The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Wakefield region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Systems 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 advertised for the Wakefield 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Engineer
Rank 9 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wakefield 4.348% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 4.348% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £375 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £382 £373
% change year-on-year
-14.80% +2.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
-21.42% +34.61%
All Job Titles
Wakefield
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
23 17 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wakefield 100.00% 94.44% 87.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 3
Average daily rate £275 £350 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% +40.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £150 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £385 £475 £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 2
Average hourly rate £14.50 £15.50 £11.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.45% +34.78%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Systems Engineer
West Yorkshire

Systems Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wakefield Systems Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Systems Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Wakefield Systems Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Systems Engineer
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wakefield region 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 3 (100.00%) SCCM
1 3 (100.00%) SCOM
2 2 (66.67%) MS Exchange
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) Terminal Server
2 2 (66.67%) Manufacturing
2 2 (66.67%) DFS Replication
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) SCVMM
3 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V

Systems Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wakefield region 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 Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) MS Exchange
General
1 2 (66.67%) Manufacturing
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) Terminal Server
1 2 (66.67%) DFS Replication
2 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) SCCM
1 3 (100.00%) SCOM
2 1 (33.33%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft