Desktop Technician Contracts in London

Desktop Technician
England > London

The median Desktop Technician daily rate in London is £129 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 April 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
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 389 498 590
Rank change year-on-year +109 +92 -131
Contract jobs requiring a Desktop Technician 6 8 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.034% 0.029% 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.036% 0.030% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 2
10th Percentile £116 £127 £156
25th Percentile £123 £141 £157
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £129 £215 £168
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +28.36% -25.56%
75th Percentile £221 £239 £182
90th Percentile £344 £258 £185
England median daily rate £130 £201 £175
% change year-on-year -35.40% +15.00% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £33.13
25th Percentile - - £35.94
Median hourly rate - - £41.25
75th Percentile - - £45.94
90th Percentile - - £48.38
England median hourly rate £16.00 £20.93 £25.00
% change year-on-year -23.55% -16.28% +42.86%

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 16,639 26,231 37,490
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.14% 95.27% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,042 18,937 27,371
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 341 300 454
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £22.05
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% - +12.90%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £64.53 £76.43 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.00 £43.25 £22.28
% change year-on-year -19.08% +94.12% -0.62%

Desktop Technician
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Desktop Technician in London

Desktop Technician
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Desktop Technician in London

Desktop Technician
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Desktop Technician in London over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Desktop Technician in London

Desktop Technician
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Desktop Technician in London

Desktop Technician
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 Technician within the London region over the 6 months to 18 April 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 +51 3 £125 -41.86% 1
West London - 1 £250 -
Desktop Technician
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 April 2024, Desktop Technician 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 Technician in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Windows
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) iPhone
3 2 (33.33%) Asset Management
3 2 (33.33%) Logistics
3 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (33.33%) LAN
3 2 (33.33%) WAN
3 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow
3 2 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 2 (33.33%) Apple iOS
3 2 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Server Management
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) Google Sheets
4 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (16.67%) Dell DRAC
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (16.67%) Terraform
4 1 (16.67%) Slack
4 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
4 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (16.67%) Ansible
4 1 (16.67%) Docker
4 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365

Desktop Technician 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 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (16.67%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Google Sheets
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
1 1 (16.67%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) LAN
1 2 (33.33%) WAN
2 1 (16.67%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (16.67%) Wireless
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Electronics
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) iPhone
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Apple iOS
2 2 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 1 (16.67%) Android
3 1 (16.67%) Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Mac OS X
3 1 (16.67%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Asset Management
1 2 (33.33%) Customer Service
1 2 (33.33%) Logistics
1 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
2 1 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) Open Source
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (16.67%) Programme Management
2 1 (16.67%) Server Management
2 1 (16.67%) Software Distribution
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Dell DRAC
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
1 1 (16.67%) Puppet
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) Apple
2 1 (16.67%) Dell
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) SAP