2 (0.246 %) SCCM 2 1 (0.123 %) Netcool
Vendors 1 158 (19.41 %) Cisco 2 36 (4.423 %) SolidWorks 3 29 (3.563 %) CheckPoint 4 22 (2.703 %) Microsoft 5 21 (2.580 %) Nokia 6 17 (2.088 %) EMC 7 15 (1.843 %) Nortel 8 14 (1.720 %) Siemens 9 13 (1.597 %) Juniper 10 11 (1.351 %) Xilinx 10 11 (1.351 %) Cadence 11 9 (1.106 %) Citrix 12 8 (0.983 %) Alcatel 12 8 (0.983 %) Ericsson 13 7 (0.860 %) Lucent 13 7 (0.860 %) VMware 14 6 (0.737 %) Avaya 15 5 (0.614 %) Symantec 16 4 (0.491 %) Mentor Graphics 16 4 (0.491 %) Oracle