Systems Engineer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Systems 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 Systems Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

System Engineer
Location Aberdeen Ascot Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Ceredigion Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Denbighshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Elgin England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Harlow Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Hull Inverness Kent Kingston Upon Thames Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Mid Wales Midlands Moray New Quay Newbury Newquay Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Rochdale Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire St Albans St Asaph Staines Surbiton Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Wells West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wokingham Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	257	241
Rank change on same period last year	-16
Matching contract IT job ads	412	614
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.549 %	0.621 %
As % of the category below	0.610 %	0.678 %
Daily rates quoted	83	96
Average minimum daily rate	£308	£305
Average daily rate	£327	£328
% change on same period last year	-0.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£346	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£333
% change on same period last year	-2.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	102	100
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.99	£31.17
Average hourly rate	£29.72	£32.83
% change on same period last year	-9.48 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.45	£34.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.03	£33.22
% change on same period last year	-9.58 %
Job Titles UK
Matching contract IT job ads	67526	90610
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	90.01 %	91.67 %
Daily rates quoted	22121	26824
Average minimum daily rate	£378	£390
Average daily rate	£404	£415
% change on same period last year	-2.75 %
Average maximum daily rate	£430	£440
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	5680	7267
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.08	£24.52
Average hourly rate	£23.72	£26.04
% change on same period last year	-8.88 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.36	£27.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %

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.

Systems Engineer
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Systems Engineer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Systems Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Systems Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Systems Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Systems Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Systems Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Systems Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Systems Engineer
Top 30 Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

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
England	-16	371	£328	+0.82 %
South East	-13	99	£325	-2.31 %
London	+21	95	£330	+2.53 %
South West	+37	60	£329	-12.86 %
East of England	-7	41	£272	-16.79 %
Hampshire	+14	34	£368	+11.27 %
Scotland	+40	33	£375	+37.61 %
North West	-19	29	£336	-
City of London	-9	23	£365	+7.48 %
Berkshire	+3	22	£257	-19.75 %
East Midlands	+10	17	-	-
Aberdeen	+12	16	-	-
Yorkshire	-3	15	£375	+57.06 %
Reading	+1	12	£220	-
Essex	-	10	-	-
Gloucestershire	-1	10	-	-
Manchester	-5	10	£325	-
Glasgow	+15	10	£375	-
Surrey	0	10	£331	+10.41 %
Hertfordshire	0	9	-	-
Portsmouth	-10	9	£335	-
Nottingham	-7	8	-	-
Cambridgeshire	-15	8	£300	-
Bristol	+14	8	£220	-51.11 %
Nottinghamshire	-5	8	-	-
West Yorkshire	-8	8	£375	+74.41 %
West Midlands	-1	8	£300	-25.31 %
Oxfordshire	-18	7	-	-
Norfolk	+5	7	£215	-11.79 %
Somerset	+4	7	£465	+55.00 %

Systems Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Systems 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 Systems Engineer in their job title.

1 274 (30.51 %) Windows 2 149 (16.59 %) Active Directory 3 144 (16.04 %) Microsoft 4 141 (15.70 %) UNIX 5 135 (15.03 %) Linux 6 118 (13.14 %) Security Cleared 7 91 (10.13 %) MS Exchange 8 88 (9.800 %) TCP/IP 8 88 (9.800 %) Exchange Server 2003 9 87 (9.688 %) Solaris 10 82 (9.131 %) Citrix 10 82 (9.131 %) Windows Server 2003 11 80 (8.909 %) SQL 12 78 (8.686 %) VMware 13 77 (8.575 %) HP

14 74 (8.241 %) Cisco 15 71 (7.906 %) SC Cleared 16 70 (7.795 %) Microsoft Certification 17 65 (7.238 %) Finance 18 64 (7.127 %) DNS 19 62 (6.904 %) SAN 20 61 (6.793 %) Oracle 20 61 (6.793 %) SQL Server 20 61 (6.793 %) MCSE 21 54 (6.013 %) Aerospace 22 53 (5.902 %) Telecoms 22 53 (5.902 %) Government 23 50 (5.568 %) MS Excel 24 48 (5.345 %) Red Hat 24 48 (5.345 %) Firewall

