Gerrards Cross Desktop Support Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Desktop Support role in IT contracts within the Gerrards Cross 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 Support in their job title over the 3 months to 1 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Desktop Support
Location Aberdeen Andover Banbury Banstead Barry Basingstoke Bath Belfast Belper Berkshire Bexley Birmingham Blackburn Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Braintree Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Buxton Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Farnborough Fife Gateshead Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Grimsby Guildford Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hounslow Hull Inverness Ipswich Kent Kidderminster Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Morecambe Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Sale Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Scottish Borders Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Skelmersdale Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Templecombe Thames Valley Tidworth Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wales Warminster Warwick Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Wiltshire Wirral Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 1 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£143	£168
% change on same period last year	-15.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.90	£15.30
% change on same period last year	+3.92 %
Job Titles Gerrards Cross
Matching contract IT job ads	2	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£351
% change on same period last year	+0.46 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.14	£24.11
% change on same period last year	-4.03 %
Desktop Support Buckinghamshire

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.

Desktop Support
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Desktop Support across the Gerrards Cross region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Desktop Support
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Desktop Support across the Gerrards Cross region.

Desktop Support
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gerrards Cross region that cited Desktop Support 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 Support in their job title.

1 2 (100.00 %) Windows 1 2 (100.00 %) Linux 1 2 (100.00 %) Windows XP 1 2 (100.00 %) NetWare 1 2 (100.00 %) CNA 1 2 (100.00 %) CNE 1 2 (100.00 %) Novell Certification 1 2 (100.00 %) Novell 1 2 (100.00 %) ZENworks 1 2 (100.00 %) GroupWise 1 2 (100.00 %) Windows 2000 Server

Desktop Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gerrards Cross region that cited Desktop Support 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 Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 2 (100.00 %) GroupWise	Operating Systems 1 2 (100.00 %) Windows 1 2 (100.00 %) Linux 1 2 (100.00 %) Windows XP 1 2 (100.00 %) NetWare 1 2 (100.00 %) Windows 2000 Server
Qualifications 1 2 (100.00 %) CNA 1 2 (100.00 %) CNE 1 2 (100.00 %) Novell Certification	Systems Management 1 2 (100.00 %) ZENworks
Vendors 1 2 (100.00 %) Novell