Cambridgeshire Desktop Support Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Desktop Support role in IT contracts within the Cambridgeshire 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 in their job title over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chichester City of London Congleton County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fife Gateshead Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Gwent Halifax Hampshire Harrow Havant Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Lutterworth Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Motherwell Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Shields South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Kilbride West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Wiltshire Wimbledon Windlesham Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	38	58
Rank change on same period last year	+20
Matching contract IT job ads	21	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.028 %	0.014 %
As % of the category below	3.177 %	1.461 %
Daily rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum daily rate	£125	£100
Average daily rate	£133	£100
% change on same period last year	+33.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£142	£100
UK excluding London average daily rate	£161	£166
% change on same period last year	-3.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.08	£13.75
Average hourly rate	£12.83	£15.00
% change on same period last year	-14.43 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£13.58	£16.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£14.83	£15.27
% change on same period last year	-2.89 %
Job Titles Cambridgeshire
Matching contract IT job ads	661	958
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.881 %	0.956 %
Daily rates quoted	135	198
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£314
Average daily rate	£322	£330
% change on same period last year	-2.37 %
Average maximum daily rate	£344	£346
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£355
% change on same period last year	+0.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	115	153
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.28	£26.03
Average hourly rate	£19.94	£27.48
% change on same period last year	-27.42 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.60	£28.93
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.79	£25.66
% change on same period last year	-7.31 %
Desktop Support East of England

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 Support across the Cambridgeshire 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 across the Cambridgeshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Desktop Support across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 29 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 across the Cambridgeshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Desktop Support across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 29 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 within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 29 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
Peterborough	+10	11	£133	+33.33 %
Cambridge	+22	10	-	-
Huntingdon	-	1	-	-

Desktop Support East of England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region that cited Desktop Support 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 in their job title.

1 26 (50.98 %) Windows 1 26 (50.98 %) Microsoft 2 17 (33.33 %) Active Directory 2 17 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 3 16 (31.37 %) Windows XP 4 13 (25.49 %) DNS 5 12 (23.53 %) MS Office 6 11 (21.57 %) LAN 7 9 (17.65 %) VPN 7 9 (17.65 %) Dell 7 9 (17.65 %) Windows 2000 8 8 (15.69 %) Exchange Server 2007 9 7 (13.73 %) PDA 9 7 (13.73 %) Blackberry 9 7 (13.73 %) Microsoft Certification

9 7 (13.73 %) Lotus 9 7 (13.73 %) Lotus Notes 9 7 (13.73 %) MS Excel 9 7 (13.73 %) TCP/IP 9 7 (13.73 %) WLAN 10 6 (11.76 %) Windows NT 10 6 (11.76 %) SharePoint 11 5 (9.804 %) MCSE 11 5 (9.804 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 12 4 (7.843 %) Novell 12 4 (7.843 %) Windows Server 2003 12 4 (7.843 %) VMware 12 4 (7.843 %) MCP 12 4 (7.843 %) WAN 12 4 (7.843 %) SLA

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region that cited Desktop Support 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 in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (5.882 %) Application Packaging	Application Platforms 1 17 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 2 8 (15.69 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 7 (13.73 %) Lotus Notes 4 6 (11.76 %) SharePoint 5 3 (5.882 %) Exchange Server 5.5 5 3 (5.882 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 2 (3.922 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 12 (23.53 %) MS Office 2 7 (13.73 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 13 (25.49 %) DNS 2 11 (21.57 %) LAN 3 9 (17.65 %) VPN 4 7 (13.73 %) WLAN 4 7 (13.73 %) TCP/IP 5 4 (7.843 %) WAN 6 3 (5.882 %) DHCP 6 3 (5.882 %) SMS 7 1 (1.961 %) VoIP 7 1 (1.961 %) Broadband 7 1 (1.961 %) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (1.961 %) SQL Server 1 1 (1.961 %) MSDE	Development Applications 1 1 (1.961 %) MSI
General 1 3 (5.882 %) Electronics 2 2 (3.922 %) Telecoms 2 2 (3.922 %) Finance 2 2 (3.922 %) Government 3 1 (1.961 %) Retail 3 1 (1.961 %) Pensions	Miscellaneous 1 7 (13.73 %) Blackberry 1 7 (13.73 %) PDA 2 1 (1.961 %) Data Protection Act 2 1 (1.961 %) EPoS
Operating Systems 1 26 (50.98 %) Windows 2 16 (31.37 %) Windows XP 3 9 (17.65 %) Windows 2000 4 6 (11.76 %) Windows NT 5 4 (7.843 %) Windows Server 2003 6 3 (5.882 %) Windows 2000 Server 7 1 (1.961 %) NetWare 7 1 (1.961 %) Linux 7 1 (1.961 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (5.882 %) Problem Management 2 1 (1.961 %) Data Protection 2 1 (1.961 %) BC Cleared 2 1 (1.961 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (1.961 %) Project Management
Programming Languages 1 2 (3.922 %) SQL 2 1 (1.961 %) C	Qualifications 1 7 (13.73 %) Microsoft Certification 2 5 (9.804 %) MCSE 3 4 (7.843 %) MCP 4 1 (1.961 %) A+ Certification 4 1 (1.961 %) Network+ Certification 4 1 (1.961 %) MCSA 4 1 (1.961 %) CCNA 4 1 (1.961 %) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (7.843 %) SLA	System Software 1 17 (33.33 %) Active Directory 2 2 (3.922 %) VMware ESX 3 1 (1.961 %) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management 1 5 (9.804 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 4 (7.843 %) SCCM 3 1 (1.961 %) ZENworks	Vendors 1 26 (50.98 %) Microsoft 2 9 (17.65 %) Dell 3 7 (13.73 %) Lotus 4 4 (7.843 %) Novell 4 4 (7.843 %) VMware 5 3 (5.882 %) Citrix 5 3 (5.882 %) HP 5 3 (5.882 %) Compaq 6 2 (3.922 %) Cisco 7 1 (1.961 %) McAfee Security