Slough Helpdesk Support Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Helpdesk Support role in IT contracts within the Slough 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 Helpdesk Support in their job title over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Ashton-under-Lyne Basildon Bath Bedfordshire Bellshill Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canterbury Cardiff Cheshire Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorset Dover East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnham Feltham Fife Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrow Hastings Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hounslow Inverness Ipswich Kegworth Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Lutterworth Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Pontypool Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Rugby Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stockport Suffolk Surrey Taunton Telford Torfaen UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Woking Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	27	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	7	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	2.954 %	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	£97	£122
% change on same period last year	-20.39 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£6.40	-
Average hourly rate	£7.40	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£8.40	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£12.18	£11.98
% change on same period last year	+1.63 %
Job Titles Slough
Matching contract IT job ads	237	302
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.320 %	0.298 %
Daily rates quoted	59	107
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£329
Average daily rate	£318	£349
% change on same period last year	-8.97 %
Average maximum daily rate	£336	£370
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£355
% change on same period last year	-0.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	62	66
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.10	£34.37
Average hourly rate	£29.37	£35.13
% change on same period last year	-16.40 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.63	£35.89
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.85	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.14 %
Helpdesk Support Berkshire

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 Helpdesk Support across the Slough 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 Helpdesk Support across the Slough 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 Helpdesk Support across the Slough region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Helpdesk Support across the Slough region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Slough region that cited Helpdesk Support 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 Helpdesk Support in their job title.

1 4 (50.00 %) Degree 2 3 (37.50 %) Windows 3 2 (25.00 %) MS Excel 3 2 (25.00 %) MS Office 4 1 (12.50 %) MS PowerPoint 4 1 (12.50 %) Windows Vista 4 1 (12.50 %) Windows XP 4 1 (12.50 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (12.50 %) SLA 4 1 (12.50 %) EPoS

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Slough region that cited Helpdesk Support 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 Helpdesk Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 2 (25.00 %) MS Office 1 2 (25.00 %) MS Excel 2 1 (12.50 %) MS PowerPoint	Communications & Networking 1 1 (12.50 %) TCP/IP
Miscellaneous 1 1 (12.50 %) EPoS	Operating Systems 1 3 (37.50 %) Windows 2 1 (12.50 %) Windows XP 2 1 (12.50 %) Windows Vista
Qualifications 1 4 (50.00 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (12.50 %) SLA