Berkshire Desktop Engineer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Desktop Engineer role in IT contracts within the Berkshire 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 Desktop Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 1 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Desktop Engineer
Location Aberdeen Amersham Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bootle Bracknell Bradford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Buxton Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Godalming Grimsby Guildford Hampshire Harrow Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hull Kent Kidderminster Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Morecambe Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Romford Sandwich Scotland Scottish Borders Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West Southampton Southwark St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Templecombe Thames Valley Tidworth Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wirral Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 1 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	99	126
Rank change on same period last year	+27
Matching contract IT job ads	16	19
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.025 %	0.020 %
As % of the category below	0.635 %	0.521 %
Daily rates quoted	4	4
Average minimum daily rate	£128	£185
Average daily rate	£136	£208
% change on same period last year	-34.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£145	£230
UK excluding London average daily rate	£126	£141
% change on same period last year	-10.47 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.38	£17.14
Average hourly rate	£18.38	£17.90
% change on same period last year	+2.65 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.38	£18.66
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.79	£15.84
% change on same period last year	-0.30 %
Job Titles Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	2520	3650
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.996 %	3.885 %
Daily rates quoted	666	1006
Average minimum daily rate	£338	£332
Average daily rate	£360	£353
% change on same period last year	+2.06 %
Average maximum daily rate	£383	£374
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£351
% change on same period last year	+0.46 %
Hourly rates quoted	177	442
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.80	£25.79
Average hourly rate	£22.23	£27.22
% change on same period last year	-18.33 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.67	£28.66
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.14	£24.11
% change on same period last year	-4.03 %
Desktop Engineer South East

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 Desktop Engineer across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Desktop Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Desktop Engineer across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 1 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 Desktop Engineer across the Berkshire region.

Desktop Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Desktop Engineer across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 1 December 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 Desktop Engineer within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 1 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
Reading	+9	5	£136	-35.11 %
Maidenhead	-	1	-	-
Wokingham	-	1	-	-
Bracknell	-	1	-	-
Slough	-	1	-	-

Desktop Engineer South East

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region that cited Desktop 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 Desktop Engineer in their job title.

1 34 (69.39 %) Windows 2 18 (36.73 %) Microsoft 3 16 (32.65 %) Blackberry 4 14 (28.57 %) HP 5 12 (24.49 %) Altiris 5 12 (24.49 %) Wireless 5 12 (24.49 %) MS Office 5 12 (24.49 %) VPN 6 11 (22.45 %) Active Directory 7 10 (20.41 %) Microsoft Certification 8 9 (18.37 %) MS Excel 9 8 (16.33 %) ITIL 10 7 (14.29 %) MCP 10 7 (14.29 %) Windows XP 11 6 (12.24 %) Remedy

12 4 (8.163 %) Windows Vista 12 4 (8.163 %) Windows Server 2003 12 4 (8.163 %) DHCP 13 3 (6.122 %) DNS 13 3 (6.122 %) MCSE 13 3 (6.122 %) Windows 2000 13 3 (6.122 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 13 3 (6.122 %) Dell 13 3 (6.122 %) MCDST 14 2 (4.082 %) Finance 14 2 (4.082 %) Internet 14 2 (4.082 %) McAfee Security 14 2 (4.082 %) MSI 14 2 (4.082 %) C 14 2 (4.082 %) WAN

Desktop Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region that cited Desktop 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 Desktop Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (2.041 %) Lotus Notes	Applications 1 12 (24.49 %) MS Office 2 9 (18.37 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 12 (24.49 %) VPN 1 12 (24.49 %) Wireless 2 4 (8.163 %) DHCP 3 3 (6.122 %) DNS 4 2 (4.082 %) Internet 4 2 (4.082 %) TCP/IP 4 2 (4.082 %) LAN 4 2 (4.082 %) WAN 5 1 (2.041 %) Broadband 5 1 (2.041 %) VoIP	Development Applications 1 2 (4.082 %) MSI
General 1 2 (4.082 %) Finance 2 1 (2.041 %) Education 2 1 (2.041 %) Government 2 1 (2.041 %) Pharmaceutical	Miscellaneous 1 16 (32.65 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 34 (69.39 %) Windows 2 7 (14.29 %) Windows XP 3 4 (8.163 %) Windows Server 2003 3 4 (8.163 %) Windows Vista 4 3 (6.122 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (2.041 %) Windows 2000 Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (16.33 %) ITIL 2 1 (2.041 %) Time Management
Programming Languages 1 2 (4.082 %) C 2 1 (2.041 %) VBScript 2 1 (2.041 %) VBA	Qualifications 1 10 (20.41 %) Microsoft Certification 2 7 (14.29 %) MCP 3 3 (6.122 %) MCSE 3 3 (6.122 %) MCDST 4 1 (2.041 %) CCNP 4 1 (2.041 %) CCNA 4 1 (2.041 %) Cisco Certification
System Software 1 11 (22.45 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 3 (6.122 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 18 (36.73 %) Microsoft 2 14 (28.57 %) HP 3 12 (24.49 %) Altiris 4 6 (12.24 %) Remedy 5 3 (6.122 %) Dell 6 2 (4.082 %) McAfee Security 6 2 (4.082 %) Cisco 7 1 (2.041 %) VMware 7 1 (2.041 %) Compaq 7 1 (2.041 %) Citrix 7 1 (2.041 %) Lotus 7 1 (2.041 %) CheckPoint