Hertfordshire Desktop Support Engineer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Desktop Support Engineer role in IT contracts within the Hertfordshire 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Desktop Support Engineer
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Beckenham Belfast Berkshire Bracknell Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire City of London County Antrim Crawley Croydon Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dover Dudley Durham East Midlands East of England Edinburgh Egham England Essex Farnham Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Reading Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Watford Wembley West Kilbride West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Wirral Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	81	83
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	8	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	0.561 %	0.625 %
Daily rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum daily rate	-	£110
Average daily rate	-	£115
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£120
UK excluding London average daily rate	£145	£142
% change on same period last year	+1.98 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.29	£18.20
Average hourly rate	£15.29	£19.30
% change on same period last year	-20.79 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.29	£20.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£14.36	£15.50
% change on same period last year	-7.33 %
Job Titles Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1426	1759
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.901 %	1.780 %
Daily rates quoted	522	682
Average minimum daily rate	£359	£330
Average daily rate	£386	£350
% change on same period last year	+10.24 %
Average maximum daily rate	£413	£370
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	181	161
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.27	£22.02
Average hourly rate	£25.34	£23.13
% change on same period last year	+9.58 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.41	£24.23
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
Desktop Support Engineer East of England

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 Engineer
Demand Trend

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

Desktop Support Engineer
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 Hertfordshire region.

Desktop Support Engineer
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 Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Desktop Support Engineer within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Watford	+7	2	-	-

Desktop Support Engineer East of England

Desktop Support Engineer
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 10 (47.62 %) MS Exchange 2 9 (42.86 %) Windows 2 9 (42.86 %) HP 2 9 (42.86 %) Dell 3 8 (38.10 %) Active Directory 4 7 (33.33 %) Microsoft 4 7 (33.33 %) Symantec 4 7 (33.33 %) Norton AntiVirus 5 6 (28.57 %) Windows XP 6 5 (23.81 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 4 (19.05 %) MCP 7 4 (19.05 %) Microsoft Certification 7 4 (19.05 %) MS Office 8 3 (14.29 %) Security Cleared 9 2 (9.524 %) Exchange Server 2000

9 2 (9.524 %) Marketing 9 2 (9.524 %) MS Excel 10 1 (4.762 %) ITIL 10 1 (4.762 %) LAN 10 1 (4.762 %) DHCP 10 1 (4.762 %) IBM 10 1 (4.762 %) A+ Certification 10 1 (4.762 %) Avaya 10 1 (4.762 %) Windows Server 2003 10 1 (4.762 %) Back Office 10 1 (4.762 %) Government 10 1 (4.762 %) WSUS

Desktop Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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.

Application Platforms 1 10 (47.62 %) MS Exchange 2 5 (23.81 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 2 (9.524 %) Exchange Server 2000	Applications 1 4 (19.05 %) MS Office 2 2 (9.524 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 1 (4.762 %) LAN 1 1 (4.762 %) DHCP	General 1 2 (9.524 %) Marketing 2 1 (4.762 %) Back Office 2 1 (4.762 %) Government
Operating Systems 1 9 (42.86 %) Windows 2 6 (28.57 %) Windows XP 3 1 (4.762 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (14.29 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (4.762 %) ITIL
Qualifications 1 4 (19.05 %) MCP 1 4 (19.05 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (4.762 %) A+ Certification	System Software 1 8 (38.10 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 7 (33.33 %) Norton AntiVirus 2 1 (4.762 %) WSUS	Vendors 1 9 (42.86 %) HP 1 9 (42.86 %) Dell 2 7 (33.33 %) Microsoft 2 7 (33.33 %) Symantec 3 1 (4.762 %) IBM 3 1 (4.762 %) Avaya