Desktop Support Engineer Contracts in the East Midlands
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Desktop Support Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the East Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Desktop Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the East Midlands region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Desktop Support Engineer
Rank 73 79 76
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Desktop Support Engineer 10 1 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 0.797% 0.073% 0.574%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.872% 0.078% 0.618%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
Average daily rate £98 £120 £90
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.75% +33.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £135 £138 £120
% change year-on-year
-1.81% +14.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 5
Average hourly rate £13.00 - £17.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.70 - £10.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.10 - £18.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.50 £15.79 £14.00
% change year-on-year
-14.48% +12.76%
Search 1 Desktop Support Engineer jobs in the East Midlands
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East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 1147 1285 1294
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 91.47% 93.73% 92.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 513 651 526
Average daily rate £330 £325 £345
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.53% -5.79%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £175 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 95 130
Average hourly rate £15.00 £13.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% -35.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £8.50 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £34.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Desktop Support Engineer
England

Desktop Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Desktop Support Engineer across the East Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

East Midlands Desktop Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Desktop Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Desktop Support Engineer across the East Midlands region.

East Midlands Desktop Support Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Desktop Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Desktop Support Engineer across the East Midlands region.

East Midlands Desktop Support Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Desktop Support Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Desktop Support Engineer within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Nottinghamshire - 5 - -
Leicestershire - 3 £115 -
Lincolnshire - 2 £80 -
Derbyshire - 1 - -
Desktop Support Engineer
England

Desktop Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 14 (87.50%) Windows
2 10 (62.50%) Active Directory
3 9 (56.25%) Windows 7
4 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
4 7 (43.75%) Windows XP
5 5 (31.25%) MS Office
5 5 (31.25%) MS Excel
5 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
6 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (18.75%) MCSE
7 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
7 2 (12.50%) BC Cleared
7 2 (12.50%) DV Cleared
7 2 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2007
7 2 (12.50%) Citrix
7 2 (12.50%) Windows NT
7 2 (12.50%) DNS
7 2 (12.50%) MS Exchange
7 2 (12.50%) LAN
7 2 (12.50%) WAN
7 2 (12.50%) DHCP
7 2 (12.50%) Information Security
8 1 (6.250%) VLAN
8 1 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2003
8 1 (6.250%) WSUS
8 1 (6.250%) Lotus
8 1 (6.250%) Apple
8 1 (6.250%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (6.250%) Intranet
8 1 (6.250%) Internet

Desktop Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (12.50%) MS Exchange
2 1 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (6.250%) Lotus Notes
2 1 (6.250%) Lync
Applications
1 5 (31.25%) MS Office
1 5 (31.25%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) DNS
1 2 (12.50%) LAN
1 2 (12.50%) WAN
1 2 (12.50%) DHCP
2 1 (6.250%) VLAN
2 1 (6.250%) Intranet
2 1 (6.250%) Internet
2 1 (6.250%) Extranet
2 1 (6.250%) Wireless
2 1 (6.250%) Ethernet
2 1 (6.250%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (6.250%) Manufacturing
Operating Systems
1 14 (87.50%) Windows
2 9 (56.25%) Windows 7
3 7 (43.75%) Windows XP
4 2 (12.50%) Windows NT
5 1 (6.250%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (6.250%) Windows 2000
5 1 (6.250%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (12.50%) Information Security
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (18.75%) MCSE
3 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) BC Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 10 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.250%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (6.250%) WSUS
1 1 (6.250%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Citrix
3 1 (6.250%) Lotus
3 1 (6.250%) Apple
3 1 (6.250%) Wyse
3 1 (6.250%) SAP
3 1 (6.250%) Cisco
Remote Desktop Support Engineer
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Rate: £120 - £130 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
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