Oxfordshire Desktop Support Engineer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Desktop Support Engineer role in IT contracts within the Oxfordshire 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 Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Desktop Support Engineer
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Beckenham Belfast Berkshire 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 Dover Dudley Durham East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Farnham Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Reading Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stevenage Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Watford Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Wirral Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	50	41
Rank change on same period last year	-9
Matching contract IT job ads	5	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	0.797 %	1.452 %
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	£129	£141
% change on same period last year	-8.88 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.80	£11.57
Average hourly rate	£13.97	£12.36
% change on same period last year	+13.07 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.15	£13.14
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£14.19	£15.16
% change on same period last year	-6.40 %
Job Titles Oxfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	627	551
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.827 %	0.584 %
Daily rates quoted	117	94
Average minimum daily rate	£312	£300
Average daily rate	£337	£322
% change on same period last year	+4.83 %
Average maximum daily rate	£362	£344
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	151	123
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.64	£20.80
Average hourly rate	£20.32	£22.20
% change on same period last year	-8.46 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.01	£23.61
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.28	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
Desktop Support Engineer South East

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 Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 4 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 Support Engineer within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 4 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
Abingdon	-	1	-	-
Oxford	+4	1	-	-

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Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 8 (53.33 %) Windows 2 7 (46.67 %) Windows XP 3 6 (40.00 %) Microsoft 4 4 (26.67 %) Front Office 4 4 (26.67 %) MS Excel 5 3 (20.00 %) Microsoft Certification 5 3 (20.00 %) Internet 5 3 (20.00 %) MCSE 6 2 (13.33 %) Degree 6 2 (13.33 %) MOM 6 2 (13.33 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 6 2 (13.33 %) Active Directory 6 2 (13.33 %) MS Exchange 6 2 (13.33 %) Windows 2000 6 2 (13.33 %) IIS

6 2 (13.33 %) ITIL 6 2 (13.33 %) MCP 6 2 (13.33 %) HND 7 1 (6.667 %) Windows NT 7 1 (6.667 %) Windows Server 2003 7 1 (6.667 %) Validation

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 2 (13.33 %) IIS 1 2 (13.33 %) MS Exchange	Applications 1 4 (26.67 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 3 (20.00 %) Internet	General 1 4 (26.67 %) Front Office
Operating Systems 1 8 (53.33 %) Windows 2 7 (46.67 %) Windows XP 3 2 (13.33 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (6.667 %) Windows NT 4 1 (6.667 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (13.33 %) ITIL 2 1 (6.667 %) Validation
Qualifications 1 3 (20.00 %) MCSE 1 3 (20.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (13.33 %) Degree 2 2 (13.33 %) MCP 2 2 (13.33 %) HND	System Software 1 2 (13.33 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 2 (13.33 %) MOM 1 2 (13.33 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 6 (40.00 %) Microsoft