East of England Desktop Engineer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Desktop Engineer role in IT contracts within the East of England 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 Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Desktop Engineer
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Amersham Banstead Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bootle Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Buxton Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canterbury Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Colchester Conwy County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Doncaster Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Filton Gateshead Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Hertfordshire Hinckley Hove Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Kidderminster Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Llandudno London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Morecambe Motherwell Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North Lanarkshire North Shields North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Romford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Scottish Borders Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Templecombe Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Kilbride West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Wiltshire Windlesham Wirral Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	89	125
Rank change on same period last year	+36
Matching contract IT job ads	44	38
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.063 %	0.038 %
As % of the category below	1.375 %	0.836 %
Daily rates quoted	11	12
Average minimum daily rate	£135	£133
Average daily rate	£141	£137
% change on same period last year	+2.79 %
Average maximum daily rate	£147	£141
UK excluding London average daily rate	£180	£154
% change on same period last year	+16.81 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.39	£14.91
Average hourly rate	£16.34	£15.64
% change on same period last year	+4.46 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.30	£16.37
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.41	£15.85
% change on same period last year	-2.77 %
Job Titles East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	3201	4545
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.549 %	4.590 %
Daily rates quoted	952	1386
Average minimum daily rate	£315	£318
Average daily rate	£336	£335
% change on same period last year	+0.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£357	£353
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	498	714
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.25	£26.06
Average hourly rate	£22.61	£27.45
% change on same period last year	-17.62 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.97	£28.84
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.69	£25.18
% change on same period last year	-5.93 %
Desktop Engineer 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 Engineer across the East of England 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 Engineer across the East of England region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Desktop Engineer across the East of England region over the 3 months to 7 October 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 Engineer across the East of England region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Desktop Engineer across the East of England region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

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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 7 October 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
Cambridgeshire	+31	17	£150	-18.18 %
Norfolk	-6	8	-	-
Essex	+15	8	£121	+9.84 %
Hertfordshire	+14	7	£225	+109.30 %
Suffolk	+8	3	-	-
East Anglia	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, 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 46 (54.76 %) Windows 2 34 (40.48 %) Windows XP 3 32 (38.10 %) MS Office 4 28 (33.33 %) Microsoft 5 21 (25.00 %) Active Directory 6 17 (20.24 %) Windows 2000 7 14 (16.67 %) Dell 8 13 (15.48 %) HP 8 13 (15.48 %) MS Excel 9 10 (11.90 %) Microsoft Certification 10 9 (10.71 %) MS Exchange 11 8 (9.524 %) Windows NT 11 8 (9.524 %) Lotus Notes 11 8 (9.524 %) Lotus 12 7 (8.333 %) MCP

13 6 (7.143 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 13 6 (7.143 %) Symantec 13 6 (7.143 %) Norton AntiVirus 14 5 (5.952 %) Sophos 14 5 (5.952 %) Windows Server 2003 14 5 (5.952 %) Novell 14 5 (5.952 %) MCSE 14 5 (5.952 %) DNS 14 5 (5.952 %) Time Management 14 5 (5.952 %) McAfee Security 15 4 (4.762 %) SCCM 15 4 (4.762 %) Security Cleared 15 4 (4.762 %) Cisco 15 4 (4.762 %) DHCP 15 4 (4.762 %) OpenView

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, 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 3 (3.571 %) Application Packaging	Application Platforms 1 9 (10.71 %) MS Exchange 2 8 (9.524 %) Lotus Notes 3 3 (3.571 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 3 (3.571 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 2 (2.381 %) Exchange Server 5.5 4 2 (2.381 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 1 (1.190 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 32 (38.10 %) MS Office 2 13 (15.48 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 5 (5.952 %) DNS 2 4 (4.762 %) SMS 2 4 (4.762 %) DHCP 3 3 (3.571 %) TCP/IP 3 3 (3.571 %) LAN 4 2 (2.381 %) WAN 5 1 (1.190 %) VoIP 5 1 (1.190 %) WLAN 5 1 (1.190 %) SAN 5 1 (1.190 %) Internet 5 1 (1.190 %) Firewall 5 1 (1.190 %) VLAN 5 1 (1.190 %) Cisco PIX 5 1 (1.190 %) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (2.381 %) SQL Server 2 1 (1.190 %) MSDE	Development Applications 1 2 (2.381 %) MSI
General 1 4 (4.762 %) Government 2 1 (1.190 %) Health 2 1 (1.190 %) Retail 2 1 (1.190 %) Pensions 2 1 (1.190 %) Pharmaceutical 2 1 (1.190 %) Telecoms 2 1 (1.190 %) Finance	Miscellaneous 1 2 (2.381 %) NHS 1 2 (2.381 %) CMDB 2 1 (1.190 %) Video Conferencing 2 1 (1.190 %) EPoS
Operating Systems 1 46 (54.76 %) Windows 2 34 (40.48 %) Windows XP 3 17 (20.24 %) Windows 2000 4 8 (9.524 %) Windows NT 5 5 (5.952 %) Windows Server 2003 6 2 (2.381 %) Linux 7 1 (1.190 %) Windows Vista 7 1 (1.190 %) Windows 2000 Server 7 1 (1.190 %) NetWare 7 1 (1.190 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (5.952 %) Time Management 2 4 (4.762 %) Security Cleared 3 3 (3.571 %) Problem Management 4 2 (2.381 %) BC Cleared 4 2 (2.381 %) ITIL 5 1 (1.190 %) Service Management 5 1 (1.190 %) Service Delivery 5 1 (1.190 %) Network Design 5 1 (1.190 %) CTC Cleared 5 1 (1.190 %) SC Cleared
Qualifications 1 10 (11.90 %) Microsoft Certification 2 7 (8.333 %) MCP 3 5 (5.952 %) MCSE 4 2 (2.381 %) ITIL Certification 5 1 (1.190 %) ECDL 5 1 (1.190 %) MCDST 5 1 (1.190 %) MCSA	System Software 1 21 (25.00 %) Active Directory 2 1 (1.190 %) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management 1 6 (7.143 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 6 (7.143 %) Norton AntiVirus 2 4 (4.762 %) SCCM 2 4 (4.762 %) OpenView 3 2 (2.381 %) ZENworks	Vendors 1 28 (33.33 %) Microsoft 2 14 (16.67 %) Dell 3 13 (15.48 %) HP 4 8 (9.524 %) Lotus 5 6 (7.143 %) Symantec 6 5 (5.952 %) McAfee Security 6 5 (5.952 %) Sophos 6 5 (5.952 %) Novell 7 4 (4.762 %) Cisco 8 2 (2.381 %) VMware 9 1 (1.190 %) Remedy 9 1 (1.190 %) Compaq