Berkshire Desktop Support Engineer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Desktop Support 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 Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Desktop Support Engineer
Location Aberdeen Beckenham Belfast Berkshire Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire City of London County Antrim Crawley Croydon Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dudley Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnham Gateshead Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Motherwell Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Reading Renfrewshire Salisbury Scotland Sheffield South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Kilbride West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Windlesham Windsor Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	99	150
Rank change on same period last year	+51
Matching contract IT job ads	30	16
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.040 %	0.016 %
As % of the category below	0.945 %	0.350 %
Daily rates quoted	5	5
Average minimum daily rate	£115	£148
Average daily rate	£126	£148
% change on same period last year	-14.80 %
Average maximum daily rate	£137	£148
UK excluding London average daily rate	£151	£162
% change on same period last year	-6.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	22	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.77	£14.00
Average hourly rate	£14.65	£14.56
% change on same period last year	+0.63 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.54	£15.13
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£14.30	£15.55
% change on same period last year	-8.06 %
Job Titles Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	3175	4574
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.190 %	4.555 %
Daily rates quoted	784	1441
Average minimum daily rate	£341	£350
Average daily rate	£360	£367
% change on same period last year	-1.90 %
Average maximum daily rate	£380	£385
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	233	460
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.29	£28.17
Average hourly rate	£24.91	£29.53
% change on same period last year	-15.65 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.53	£30.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.68	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.85 %
Desktop Support 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.

Desktop Support Engineer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Desktop Support Engineer across the Berkshire 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 Desktop Support 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 Support Engineer across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 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 Support Engineer across the Berkshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Desktop Support Engineer across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Desktop Support Engineer within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 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	+12	21	£126	+5.20 %
Bracknell	-	2	-	-
Wokingham	-	1	-	-
Windsor	-	1	£125	-

Desktop Support Engineer South East

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region that cited Desktop 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 Desktop Support Engineer in their job title.

1 26 (70.27 %) Windows 2 15 (40.54 %) Microsoft 2 15 (40.54 %) Blackberry 3 14 (37.84 %) VPN 4 13 (35.14 %) HP 4 13 (35.14 %) Wireless 5 12 (32.43 %) MS Office 6 11 (29.73 %) Altiris 7 9 (24.32 %) Active Directory 8 8 (21.62 %) Microsoft Certification 8 8 (21.62 %) ITIL 9 7 (18.92 %) MCP 9 7 (18.92 %) MS Excel 9 7 (18.92 %) Remedy 10 4 (10.81 %) Dell

11 3 (8.108 %) MCDST 11 3 (8.108 %) Windows XP 11 3 (8.108 %) Windows 2000 11 3 (8.108 %) TCP/IP 11 3 (8.108 %) DNS 12 2 (5.405 %) DHCP 12 2 (5.405 %) Compaq 12 2 (5.405 %) C 12 2 (5.405 %) LAN 12 2 (5.405 %) VMware 12 2 (5.405 %) McAfee Security 12 2 (5.405 %) Internet 12 2 (5.405 %) 3G 12 2 (5.405 %) Windows Vista 13 1 (2.703 %) German Language

Desktop Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 1 (2.703 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 1 (2.703 %) GroupWise 1 1 (2.703 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 12 (32.43 %) MS Office 2 7 (18.92 %) MS Excel 3 1 (2.703 %) MS Visio 3 1 (2.703 %) MS Project	Communications & Networking 1 14 (37.84 %) VPN 2 13 (35.14 %) Wireless 3 3 (8.108 %) TCP/IP 3 3 (8.108 %) DNS 4 2 (5.405 %) DHCP 4 2 (5.405 %) LAN 4 2 (5.405 %) Internet 4 2 (5.405 %) 3G 5 1 (2.703 %) Wi-Fi 5 1 (2.703 %) VoIP 5 1 (2.703 %) ADSL 5 1 (2.703 %) Broadband
Development Applications 1 1 (2.703 %) Dreamweaver	General 1 1 (2.703 %) Pharmaceutical 1 1 (2.703 %) Government
Miscellaneous 1 15 (40.54 %) Blackberry 2 1 (2.703 %) German Language 2 1 (2.703 %) PDA	Operating Systems 1 26 (70.27 %) Windows 2 3 (8.108 %) Windows XP 2 3 (8.108 %) Windows 2000 3 2 (5.405 %) Windows Vista 4 1 (2.703 %) NetWare
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (21.62 %) ITIL 2 1 (2.703 %) Time Management 2 1 (2.703 %) SC Cleared 2 1 (2.703 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (2.703 %) Service Management 2 1 (2.703 %) Configuration Management 2 1 (2.703 %) Asset Management	Programming Languages 1 2 (5.405 %) C 2 1 (2.703 %) VBScript
Qualifications 1 8 (21.62 %) Microsoft Certification 2 7 (18.92 %) MCP 3 3 (8.108 %) MCDST 4 1 (2.703 %) MCSE 4 1 (2.703 %) MCSA	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.703 %) SLA
System Software 1 9 (24.32 %) Active Directory 2 1 (2.703 %) NDS	Systems Management 1 1 (2.703 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 15 (40.54 %) Microsoft 2 13 (35.14 %) HP 3 11 (29.73 %) Altiris 4 7 (18.92 %) Remedy 5 4 (10.81 %) Dell 6 2 (5.405 %) Compaq 6 2 (5.405 %) VMware 6 2 (5.405 %) McAfee Security 7 1 (2.703 %) Novell 7 1 (2.703 %) Peregrine 7 1 (2.703 %) Lotus 7 1 (2.703 %) Quark 7 1 (2.703 %) CheckPoint 7 1 (2.703 %) IBM 7 1 (2.703 %) Adobe