The first table below looks at the demand for the Desktop Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Desktop Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Hampshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Desktop Engineer
Rank 91 88 100
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +12
Contract jobs requiring a Desktop Engineer 8 10 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 0.515% 0.621% 0.218%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.552% 0.665% 0.233%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 2
Average daily rate £123 £155 £234
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.96% -33.68%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £99 £151 £201
10% offered a daily rate of more than £132 £159 £267
UK excluding London average daily rate £175 £150 £126
% change year-on-year
+16.66% +19.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 2
Average hourly rate £17.25 £16.00 £19.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.81% -16.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.75 £12.50 £18.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.45 £16.90 £19.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.87 £15.79 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-12.14% +5.25%
All Job Titles
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1450 1504 1720
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 93.31% 93.42% 93.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 798 694 717
Average daily rate £340 £351 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.99% +0.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £228 £240 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £488
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 219 243
Average hourly rate £17.50 £21.50 £26.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-18.60% -18.86%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £11.50 £11.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Desktop Engineer
South East

Desktop Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Desktop Engineer across the Hampshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Hampshire Desktop Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Desktop Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hampshire Desktop Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Desktop Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hampshire Desktop Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Desktop Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Desktop Engineer within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Eastleigh - 3 £130 -
Portsmouth - 2 £90 -
Southampton -7 1 £120 -
Winchester - 1 - -
Desktop Engineer
South East

Desktop Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region that cited Desktop 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 Engineer in their job title.

1 19 (82.61%) Windows
2 17 (73.91%) Windows 7
3 13 (56.52%) Windows XP
4 11 (47.83%) MS Office
5 9 (39.13%) Active Directory
6 6 (26.09%) SCCM
7 5 (21.74%) Incident Management
7 5 (21.74%) iSeries
7 5 (21.74%) Citrix
7 5 (21.74%) Asset Management
7 5 (21.74%) Windows Mobile
7 5 (21.74%) McAfee
7 5 (21.74%) Backup Exec
7 5 (21.74%) C
7 5 (21.74%) MS Excel
8 4 (17.39%) HP
9 3 (13.04%) Dell
9 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
9 3 (13.04%) MS Exchange
10 2 (8.696%) Cisco
10 2 (8.696%) MCSE
10 2 (8.696%) MCP
10 2 (8.696%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (8.696%) CheckPoint
10 2 (8.696%) Migration
10 2 (8.696%) Exchange Server 2010
11 1 (4.348%) VirtualBox
11 1 (4.348%) Video Conferencing
11 1 (4.348%) SC Cleared
11 1 (4.348%) Security Cleared

Desktop Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region that cited Desktop 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 Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 3 (13.04%) MS Exchange
2 2 (8.696%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 11 (47.83%) MS Office
2 5 (21.74%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.348%) Internet
1 1 (4.348%) 3G
1 1 (4.348%) LAN
1 1 (4.348%) WAN
1 1 (4.348%) TCP/IP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) iSeries
2 1 (4.348%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (4.348%) Blackberry
2 1 (4.348%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 19 (82.61%) Windows
2 17 (73.91%) Windows 7
3 13 (56.52%) Windows XP
4 5 (21.74%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (21.74%) Incident Management
1 5 (21.74%) Asset Management
2 2 (8.696%) Migration
3 1 (4.348%) ITIL
3 1 (4.348%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 5 (21.74%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (8.696%) MCSE
1 2 (8.696%) MCP
1 2 (8.696%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.348%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.348%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.348%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.348%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (39.13%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.348%) VirtualBox
2 1 (4.348%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.348%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) SCCM
2 5 (21.74%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Citrix
1 5 (21.74%) McAfee
2 4 (17.39%) HP
3 3 (13.04%) Dell
3 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
4 2 (8.696%) Cisco
4 2 (8.696%) CheckPoint
5 1 (4.348%) Kaspersky
5 1 (4.348%) VMware
5 1 (4.348%) Apple
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