Scotland Desktop Support Engineer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Desktop Support 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 Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bootle Bracknell Bradford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley 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 Stafford 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 Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wirral Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	75	116
Rank change on same period last year	+41
Matching contract IT job ads	18	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.029 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	0.949 %	0.255 %
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	£136	£152
% change on same period last year	-10.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.25	£14.40
Average hourly rate	£14.37	£14.85
% change on same period last year	-3.26 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.48	£15.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.68	£16.25
% change on same period last year	-3.48 %
Job Titles Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	1897	3133
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.048 %	3.365 %
Daily rates quoted	429	610
Average minimum daily rate	£312	£317
Average daily rate	£335	£332
% change on same period last year	+0.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£358	£348
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£352
% change on same period last year	+0.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	166	273
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.72	£18.41
Average hourly rate	£22.91	£19.62
% change on same period last year	+16.76 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.10	£20.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.10	£24.04
% change on same period last year	-3.88 %
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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 Support 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 Support 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 Support 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 Support Engineer across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 2 December 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 2 December 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	+7	10	-	-
Edinburgh	+22	2	-	-
Glasgow	+18	2	-	-
Scottish Borders	-	2	-	-
Dundee	-	1	-	-
West Lothian	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 (60.61 %) Windows 2 14 (42.42 %) Microsoft 3 10 (30.30 %) Active Directory 4 9 (27.27 %) Windows XP 5 5 (15.15 %) UNIX 5 5 (15.15 %) MS Office 5 5 (15.15 %) Windows Server 2003 5 5 (15.15 %) Windows Vista 6 4 (12.12 %) HP 6 4 (12.12 %) Dell 6 4 (12.12 %) Windows 2000 6 4 (12.12 %) MS Excel 6 4 (12.12 %) TCP/IP 7 3 (9.091 %) MS Exchange 7 3 (9.091 %) Windows NT

7 3 (9.091 %) Intranet 7 3 (9.091 %) Internet 7 3 (9.091 %) Blackberry 7 3 (9.091 %) Firewall 8 2 (6.061 %) Citrix 8 2 (6.061 %) Client/Server 8 2 (6.061 %) Linux 8 2 (6.061 %) VPN 8 2 (6.061 %) WAN 9 1 (3.030 %) DNS 9 1 (3.030 %) LAN 9 1 (3.030 %) PBX 9 1 (3.030 %) ITIL 9 1 (3.030 %) HND 9 1 (3.030 %) Novell

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 3 (9.091 %) MS Exchange	Applications 1 5 (15.15 %) MS Office 2 4 (12.12 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 4 (12.12 %) TCP/IP 2 3 (9.091 %) Intranet 2 3 (9.091 %) Internet 2 3 (9.091 %) Firewall 3 2 (6.061 %) WAN 3 2 (6.061 %) VPN 4 1 (3.030 %) DNS 4 1 (3.030 %) LAN 4 1 (3.030 %) PBX	Miscellaneous 1 3 (9.091 %) Blackberry 2 2 (6.061 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 20 (60.61 %) Windows 2 9 (27.27 %) Windows XP 3 5 (15.15 %) Windows Server 2003 3 5 (15.15 %) Windows Vista 3 5 (15.15 %) UNIX 4 4 (12.12 %) Windows 2000 5 3 (9.091 %) Windows NT 6 2 (6.061 %) Linux 7 1 (3.030 %) Windows 2000 Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (3.030 %) ITIL 1 1 (3.030 %) Incident Management
Qualifications 1 1 (3.030 %) HND	System Software 1 10 (30.30 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 1 (3.030 %) Norton AntiVirus	Vendors 1 14 (42.42 %) Microsoft 2 4 (12.12 %) HP 2 4 (12.12 %) Dell 3 2 (6.061 %) Citrix 4 1 (3.030 %) Novell 4 1 (3.030 %) Symantec 4 1 (3.030 %) Remedy 4 1 (3.030 %) Fujitsu 4 1 (3.030 %) Compaq