The first table below looks at the demand for the Project 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 Project Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Project Engineer
Rank 520 471 530
Rank change year-on-year
-49 +59
Contract jobs requiring a Project Engineer 21 99 71
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.044% 0.171% 0.114%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.047% 0.184% 0.123%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 41 30
Average daily rate £275 £400 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-31.25% +33.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £236 £278 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £339 £420 £378
UK excluding London average daily rate £288 £313 £210
% change year-on-year
-8.00% +48.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 8
Average hourly rate £14.25 £52.50 £14.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-72.85% +255.93%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £8.85 £17.25 £10.85
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.65 £58.25 £33.26
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.25 £55.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-74.09% +100.00%
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
44347 53663 57608
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.17% 92.47% 92.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 25564 29628 31510
Average daily rate £400 £400 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £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 2099 2560 2964
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 £11.19 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%

Project Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Project Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Project Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Project Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Project Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Project Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Project Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Project Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Project Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Project Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Project Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Project Engineer Hourly Rate Histogram

Project 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 Project Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England -62 18 £275 -26.66% 20
North West +20 7 £240 - 2
South East +16 6 £300 - 7
London 0 4 £258 -36.61% 2
Cheshire - 3 - -
Surrey +18 2 £338 +20.53% 2
Manchester +4 2 £240 - 2
City of London -3 2 £275 -33.33% 1
South West +30 1 £325 - 3
Scotland -14 1 - -
Livingston - 1 - -
West Lothian - 1 - -
Bristol - 1 £325 -
Warrington - 1 - -
Welwyn Garden City - - - -
Yeovil - - - -
Berkshire - - - - 1
Cambridgeshire - - - -
Aberdeen - - - -
Barrow-in-Furness - - - -
Birmingham - - - -
Blackpool - - - -
Bolton - - - -
Bradford - - - -
Cumbria - - - -
Gloucestershire - - - - 3
Hampshire - - - - 2
Hertfordshire - - - -
Lancashire - - - -
Nottinghamshire - - - -

Project Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Project 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 Project Engineer in their job title.

1 26 (50.00%) Windows
2 15 (28.85%) ITIL
3 14 (26.92%) Active Directory
3 14 (26.92%) Windows Server 2008
4 11 (21.15%) VMware
4 11 (21.15%) Windows Server 2003
5 10 (19.23%) Citrix
6 9 (17.31%) MS Exchange
6 9 (17.31%) PRINCE2
7 8 (15.38%) Microsoft
7 8 (15.38%) Firewall
7 8 (15.38%) Project Management
8 7 (13.46%) Cisco
8 7 (13.46%) HP
8 7 (13.46%) LAN
8 7 (13.46%) Windows XP
8 7 (13.46%) SCCM
8 7 (13.46%) vSphere
9 6 (11.54%) Exchange Server 2010
9 6 (11.54%) SCOM
9 6 (11.54%) XenApp
9 6 (11.54%) Migration
10 5 (9.615%) PowerShell
10 5 (9.615%) TCP/IP
10 5 (9.615%) CCNA
10 5 (9.615%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (7.692%) PMI
11 4 (7.692%) PMI Certification
11 4 (7.692%) CCA
11 4 (7.692%) Citrix Certification

