Desktop Support Engineer Contracts in England

Desktop Support Engineer
UK > England

The median Desktop Support Engineer daily rate in England is £200 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 375 420 474
Rank change year-on-year +45 +54 +50
Contract jobs requiring a Desktop Support Engineer 168 244 331
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.46% 0.50% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.53% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 187 228
10th Percentile £123 £140 £130
25th Percentile £141 £160 £144
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £200 £189
Median % change year-on-year - +5.96% +7.86%
75th Percentile £218 £238 £230
90th Percentile £268 £275 £260
UK median daily rate £198 £200 £183
% change year-on-year -1.25% +9.59% +7.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 39
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.68 £13.88
25th Percentile £17.00 £16.54 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.13 £23.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.85% +23.68% +5.56%
75th Percentile £23.35 £25.71 £23.64
90th Percentile £28.75 £29.60 £25.55
UK median hourly rate £18.13 £23.25 £19.00
% change year-on-year -22.02% +22.37% +10.14%

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 34,105 46,424 66,840
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 94.64% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,627 32,967 47,588
10th Percentile £281 £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 £645 £663 £640
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 2,443 1,373 1,839
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.26 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.92 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.55
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +99.60% +2.48%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.40 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Desktop Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Desktop Support Engineer in England

Desktop Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Desktop Support Engineer in England

Desktop Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Desktop Support Engineer in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Desktop Support Engineer in England

Desktop Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Desktop Support Engineer in England

Desktop Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Desktop Support Engineer in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Desktop Support Engineer in England

Desktop Support Engineer
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 Desktop Support Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 9 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
London +57 65 £180 - 9
South East +22 47 £210 +2.94% 3
South West -3 20 £184 -8.00% 4
North of England +18 17 £153 -28.65% 1
East of England +1 13 £175 - 2
North West +15 11 £140 -32.53% 1
Midlands +30 6 £122 -15.86% 1
East Midlands +23 5 £122 -9.63% 1
Yorkshire +12 4 £198 -21.00%
North East +9 2 £195 -8.24%
West Midlands +18 1 £145 -
Desktop Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 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 England region featuring Desktop Support Engineer in the job title.

1 133 (79.17%) Windows
2 78 (46.43%) Social Skills
3 72 (42.86%) Microsoft
4 70 (41.67%) Windows 10
5 55 (32.74%) Active Directory
6 53 (31.55%) Microsoft 365
7 51 (30.36%) Customer Service
8 48 (28.57%) Security Cleared
9 45 (26.79%) Problem-Solving
10 44 (26.19%) SCCM
10 44 (26.19%) Microsoft Office
11 42 (25.00%) Windows 7
12 35 (20.83%) ITIL
13 26 (15.48%) Finance
14 24 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
14 24 (14.29%) SC Cleared
15 23 (13.69%) HP
16 21 (12.50%) Telecoms
16 21 (12.50%) Public Sector
17 20 (11.90%) DV Cleared
18 19 (11.31%) Marketing
18 19 (11.31%) Manufacturing
18 19 (11.31%) Asset Management
18 19 (11.31%) VPN
18 19 (11.31%) SAP
19 18 (10.71%) Hardware Maintenance
19 18 (10.71%) Presentation Skills
19 18 (10.71%) Azure
19 18 (10.71%) Driving Licence
19 18 (10.71%) ServiceNow

