High Wycombe Helpdesk Support Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Helpdesk Support role in IT contracts within the High Wycombe 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 Helpdesk Support in their job title over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Help Desk Support
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Atherstone Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bellshill Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Caerphilly Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chelmsford Cheshire Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Dorset Dover East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh England Essex Farnham Feltham Fife Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrow Hastings Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hounslow Inverness Ipswich Kegworth Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Lutterworth Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Rugby Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Stockport Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Woking Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	16	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	5	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	7.246 %	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	£96	£113
% change on same period last year	-15.42 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.00	-
Average hourly rate	£17.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£12.35	£12.23
% change on same period last year	+1.01 %
Job Titles High Wycombe
Matching contract IT job ads	69	45
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.098 %	0.046 %
Daily rates quoted	12	7
Average minimum daily rate	£334	£265
Average daily rate	£348	£282
% change on same period last year	+23.56 %
Average maximum daily rate	£363	£299
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.18 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.91	£26.33
Average hourly rate	£24.34	£27.13
% change on same period last year	-10.31 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.76	£27.94
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.71	£25.14
% change on same period last year	-5.69 %
Helpdesk 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.

Helpdesk Support
Demand Trend

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

Helpdesk Support
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Helpdesk Support across the High Wycombe region.

Helpdesk Support
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the High Wycombe region that cited Helpdesk 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 Helpdesk Support in their job title.

1 19 (79.17 %) Windows 2 15 (62.50 %) Dutch Language 3 14 (58.33 %) Windows Vista 4 10 (41.67 %) Windows 2000 5 9 (37.50 %) Windows XP 5 9 (37.50 %) Microsoft 5 9 (37.50 %) French Language 5 9 (37.50 %) German Language 6 8 (33.33 %) MS Excel 7 6 (25.00 %) MS Office 8 4 (16.67 %) Statistics 9 3 (12.50 %) ITIL 9 3 (12.50 %) Pharmaceutical 10 2 (8.333 %) Business Intelligence 10 2 (8.333 %) Health

11 1 (4.167 %) Degree 11 1 (4.167 %) MS PowerPoint

Helpdesk Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the High Wycombe region that cited Helpdesk 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 Helpdesk Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 8 (33.33 %) MS Excel 2 6 (25.00 %) MS Office 3 1 (4.167 %) MS PowerPoint	General 1 3 (12.50 %) Pharmaceutical 2 2 (8.333 %) Health
Miscellaneous 1 15 (62.50 %) Dutch Language 2 9 (37.50 %) French Language 2 9 (37.50 %) German Language 3 4 (16.67 %) Statistics	Operating Systems 1 19 (79.17 %) Windows 2 14 (58.33 %) Windows Vista 3 10 (41.67 %) Windows 2000 4 9 (37.50 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (12.50 %) ITIL 2 2 (8.333 %) Business Intelligence	Qualifications 1 1 (4.167 %) Degree
Vendors 1 9 (37.50 %) Microsoft