NOC Engineer Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the NOC 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 NOC Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Operations Centre Engineer
Rank 523 558 575
Rank change year-on-year
+35 +17
Contract jobs requiring a NOC Engineer 17 23 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.036% 0.039% 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.039% 0.042% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 1
Average daily rate £250 £220 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.63% +10.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £175 £200
% change year-on-year
+71.42% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £15.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -28.57%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £21.00
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 43539 54119 55808
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.22% 92.58% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 24944 29835 30377
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 2174 2589 2882
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 £41.28
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

NOC Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

NOC Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

NOC Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

NOC Engineer Daily Rate Trend

NOC Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

NOC Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

NOC Engineer
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NOC Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 21 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 +37 15 £250 +13.63%
London +4 7 £250 +11.11%
West Midlands +16 4 - -
City of London +14 4 - -
Birmingham - 3 - -
Doncaster - 1 £300 -
Yorkshire - 1 £300 -
South Yorkshire - 1 £300 -

NOC Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited NOC 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 NOC Engineer in their job title.

1 18 (56.25%) Telecoms
2 15 (46.88%) Cisco
3 14 (43.75%) CCNA
3 14 (43.75%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (18.75%) Juniper
4 6 (18.75%) Linux
5 5 (15.63%) Firewall
5 5 (15.63%) Front Office
5 5 (15.63%) DSLAM
5 5 (15.63%) Windows
5 5 (15.63%) VoIP
5 5 (15.63%) Sun
5 5 (15.63%) Security Cleared
6 4 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (12.50%) Cisco PIX
6 4 (12.50%) Video Conferencing
6 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared
6 4 (12.50%) ITIL
6 4 (12.50%) MPLS
6 4 (12.50%) Huawei
7 3 (9.375%) Incident Management
7 3 (9.375%) Banking
7 3 (9.375%) Investment Banking
7 3 (9.375%) Finance
7 3 (9.375%) UNIX
7 3 (9.375%) SQL Server
7 3 (9.375%) MCSE
7 3 (9.375%) MS Excel
7 3 (9.375%) SharePoint
7 3 (9.375%) MS Exchange

NOC Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited NOC 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 NOC Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 3 (9.375%) SharePoint
1 3 (9.375%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 3 (9.375%) MS Excel
2 2 (6.250%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.63%) Firewall
1 5 (15.63%) DSLAM
1 5 (15.63%) VoIP
2 4 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
2 4 (12.50%) Cisco PIX
2 4 (12.50%) MPLS
3 3 (9.375%) DHCP
3 3 (9.375%) TCP/IP
3 3 (9.375%) DNS
3 3 (9.375%) SDH
4 2 (6.250%) Megaco
5 1 (3.125%) 2G
5 1 (3.125%) DSL
5 1 (3.125%) EIGRP
5 1 (3.125%) OSPF
5 1 (3.125%) BGP
5 1 (3.125%) Broadband
5 1 (3.125%) LAN
5 1 (3.125%) WAN
5 1 (3.125%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.375%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.125%) GIS
General
1 18 (56.25%) Telecoms
2 5 (15.63%) Front Office
3 3 (9.375%) Banking
3 3 (9.375%) Investment Banking
3 3 (9.375%) Finance
4 2 (6.250%) Back Office
5 1 (3.125%) French Language
5 1 (3.125%) German Language
5 1 (3.125%) Italian Language
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.75%) Linux
2 5 (15.63%) Windows
3 3 (9.375%) UNIX
3 3 (9.375%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (9.375%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (6.250%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (12.50%) ITIL
2 3 (9.375%) Incident Management
3 2 (6.250%) Network Management
4 1 (3.125%) Migration
4 1 (3.125%) Change Control
Qualifications
1 14 (43.75%) CCNA
1 14 (43.75%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (15.63%) Security Cleared
3 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 3 (9.375%) MCSE
4 3 (9.375%) CCNP
4 3 (9.375%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (6.250%) CCSA
6 1 (3.125%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.250%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (9.375%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.125%) OpenView
Vendors
1 15 (46.88%) Cisco
2 6 (18.75%) Juniper
3 5 (15.63%) Sun
4 4 (12.50%) Huawei
5 3 (9.375%) Microsoft
5 3 (9.375%) Nokia Siemens Networks
6 2 (6.250%) Nortel
6 2 (6.250%) Nokia
7 1 (3.125%) Telcordia
7 1 (3.125%) McAfee
7 1 (3.125%) CheckPoint
7 1 (3.125%) F5
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