North West Desktop Support Manager Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Desktop Support Manager 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 Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Desktop Support Manager
Location Berkshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire City of London East of England England London North West South East UK Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	132	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	3	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.089 %	0.000 %
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	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
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UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Job Titles North West
Matching contract IT job ads	3359	3929
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.433 %	3.913 %
Daily rates quoted	785	848
Average minimum daily rate	£326	£323
Average daily rate	£343	£341
% change on same period last year	+0.61 %
Average maximum daily rate	£360	£358
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	403	400
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.19	£21.40
Average hourly rate	£23.21	£23.08
% change on same period last year	+0.54 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.22	£24.77
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.68	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.85 %
Desktop Support Manager 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.

Desktop Support Manager
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Desktop Support Manager across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Desktop Support Manager
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited Desktop Support Manager 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 Manager in their job title.

1 3 (100.00 %) MS Office 1 3 (100.00 %) MS Exchange 1 3 (100.00 %) AutoCAD 1 3 (100.00 %) 3ds Max 1 3 (100.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 1 3 (100.00 %) Microsoft 2 2 (66.67 %) CAD 3 1 (33.33 %) Firewall 3 1 (33.33 %) Migration 3 1 (33.33 %) LAN 3 1 (33.33 %) VPN

Desktop Support Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms 1 3 (100.00 %) MS Exchange 1 3 (100.00 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 3 (100.00 %) MS Office 1 3 (100.00 %) AutoCAD 1 3 (100.00 %) 3ds Max
Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) Firewall 1 1 (33.33 %) LAN 1 1 (33.33 %) VPN	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) CAD 2 1 (33.33 %) Migration
Vendors 1 3 (100.00 %) Microsoft