Desktop Support Engineer 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 17 (10.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (5.36%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 6 (3.57%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.38%) CMS
4 4 (2.38%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.60%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (0.60%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.60%) IIS
Applications
1 44 (26.19%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.60%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 53 (31.55%) Microsoft 365
2 18 (10.71%) Azure
3 6 (3.57%) Entra ID
4 3 (1.79%) OneDrive
5 2 (1.19%) BigCommerce
6 1 (0.60%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.60%) AWS
6 1 (0.60%) Azure Stack
6 1 (0.60%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 19 (11.31%) VPN
2 5 (2.98%) Firewall
2 5 (2.98%) LAN
3 4 (2.38%) Skype
3 4 (2.38%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.38%) Wireless
4 3 (1.79%) Cisco IOS
4 3 (1.79%) Internet
4 3 (1.79%) WAN
5 1 (0.60%) DNS
5 1 (0.60%) Network Security
5 1 (0.60%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (0.60%) VoIP
5 1 (0.60%) WebEx
5 1 (0.60%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.98%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (1.19%) JIRA
2 1 (0.60%) Hudson
General
1 78 (46.43%) Social Skills
2 26 (15.48%) Finance
3 24 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
4 21 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 21 (12.50%) Telecoms
5 19 (11.31%) Manufacturing
5 19 (11.31%) Marketing
6 18 (10.71%) Presentation Skills
7 17 (10.12%) Electronics
8 8 (4.76%) Banking
9 7 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (2.38%) Legal
11 2 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.19%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.19%) Retail
12 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.60%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.19%) VML
1 2 (1.19%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.71%) Driving Licence
2 16 (9.52%) NHS
3 13 (7.74%) Blackberry
4 12 (7.14%) iPhone
5 9 (5.36%) Management Information System
6 7 (4.17%) iPad
7 5 (2.98%) CMDB
7 5 (2.98%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.38%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.79%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.79%) Smartphone
9 3 (1.79%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (1.19%) BYOD
10 2 (1.19%) Wiki
11 1 (0.60%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 133 (79.17%) Windows
2 70 (41.67%) Windows 10
3 42 (25.00%) Windows 7
4 11 (6.55%) Android
5 9 (5.36%) Windows 8
6 7 (4.17%) Mac OS X
7 6 (3.57%) Mac OS
8 5 (2.98%) Apple iOS
9 4 (2.38%) Windows Vista
10 2 (1.19%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.60%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (30.36%) Customer Service
2 45 (26.79%) Problem-Solving
3 35 (20.83%) ITIL
4 19 (11.31%) Asset Management
5 18 (10.71%) Hardware Maintenance
6 17 (10.12%) Business Intelligence
6 17 (10.12%) Digital Marketing
6 17 (10.12%) Programme Management
7 12 (7.14%) Time Management
8 11 (6.55%) Break/Fix
8 11 (6.55%) Customer Experience
8 11 (6.55%) Customer Requirements
8 11 (6.55%) Decision-Making
8 11 (6.55%) Service Delivery
9 8 (4.76%) Patch Management
10 7 (4.17%) Antivirus Management
10 7 (4.17%) ITSM
10 7 (4.17%) Mobile Device Management
10 7 (4.17%) Service Management
11 6 (3.57%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 10 (5.95%) PowerShell
2 3 (1.79%) Python
Qualifications
1 48 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 24 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 20 (11.90%) DV Cleared
4 16 (9.52%) Degree
5 7 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.79%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.19%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.60%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.60%) IBM Certification
8 1 (0.60%) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.14%) SLA
2 4 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.79%) Accessibility
System Software
1 55 (32.74%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.19%) Firmware
2 2 (1.19%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 44 (26.19%) SCCM
2 14 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.19%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (1.19%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (0.60%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 72 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 23 (13.69%) HP
3 19 (11.31%) SAP
4 18 (10.71%) ServiceNow
5 17 (10.12%) Apple
6 11 (6.55%) Citrix
7 9 (5.36%) Adobe
8 7 (4.17%) Dell
9 6 (3.57%) Ivanti
10 5 (2.98%) Bloomberg
11 4 (2.38%) Becrypt
12 3 (1.79%) Cisco
12 3 (1.79%) McAfee
13 2 (1.19%) CheckPoint
13 2 (1.19%) MobileIron
13 2 (1.19%) Refinitiv
13 2 (1.19%) Remedy
13 2 (1.19%) Salesforce
13 2 (1.19%) Sitecore
13 2 (1.19%) Sophos