Desktop Engineer Contracts in the City of London

Desktop Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Desktop Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £146 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 139 159
Rank change year-on-year +31 +20 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Desktop Engineer 19 29 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.88% 0.85% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.93% 0.89% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 27 34
10th Percentile £123 £121 £130
25th Percentile £127 £133 £135
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £146 £140 £170
Median % change year-on-year +4.46% -17.65% -32.00%
75th Percentile £369 £154 £243
90th Percentile £435 £208 £281
Central London median daily rate £181 £140 £185
% change year-on-year +29.46% -24.32% -26.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £16.15
25th Percentile £20.22 - £19.56
Median hourly rate £20.82 - £26.50
75th Percentile £21.41 - £38.88
90th Percentile - - £45.55
Central London median hourly rate £20.82 £25.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year -16.74% -5.66% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 2,049 3,254 3,974
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.08% 94.98% 94.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,427 2,197 2,984
10th Percentile £348 £363 £363
25th Percentile £441 £475 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £564
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.43% +4.88%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £688
90th Percentile £788 £814 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 20 48
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.37 £15.19
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.03 £21.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% -12.50% +122.53%
75th Percentile £34.69 £72.50 £55.38
90th Percentile £46.15 £88.30 £65.28
Central London median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.86% -13.58% +125.31%

Desktop Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings that featured Desktop Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Desktop Engineer in the City of London

Desktop Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Desktop Engineer in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Desktop Engineer in the City of London

Desktop Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Desktop Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 5 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Desktop Engineer in the City of London

Desktop Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Desktop Engineer in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Desktop Engineer in the City of London

Desktop Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 5 June 2024, Desktop Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring Desktop Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (78.95%) Windows
2 13 (68.42%) Social Skills
3 11 (57.89%) Active Directory
4 10 (52.63%) Windows 10
5 5 (26.32%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (26.32%) Asset Management
5 5 (26.32%) SCCM
5 5 (26.32%) Citrix
5 5 (26.32%) VPN
5 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
5 5 (26.32%) Blackberry
6 4 (21.05%) Adobe
6 4 (21.05%) Apple
6 4 (21.05%) Android
6 4 (21.05%) iPhone
6 4 (21.05%) ServiceNow
6 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (21.05%) Customer Service
7 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (15.79%) Break/Fix
7 3 (15.79%) OneDrive
7 3 (15.79%) Entra ID
7 3 (15.79%) Windows 7
7 3 (15.79%) Azure
7 3 (15.79%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (15.79%) Windows 8
7 3 (15.79%) Logistics
7 3 (15.79%) Ivanti
7 3 (15.79%) LAN

Desktop Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (15.79%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (10.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (15.79%) Azure
2 3 (15.79%) Entra ID
2 3 (15.79%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (26.32%) VPN
2 3 (15.79%) LAN
2 3 (15.79%) WAN
3 2 (10.53%) Firewall
3 2 (10.53%) SAN
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco IOS
General
1 13 (68.42%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.26%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Blackberry
2 4 (21.05%) iPhone
3 2 (10.53%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.26%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 15 (78.95%) Windows
2 10 (52.63%) Windows 10
3 4 (21.05%) Android
4 3 (15.79%) Mac OS X
4 3 (15.79%) Windows 7
4 3 (15.79%) Windows 8
5 2 (10.53%) Mac OS
5 2 (10.53%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (5.26%) Apple iOS
6 1 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (26.32%) Asset Management
2 4 (21.05%) Customer Service
2 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (15.79%) Break/Fix
3 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (15.79%) Logistics
3 3 (15.79%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (10.53%) Application Virtualisation
4 2 (10.53%) Customer Experience
4 2 (10.53%) Problem Management
5 1 (5.26%) Customer-Centric Approach
5 1 (5.26%) Customer-Centricity
5 1 (5.26%) Inventory Management
5 1 (5.26%) ITIL
5 1 (5.26%) Mobile Device Management
5 1 (5.26%) Roadmaps
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 11 (57.89%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.53%) Hyper-V
2 2 (10.53%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) SCCM
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.26%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Citrix
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 4 (21.05%) Adobe
2 4 (21.05%) Apple
2 4 (21.05%) ServiceNow
3 3 (15.79%) Ivanti
4 2 (10.53%) Bloomberg
4 2 (10.53%) VMware
5 1 (5.26%) Cisco
5 1 (5.26%) Google
5 1 (5.26%) Salesforce