The first table below looks at the demand for the Windows 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 Windows Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Support Engineer
Rank 511 561 567
Rank change year-on-year
+50 +6
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Support Engineer 30 18 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.061% 0.031% 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.067% 0.034% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 2 8
Average daily rate £310 £267 £245
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.21% +8.87%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £172 £200 £178
10% offered a daily rate of more than £433 £333 £318
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £267 £290
% change year-on-year
+12.46% -8.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 5
Average hourly rate £14.25 £13.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.61% -62.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.75 £17.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.40 £20.81 £47.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.25 £13.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+9.61% -62.85%
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
45063 52855 57510
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.16% 92.46% 92.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 25972 29220 31540
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 2142 2525 2941
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 £41.77 £40.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Windows Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Windows Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Windows Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Windows Support Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Windows Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows Support Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Windows Support Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Windows Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Windows Support Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Windows Support Engineer
Top 20 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Support Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 20 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 +41 28 £310 +16.21% 6
South East +32 12 £300 -14.28% 2
London +26 8 £425 - 4
Berkshire +11 3 £325 -7.14%
Reading +3 2 £325 -7.14%
Yorkshire - 2 - -
North West - 1 £175 -
City of London - - - -
Docklands, London - - - -
Sheffield - - - -
South Wales - - - -
Wales - - - -
East of England - - - -
Cambridgeshire - - - -
Cheshire - - - -
Hertfordshire - - - -
South Yorkshire - - - -
Peterborough - - - -
Bracknell - - - -
Bridgend - - - -

Windows Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Windows 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 Windows Support Engineer in their job title.

1 59 (100.00%) Windows
2 33 (55.93%) Microsoft
2 33 (55.93%) Windows 7
3 28 (47.46%) Active Directory
4 23 (38.98%) Citrix
4 23 (38.98%) VMware
4 23 (38.98%) Windows Server 2008
5 20 (33.90%) Windows XP
6 19 (32.20%) Windows Server 2003
7 18 (30.51%) MS Office
8 15 (25.42%) ITIL
9 14 (23.73%) VMware Infrastructure
10 12 (20.34%) Security Cleared
11 11 (18.64%) Migration
11 11 (18.64%) VB
11 11 (18.64%) .NET
12 10 (16.95%) VB.NET
12 10 (16.95%) C#
12 10 (16.95%) Smartcard
12 10 (16.95%) Acrobat
12 10 (16.95%) Clustering
12 10 (16.95%) VB6
12 10 (16.95%) SC Cleared
12 10 (16.95%) Root Cause Analysis
13 9 (15.25%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (15.25%) Windows 2000
14 8 (13.56%) MS Excel
14 8 (13.56%) MS Exchange
14 8 (13.56%) SAN
14 8 (13.56%) XenApp

