Senior Support Engineer Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Support 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 Senior Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Support Engineer
Rank 492 554 568
Rank change year-on-year
+62 +14
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Support Engineer 38 24 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.082% 0.041% 0.033%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% 0.044% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 8 3
Average daily rate £475 £233 £285
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+104.30% -18.42%
UK excluding London average daily rate £245 £216 £285
% change year-on-year
+13.29% -24.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 1
Average hourly rate £18.68 £21.86 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.53% -39.27%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £21.86 £36.00
% change year-on-year
- -39.27%
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 42797 53993 56874
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.24% 92.65% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 24561 29781 30909
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 2134 2552 2929
Average hourly rate £18.50 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.63% -5.00%
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 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%

Senior Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Senior Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Senior Support Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Senior Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Senior Support Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Senior Support Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Senior Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Senior Support Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Senior Support Engineer
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Support Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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 +62 38 £475 +104.30%
London +34 25 £475 +35.71%
South East +27 5 £375 -
East of England +15 4 £205 -5.20%
Cambridgeshire +15 4 £205 +17.14%
Cambridge +11 4 £205 +17.14%
Berkshire - 3 £400 -
Reading - 3 £400 -
City of London +10 2 - -
South West - 2 - -
North West +11 1 £250 +90.83%
Cheshire +6 1 £250 -
East Midlands - 1 - -
Oxfordshire - 1 - -
Northamptonshire - 1 - -

Senior Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Senior Support 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 Senior Support Engineer in their job title.

1 39 (61.90%) Windows
2 34 (53.97%) Microsoft
3 28 (44.44%) IIS
4 26 (41.27%) Windows XP
4 26 (41.27%) TCP/IP
5 25 (39.68%) Citrix
5 25 (39.68%) Java
5 25 (39.68%) UNIX
5 25 (39.68%) MS Excel
6 24 (38.10%) Linux
7 23 (36.51%) WebSphere
7 23 (36.51%) F5
8 22 (34.92%) Firewall
8 22 (34.92%) E-Commerce
8 22 (34.92%) Apache
9 21 (33.33%) LDAP
9 21 (33.33%) JBoss
9 21 (33.33%) SOAP
9 21 (33.33%) XML
9 21 (33.33%) XSLT
9 21 (33.33%) Perl
9 21 (33.33%) COM+
9 21 (33.33%) WebSphere Application Server
9 21 (33.33%) Red Hat
9 21 (33.33%) Java EE
9 21 (33.33%) PKI
9 21 (33.33%) BIG-IP
9 21 (33.33%) Change Control
9 21 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 21 (33.33%) NetScaler

