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

The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems 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 Systems Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Support Engineer
Rank 502 572 565
Rank change year-on-year
+70 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Support Engineer 32 14 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.068% 0.024% 0.035%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.074% 0.026% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 6 4
Average daily rate £300 £285 £298
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.26% -4.20%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £173 £214 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £344 £425 £321
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £354 £318
% change year-on-year
-15.31% +11.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 2
Average hourly rate £19.44 £22.50 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.61% +66.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.88 - £13.50
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 43445 54854 55821
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.19% 92.53% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 24929 30221 30365
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
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 2155 2623 2895
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 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Systems Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Systems Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Systems Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Systems Support Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Systems Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Systems Support Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Systems Support Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Systems Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Systems Support Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Systems Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Systems Support Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Systems Support Engineer Hourly Rate Histogram

Systems Support Engineer
Top 24 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Support Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 22 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 +72 30 £300 +5.26%
South East +20 11 £300 -42.85%
North West - 8 - -
Hampshire +5 7 £300 -
Southampton - 7 £300 -
South West - 6 £350 -
Manchester - 6 - -
London +29 3 £300 +5.26%
Devon - 3 £350 -
West Sussex +11 2 £130 -
Bath - 2 - -
Plymouth - 2 £350 -
Lancashire - 2 - -
Somerset - 2 - -
East of England - 1 £250 -
East Midlands - 1 - -
City of London - 1 - -
Oxfordshire - 1 - -
Nottinghamshire - 1 - -
Hertfordshire - 1 £250 -
Nottingham - 1 - -
Abingdon - 1 - -
Horsham - 1 - -
Exeter - 1 - -

Systems Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Systems 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 Systems Support Engineer in their job title.

1 45 (72.58%) Windows
2 31 (50.00%) Linux
3 28 (45.16%) Active Directory
4 27 (43.55%) VMware
5 22 (35.48%) Microsoft
6 21 (33.87%) Citrix
7 19 (30.65%) Apache
8 16 (25.81%) Red Hat
9 15 (24.19%) TCP/IP
10 14 (22.58%) SC Cleared
10 14 (22.58%) Security Cleared
11 12 (19.35%) SQL Server
11 12 (19.35%) Windows Server 2008
12 11 (17.74%) Perl
12 11 (17.74%) UNIX
12 11 (17.74%) DNS
12 11 (17.74%) Clustering
13 10 (16.13%) PHP
13 10 (16.13%) MySQL
13 10 (16.13%) VMware Infrastructure
13 10 (16.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 10 (16.13%) Windows 7
13 10 (16.13%) Bash shell
14 9 (14.52%) Cisco
14 9 (14.52%) NFS
14 9 (14.52%) Windows Server 2003
14 9 (14.52%) HP
14 9 (14.52%) Telecoms
15 8 (12.90%) Migration
15 8 (12.90%) NetApp

Systems Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Systems 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 Systems Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (4.839%) .NET
2 2 (3.226%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.613%) ASP
3 1 (1.613%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 19 (30.65%) Apache
2 6 (9.677%) IIS
3 5 (8.065%) MS Exchange
4 4 (6.452%) Exchange Server 2007
5 2 (3.226%) SharePoint
5 2 (3.226%) Tomcat
5 2 (3.226%) nginx
6 1 (1.613%) Lync
6 1 (1.613%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (1.613%) Exchange Server 2003
6 1 (1.613%) Office Communications Server
6 1 (1.613%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (12.90%) MS Excel
2 6 (9.677%) MS Visio
3 4 (6.452%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 15 (24.19%) TCP/IP
2 11 (17.74%) DNS
3 6 (9.677%) Internet
4 5 (8.065%) LDAP
5 4 (6.452%) Intranet
5 4 (6.452%) NetScaler
6 3 (4.839%) DHCP
6 3 (4.839%) Firewall
7 2 (3.226%) LAN
8 1 (1.613%) NAS
8 1 (1.613%) VoIP
8 1 (1.613%) HTTP
8 1 (1.613%) SAN
8 1 (1.613%) iSCSI
8 1 (1.613%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (19.35%) SQL Server
2 10 (16.13%) MySQL
3 4 (6.452%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (4.839%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (1.613%) DB2
5 1 (1.613%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (4.839%) Subversion
2 2 (3.226%) Git (software)
3 1 (1.613%) ClearCase
3 1 (1.613%) ClearQuest
General
1 9 (14.52%) Telecoms
2 5 (8.065%) Finance
3 2 (3.226%) Military
4 1 (1.613%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (1.613%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.74%) Clustering
2 6 (9.677%) Wiki
3 4 (6.452%) Open Source
4 3 (4.839%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 45 (72.58%) Windows
2 31 (50.00%) Linux
3 12 (19.35%) Windows Server 2008
4 11 (17.74%) UNIX
5 10 (16.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (16.13%) Windows 7
6 9 (14.52%) Windows Server 2003
7 5 (8.065%) CentOS
8 2 (3.226%) Mac OS X Server
8 2 (3.226%) Windows XP
8 2 (3.226%) FreeBSD
8 2 (3.226%) Solaris
9 1 (1.613%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (12.90%) Migration
2 7 (11.29%) ITIL
3 4 (6.452%) Change Management
3 4 (6.452%) Change Control
4 3 (4.839%) CRM
4 3 (4.839%) ERP
5 1 (1.613%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (1.613%) Trend Analysis
5 1 (1.613%) CAD
5 1 (1.613%) SOA
5 1 (1.613%) Requirements Analysis
5 1 (1.613%) Web Development
5 1 (1.613%) Network Load Balancing
5 1 (1.613%) Problem Management
5 1 (1.613%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 11 (17.74%) Perl
2 10 (16.13%) PHP
2 10 (16.13%) Bash shell
3 8 (12.90%) SQL
3 8 (12.90%) Python
4 7 (11.29%) C
5 6 (9.677%) Ruby
5 6 (9.677%) Java
6 5 (8.065%) JavaScript
7 4 (6.452%) VBScript
7 4 (6.452%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.226%) C#
Qualifications
1 14 (22.58%) SC Cleared
1 14 (22.58%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.452%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (6.452%) MCSE
2 4 (6.452%) MCP
3 3 (4.839%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.613%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.613%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.065%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (45.16%) Active Directory
2 10 (16.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (14.52%) NFS
4 6 (9.677%) Hyper-V
5 5 (8.065%) vSphere
6 1 (1.613%) XenApp
6 1 (1.613%) XenServer
6 1 (1.613%) XenDesktop
6 1 (1.613%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 8 (12.90%) Puppet
2 7 (11.29%) Netcool
2 7 (11.29%) Nagios
3 4 (6.452%) SCOM
4 2 (3.226%) SCCM
4 2 (3.226%) WSUS
4 2 (3.226%) Tivoli
5 1 (1.613%) Tivoli Monitoring
5 1 (1.613%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 27 (43.55%) VMware
2 22 (35.48%) Microsoft
3 21 (33.87%) Citrix
4 16 (25.81%) Red Hat
5 9 (14.52%) Cisco
5 9 (14.52%) HP
6 8 (12.90%) NetApp
7 6 (9.677%) IBM
8 4 (6.452%) Altiris
9 1 (1.613%) Oracle
9 1 (1.613%) Novell
9 1 (1.613%) Avaya
9 1 (1.613%) LANDesk
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