Windows Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 11 (18.64%) .NET
2 2 (3.390%) Application Packaging
3 1 (1.695%) ADSI
3 1 (1.695%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.695%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 8 (13.56%) MS Exchange
2 4 (6.780%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 4 (6.780%) IIS
3 3 (5.085%) Exchange Server 2003
3 3 (5.085%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.695%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (1.695%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (1.695%) Apache
4 1 (1.695%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 18 (30.51%) MS Office
2 10 (16.95%) Acrobat
3 8 (13.56%) MS Excel
4 1 (1.695%) Google Apps
Business Applications
1 2 (3.390%) 3000 Xtra
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.56%) SAN
2 5 (8.475%) DNS
2 5 (8.475%) Internet
2 5 (8.475%) Firewall
3 3 (5.085%) DHCP
3 3 (5.085%) VPN
4 2 (3.390%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.390%) LAN
4 2 (3.390%) VoIP
4 2 (3.390%) WAN
5 1 (1.695%) Network Security
5 1 (1.695%) NAS
5 1 (1.695%) Ethernet
5 1 (1.695%) FTP
5 1 (1.695%) BIG-IP
5 1 (1.695%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.695%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (6.780%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (1.695%) MSI
2 1 (1.695%) InstallShield
General
1 2 (3.390%) Military
1 2 (3.390%) Finance
1 2 (3.390%) Investment Banking
1 2 (3.390%) Local Government
1 2 (3.390%) Banking
2 1 (1.695%) Legal
2 1 (1.695%) Manufacturing
2 1 (1.695%) Advertising
2 1 (1.695%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.95%) Smartcard
1 10 (16.95%) Clustering
2 7 (11.86%) Blackberry
3 4 (6.780%) PKI
4 3 (5.085%) Client/Server
5 2 (3.390%) Thin Client
5 2 (3.390%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (3.390%) Fat Client
5 2 (3.390%) iPhone
6 1 (1.695%) EqualLogic
6 1 (1.695%) iPad
6 1 (1.695%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 59 (100.00%) Windows
2 33 (55.93%) Windows 7
3 23 (38.98%) Windows Server 2008
4 20 (33.90%) Windows XP
5 19 (32.20%) Windows Server 2003
6 9 (15.25%) Windows 2000
7 6 (10.17%) Windows Vista
8 5 (8.475%) Linux
9 4 (6.780%) UNIX
9 4 (6.780%) Windows 8
9 4 (6.780%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (3.390%) Windows NT
11 1 (1.695%) Mac OS
11 1 (1.695%) Windows 2000 Server
11 1 (1.695%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (25.42%) ITIL
2 11 (18.64%) Migration
3 10 (16.95%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (5.085%) Time Management
5 2 (3.390%) Incident Management
5 2 (3.390%) BCP
6 1 (1.695%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (1.695%) Integration Testing
6 1 (1.695%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (1.695%) Software Deployment
6 1 (1.695%) E-Commerce
6 1 (1.695%) Business Continuity
6 1 (1.695%) Asset Management
6 1 (1.695%) Service Management
6 1 (1.695%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 11 (18.64%) VB
2 10 (16.95%) VB.NET
2 10 (16.95%) C#
2 10 (16.95%) VB6
3 6 (10.17%) VBScript
4 5 (8.475%) PowerShell
5 3 (5.085%) SQL
6 1 (1.695%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (20.34%) Security Cleared
2 10 (16.95%) SC Cleared
3 9 (15.25%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (11.86%) MCSE
5 5 (8.475%) DV Cleared
5 5 (8.475%) HNC
6 4 (6.780%) MCP
6 4 (6.780%) Degree
7 3 (5.085%) MCSA
7 3 (5.085%) CCA
7 3 (5.085%) Citrix Certification
8 1 (1.695%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.695%) QA
System Software
1 28 (47.46%) Active Directory
2 14 (23.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (13.56%) XenApp
4 5 (8.475%) Hyper-V
5 4 (6.780%) VMware ESX
6 3 (5.085%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (3.390%) MetaFrame
7 2 (3.390%) NFS
8 1 (1.695%) Citrix Presentation Server
8 1 (1.695%) VMware Server
8 1 (1.695%) XenDesktop
8 1 (1.695%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (1.695%) vSphere
8 1 (1.695%) Forefront TMG
8 1 (1.695%) ISA Server
8 1 (1.695%) Terminal Server
8 1 (1.695%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (1.695%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 7 (11.86%) SCCM
2 5 (8.475%) Backup Exec
3 4 (6.780%) WMI
4 2 (3.390%) Foglight
4 2 (3.390%) HP SIM
4 2 (3.390%) SCOM
5 1 (1.695%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (1.695%) ARCserve
5 1 (1.695%) Legato
5 1 (1.695%) Norton AntiVirus
5 1 (1.695%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 33 (55.93%) Microsoft
2 23 (38.98%) Citrix
2 23 (38.98%) VMware
3 7 (11.86%) HP
3 7 (11.86%) Cisco
4 5 (8.475%) Dell
5 3 (5.085%) Red Hat
5 3 (5.085%) IBM
6 2 (3.390%) McAfee
6 2 (3.390%) Altiris
6 2 (3.390%) Nortel
6 2 (3.390%) Apple
6 2 (3.390%) CommVault
6 2 (3.390%) Veritas
6 2 (3.390%) Reuters
6 2 (3.390%) Bloomberg
6 2 (3.390%) NETGEAR
6 2 (3.390%) LANDesk
7 1 (1.695%) PlateSpin
7 1 (1.695%) Trend Micro
Abingdon, South East
This role for a Windows Desktop support Engineer is to join a small but busy team providing 1st / 2nd and some 3rd level support at a satellite office...
Claremont Consulting
Rate: £120 - £170 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013