City of London Service Desk Manager Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Service Desk Manager role in IT contracts within the City of London 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 Service Desk Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Service Desk Manager
Location Berkshire Brentwood City of London East of England East Sussex England Essex Hampshire Hastings Home Counties Ilford London Luton Middlesex South East Southampton Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey UK	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	219	194
Rank change on same period last year	-25
Matching contract IT job ads	1	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	0.012 %	0.060 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£375
Average daily rate	£375	£400
% change on same period last year	-6.25 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£425
UK excluding London average daily rate	-	£244
% change on same period last year	-
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	£32.50
% change on same period last year	-
Job Titles City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	8145	6685
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	10.86 %	6.669 %
Daily rates quoted	4452	2751
Average minimum daily rate	£418	£442
Average daily rate	£455	£474
% change on same period last year	-3.95 %
Average maximum daily rate	£493	£506
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£355
% change on same period last year	+0.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	344	212
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.42	£22.14
Average hourly rate	£25.15	£23.47
% change on same period last year	+7.16 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.89	£24.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.79	£25.66
% change on same period last year	-7.31 %
Service Desk Manager London

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 Service Desk Manager across the City of London 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 Service Desk Manager across the City of London region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Service Desk Manager across the City of London region.

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Top 4 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Service Desk Manager 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 Service Desk Manager in their job title.

1 2 (66.67 %) ITIL 2 1 (33.33 %) SLA 2 1 (33.33 %) Service Delivery 2 1 (33.33 %) Management Information System

Service Desk Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Service Desk Manager 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 Service Desk Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) Management Information System	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) ITIL 2 1 (33.33 %) Service Delivery
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (33.33 %) SLA