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Desktop Engineer Contracts in the East of England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Desktop Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Desktop Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 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 of England 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
19 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Desktop Engineer
Rank 107 106 117
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +11
Contract jobs requiring a Desktop Engineer 11 30 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.498% 0.993% 0.468%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.530% 1.059% 0.498%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 1
Average daily rate £190 £110 £130
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+72.72% -15.38%
UK excluding London average daily rate £175 £134 £125
% change year-on-year
+30.84% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 5
Average hourly rate £12.00 £11.92 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+0.67% -11.70%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.80 £11.50 £9.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.20 £18.00 £17.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £15.54 £14.50
% change year-on-year
-9.89% +7.15%
All Job Titles
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 2077 2832 2612
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 93.94% 93.77% 94.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1064 1329 1164
Average daily rate £338 £338 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £188 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £468 £460 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 323 328
Average hourly rate £26.00 £22.88 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.66% +30.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £40.00 £37.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Desktop Engineer
England

Desktop Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England Desktop Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Desktop Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

East of England Desktop Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Desktop Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East of England Desktop Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Desktop 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 Engineer within the East of England region over the 3 months to 19 June 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		 Find
Job
Vacancies
Hertfordshire +16 3 £250 +127.27% 1
Cambridgeshire +5 3 - -
Essex -13 3 £175 +48.93%
Bedfordshire +4 1 - - 1
Desktop Engineer
England

Desktop Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region that cited Desktop 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 Engineer in their job title.

1 25 (89.29%) Windows
2 14 (50.00%) Windows 7
3 10 (35.71%) Windows XP
3 10 (35.71%) Microsoft
3 10 (35.71%) Active Directory
4 7 (25.00%) MS Office
5 6 (21.43%) MS Exchange
6 5 (17.86%) MS Excel
6 5 (17.86%) Windows 2000
6 5 (17.86%) iPhone
6 5 (17.86%) iPad
7 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
7 4 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
7 4 (14.29%) Finance
7 4 (14.29%) ITIL
7 4 (14.29%) VPN
7 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (10.71%) Dell
8 3 (10.71%) Mac OS X
8 3 (10.71%) TCP/IP
8 3 (10.71%) HP
8 3 (10.71%) VoIP
8 3 (10.71%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (10.71%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (10.71%) Exchange Server 2003
8 3 (10.71%) Cisco
8 3 (10.71%) Windows Vista
8 3 (10.71%) Office 365
9 2 (7.143%) SC Cleared
9 2 (7.143%) Root Cause Analysis

Desktop Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region that cited Desktop 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 Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (3.571%) Software Packaging
Application Platforms
1 6 (21.43%) MS Exchange
2 3 (10.71%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (7.143%) SharePoint
4 1 (3.571%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (3.571%) Lync
Applications
1 7 (25.00%) MS Office
2 5 (17.86%) MS Excel
3 3 (10.71%) Office 365
4 1 (3.571%) MS Visio
4 1 (3.571%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.571%) Agresso
1 1 (3.571%) CODA-Financials
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) VPN
2 3 (10.71%) TCP/IP
2 3 (10.71%) VoIP
2 3 (10.71%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (7.143%) Wireless
3 2 (7.143%) DHCP
3 2 (7.143%) LAN
3 2 (7.143%) DNS
4 1 (3.571%) SAN
4 1 (3.571%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.571%) SQL Server
1 1 (3.571%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 1 (3.571%) MSI
General
1 4 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (3.571%) Local Government
2 1 (3.571%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) iPhone
1 5 (17.86%) iPad
2 2 (7.143%) Smartphone
3 1 (3.571%) Thin Client
3 1 (3.571%) Blackberry
3 1 (3.571%) Fat Client
3 1 (3.571%) Mobile Computing
Operating Systems
1 25 (89.29%) Windows
2 14 (50.00%) Windows 7
3 10 (35.71%) Windows XP
4 5 (17.86%) Windows 2000
5 4 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (10.71%) Mac OS X
6 3 (10.71%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (10.71%) Windows Vista
7 1 (3.571%) Windows 2000 Server
7 1 (3.571%) Android
7 1 (3.571%) Apple iOS
7 1 (3.571%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (14.29%) ITIL
2 2 (7.143%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (7.143%) Service Delivery
3 1 (3.571%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.571%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (7.143%) SC Cleared
2 2 (7.143%) Degree
2 2 (7.143%) MCSE
3 1 (3.571%) MCSA
3 1 (3.571%) MCP
3 1 (3.571%) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.571%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (35.71%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.571%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 2 (7.143%) WSUS
1 2 (7.143%) SCCM
2 1 (3.571%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 10 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.71%) Dell
2 3 (10.71%) HP
2 3 (10.71%) Cisco
3 2 (7.143%) Fujitsu
3 2 (7.143%) Toshiba
3 2 (7.143%) Compaq
3 2 (7.143%) Citrix
4 1 (3.571%) Novell
4 1 (3.571%) Apple
4 1 (3.571%) CODA
4 1 (3.571%) VMware
Desktop/Deployment Windows 7 Engineer
Potters Bar, Hertfordshire
Due to the sensitive nature of this project we will require candidates to hold SC Clearance prior to commencement in post... IT literate, preferably MCP or MCS E...
Opus IT Consulting
Rate: From £146 to £147 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
Desktop Support Engineer
Luton, South East
Exchange e-mail system, Agresso ,Workmate - Microsoft Server technologies: Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2003 Server, SQL Server, Exchange (E-mail services) - Microsoft Desktop technologies: Windows 2000, Windows XP,...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: Negotiable
Posted: 14 June 2013
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