Desktop Engineer Contracts in Kent
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Desktop Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Kent 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 Kent 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 33 35 -
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -
Contract jobs requiring a Desktop Engineer 5 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 1.678% 0.746% -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.818% 0.820% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £110 £125 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £175 £150 £126
% change year-on-year
+16.66% +19.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £16.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.87 £15.79 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-12.14% +5.25%
All Job Titles
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 275 244 293
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 92.28% 91.04% 97.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 117 169
Average daily rate £300 £313 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.00% +4.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £138 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £388
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 25 23
Average hourly rate £16.00 £15.50 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.22% +3.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £10.00 £11.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.75 £27.50 £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 Kent region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent 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 Kent 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
Folkestone - 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 Kent 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 16 (88.89%) Windows
2 12 (66.67%) Active Directory
3 11 (61.11%) Windows Server 2003
4 10 (55.56%) DNS
5 9 (50.00%) Citrix
5 9 (50.00%) SharePoint
5 9 (50.00%) DHCP
5 9 (50.00%) VMware
5 9 (50.00%) Windows 2000 Server
6 8 (44.44%) Firewall
6 8 (44.44%) IPsec
6 8 (44.44%) WAN
6 8 (44.44%) LAN
6 8 (44.44%) Microsoft
6 8 (44.44%) Juniper
6 8 (44.44%) TCP/IP
6 8 (44.44%) VPN
6 8 (44.44%) HP
7 7 (38.89%) Dell
7 7 (38.89%) WLAN
7 7 (38.89%) VBScript
7 7 (38.89%) Terminal Services
7 7 (38.89%) PowerShell
7 7 (38.89%) Windows Server 2008
8 6 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
8 6 (33.33%) SCOM
8 6 (33.33%) Windows XP
8 6 (33.33%) IPv6
8 6 (33.33%) PKI
9 5 (27.78%) EMC

Desktop Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 Development
1 1 (5.556%) COM
1 1 (5.556%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 9 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.556%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 3 (16.67%) MS Office
2 2 (11.11%) MS Excel
3 1 (5.556%) MS Visio
3 1 (5.556%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 10 (55.56%) DNS
2 9 (50.00%) DHCP
3 8 (44.44%) Firewall
3 8 (44.44%) IPsec
3 8 (44.44%) WAN
3 8 (44.44%) LAN
3 8 (44.44%) TCP/IP
3 8 (44.44%) VPN
4 7 (38.89%) WLAN
5 6 (33.33%) IPv6
6 1 (5.556%) HTTP
6 1 (5.556%) VLAN
6 1 (5.556%) Internet
6 1 (5.556%) Wireless
General
1 1 (5.556%) Banking
1 1 (5.556%) Investment Banking
1 1 (5.556%) Local Government
1 1 (5.556%) Telecoms
1 1 (5.556%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) PKI
2 4 (22.22%) NHS
3 1 (5.556%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 16 (88.89%) Windows
2 11 (61.11%) Windows Server 2003
3 9 (50.00%) Windows 2000 Server
4 7 (38.89%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (33.33%) Windows XP
6 2 (11.11%) Windows 7
7 1 (5.556%) Windows NT
7 1 (5.556%) Windows 2000
7 1 (5.556%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Release Management
2 2 (11.11%) ITIL
3 1 (5.556%) Service Management
3 1 (5.556%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) VBScript
1 7 (38.89%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (11.11%) MCSA
3 1 (5.556%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.556%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.556%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 7 (38.89%) Terminal Services
3 6 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (11.11%) Terminal Server
5 1 (5.556%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) SCOM
2 1 (5.556%) SCCM
2 1 (5.556%) Backup Exec
2 1 (5.556%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) Citrix
1 9 (50.00%) VMware
2 8 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 8 (44.44%) Juniper
2 8 (44.44%) HP
3 7 (38.89%) Dell
4 5 (27.78%) EMC
5 1 (5.556%) Veritas
5 1 (5.556%) Altiris
5 1 (5.556%) Symantec
Desktop Support/IT Engineer
Kent, South East
My client, a large NHS organisation, is looking for an experienced 1st/2nd line Service Desk Analyst to join their existing team... This role is varied, with the...
Sand Resources
Rate: £100 - £120 per day
Posted: 1 May 2013
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