The first table below looks at the demand for the Desktop Support Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Desktop Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 Hertfordshire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Desktop Support Engineer
Rank 57 67 62
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Desktop Support Engineer 2 5 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.306% 0.519% 0.707%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.321% 0.553% 0.741%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £150 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £141 £138 £120
% change year-on-year
+2.72% +14.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
Average hourly rate £13.50 £18.00 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% +28.57%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.50 £15.58 £14.50
% change year-on-year
-13.32% +7.41%
All Job Titles
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
623 904 810
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 95.26% 93.87% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 397 343
Average daily rate £400 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £247 £217
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 87 105
Average hourly rate £17.47 £22.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.59% +29.41%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.15 £11.00 £11.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £37.00 £37.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Desktop Support Engineer
East of England

Desktop Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire Desktop Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Desktop Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire Desktop Support Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Desktop Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire Desktop Support Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Desktop Support Engineer
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, 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 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Windows 7
2 2 (66.67%) Windows XP
3 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
3 1 (33.33%) Windows 2000
3 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
3 1 (33.33%) MS Office
3 1 (33.33%) SCCM

Desktop Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, 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 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
1 1 (33.33%) MS Office
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Windows 7
2 2 (66.67%) Windows XP
3 1 (33.33%) Windows 2000
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft