West Midlands Field Engineer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Field Engineer role in IT contracts within the West Midlands region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Field Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 4 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aldershot Angus Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Beverley Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Chertsey Cheshire Chippenham City of London Cornwall Crewe Croydon Daventry Derbyshire Devon Diss Doncaster Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ely England Essex Exeter Falmouth Fareham Fife Forfar Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Hampshire Huddersfield Hull Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Rochester Rotherham Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Southall Southampton Southwark Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Suffolk Surrey Swindon Taunton Telford Thetford Tidworth Towcester Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Warrington Warwickshire Wellingborough West Midlands West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Wiltshire Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	98	107
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching contract IT job ads	11	24
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.018 %	0.026 %
As % of the category below	0.434 %	0.730 %
Daily rates quoted	4	2
Average minimum daily rate	£106	£98
Average daily rate	£106	£105
% change on same period last year	+1.19 %
Average maximum daily rate	£106	£113
UK excluding London average daily rate	£115	£114
% change on same period last year	+0.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	£19.29
Average hourly rate	£15.00	£19.75
% change on same period last year	-24.03 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.00	£20.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.05	£18.84
% change on same period last year	-4.21 %
Job Titles West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	2533	3286
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.110 %	3.587 %
Daily rates quoted	705	710
Average minimum daily rate	£321	£316
Average daily rate	£342	£337
% change on same period last year	+1.40 %
Average maximum daily rate	£363	£359
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£352
% change on same period last year	+0.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	355	567
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.64	£20.10
Average hourly rate	£21.95	£21.73
% change on same period last year	+1.02 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.25	£23.35
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.15	£23.97
% change on same period last year	-3.43 %
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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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Field Engineer across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Field Engineer across the West Midlands region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Field Engineer across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 4 December 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Field Engineer across the West Midlands region.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Field Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 4 December 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
Staffordshire	-11	4	£100	-2.43 %
Birmingham	+10	3	£113	+4.65 %
Warwickshire	+15	2	-	-
Shropshire	+1	1	-	-
Stourbridge	-	1	-	-
Dudley	0	1	-	-
Wolverhampton	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region that cited Field 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 Field Engineer in their job title.

1 10 (31.25 %) Windows 1 10 (31.25 %) Active Directory 2 8 (25.00 %) Microsoft 3 7 (21.88 %) MS Exchange 4 6 (18.75 %) Windows XP 4 6 (18.75 %) Migration 4 6 (18.75 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 5 (15.63 %) Exchange Server 5.5 5 5 (15.63 %) Windows Server 2003 6 4 (12.50 %) MS Office 6 4 (12.50 %) LAN 6 4 (12.50 %) WAN 6 4 (12.50 %) TCP/IP 7 3 (9.375 %) Windows Vista 7 3 (9.375 %) NHS

7 3 (9.375 %) Dell 7 3 (9.375 %) Citrix 7 3 (9.375 %) Microsoft Certification 8 2 (6.250 %) CCA 8 2 (6.250 %) Citrix Certification 8 2 (6.250 %) EPoS 8 2 (6.250 %) ATM 8 2 (6.250 %) Cisco 8 2 (6.250 %) Windows 2000 8 2 (6.250 %) Wireless 9 1 (3.125 %) Billing 9 1 (3.125 %) Wincor Nixdorf 9 1 (3.125 %) PDA 9 1 (3.125 %) Windows 2000 Server 9 1 (3.125 %) Lotus Notes

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region that cited Field 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 Field Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 7 (21.88 %) MS Exchange 2 6 (18.75 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 5 (15.63 %) Exchange Server 5.5 4 1 (3.125 %) Lotus Notes 4 1 (3.125 %) GroupWise	Applications 1 4 (12.50 %) MS Office 2 1 (3.125 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 4 (12.50 %) LAN 1 4 (12.50 %) WAN 1 4 (12.50 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (6.250 %) Wireless 2 2 (6.250 %) ATM 3 1 (3.125 %) ADSL 3 1 (3.125 %) DHCP 3 1 (3.125 %) DNS	General 1 1 (3.125 %) Billing
Miscellaneous 1 3 (9.375 %) NHS 2 2 (6.250 %) EPoS 3 1 (3.125 %) PDA	Operating Systems 1 10 (31.25 %) Windows 2 6 (18.75 %) Windows XP 3 5 (15.63 %) Windows Server 2003 4 3 (9.375 %) Windows Vista 5 2 (6.250 %) Windows 2000 6 1 (3.125 %) Windows NT 6 1 (3.125 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (18.75 %) Migration	Qualifications 1 3 (9.375 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (6.250 %) CCA 2 2 (6.250 %) Citrix Certification 3 1 (3.125 %) MCSE
System Software 1 10 (31.25 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 8 (25.00 %) Microsoft 2 3 (9.375 %) Dell 2 3 (9.375 %) Citrix 3 2 (6.250 %) Cisco 4 1 (3.125 %) IBM 4 1 (3.125 %) HP 4 1 (3.125 %) NCR 4 1 (3.125 %) Novell 4 1 (3.125 %) VERITAS 4 1 (3.125 %) Lotus 4 1 (3.125 %) Sophos 4 1 (3.125 %) Wincor Nixdorf