North West Desktop Engineer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Desktop Engineer role in IT contracts within the North West region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Desktop Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Desktop Engineer
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Basildon Bath Beckenham Belfast Berkshire Bexley Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Brentwood Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Crawley Croydon Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dover Dudley Dumfries Dumfries and Galloway Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham England Essex Farnborough Farnham Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hampshire Hastings Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Hull Huntingdon Inverness Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Reading Redditch Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Stourbridge Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tipton Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	127	111
Rank change on same period last year	-16
Matching contract IT job ads	21	25
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.028 %	0.026 %
As % of the category below	0.545 %	0.697 %
Daily rates quoted	3	5
Average minimum daily rate	£178	£108
Average daily rate	£189	£108
% change on same period last year	+75.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£200	£108
UK excluding London average daily rate	£145	£125
% change on same period last year	+15.85 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.22	£14.25
Average hourly rate	£14.28	£15.33
% change on same period last year	-6.88 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.33	£16.42
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£14.79	£15.91
% change on same period last year	-7.09 %
Job Titles North West
Matching contract IT job ads	3851	3585
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	5.077 %	3.749 %
Daily rates quoted	934	732
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£320
Average daily rate	£355	£335
% change on same period last year	+6.05 %
Average maximum daily rate	£374	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	439	348
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.83	£21.77
Average hourly rate	£22.70	£23.35
% change on same period last year	-2.80 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.56	£24.93
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.39	£25.89
% change on same period last year	-9.63 %
Desktop Engineer 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 Engineer across the North West 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 Engineer across the North West region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Desktop Engineer across the North West region over the 3 months to 8 July 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 Engineer across the North West region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Desktop Engineer across the North West region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Desktop Engineer within the North West region over the 3 months to 8 July 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
Manchester	-17	8	£200	-
Merseyside	-10	4	£155	+19.23 %
Lancashire	+5	4	-	-
Cheshire	-25	4	£213	+136.11 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 24 (60.00 %) Windows 2 11 (27.50 %) Active Directory 3 10 (25.00 %) Microsoft 4 8 (20.00 %) Windows 2000 4 8 (20.00 %) Windows XP 5 5 (12.50 %) MS Office 5 5 (12.50 %) HP 5 5 (12.50 %) DNS 5 5 (12.50 %) DHCP 5 5 (12.50 %) Dell 6 4 (10.00 %) SLA 6 4 (10.00 %) Security Cleared 7 3 (7.500 %) MS Excel 7 3 (7.500 %) Microsoft Certification 7 3 (7.500 %) NHS

8 2 (5.000 %) Asset Management 8 2 (5.000 %) WSUS 8 2 (5.000 %) Toshiba 8 2 (5.000 %) Finance 8 2 (5.000 %) Government 8 2 (5.000 %) McAfee Security 8 2 (5.000 %) Blackberry 8 2 (5.000 %) MCSE 8 2 (5.000 %) TCP/IP 8 2 (5.000 %) Dreamweaver 8 2 (5.000 %) Cisco 8 2 (5.000 %) SC Cleared 9 1 (2.500 %) Compaq 9 1 (2.500 %) ITIL 9 1 (2.500 %) MCP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 Platforms 1 1 (2.500 %) Lotus Notes 1 1 (2.500 %) MS Exchange	Applications 1 5 (12.50 %) MS Office 2 3 (7.500 %) MS Excel 3 1 (2.500 %) MS Visio
Communications & Networking 1 5 (12.50 %) DNS 1 5 (12.50 %) DHCP 2 2 (5.000 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (2.500 %) LAN 3 1 (2.500 %) WAN 3 1 (2.500 %) Firewall	Development Applications 1 2 (5.000 %) Dreamweaver
General 1 2 (5.000 %) Finance 1 2 (5.000 %) Government 2 1 (2.500 %) Health 2 1 (2.500 %) Home Office 2 1 (2.500 %) Local Government	Miscellaneous 1 3 (7.500 %) NHS 2 2 (5.000 %) Asset Management 2 2 (5.000 %) Blackberry 3 1 (2.500 %) Danish Language 3 1 (2.500 %) Dutch Language 3 1 (2.500 %) Finnish Language 3 1 (2.500 %) French Language 3 1 (2.500 %) German Language 3 1 (2.500 %) Italian Language 3 1 (2.500 %) Norwegian Language 3 1 (2.500 %) Portuguese Language 3 1 (2.500 %) Spanish Language 3 1 (2.500 %) Swedish Language
Operating Systems 1 24 (60.00 %) Windows 2 8 (20.00 %) Windows 2000 2 8 (20.00 %) Windows XP 3 1 (2.500 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (10.00 %) Security Cleared 2 2 (5.000 %) SC Cleared 3 1 (2.500 %) ITIL 3 1 (2.500 %) Configuration Management 3 1 (2.500 %) Workflow
Qualifications 1 3 (7.500 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (5.000 %) MCSE 3 1 (2.500 %) MCP 3 1 (2.500 %) Dell Certification 3 1 (2.500 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (10.00 %) SLA
System Software 1 11 (27.50 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 2 (5.000 %) WSUS
Vendors 1 10 (25.00 %) Microsoft 2 5 (12.50 %) HP 2 5 (12.50 %) Dell 3 2 (5.000 %) Toshiba 3 2 (5.000 %) McAfee Security 3 2 (5.000 %) Cisco 4 1 (2.500 %) Compaq 4 1 (2.500 %) Citrix 4 1 (2.500 %) iSOFT 4 1 (2.500 %) Symantec 4 1 (2.500 %) Novell 4 1 (2.500 %) Lotus