North East Desktop Support Technician Contracts

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

Desktop Support Technician
Location Abingdon Beckenham Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire City of London Coventry Durham East Midlands East of England England Glasgow Gwent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Manchester Middlesbrough Midlothian Milton Keynes Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northumberland Norwich Oxfordshire Reading Scotland South East South Wales South West Tyne and Wear UK Wales West Midlands West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	50	61
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	4	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.688 %	0.130 %
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	£123	£220
% change on same period last year	-44.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£10.00	£12.00
Average hourly rate	£10.38	£12.00
% change on same period last year	-13.54 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£10.75	£12.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£14.73	£16.72
% change on same period last year	-11.90 %
Job Titles North East
Matching contract IT job ads	581	769
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.822 %	0.778 %
Daily rates quoted	117	176
Average minimum daily rate	£319	£345
Average daily rate	£337	£360
% change on same period last year	-6.19 %
Average maximum daily rate	£356	£374
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.18 %
Hourly rates quoted	87	81
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.02	£22.99
Average hourly rate	£19.36	£24.29
% change on same period last year	-20.31 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.69	£25.59
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.71	£25.14
% change on same period last year	-5.69 %
Desktop Support Technician England

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 Technician across the North East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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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 Technician across the North East region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Desktop Support Technician across the North East region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Desktop Support Technician within the North East region over the 3 months to 13 October 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
Tyne and Wear	-	2	-	-
Northumberland	-	1	-	-
Durham	-8	1	-	-

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Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East region that cited Desktop Support Technician 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 Technician in their job title.

1 5 (83.33 %) Windows 2 4 (66.67 %) Active Directory 3 3 (50.00 %) MS Office 4 2 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 4 2 (33.33 %) Windows XP 5 1 (16.67 %) Government 5 1 (16.67 %) SC Cleared 5 1 (16.67 %) Security Cleared 5 1 (16.67 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 1 (16.67 %) DHCP 5 1 (16.67 %) TCP/IP 5 1 (16.67 %) VPN 5 1 (16.67 %) DNS

Desktop Support Technician
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Applications 1 3 (50.00 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 1 (16.67 %) DHCP 1 1 (16.67 %) TCP/IP 1 1 (16.67 %) VPN 1 1 (16.67 %) DNS
General 1 1 (16.67 %) Government	Operating Systems 1 5 (83.33 %) Windows 2 2 (33.33 %) Windows XP 2 2 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (16.67 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (16.67 %) SC Cleared 1 1 (16.67 %) Security Cleared	System Software 1 4 (66.67 %) Active Directory