The first table below looks at the demand for the Support Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Woking 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 18 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 Woking 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Support Engineer
Rank 18 10 13
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 1 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Woking 1.449% 5.357% 2.041%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.538% 5.455% 2.222%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Average daily rate £175 £290 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-39.65% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £255 £203 £250
% change year-on-year
+25.92% -19.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £12.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.76 £15.58 £15.00
% change year-on-year
+1.18% +3.83%
All Job Titles
Woking
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
65 55 45
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Woking 94.20% 98.21% 91.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 38 32
Average daily rate £340 £325 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.61% +1.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £273 £250 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
Average hourly rate £20.00 £16.50 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+21.21% +37.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Support Engineer
Surrey

Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Woking 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 Woking region.

Woking 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 Woking region.

Woking Support Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Woking 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 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
2 2 (66.67%) MS Office
2 2 (66.67%) Windows XP
2 2 (66.67%) MS Exchange
2 2 (66.67%) LAN
2 2 (66.67%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) SLA
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) Symantec
2 2 (66.67%) McAfee
2 2 (66.67%) Norton AntiVirus
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (66.67%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (66.67%) Backup Exec
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Vista
2 2 (66.67%) Windows 7
2 2 (66.67%) MCP
3 1 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (33.33%) NWDI
3 1 (33.33%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) SAP Implementation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 1 (33.33%) SAP PI
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (33.33%) SAP Basis
3 1 (33.33%) Logistics
3 1 (33.33%) SAP ALE

Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Woking 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 Development
1 1 (33.33%) EDI
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Basis
1 1 (33.33%) SAP ALE
1 1 (33.33%) SAP PI
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) MS Exchange
2 1 (33.33%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) MS Office
1 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) LAN
1 2 (66.67%) WAN
1 2 (66.67%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (33.33%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) NWDI
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Windows XP
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Vista
2 2 (66.67%) Windows 7
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) CRM
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Project Management
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Logistics
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Implementation
1 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
1 1 (33.33%) High Availability
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) MCP
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Norton AntiVirus
1 2 (66.67%) Backup Exec
2 1 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) Symantec
1 2 (66.67%) McAfee
2 1 (33.33%) Sybase
2 1 (33.33%) Business Objects
2 1 (33.33%) SAP
Woking, Surrey
The successful candidate will require strong technical background in desktop support for Windows 7, XP, Microsoft Windows server technologies, MS Office and other 3rd party application installation and...
Fidessa
Rate: Competitive
Posted: 10 June 2013