Lancashire Desktop Support Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Desktop Support role in IT contracts within the Lancashire 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 in their job title over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chichester City of London Cleethorpes Congleton County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnham Fife Gateshead Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Gwent Halifax Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Lutterworth Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Shields South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Kilbride West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wimbledon Windlesham Windsor Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	27	42
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching contract IT job ads	8	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	2.589 %	1.645 %
Daily rates quoted	5	1
Average minimum daily rate	£150	£240
Average daily rate	£150	£245
% change on same period last year	-38.77 %
Average maximum daily rate	£150	£250
UK excluding London average daily rate	£157	£164
% change on same period last year	-4.22 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.00	£10.50
Average hourly rate	£18.75	£10.75
% change on same period last year	+74.41 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.50	£11.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£14.77	£15.21
% change on same period last year	-2.86 %
Job Titles Lancashire
Matching contract IT job ads	309	547
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.408 %	0.545 %
Daily rates quoted	75	123
Average minimum daily rate	£320	£322
Average daily rate	£334	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£347	£346
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	70	87
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.21	£25.01
Average hourly rate	£24.18	£26.75
% change on same period last year	-9.62 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.14	£28.49
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.68	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.85 %
Desktop Support North West

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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Desktop Support across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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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 within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 20 August 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
Preston	+14	5	£150	-
Burnley	-	2	-	-
Lancaster	+7	1	-	-

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Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire region that cited Desktop 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 Desktop Support in their job title.

1 9 (81.82 %) Windows 2 6 (54.55 %) Windows 2000 2 6 (54.55 %) Windows XP 2 6 (54.55 %) Windows Server 2003 3 5 (45.45 %) MS Exchange 3 5 (45.45 %) Microsoft 4 2 (18.18 %) Dell 5 1 (9.091 %) Asset Management 5 1 (9.091 %) Informatics 5 1 (9.091 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 1 (9.091 %) Health 5 1 (9.091 %) HP 5 1 (9.091 %) SQL 5 1 (9.091 %) MS Office 5 1 (9.091 %) HND

5 1 (9.091 %) SLA

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire region that cited Desktop 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 Desktop Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 5 (45.45 %) MS Exchange	Applications 1 1 (9.091 %) MS Office
General 1 1 (9.091 %) Health	Miscellaneous 1 1 (9.091 %) Informatics
Operating Systems 1 9 (81.82 %) Windows 2 6 (54.55 %) Windows 2000 2 6 (54.55 %) Windows XP 2 6 (54.55 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (9.091 %) Windows 2000 Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (9.091 %) Asset Management
Programming Languages 1 1 (9.091 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 1 (9.091 %) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (9.091 %) SLA	Vendors 1 5 (45.45 %) Microsoft 2 2 (18.18 %) Dell 3 1 (9.091 %) HP