Desktop Engineer Contracts in the South East
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Desktop Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Desktop Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the South East region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Desktop Engineer
Rank 175 176 221
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +45
Contract jobs requiring a Desktop Engineer 48 71 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.614% 0.699% 0.297%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.663% 0.756% 0.320%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 5
Average daily rate £163 £160 £175
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.56% -8.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £121 £137 £166
10% offered a daily rate of more than £414 £268 £235
UK excluding London average daily rate £181 £150 £134
% change year-on-year
+20.83% +12.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 38 17
Average hourly rate £14.00 £16.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% +6.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.73 £10.00 £11.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.50 £20.00 £19.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.69 £16.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-14.46% +6.66%
All Job Titles
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 7243 9396 9678
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 92.69% 92.50% 92.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3591 4212 4167
Average daily rate £350 £350 £360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -2.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £220 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 582 721 805
Average hourly rate £17.50 £19.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.89% -9.52%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £11.03 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.00 £42.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Desktop Engineer
England

Desktop Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Desktop Engineer across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

South East Desktop Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Desktop Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Desktop Engineer across the South East region.

South East Desktop Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Desktop Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Desktop Engineer across the South East region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

South East Desktop Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Desktop Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Desktop Engineer across the South East region.

South East Desktop Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Desktop Engineer
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 South East region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Surrey +15 12 £370 +131.25%
Berkshire +2 11 - -
Hampshire -9 7 £125 -21.87%
West Sussex +19 5 £163 +16.07%
Kent +1 5 £110 -12.00%
East Sussex +9 3 - -
Buckinghamshire +11 2 - -
Oxfordshire +10 2 - -
Desktop Engineer
England

Desktop Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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.

1 105 (80.15%) Windows
2 67 (51.15%) Windows XP
3 60 (45.80%) Windows 7
4 58 (44.27%) Active Directory
5 34 (25.95%) MS Office
6 33 (25.19%) Microsoft
7 24 (18.32%) Dell
7 24 (18.32%) Windows Server 2003
8 21 (16.03%) HP
9 18 (13.74%) Citrix
9 18 (13.74%) LAN
10 17 (12.98%) TCP/IP
10 17 (12.98%) VPN
10 17 (12.98%) Windows Server 2008
11 16 (12.21%) WAN
12 15 (11.45%) DHCP
12 15 (11.45%) Blackberry
12 15 (11.45%) VMware
13 13 (9.924%) Windows 2000 Server
13 13 (9.924%) Telecoms
13 13 (9.924%) SCCM
13 13 (9.924%) DNS
14 12 (9.160%) MS Excel
14 12 (9.160%) McAfee
14 12 (9.160%) Security Cleared
15 11 (8.397%) VMware Infrastructure
15 11 (8.397%) SC Cleared
15 11 (8.397%) Microsoft Certification
15 11 (8.397%) SharePoint
15 11 (8.397%) ITIL

Desktop Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 Development
1 4 (3.053%) Application Packaging
2 2 (1.527%) COM
Application Platforms
1 11 (8.397%) SharePoint
1 11 (8.397%) MS Exchange
2 6 (4.580%) Lotus Notes
3 5 (3.817%) Exchange Server 2003
3 5 (3.817%) Exchange Server 2007
4 2 (1.527%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 34 (25.95%) MS Office
2 12 (9.160%) MS Excel
3 2 (1.527%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.763%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (0.763%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (13.74%) LAN
2 17 (12.98%) TCP/IP
2 17 (12.98%) VPN
3 16 (12.21%) WAN
4 15 (11.45%) DHCP
5 13 (9.924%) DNS
6 9 (6.870%) Firewall
7 8 (6.107%) IPsec
8 7 (5.344%) WLAN
9 6 (4.580%) IPv6
10 4 (3.053%) SAN
10 4 (3.053%) Internet
10 4 (3.053%) NAS
11 3 (2.290%) Wireless
12 2 (1.527%) 3G
12 2 (1.527%) Ethernet
12 2 (1.527%) HTTP
13 1 (0.763%) VLAN
General
1 13 (9.924%) Telecoms
2 5 (3.817%) Aerospace
3 1 (0.763%) Advertising
3 1 (0.763%) Banking
3 1 (0.763%) Investment Banking
3 1 (0.763%) Local Government
3 1 (0.763%) Finance
3 1 (0.763%) Electronics
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.45%) Blackberry
2 6 (4.580%) PKI
2 6 (4.580%) PDA
3 5 (3.817%) iSeries
4 4 (3.053%) Clustering
4 4 (3.053%) NHS
5 3 (2.290%) iPad
6 2 (1.527%) iPhone
6 2 (1.527%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.527%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.763%) Computer Science
7 1 (0.763%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.763%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 105 (80.15%) Windows
2 67 (51.15%) Windows XP
3 60 (45.80%) Windows 7
4 24 (18.32%) Windows Server 2003
5 17 (12.98%) Windows Server 2008
6 13 (9.924%) Windows 2000 Server
7 9 (6.870%) Windows Vista
8 5 (3.817%) Windows Mobile
9 4 (3.053%) Linux
9 4 (3.053%) Windows 2000
10 2 (1.527%) Windows NT
11 1 (0.763%) NetWare
11 1 (0.763%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.763%) UNIX
11 1 (0.763%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (8.397%) ITIL
2 8 (6.107%) Asset Management
2 8 (6.107%) Release Management
3 6 (4.580%) Software Deployment
4 5 (3.817%) Migration
4 5 (3.817%) Incident Management
5 2 (1.527%) Service Management
5 2 (1.527%) Network Architecture
6 1 (0.763%) Computer Architecture
6 1 (0.763%) ITIL V3
6 1 (0.763%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (0.763%) Software Distribution
6 1 (0.763%) Service Delivery
6 1 (0.763%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (0.763%) ITSM
6 1 (0.763%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 8 (6.107%) VBScript
2 7 (5.344%) PowerShell
3 5 (3.817%) C
4 1 (0.763%) VB
Qualifications
1 12 (9.160%) Security Cleared
2 11 (8.397%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (8.397%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.580%) MCSE
4 4 (3.053%) MCP
5 3 (2.290%) MCSA
6 2 (1.527%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.763%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.763%) Degree
7 1 (0.763%) CCNA
7 1 (0.763%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.290%) SLA
System Software
1 58 (44.27%) Active Directory
2 11 (8.397%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (5.344%) Terminal Services
4 3 (2.290%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (1.527%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.763%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.763%) XenApp
6 1 (0.763%) XenServer
6 1 (0.763%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (9.924%) SCCM
2 6 (4.580%) SCOM
2 6 (4.580%) Backup Exec
3 3 (2.290%) NetBackup
4 2 (1.527%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.763%) WSUS
5 1 (0.763%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 33 (25.19%) Microsoft
2 24 (18.32%) Dell
3 21 (16.03%) HP
4 18 (13.74%) Citrix
5 15 (11.45%) VMware
6 12 (9.160%) McAfee
7 8 (6.107%) Juniper
8 7 (5.344%) Cisco
9 6 (4.580%) Lotus
9 6 (4.580%) CheckPoint
9 6 (4.580%) Symantec
10 5 (3.817%) EMC
11 4 (3.053%) LANDesk
12 3 (2.290%) NetApp
12 3 (2.290%) Apple
13 2 (1.527%) Altiris
13 2 (1.527%) Intel
13 2 (1.527%) Compaq
14 1 (0.763%) Veritas
14 1 (0.763%) Kaspersky
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