Project Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Project 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 Project Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (1.923%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 9 (17.31%) MS Exchange
2 6 (11.54%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (5.769%) SharePoint
4 2 (3.846%) IIS
4 2 (3.846%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (3.846%) Exchange Server 2007
4 2 (3.846%) Lync
5 1 (1.923%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (1.923%) Apache
5 1 (1.923%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 4 (7.692%) MS Excel
2 2 (3.846%) MS Office
3 1 (1.923%) Windchill
3 1 (1.923%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (1.923%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.923%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 8 (15.38%) Firewall
2 7 (13.46%) LAN
3 5 (9.615%) TCP/IP
4 4 (7.692%) DHCP
4 4 (7.692%) DNS
4 4 (7.692%) WAN
5 3 (5.769%) VLAN
5 3 (5.769%) SAN
6 2 (3.846%) MPLS
6 2 (3.846%) VPN
6 2 (3.846%) IPv6
6 2 (3.846%) IPsec
7 1 (1.923%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (1.923%) WLAN
7 1 (1.923%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.769%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.923%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (1.923%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 2 (3.846%) Banking
1 2 (3.846%) Telecoms
1 2 (3.846%) Finance
1 2 (3.846%) Manufacturing
1 2 (3.846%) Military
2 1 (1.923%) Electronics
2 1 (1.923%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.692%) PMI
2 2 (3.846%) Statistics
2 2 (3.846%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (3.846%) PKI
2 2 (3.846%) Clustering
3 1 (1.923%) CCTV
3 1 (1.923%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.923%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 26 (50.00%) Windows
2 14 (26.92%) Windows Server 2008
3 11 (21.15%) Windows Server 2003
4 7 (13.46%) Windows XP
5 4 (7.692%) Windows 7
6 2 (3.846%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.923%) Windows 8
7 1 (1.923%) Windows 2000 Server
7 1 (1.923%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.923%) Windows Vista
7 1 (1.923%) UNIX
7 1 (1.923%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (28.85%) ITIL
2 9 (17.31%) PRINCE2
3 8 (15.38%) Project Management
4 6 (11.54%) Migration
5 4 (7.692%) Document Management
6 3 (5.769%) Change Control
6 3 (5.769%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (3.846%) PRINCE
7 2 (3.846%) Quality Management
7 2 (3.846%) E-Commerce
7 2 (3.846%) Project Planning
7 2 (3.846%) Data Protection
7 2 (3.846%) Capacity Management
8 1 (1.923%) Mobile Device Management
8 1 (1.923%) Programme Management
8 1 (1.923%) Logistics
8 1 (1.923%) Information Management
8 1 (1.923%) Risk Analysis
8 1 (1.923%) Release Management
8 1 (1.923%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.615%) PowerShell
2 3 (5.769%) VBScript
3 2 (3.846%) SQL
3 2 (3.846%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.923%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (9.615%) CCNA
1 5 (9.615%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (7.692%) PMI Certification
2 4 (7.692%) CCA
2 4 (7.692%) Citrix Certification
3 3 (5.769%) CCNP
4 2 (3.846%) Degree
4 2 (3.846%) HP AIS
4 2 (3.846%) HP ASE
4 2 (3.846%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.846%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.923%) APMP
5 1 (1.923%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.923%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 14 (26.92%) Active Directory
2 7 (13.46%) vSphere
3 6 (11.54%) XenApp
4 2 (3.846%) Terminal Services
4 2 (3.846%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.846%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.923%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.923%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (1.923%) VMware ESX
5 1 (1.923%) XenServer
5 1 (1.923%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (13.46%) SCCM
2 6 (11.54%) SCOM
3 2 (3.846%) SCVMM
4 1 (1.923%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 11 (21.15%) VMware
2 10 (19.23%) Citrix
3 8 (15.38%) Microsoft
4 7 (13.46%) Cisco
4 7 (13.46%) HP
5 4 (7.692%) NetApp
5 4 (7.692%) AppSense
6 2 (3.846%) Juniper
6 2 (3.846%) Remedy
6 2 (3.846%) Primavera
6 2 (3.846%) Riverbed
6 2 (3.846%) Aruba
7 1 (1.923%) Allen-Bradley
7 1 (1.923%) Wyse
7 1 (1.923%) ProCurve
7 1 (1.923%) WatchGuard
7 1 (1.923%) IBM
7 1 (1.923%) Dell
7 1 (1.923%) EMC
7 1 (1.923%) Sophos
Buckinghamshire, Thames Valley
This includes support of customer specific hardware and communication links.Key skills required:- MS Products - Knowledge of MS windows server products, with particular emphasis on SQL, Active Directory...
DP Connect Ltd
Rate: £250 - £300 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
Cheltenham, South West
Good office computer skills in a range of Microsoft applications18. Experience in the use of Solid Works CAD with ability to operate other CAD packages an advantage (but...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £25 - £35 per hour
Posted: 7 June 2013
Cheltenham, South West
Good office computer skills in a range of Microsoft applications18. Experience in the use of Solid Works CAD with ability to operate other CAD packages an advantage (but...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £25 - £30 per hour
Posted: 11 June 2013
Cheltenham, South West
Good office computer skills in a range of Microsoft applications18. Experience in the use of Solid Works CAD with ability to operate other CAD packages an advantage (but...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £25 - £32 per hour
Posted: 17 June 2013
Surrey, South East
Also desirable: Programming of SCADA, HMI's and PLCs... Understanding and experience of implementing Industrial Network Protocols such as; Ethernet, DeviceNet, ControlNet, Profi-bus and Modbus... Experience of...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £20 - £30 per hour
Posted: 10 June 2013
Hampshire, South East
Huxley Associates
Rate: £20 - £25 per hour
Posted: 10 June 2013
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