North West Desktop Support Engineer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Desktop Support 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 jobs that have cited Desktop Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Desktop Support Engineer
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bootle Bracknell Bradford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Buxton Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Grimsby Guildford Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hull Kent Kidderminster Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Morecambe Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Redditch Sandwich Scotland Scottish Borders Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Templecombe Thames Valley Tidworth Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Wiltshire Wirral Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	107	118
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	19	19
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.030 %	0.020 %
As % of the category below	0.609 %	0.479 %
Daily rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum daily rate	£130	£192
Average daily rate	£130	£194
% change on same period last year	-33.04 %
Average maximum daily rate	£130	£197
UK excluding London average daily rate	£137	£150
% change on same period last year	-9.12 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£11.40	£15.51
Average hourly rate	£11.90	£16.83
% change on same period last year	-29.27 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£12.40	£18.14
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.83	£16.79
% change on same period last year	-5.74 %
Job Titles North West
Matching contract IT job ads	3120	3964
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.914 %	4.248 %
Daily rates quoted	696	772
Average minimum daily rate	£319	£325
Average daily rate	£338	£339
% change on same period last year	-0.42 %
Average maximum daily rate	£357	£354
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£351
% change on same period last year	+0.72 %
Hourly rates quoted	451	468
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.32	£19.71
Average hourly rate	£21.97	£21.45
% change on same period last year	+2.42 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.62	£23.19
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.37	£24.42
% change on same period last year	-4.31 %
Desktop Support 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 Support 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 Support Engineer across the North West region.

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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 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 Support Engineer across the North West region over the 3 months to 21 November 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 Engineer within the North West region over the 3 months to 21 November 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
Merseyside	-1	6	-	-
Manchester	+2	4	£130	+20.93 %
Cheshire	0	3	-	-
Lancashire	+12	3	-	-
Cumbria	-	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited Desktop Support 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 Support Engineer in their job title.

1 20 (74.07 %) Windows 2 15 (55.56 %) Windows XP 3 9 (33.33 %) Active Directory 4 7 (25.93 %) Windows Server 2003 5 6 (22.22 %) MS Office 6 5 (18.52 %) MS Excel 6 5 (18.52 %) Citrix 6 5 (18.52 %) Microsoft 6 5 (18.52 %) NHS 7 4 (14.81 %) Lotus 7 4 (14.81 %) HP 7 4 (14.81 %) Windows 2000 7 4 (14.81 %) Lotus Notes 7 4 (14.81 %) SLA 8 3 (11.11 %) Finance

9 2 (7.407 %) Health 9 2 (7.407 %) Asset Management 9 2 (7.407 %) TCP/IP 9 2 (7.407 %) LAN 9 2 (7.407 %) ITIL 9 2 (7.407 %) Dell 9 2 (7.407 %) MetaFrame 9 2 (7.407 %) Blackberry 10 1 (3.704 %) Configuration Management 10 1 (3.704 %) Novell 10 1 (3.704 %) OpenView Configuration Management 10 1 (3.704 %) Symantec 10 1 (3.704 %) Remedy 10 1 (3.704 %) Oracle 10 1 (3.704 %) SQL Server

Desktop Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited Desktop Support 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 Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 4 (14.81 %) Lotus Notes 2 1 (3.704 %) MS Exchange	Applications 1 6 (22.22 %) MS Office 2 5 (18.52 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 2 (7.407 %) LAN 1 2 (7.407 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (3.704 %) DNS 2 1 (3.704 %) DHCP 2 1 (3.704 %) Broadband	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (3.704 %) SQL Server
General 1 3 (11.11 %) Finance 2 2 (7.407 %) Health 3 1 (3.704 %) Retail	Miscellaneous 1 5 (18.52 %) NHS 2 2 (7.407 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 20 (74.07 %) Windows 2 15 (55.56 %) Windows XP 3 7 (25.93 %) Windows Server 2003 4 4 (14.81 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (3.704 %) Windows NT 5 1 (3.704 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (7.407 %) ITIL 1 2 (7.407 %) Asset Management 2 1 (3.704 %) SC Cleared 2 1 (3.704 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (3.704 %) Configuration Management 2 1 (3.704 %) Workflow
Qualifications 1 1 (3.704 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (14.81 %) SLA
System Software 1 9 (33.33 %) Active Directory 2 2 (7.407 %) MetaFrame	Systems Management 1 1 (3.704 %) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors 1 5 (18.52 %) Microsoft 1 5 (18.52 %) Citrix 2 4 (14.81 %) HP 2 4 (14.81 %) Lotus 3 2 (7.407 %) Dell 4 1 (3.704 %) Oracle 4 1 (3.704 %) Cisco 4 1 (3.704 %) IBM 4 1 (3.704 %) Symantec 4 1 (3.704 %) Remedy 4 1 (3.704 %) Altiris 4 1 (3.704 %) Novell