West Midlands Server Engineer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Server 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 Server Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Chelmsford Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Durham East Grinstead East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hartlepool Havant Hayes Hertfordshire Hounslow Kent Kingswinford Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Preston Reading Redhill Salford Scotland Slough South East South Wales South West Stockton-on-Tees Surrey Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Witham Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	110	126
Rank change on same period last year	+16
Matching contract IT job ads	13	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.018 %	0.014 %
As % of the category below	0.433 %	0.418 %
Daily rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum daily rate	-	£273
Average daily rate	-	£276
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£279
UK excluding London average daily rate	£223	£276
% change on same period last year	-19.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.13	£18.50
Average hourly rate	£24.80	£18.50
% change on same period last year	+34.05 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.47	£18.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.22	£25.75
% change on same period last year	+1.80 %
Job Titles West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	3001	3349
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.057 %	3.303 %
Daily rates quoted	750	771
Average minimum daily rate	£322	£326
Average daily rate	£343	£348
% change on same period last year	-1.41 %
Average maximum daily rate	£364	£370
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£355
% change on same period last year	-0.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	296	469
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.60	£21.33
Average hourly rate	£21.09	£23.00
% change on same period last year	-8.30 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.58	£24.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.85	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.14 %
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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 Server 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 Server Engineer across the West Midlands region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Server Engineer across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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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 Server Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 5 September 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
Wolverhampton	-	6	-	-
Coventry	-	2	-	-
Kingswinford	-	1	-	-
Birmingham	+4	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region that cited Server 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 Server Engineer in their job title.

1 17 (70.83 %) Windows 2 16 (66.67 %) Active Directory 3 11 (45.83 %) Windows Server 2003 4 10 (41.67 %) Microsoft 5 8 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 6 7 (29.17 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 6 (25.00 %) SQL 7 6 (25.00 %) Citrix 8 4 (16.67 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 8 4 (16.67 %) LANDesk 8 4 (16.67 %) VMware 8 4 (16.67 %) Microsoft Certification 8 4 (16.67 %) HP 8 4 (16.67 %) Windows 2000 8 4 (16.67 %) MCSE

8 4 (16.67 %) MS Excel 8 4 (16.67 %) Windows 2000 Server 9 3 (12.50 %) SQL Server 9 3 (12.50 %) Windows XP 9 3 (12.50 %) SAN 9 3 (12.50 %) Internet 10 2 (8.333 %) SQL Server 2000 10 2 (8.333 %) Terminal Services 10 2 (8.333 %) Linux 10 2 (8.333 %) DNS 10 2 (8.333 %) Cisco 10 2 (8.333 %) EMC 10 2 (8.333 %) C 10 2 (8.333 %) SQL Server 2005 10 2 (8.333 %) Exchange Server 2000

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region that cited Server 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 Server Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 8 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 2 7 (29.17 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 2 (8.333 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 1 (4.167 %) Apache 4 1 (4.167 %) Site Server	Applications 1 4 (16.67 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 3 (12.50 %) SAN 1 3 (12.50 %) Internet 2 2 (8.333 %) Firewall 2 2 (8.333 %) DNS 3 1 (4.167 %) SMS 3 1 (4.167 %) DHCP 3 1 (4.167 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2 2 (8.333 %) SQL Server 2000 2 2 (8.333 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (4.167 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 1 (4.167 %) Subversion	General 1 1 (4.167 %) Government
Miscellaneous 1 1 (4.167 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 17 (70.83 %) Windows 2 11 (45.83 %) Windows Server 2003 3 4 (16.67 %) Windows 2000 3 4 (16.67 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 3 (12.50 %) Windows XP 5 2 (8.333 %) Linux 6 1 (4.167 %) UNIX 6 1 (4.167 %) Solaris 6 1 (4.167 %) Tru64 6 1 (4.167 %) Fedora 6 1 (4.167 %) Windows Vista 6 1 (4.167 %) Red Hat Linux 6 1 (4.167 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (8.333 %) Migration 2 1 (4.167 %) Network Load Balancing 2 1 (4.167 %) SC Cleared 2 1 (4.167 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (4.167 %) Configuration Management	Programming Languages 1 6 (25.00 %) SQL 2 2 (8.333 %) C 3 1 (4.167 %) PHP
Qualifications 1 4 (16.67 %) MCSE 1 4 (16.67 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (4.167 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 2 1 (4.167 %) MCP	System Software 1 16 (66.67 %) Active Directory 2 2 (8.333 %) Terminal Services 2 2 (8.333 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 2 2 (8.333 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (4.167 %) NetBackup 3 1 (4.167 %) Backup Exec
Systems Management 1 4 (16.67 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 1 (4.167 %) BMC PATROL 2 1 (4.167 %) MIMEsweeper 2 1 (4.167 %) Legato	Vendors 1 10 (41.67 %) Microsoft 2 6 (25.00 %) Citrix 3 4 (16.67 %) VMware 3 4 (16.67 %) HP 3 4 (16.67 %) LANDesk 4 2 (8.333 %) EMC 4 2 (8.333 %) Cisco 5 1 (4.167 %) IBM 5 1 (4.167 %) Dell 5 1 (4.167 %) Altiris 5 1 (4.167 %) Red Hat 5 1 (4.167 %) 3Com 5 1 (4.167 %) NETGEAR