The first table below looks at the demand for the Support Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Uxbridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited 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 advertised for the Uxbridge region.

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
Support Engineer
Rank 19 19 15
Rank change year-on-year
0 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 1 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Uxbridge 0.926% 0.820% 2.885%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.111% 0.962% 3.297%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £253 £200 £250
% change year-on-year
+26.25% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Average hourly rate £15.50 - £10.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.77 £15.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year
+1.74% +3.33%
All Job Titles
Uxbridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
90 104 91
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Uxbridge 83.33% 85.25% 87.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 72 52
Average daily rate £407 £410 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.65% -3.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £198 £273
10% offered a daily rate of more than £605 £542 £546
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 6
Average hourly rate £16.50 £17.00 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.94% -38.18%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £13.00 £10.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.75 £26.00 £47.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Support Engineer
London

Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Uxbridge Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Support Engineer across the Uxbridge region.

Uxbridge Support Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Support Engineer across the Uxbridge region.

Uxbridge Support Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Support Engineer
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Uxbridge region that cited 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 Support Engineer in their job title.

1 1 (100.00%) MS Office
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (100.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server

Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows XP
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory