Scotland Desktop Engineer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Desktop Engineer role in IT contracts within the Scotland 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 Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Amersham Banstead Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bootle Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Buxton Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canterbury Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Conwy County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Doncaster Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Filton Gateshead Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Hove Hull Huntingdon Kent Kidderminster Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Llandudno London Lowestoft Luton Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Morecambe Motherwell Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Shields North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Romford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Scottish Borders Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Templecombe Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Wiltshire Windlesham Wirral Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	81	97
Rank change on same period last year	+16
Matching contract IT job ads	24	30
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.034 %	0.031 %
As % of the category below	1.113 %	0.885 %
Daily rates quoted	1	5
Average minimum daily rate	£125	£137
Average daily rate	£125	£143
% change on same period last year	-12.58 %
Average maximum daily rate	£125	£149
UK excluding London average daily rate	£171	£152
% change on same period last year	+12.70 %
Hourly rates quoted	18	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.49	£13.41
Average hourly rate	£14.14	£14.00
% change on same period last year	+1.05 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.80	£14.58
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.40	£15.97
% change on same period last year	-3.55 %
Job Titles Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	2157	3391
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.074 %	3.507 %
Daily rates quoted	463	659
Average minimum daily rate	£295	£307
Average daily rate	£318	£323
% change on same period last year	-1.42 %
Average maximum daily rate	£342	£339
UK excluding London average daily rate	£354	£353
% change on same period last year	+0.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	174	251
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.19	£19.52
Average hourly rate	£22.18	£20.69
% change on same period last year	+7.19 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.16	£21.86
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.64	£25.03
% change on same period last year	-5.56 %
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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 Scotland 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 Scotland 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 Engineer across the Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 15 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 Engineer within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 15 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
Aberdeen	+13	12	-	-
Glasgow	+17	5	£125	-46.80 %
Edinburgh	+14	3	-	-
Scottish Borders	-	2	-	-
North Lanarkshire	-	1	-	-
Renfrewshire	-	1	-	-
Falkirk	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 25 (52.08 %) Windows 2 19 (39.58 %) Microsoft 3 17 (35.42 %) Active Directory 4 12 (25.00 %) Windows XP 5 10 (20.83 %) Windows 2000 6 9 (18.75 %) HP 6 9 (18.75 %) Dell 7 7 (14.58 %) MS Exchange 8 6 (12.50 %) Blackberry 8 6 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 8 6 (12.50 %) Windows Vista 9 5 (10.42 %) Compaq 9 5 (10.42 %) Citrix 9 5 (10.42 %) UNIX 9 5 (10.42 %) Internet

10 4 (8.333 %) MS Excel 10 4 (8.333 %) TCP/IP 10 4 (8.333 %) Asset Management 11 3 (6.250 %) PDA 11 3 (6.250 %) Exchange Server 2000 11 3 (6.250 %) Security Cleared 11 3 (6.250 %) Windows NT 11 3 (6.250 %) WAN 11 3 (6.250 %) Microsoft Certification 11 3 (6.250 %) Intranet 11 3 (6.250 %) MCP 11 3 (6.250 %) MS Office 11 3 (6.250 %) Finance 11 3 (6.250 %) IBM 12 2 (4.167 %) Pharmaceutical

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 7 (14.58 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (6.250 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 2 (4.167 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 4 (8.333 %) MS Excel 2 3 (6.250 %) MS Office 3 2 (4.167 %) MS Project
Communications & Networking 1 5 (10.42 %) Internet 2 4 (8.333 %) TCP/IP 3 3 (6.250 %) Intranet 3 3 (6.250 %) WAN 4 2 (4.167 %) LAN 4 2 (4.167 %) SMS 4 2 (4.167 %) VPN 4 2 (4.167 %) DNS 5 1 (2.083 %) Broadband	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (4.167 %) MS Access
General 1 3 (6.250 %) Finance 2 2 (4.167 %) Government 2 2 (4.167 %) Health 2 2 (4.167 %) Banking 2 2 (4.167 %) Insurance 2 2 (4.167 %) Pharmaceutical 2 2 (4.167 %) Financial Institution 2 2 (4.167 %) Telecoms 3 1 (2.083 %) Auditing	Miscellaneous 1 6 (12.50 %) Blackberry 2 3 (6.250 %) PDA 3 2 (4.167 %) Video Conferencing 4 1 (2.083 %) Thin Client 4 1 (2.083 %) Fat Client
Operating Systems 1 25 (52.08 %) Windows 2 12 (25.00 %) Windows XP 3 10 (20.83 %) Windows 2000 4 6 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 4 6 (12.50 %) Windows Vista 5 5 (10.42 %) UNIX 6 3 (6.250 %) Windows NT 7 2 (4.167 %) Linux 8 1 (2.083 %) Windows 2000 Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (8.333 %) Asset Management 2 3 (6.250 %) Security Cleared 3 2 (4.167 %) SC Cleared 3 2 (4.167 %) BC Cleared 3 2 (4.167 %) ITIL 4 1 (2.083 %) RDF
Programming Languages 1 1 (2.083 %) C	Qualifications 1 3 (6.250 %) MCP 1 3 (6.250 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (2.083 %) HND
System Software 1 17 (35.42 %) Active Directory 2 2 (4.167 %) Backup Exec 3 1 (2.083 %) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 1 (2.083 %) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors 1 19 (39.58 %) Microsoft 2 9 (18.75 %) Dell 2 9 (18.75 %) HP 3 5 (10.42 %) Compaq 3 5 (10.42 %) Citrix 4 3 (6.250 %) IBM 5 2 (4.167 %) VMware 5 2 (4.167 %) Novell 5 2 (4.167 %) Adobe 5 2 (4.167 %) Cisco 6 1 (2.083 %) SAP 6 1 (2.083 %) Reuters 6 1 (2.083 %) Bloomberg 6 1 (2.083 %) Symantec 6 1 (2.083 %) Remedy