Systems Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Systems 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 Systems Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 25 (2.784 %) .NET 2 15 (1.670 %) J2EE 3 14 (1.559 %) XML 4 12 (1.336 %) HTML 5 11 (1.225 %) WebServices 6 8 (0.891 %) ASP.NET 7 6 (0.668 %) WebSphere 8 4 (0.445 %) EDI 8 4 (0.445 %) Middleware 9 3 (0.334 %) CGI 9 3 (0.334 %) Ruby on Rails 10 2 (0.223 %) JSF 10 2 (0.223 %) .NET Framework 10 2 (0.223 %) Application Packaging 10 2 (0.223 %) Hibernate 11 1 (0.111 %) NetBeans 11 1 (0.111 %) UIQ 11 1 (0.111 %) Series 60 11 1 (0.111 %) OpenMP 11 1 (0.111 %) ODBC	Application Platforms 1 91 (10.13 %) MS Exchange 2 88 (9.800 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 40 (4.454 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 31 (3.452 %) Apache 4 31 (3.452 %) IIS 4 31 (3.452 %) SharePoint 5 22 (2.450 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 17 (1.893 %) Tomcat 7 15 (1.670 %) SharePoint Server 2007 8 11 (1.225 %) WebLogic 9 9 (1.002 %) BizTalk Server 10 8 (0.891 %) Exchange Server 5.5 11 6 (0.668 %) CMS 12 5 (0.557 %) Oracle Application Server 13 4 (0.445 %) GroupWise 13 4 (0.445 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 13 4 (0.445 %) JBoss 14 3 (0.334 %) Lotus Notes 14 3 (0.334 %) MQSeries 14 3 (0.334 %) ArcGIS
Applications 1 50 (5.568 %) MS Excel 2 29 (3.229 %) MS Office 3 22 (2.450 %) Simulink 4 18 (2.004 %) MATLAB 5 5 (0.557 %) NASTRAN 5 5 (0.557 %) MS Project 6 4 (0.445 %) MS Visio 7 2 (0.223 %) AutoCAD 7 2 (0.223 %) Stateflow 7 2 (0.223 %) CATIA 7 2 (0.223 %) CA Clarity 7 2 (0.223 %) MS PowerPoint 8 1 (0.111 %) Windchill	Business Applications 1 2 (0.223 %) SoftGrid 2 1 (0.111 %) SMARTEAM 2 1 (0.111 %) RMDS 2 1 (0.111 %) Cerner Millennium 2 1 (0.111 %) Oracle Financials 2 1 (0.111 %) SAP HR 2 1 (0.111 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 88 (9.800 %) TCP/IP 2 64 (7.127 %) DNS 3 62 (6.904 %) SAN 4 48 (5.345 %) Firewall 5 45 (5.011 %) DHCP 6 44 (4.900 %) WAN 6 44 (4.900 %) LAN 7 32 (3.563 %) Internet 8 31 (3.452 %) VoIP 9 28 (3.118 %) VPN 10 15 (1.670 %) Ethernet 11 14 (1.559 %) SNMP 11 14 (1.559 %) Network Security 12 11 (1.225 %) SMS 12 11 (1.225 %) ATM 13 9 (1.002 %) Wi-Fi 13 9 (1.002 %) Wireless 14 8 (0.891 %) GSM 15 7 (0.780 %) LDAP 15 7 (0.780 %) SMTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 61 (6.793 %) SQL Server 2 30 (3.341 %) MySQL 3 25 (2.784 %) SQL Server 2005 4 15 (1.670 %) SQL Server 2000 5 8 (0.891 %) SQL Server 7 6 4 (0.445 %) Crystal Reports 7 3 (0.334 %) BusinessObjects 7 3 (0.334 %) GIS 7 3 (0.334 %) Oracle 8/8i 7 3 (0.334 %) Oracle 9i 8 2 (0.223 %) MS Access 8 2 (0.223 %) OLAP 8 2 (0.223 %) Data Mining 8 2 (0.223 %) RDBMS 8 2 (0.223 %) Oracle 10g 9 