Desktop Support Engineer Contracts in London

Desktop Support Engineer
England > London

The median Desktop Support Engineer daily rate in London is £180 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 327 407 484
Rank change year-on-year +80 +77 -44
Contract jobs requiring a Desktop Support Engineer 68 95 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.38% 0.35% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.37% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 69 80
10th Percentile £113 £133 £130
25th Percentile £140 £140 £141
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £180 £180 £200
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £260 £250 £238
90th Percentile £320 £300 £265
England median daily rate £200 £200 £188
% change year-on-year - +6.67% +10.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 9
10th Percentile £16.25 £21.53 -
25th Percentile £17.66 £22.31 £13.88
Median hourly rate £19.47 £24.25 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.70% +21.25% -
75th Percentile £22.38 £25.18 £23.00
90th Percentile £47.10 £25.50 £32.20
England median hourly rate £18.13 £23.00 £19.61
% change year-on-year -21.17% +17.30% +8.93%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,599 25,655 37,115
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.25% 95.29% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,001 18,582 27,076
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £441 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £677
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 289 450
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.48
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.50 £22.05
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +11.64%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.05 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.34 £44.77 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.83% +98.96% +0.36%

Desktop Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Desktop Support Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Desktop Support Engineer in London

Desktop Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Desktop Support Engineer in London.

Daily rate trend for Desktop Support Engineer in London

Desktop Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Desktop Support Engineer in London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Desktop Support Engineer in London

Desktop Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Desktop Support Engineer in London.

Hourly rate trend for Desktop Support Engineer in London

Desktop Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Desktop Support Engineer in London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Desktop Support Engineer in London

Desktop Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Desktop Support Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 2 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +33 17 £140 - 2
West London +16 4 £193 +37.50%
East London -6 1 £450 +200.00%
Desktop Support Engineer
England

Desktop Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, Desktop Support Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Desktop Support Engineer in the job title.

1 51 (75.00%) Windows
2 30 (44.12%) Social Skills
3 28 (41.18%) Active Directory
4 27 (39.71%) Microsoft 365
5 26 (38.24%) Microsoft
6 24 (35.29%) Customer Service
7 18 (26.47%) Windows 10
8 16 (23.53%) Microsoft Office
9 15 (22.06%) Windows 7
9 15 (22.06%) ServiceNow
10 13 (19.12%) ITIL
10 13 (19.12%) VPN
11 12 (17.65%) Security Cleared
12 11 (16.18%) Blackberry
12 11 (16.18%) Citrix
13 10 (14.71%) Asset Management
13 10 (14.71%) Azure
13 10 (14.71%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
14 9 (13.24%) SC Cleared
14 9 (13.24%) Microsoft Exchange
15 8 (11.76%) SLA
15 8 (11.76%) Apple
15 8 (11.76%) Service Delivery
15 8 (11.76%) Finance
15 8 (11.76%) SCCM
15 8 (11.76%) Android
15 8 (11.76%) Degree
15 8 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
15 8 (11.76%) Windows 8

Desktop Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (13.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (7.35%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 4 (5.88%) CMS
3 4 (5.88%) Skype for Business
4 1 (1.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 16 (23.53%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 27 (39.71%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (14.71%) Azure
3 4 (5.88%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.47%) AWS
4 1 (1.47%) Azure Stack
4 1 (1.47%) OneDrive
4 1 (1.47%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 13 (19.12%) VPN
2 4 (5.88%) Skype
3 3 (4.41%) Firewall
3 3 (4.41%) LAN
3 3 (4.41%) WAN
4 2 (2.94%) Wireless
5 1 (1.47%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (1.47%) DNS
5 1 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.94%) JIRA
2 1 (1.47%) Hudson
General
1 30 (44.12%) Social Skills
2 10 (14.71%) Presentation Skills
3 8 (11.76%) Finance
4 6 (8.82%) Banking
4 6 (8.82%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.88%) Legal
7 2 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.94%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.94%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.94%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.47%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.94%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.18%) Blackberry
2 6 (8.82%) iPhone
3 4 (5.88%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.41%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.94%) BYOD
5 2 (2.94%) iPad
5 2 (2.94%) NHS
5 2 (2.94%) Wiki
6 1 (1.47%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.47%) Smartphone
6 1 (1.47%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 51 (75.00%) Windows
2 18 (26.47%) Windows 10
3 15 (22.06%) Windows 7
4 8 (11.76%) Android
4 8 (11.76%) Windows 8
5 5 (7.35%) Mac OS X
6 2 (2.94%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.47%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (35.29%) Customer Service
2 13 (19.12%) ITIL
3 10 (14.71%) Asset Management
4 9 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (11.76%) Service Delivery
6 6 (8.82%) Break/Fix
6 6 (8.82%) Customer Requirements
6 6 (8.82%) Decision-Making
6 6 (8.82%) ITSM
6 6 (8.82%) Time Management
7 5 (7.35%) Customer Experience
8 4 (5.88%) Resource Management
9 3 (4.41%) Data Protection
9 3 (4.41%) Information Security
9 3 (4.41%) Logistics
9 3 (4.41%) Root Cause Analysis
9 3 (4.41%) Technical Leadership
10 2 (2.94%) Application Virtualisation
10 2 (2.94%) Runbook
10 2 (2.94%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.47%) PowerShell
1 1 (1.47%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 9 (13.24%) SC Cleared
3 8 (11.76%) Degree
4 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.76%) SLA
2 4 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.94%) Accessibility
System Software
1 28 (41.18%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.94%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
1 8 (11.76%) SCCM
2 1 (1.47%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 26 (38.24%) Microsoft
2 15 (22.06%) ServiceNow
3 11 (16.18%) Citrix
4 8 (11.76%) Apple
5 6 (8.82%) Adobe
5 6 (8.82%) Dell
6 5 (7.35%) Bloomberg
6 5 (7.35%) HP
6 5 (7.35%) Ivanti
7 4 (5.88%) Becrypt
8 2 (2.94%) MobileIron
8 2 (2.94%) Refinitiv
9 1 (1.47%) Cisco
9 1 (1.47%) Computacenter
9 1 (1.47%) FactSet
9 1 (1.47%) Meraki
9 1 (1.47%) Okta
9 1 (1.47%) Remedy
9 1 (1.47%) Reuters
9 1 (1.47%) VMware