Senior Desktop Engineer Contracts in England

Senior Desktop Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Desktop Engineer daily rate in England is £355 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 534 656 777
Rank change year-on-year +122 +121 -178
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Desktop Engineer 8 7 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.021% 0.013% 0.022%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.023% 0.014% 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 13
10th Percentile £311 £183 £203
25th Percentile £326 £199 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £355 £233 £240
Median % change year-on-year +52.69% -3.13% -8.57%
75th Percentile £386 £281 £300
90th Percentile £404 £293 £402
UK median daily rate £355 £233 £238
% change year-on-year +52.69% -2.11% -9.52%

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 34,601 49,033 68,659
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.64% 94.53% 95.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,060 34,723 48,793
10th Percentile £275 £308 £311
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,374 1,484 1,927
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.58 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £34.21 £43.63 £22.29
Median % change year-on-year -21.59% +95.74% -0.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.63 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.42 £75.75 £61.56
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -

Senior Desktop Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Desktop Engineer in England

Senior Desktop Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Desktop Engineer in England

Senior Desktop Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Desktop Engineer in England

Senior Desktop 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 Senior Desktop Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 16 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
Midlands +41 3 - -
West Midlands +34 3 - -
London +110 2 - - 1
South East - 2 £410 - 1
South West - 1 £300 - 1
Senior Desktop Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 April 2024, Senior Desktop 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 Senior Desktop Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 6 (75.00%) Active Directory
3 5 (62.50%) Citrix
3 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (50.00%) Windows
4 4 (50.00%) Windows 10
4 4 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (37.50%) NetScaler
5 3 (37.50%) Application Packaging
5 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
5 3 (37.50%) XenApp
5 3 (37.50%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 3 (37.50%) XenDesktop
5 3 (37.50%) Azure
5 3 (37.50%) Windows Server
5 3 (37.50%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (37.50%) OneDrive
5 3 (37.50%) Patch Management
5 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
5 3 (37.50%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (37.50%) Customer Service
5 3 (37.50%) SharePoint
5 3 (37.50%) DNS
5 3 (37.50%) NetApp
5 3 (37.50%) Change Management
5 3 (37.50%) ITSM
6 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (25.00%) Asset Management
6 2 (25.00%) Legal
6 2 (25.00%) CMS

Senior Desktop 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 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (37.50%) SharePoint
3 2 (25.00%) CMS
3 2 (25.00%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (37.50%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
1 3 (37.50%) NetScaler
2 2 (25.00%) Skype
2 2 (25.00%) VPN
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Legal
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Blackberry
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
1 4 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Application Packaging
1 3 (37.50%) Change Management
1 3 (37.50%) Customer Service
1 3 (37.50%) ITSM
1 3 (37.50%) Patch Management
2 2 (25.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (25.00%) ITIL
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Resource Management
2 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity
3 1 (12.50%) Data Privacy
3 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (12.50%) Inventory Management
3 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
3 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
3 1 (12.50%) Service Management
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (12.50%) Time Management
3 1 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (37.50%) Citrix Hypervisor
2 3 (37.50%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (37.50%) XenApp
2 3 (37.50%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (62.50%) Citrix
3 3 (37.50%) NetApp
4 2 (25.00%) Becrypt
4 2 (25.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (12.50%) QinetiQ
5 1 (12.50%) Qualys