Deskside Support Contracts in England

Deskside Support
UK > England

The median Deskside Support daily rate in England is £190 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 519 602 742
Rank change year-on-year +83 +140 -117
Contract jobs requiring a Deskside Support 29 54 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.078% 0.11% 0.067%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.084% 0.11% 0.071%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 25 28
10th Percentile £123 £167 £128
25th Percentile £180 £185 £140
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £190 £190 £195
Median % change year-on-year - -2.56% +70.35%
75th Percentile £208 £240 £253
90th Percentile £269 £288 £481
UK median daily rate £190 £200 £195
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% +62.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 2
10th Percentile £26.38 £17.50 -
25th Percentile £26.75 £17.81 £18.13
Median hourly rate £28.50 £18.75 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year +52.00% - -
75th Percentile £31.19 £20.88 £19.38
90th Percentile £40.75 £25.88 -
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £18.75 £18.75
% change year-on-year +52.00% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,362 47,263 67,966
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 94.63% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,836 33,555 48,392
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,442 1,404 1,879
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.32 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.64% +96.98% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.86 £77.00 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Deskside Support
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Deskside Support in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Deskside Support in England

Deskside Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Deskside Support in England.

Daily rate trend for Deskside Support in England

Deskside Support
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Deskside Support in England over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Deskside Support in England

Deskside Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Deskside Support in England.

Hourly rate trend for Deskside Support in England

Deskside Support
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Deskside Support in England over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Deskside Support in England

Deskside Support
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Deskside Support within the England region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
South East +20 10 £205 -
London +97 9 £150 -40.00% 3
North of England +28 4 £190 -5.00% 1
North East - 4 £190 - 1
Midlands +29 3 £190 +15.15%
South West +24 3 - - 5
West Midlands +21 3 £190 -
Deskside Support
UK

Deskside Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Deskside Support 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 England region featuring Deskside Support in the job title.

1 16 (55.17%) Windows
2 14 (48.28%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (41.38%) Active Directory
4 10 (34.48%) Microsoft
4 10 (34.48%) Social Skills
5 8 (27.59%) Windows 10
6 7 (24.14%) Customer Service
6 7 (24.14%) SCCM
7 6 (20.69%) Microsoft Office
7 6 (20.69%) ServiceNow
8 5 (17.24%) Onboarding
8 5 (17.24%) VPN
8 5 (17.24%) Operations Management
9 4 (13.79%) Android
9 4 (13.79%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (13.79%) WAN
9 4 (13.79%) B2B
9 4 (13.79%) ITIL
9 4 (13.79%) LAN
9 4 (13.79%) EPoS
9 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (13.79%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (13.79%) Driving Licence
9 4 (13.79%) Mac OS
10 3 (10.34%) Azure
10 3 (10.34%) VMware Infrastructure
10 3 (10.34%) Apple iOS
10 3 (10.34%) WebEx
10 3 (10.34%) OneDrive
10 3 (10.34%) Break/Fix

Deskside Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (10.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (48.28%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (10.34%) Azure
2 3 (10.34%) OneDrive
3 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.24%) VPN
2 4 (13.79%) LAN
2 4 (13.79%) WAN
3 3 (10.34%) DHCP
3 3 (10.34%) DNS
3 3 (10.34%) VLAN
3 3 (10.34%) WebEx
3 3 (10.34%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (6.90%) FTP
4 2 (6.90%) Internet
5 1 (3.45%) Wireless
5 1 (3.45%) WLAN
General
1 10 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.79%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (6.90%) Manufacturing
3 2 (6.90%) Multimedia
4 1 (3.45%) Finance
4 1 (3.45%) Legal
4 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Onboarding
2 4 (13.79%) Driving Licence
2 4 (13.79%) EPoS
3 2 (6.90%) Smartphone
4 1 (3.45%) Blackberry
4 1 (3.45%) iPhone
4 1 (3.45%) Life Science
4 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.45%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 16 (55.17%) Windows
2 8 (27.59%) Windows 10
3 4 (13.79%) Android
3 4 (13.79%) Mac OS
4 3 (10.34%) Apple iOS
5 2 (6.90%) Windows Server
6 1 (3.45%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (24.14%) Customer Service
2 5 (17.24%) Operations Management
3 4 (13.79%) B2B
3 4 (13.79%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (13.79%) ITIL
4 3 (10.34%) Break/Fix
4 3 (10.34%) Incident Management
5 2 (6.90%) Asset Management
5 2 (6.90%) DevOps
5 2 (6.90%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (6.90%) Software Distribution
5 2 (6.90%) Workflow
6 1 (3.45%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (3.45%) Demand Management
6 1 (3.45%) Inventory Management
6 1 (3.45%) IT Asset Management
6 1 (3.45%) Patch Management
6 1 (3.45%) People Management
6 1 (3.45%) Strategic Thinking
6 1 (3.45%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) Degree
2 2 (6.90%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 12 (41.38%) Active Directory
2 3 (10.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (24.14%) SCCM
2 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (10.34%) AppManager
Vendors
1 10 (34.48%) Microsoft
2 6 (20.69%) ServiceNow
3 3 (10.34%) Cisco
3 3 (10.34%) Ivanti
3 3 (10.34%) VMware
4 2 (6.90%) Apple
5 1 (3.45%) Citrix