The first table below looks at the demand for the Server Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the West Sussex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Server Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 West Sussex 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Server Engineer
Rank 38 58 49
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Server Engineer 2 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 0.541% 0.152% 0.679%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.576% 0.159% 0.737%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
Average daily rate £263 £325 £281
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-19.23% +15.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £247 £325 £236
10% offered a daily rate of more than £279 £325 £326
UK excluding London average daily rate £278 £258 £275
% change year-on-year
+7.76% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £18.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £23.00 £22.20
% change year-on-year
+8.69% +3.60%
All Job Titles
West Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
347 630 407
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 93.78% 95.74% 92.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 372 198
Average daily rate £375 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £275 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £490 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 25 46
Average hourly rate £24.00 £22.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% +4.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.75 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.50 £32.70 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Server Engineer
South East

Server Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Sussex Server Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Server Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Sussex Server Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Server Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Sussex Server Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Server Engineer
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 Sussex region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
Crawley +11 2 £263 -19.23%
Server Engineer
South East

Server Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (83.33%) SAN
3 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (50.00%) DNS
4 3 (50.00%) Cisco
4 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (33.33%) Sun
5 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
5 2 (33.33%) HP
5 2 (33.33%) Solaris
5 2 (33.33%) SQL
5 2 (33.33%) Oracle
5 2 (33.33%) MS Exchange
5 2 (33.33%) Symantec
5 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
5 2 (33.33%) NetApp
5 2 (33.33%) StorageTek
5 2 (33.33%) NetBackup
5 2 (33.33%) MCITP
5 2 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (33.33%) SAP
5 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (33.33%) vSphere
6 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
6 1 (16.67%) NAS
6 1 (16.67%) XenApp
6 1 (16.67%) Veeam

Server Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 2 (33.33%) MS Exchange
1 2 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (16.67%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) SAN
2 3 (50.00%) DNS
3 1 (16.67%) NAS
3 1 (16.67%) VLAN
3 1 (16.67%) SSH
3 1 (16.67%) DMZ
3 1 (16.67%) Internet
3 1 (16.67%) LAN
3 1 (16.67%) WAN
3 1 (16.67%) DHCP
3 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (16.67%) VPN
General
1 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (33.33%) Solaris
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Vista
4 1 (16.67%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) MCITP
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (33.33%) vSphere
3 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
3 1 (16.67%) XenApp
3 1 (16.67%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) Sun
3 2 (33.33%) HP
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle
3 2 (33.33%) Symantec
3 2 (33.33%) NetApp
3 2 (33.33%) StorageTek
3 2 (33.33%) SAP
4 1 (16.67%) Veeam
4 1 (16.67%) Riverbed
4 1 (16.67%) PlateSpin
4 1 (16.67%) Dell
4 1 (16.67%) Citrix
4 1 (16.67%) Juniper