Senior Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Senior Support 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 Senior Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 23 (36.51%) WebSphere
2 21 (33.33%) Java EE
2 21 (33.33%) COM+
2 21 (33.33%) SOAP
2 21 (33.33%) XML
2 21 (33.33%) XSLT
3 10 (15.87%) Middleware
4 9 (14.29%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (4.762%) CSS
5 3 (4.762%) HTML
6 2 (3.175%) WebCenter
6 2 (3.175%) OSGi
6 2 (3.175%) JSR 170
7 1 (1.587%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 28 (44.44%) IIS
2 22 (34.92%) Apache
3 21 (33.33%) WebSphere Application Server
4 9 (14.29%) WebLogic
5 7 (11.11%) MS Exchange
6 6 (9.524%) Exchange Server 2010
7 4 (6.349%) Exchange Server 2003
8 2 (3.175%) Exchange Server 2007
8 2 (3.175%) WebSphere Message Broker
8 2 (3.175%) CMS
8 2 (3.175%) WebSphere MQ
9 1 (1.587%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 1 (1.587%) Tomcat
9 1 (1.587%) SharePoint
9 1 (1.587%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 25 (39.68%) MS Excel
2 9 (14.29%) MS Office
3 2 (3.175%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 26 (41.27%) TCP/IP
2 22 (34.92%) Firewall
3 21 (33.33%) BIG-IP
3 21 (33.33%) LDAP
3 21 (33.33%) NetScaler
4 6 (9.524%) SAN
5 4 (6.349%) LAN
6 3 (4.762%) WAN
6 3 (4.762%) DNS
7 2 (3.175%) SNMP
7 2 (3.175%) IP Telephony
7 2 (3.175%) Wireshark
8 1 (1.587%) NAS
8 1 (1.587%) Cisco IPT
8 1 (1.587%) SSL
8 1 (1.587%) VPN
8 1 (1.587%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.937%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.762%) OLAP
2 3 (4.762%) Crystal Reports
2 3 (4.762%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (4.762%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (4.762%) Big Data
3 2 (3.175%) Jackrabbit
3 2 (3.175%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 13 (20.63%) Finance
2 9 (14.29%) Financial Institution
3 4 (6.349%) Publishing
4 2 (3.175%) Banking
5 1 (1.587%) Games
5 1 (1.587%) Front Office
Miscellaneous
1 21 (33.33%) PKI
2 9 (14.29%) Hedge funds
3 4 (6.349%) Open Source
3 4 (6.349%) Mathematics
4 2 (3.175%) Statistics
5 1 (1.587%) NHS
5 1 (1.587%) Blackberry
5 1 (1.587%) Online Games
5 1 (1.587%) FMCG
5 1 (1.587%) iPhone
5 1 (1.587%) iPad
5 1 (1.587%) Xserve
Operating Systems
1 39 (61.90%) Windows
2 26 (41.27%) Windows XP
3 25 (39.68%) UNIX
4 24 (38.10%) Linux
5 21 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (9.524%) Windows Server 2003
6 6 (9.524%) Windows Server 2008
7 5 (7.937%) Windows 7
8 2 (3.175%) CentOS
8 2 (3.175%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.587%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (34.92%) E-Commerce
2 21 (33.33%) Time Management
2 21 (33.33%) Change Control
3 9 (14.29%) Information Security
4 5 (7.937%) Incident Management
5 3 (4.762%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (4.762%) Service Delivery
5 3 (4.762%) Analytics
6 2 (3.175%) ITIL
7 1 (1.587%) Change Management
7 1 (1.587%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (1.587%) Scrum
7 1 (1.587%) TDD
7 1 (1.587%) Pair Programming
7 1 (1.587%) Problem Management
7 1 (1.587%) Release Management
7 1 (1.587%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (1.587%) Capacity Management
7 1 (1.587%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 25 (39.68%) Java
2 21 (33.33%) Perl
3 6 (9.524%) SQL
4 5 (7.937%) T-SQL
5 4 (6.349%) C
Qualifications
1 4 (6.349%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (3.175%) MCSE
3 1 (1.587%) CCIE
3 1 (1.587%) CCNP
3 1 (1.587%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.587%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.587%) QA
1 1 (1.587%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.175%) Terminal Services
2 2 (3.175%) VMware ESX
2 2 (3.175%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (11.11%) Oracle Identity Manager
2 6 (9.524%) SCCM
3 2 (3.175%) OpenView
3 2 (3.175%) CiscoWorks
3 2 (3.175%) Tivoli
3 2 (3.175%) Netcool
3 2 (3.175%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 1 (1.587%) Control-M
4 1 (1.587%) WMI
4 1 (1.587%) BladeLogic
4 1 (1.587%) WSUS
4 1 (1.587%) SCOM
4 1 (1.587%) Puppet
Vendors
1 34 (53.97%) Microsoft
2 25 (39.68%) Citrix
3 23 (36.51%) F5
4 21 (33.33%) Red Hat
4 21 (33.33%) JBoss
5 12 (19.05%) VMware
6 10 (15.87%) Oracle
7 7 (11.11%) Cisco
8 5 (7.937%) HP
9 3 (4.762%) SolarWinds
9 3 (4.762%) Juniper
10 2 (3.175%) Compuware
10 2 (3.175%) IBM
10 2 (3.175%) OPNET
11 1 (1.587%) Apple
11 1 (1.587%) Altiris
11 1 (1.587%) Adobe
Senior Desktop Support Engineer
City, London
My client, a Global Investment Bank requires a Senior Desktop Engineer to join their team. You MUST have experience as a Project Lead within a Desktop Support environment.....
Aston Carter
Rate: £250 - £300 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
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