Desktop Support Engineer Contracts in the East Midlands

Desktop Support Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Desktop Support Engineer daily rate in the East Midlands is £122 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 April 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
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 75 72
Rank change year-on-year +13 -3 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Desktop Support Engineer 5 6 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.65% 0.58% 1.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 0.62% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 16
10th Percentile - - £100
25th Percentile - - £128
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £122 £135 £166
Median % change year-on-year -9.63% -18.80% -9.52%
75th Percentile - £194 £203
90th Percentile - £213 £275
England median daily rate £200 £200 £181
% change year-on-year - +10.34% +11.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £18.25
25th Percentile - - £19.38
Median hourly rate £17.00 - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.88
90th Percentile - - £23.95
England median hourly rate £20.00 £24.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year -16.67% +18.52% +1.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands. 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 East Midlands with a recognized job title 724 970 1,375
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.15% 94.17% 94.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 739 1,005
10th Percentile £163 £213 £164
25th Percentile £260 £325 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% +5.88% +15.18%
75th Percentile £550 £565 £513
90th Percentile £625 £700 £600
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 64 94
10th Percentile £12.13 £11.80 £9.52
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.41
Median hourly rate £17.71 £20.16 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.18% +18.59% +13.33%
75th Percentile £25.14 £30.50 £24.00
90th Percentile £50.96 £63.50 £35.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £43.25 £22.28
% change year-on-year -19.08% +94.12% -0.62%

Desktop Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings that featured Desktop Support Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Desktop Support Engineer in the East Midlands

Desktop Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Desktop Support Engineer in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Desktop Support Engineer in the East Midlands

Desktop Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Desktop Support Engineer in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Desktop Support Engineer in the East Midlands

Desktop Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Desktop Support Engineer within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Derbyshire 0 4 £122 -9.63%
Northamptonshire - 1 - -
Desktop Support Engineer
England

Desktop Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 12 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 18 April 2024, Desktop Support 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 East Midlands region featuring Desktop Support Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) Presentation Skills
2 4 (80.00%) Customer Requirements
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Vista
2 4 (80.00%) DV Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (20.00%) Driving Licence
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Firmware

Desktop Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 4 (80.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) Windows 7
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Firmware