Gloucestershire Desktop Support Engineer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Desktop Support Engineer role in IT contracts within the Gloucestershire 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 Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Desktop Support Engineer
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bootle Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Buxton Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canterbury Cheltenham City of London Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Doncaster East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Gateshead Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hertfordshire Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Kidderminster Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Morecambe Motherwell Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Sandwich Scotland Scottish Borders Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Templecombe Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire Wembley West Kilbride West Midlands West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Wiltshire Windlesham Wirral Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	48	45
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	9	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	1.654 %	1.095 %
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	£157	£154
% change on same period last year	+1.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.33	£15.75
Average hourly rate	£17.16	£17.63
% change on same period last year	-2.64 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.99	£19.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.44	£16.14
% change on same period last year	-4.36 %
Job Titles Gloucestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	544	548
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.773 %	0.553 %
Daily rates quoted	145	170
Average minimum daily rate	£367	£351
Average daily rate	£381	£365
% change on same period last year	+4.45 %
Average maximum daily rate	£394	£378
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	50	66
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.48	£24.60
Average hourly rate	£21.32	£25.85
% change on same period last year	-17.52 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.17	£27.11
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.69	£25.18
% change on same period last year	-5.93 %
Desktop Support Engineer South West

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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Desktop Support Engineer across the Gloucestershire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Desktop Support Engineer across the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Desktop Support Engineer within the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Cheltenham	-	6	-	-

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Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire region that cited Desktop Support Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title.

1 9 (64.29 %) Security Cleared 2 6 (42.86 %) Windows 3 5 (35.71 %) Government 4 4 (28.57 %) Dell 4 4 (28.57 %) Asset Management 5 3 (21.43 %) SC Cleared 5 3 (21.43 %) DV Cleared 6 2 (14.29 %) Microsoft 6 2 (14.29 %) Active Directory 6 2 (14.29 %) HP 6 2 (14.29 %) HNC 7 1 (7.143 %) MS Office 7 1 (7.143 %) Windows 2000 7 1 (7.143 %) SLA 7 1 (7.143 %) Citrix

7 1 (7.143 %) Windows Server 2003

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire region that cited Desktop Support Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 1 (7.143 %) MS Office	General 1 5 (35.71 %) Government
Operating Systems 1 6 (42.86 %) Windows 2 1 (7.143 %) Windows 2000 2 1 (7.143 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (64.29 %) Security Cleared 2 4 (28.57 %) Asset Management 3 3 (21.43 %) SC Cleared 3 3 (21.43 %) DV Cleared
Qualifications 1 2 (14.29 %) HNC	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (7.143 %) SLA
System Software 1 2 (14.29 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 4 (28.57 %) Dell 2 2 (14.29 %) Microsoft 2 2 (14.29 %) HP 3 1 (7.143 %) Citrix