1 (0.111 %) Oracle Reports 9 1 (0.111 %) PostgreSQL 9 1 (0.111 %) DB2 9 1 (0.111 %) Datawarehouse 9 1 (0.111 %) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications 1 17 (1.893 %) ClearCase 2 11 (1.225 %) Telelogic DOORS 3 10 (1.114 %) LabVIEW 4 8 (0.891 %) Visual Studio 4 8 (0.891 %) ClearQuest 5 7 (0.780 %) TestDirector 6 5 (0.557 %) Bugzilla 7 4 (0.445 %) Subversion 7 4 (0.445 %) ARTiSAN 7 4 (0.445 %) VSS/SourceSafe 8 3 (0.334 %) MSI 9 2 (0.223 %) InstallShield 9 2 (0.223 %) Oracle Forms 9 2 (0.223 %) Rational Rose 9 2 (0.223 %) Eclipse 9 2 (0.223 %) Selenium 9 2 (0.223 %) FitNesse 10 1 (0.111 %) Ant	General 1 65 (7.238 %) Finance 2 54 (6.013 %) Aerospace 3 53 (5.902 %) Telecoms 3 53 (5.902 %) Government 4 46 (5.122 %) Military 5 29 (3.229 %) Electric 6 27 (3.007 %) Automotive 7 23 (2.561 %) Banking 8 17 (1.893 %) Electronics 9 12 (1.336 %) Health 10 11 (1.225 %) Manufacturing 11 9 (1.002 %) Investment Banking 11 9 (1.002 %) Law 11 9 (1.002 %) Legal 12 8 (0.891 %) Pharmaceutical 12 8 (0.891 %) Marketing 13 7 (0.780 %) Education 14 6 (0.668 %) Auditing 15 5 (0.557 %) Billing 15 5 (0.557 %) Retail
Miscellaneous 1 27 (3.007 %) Clustering 2 15 (1.670 %) Management Information System 3 11 (1.225 %) SCADA 4 10 (1.114 %) Fat Client 4 10 (1.114 %) Thin Client 5 7 (0.780 %) AS400 6 6 (0.668 %) Blackberry 6 6 (0.668 %) EPoS 6 6 (0.668 %) Client/Server 7 5 (0.557 %) NHS 7 5 (0.557 %) Handset 7 5 (0.557 %) Computer Science 8 4 (0.445 %) Physics 8 4 (0.445 %) IVR 8 4 (0.445 %) VAX 8 4 (0.445 %) Replication 8 4 (0.445 %) Smartcard 9 3 (0.334 %) Grid Computing 9 3 (0.334 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 9 3 (0.334 %) CCTV	Operating Systems 1 274 (30.51 %) Windows 2 141 (15.70 %) UNIX 3 135 (15.03 %) Linux 4 87 (9.688 %) Solaris 5 82 (9.131 %) Windows Server 2003 6 45 (5.011 %) Windows 2000 7 41 (4.566 %) Windows XP 8 24 (2.673 %) Windows NT 9 13 (1.448 %) AIX 10 11 (1.225 %) NetWare 11 9 (1.002 %) SUSE 11 9 (1.002 %) Fedora 12 8 (0.891 %) VMS 13 6 (0.668 %) HPUX 14 5 (0.557 %) Windows CE 15 3 (0.334 %) Debian 15 3 (0.334 %) Gentoo 15 3 (0.334 %) OpenVMS 15 3 (0.334 %) Windows Vista 16 2 (0.223 %) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies 1 118 (13.14 %) Security Cleared 2 71 (7.906 %) SC Cleared 3 35 (3.898 %) ITIL 4 31 (3.452 %) Validation 5 27 (3.007 %) Migration 5 27 (3.007 %) Requirements Management 6 23 (2.561 %) Configuration Management 7 22 (2.450 %) Test Scripting 8 21 (2.339 %) UML 9 17 (1.893 %) DV Cleared 10 16 (1.782 %) Incident Management 11 15 (1.670 %) Six Sigma 12 14 (1.559 %) Service Management 13 12 (1.336 %) Asset Management 14 11 (1.225 %) Disaster Recovery 14 11 (1.225 %) MODAF 15 10 (1.114 %) Business Continuity 16 9 (1.002 %) Systems Analysis 17 8 (0.891 %) Fault Management 18 7 (0.780 %) Integration Testing	Programming Languages 1 80 (8.909 %) SQL 2 46 (5.122 %) C 3 45 (5.011 %) Perl 4 32 (3.563 %) Java 5 29 (3.229 %) Shell Script 6 25 (2.784 %) C++ 7 20 (2.227 %) VB 8 14 (1.559 %) C# 9 12 (1.336 %) PHP 10 9 (1.002 %) Korn 11 8 (0.891 %) Python 12 7 (0.780 %) VBScript 13 6 (0.668 %) Embedded C 13 6 (0.668 %) Ruby 14 4 (0.445 %) DCL 14 4 (0.445 %) VC++ 15 3 (0.334 %) PL/SQL 15 3 (0.334 %) Fortran 15 3 (0.334 %) Embedded C++ 16 2 (0.223 %) PowerShell
Qualifications 1 70 (7.795 %) Microsoft Certification 2 61 (6.793 %) MCSE 3 45 (5.011 %) Degree 4 30 (3.341 %) Cisco Certification 5 20 (2.227 %) CCNA 6 16 (1.782 %) MCP 7 13 (1.448 %) CCNP 8 10 (1.114 %) Citrix Certification 8 10 (1.114 %) CNA 8 10 (1.114 %) Novell Certification 9 7 (0.780 %) CNE 9 7 (0.780 %) HNC 10 6 (0.668 %) MCSA 11 5 (0.557 %) ISEB 12 4 (0.445 %) CCA 12 4 (0.445 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 12 4 (0.445 %) RHCE 13 3 (0.334 %) HND 14 2 (0.223 %) MCDBA 14 2 (0.223 %) CCEA	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 23 (2.561 %) SLA 2 4 (0.445 %) ISO27001 3 3 (0.334 %) BS7799 4 2 (0.223 %) 21 CFR Part 11 4 2 (0.223 %) GMP 4 2 (0.223 %) GLP 4 2 (0.223 %) JSP 440 5 1 (0.111 %) ISO17799 5 1 (0.111 %) GAMP 5 1 (0.111 %) QA
System Software 1 149 (16.59 %) Active Directory 2 24 (2.673 %) NetBackup 3 22 (2.450 %) Backup Exec 4 15 (1.670 %) VMware Infrastructure 5 14 (1.559 %) VMware ESX 6 13 (1.448 %) Terminal Services 7 9 (1.002 %) ISA Server 8 8 (0.891 %) Terminal Server 9 7 (0.780 %) MetaFrame 10 5 (0.557 %) Citrix Presentation Server 11 4 (0.445 %) VMware Server 12 3 (0.334 %) AquaLogic 12 3 (0.334 %) NDS 13 2 (0.223 %) Novell eDirectory 14 1 (0.111 %) Oracle RAC 14 1 (0.111 %) VMware GSX 14 1 (0.111 %) Snort	Systems Management 1 19 (2.116 %) MOM 2 17 (1.893 %) OpenView 3 9 (1.002 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 9 (1.002 %) ARCserve 3 9 (1.002 %) WSUS 4 8 (0.891 %) HP Data Protector 5 7 (0.780 %) Tivoli 6 6 (0.668 %) CiscoWorks 7 5 (0.557 %) NNM 8 4 (0.445 %) OVOW 8 4 (0.445 %) OVIS 8 4 (0.445 %) Netcool 9 3 (0.334 %) Legato 9 3 (0.334 %) EMC Navisphere 10 2 (0.223 %) EMC NetWorker 10 2 (0.223 %) OVPA 10 2 (0.223 %) OVPM 10 2 (0.223 %) Nagios 10 2 (0.223 %) Norton AntiVirus 10 2 (0.223 %) Unicenter
Vendors 1 144 (16.04 %) Microsoft 2 82 (9.131 %) Citrix 3 78 (8.686 %) VMware 4 77 (8.575 %) HP 5 74 (8.241 %) Cisco 6 61 (6.793 %) Oracle 7 48 (5.345 %) Red Hat 8 47 (5.234 %) VERITAS 9 30 (3.341 %) Sun 10 21 (2.339 %) IBM 11 19 (2.116 %) Novell 12 16 (1.782 %) Symantec 13 15 (1.670 %) Nortel 14 14 (1.559 %) EMC 15 13 (1.448 %) Dell 15 13 (1.448 %) Sybase 16 11 (1.225 %) Telelogic 17 10 (1.114 %) Siemens 18 8 (0.891 %) Avaya 18 8 (0.891 %) Remedy