South East Desktop Support Engineer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Desktop Support Engineer role in IT contracts within the South East 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 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Desktop Support Engineer
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Beckenham Belfast Berkshire Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cheshire City of London County Antrim Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Doncaster Dudley East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Gateshead Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Motherwell Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Reading Renfrewshire Salisbury Scotland Scottish Borders Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Kilbride West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Wiltshire Wimbledon Windlesham Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	191	231
Rank change on same period last year	+40
Matching contract IT job ads	62	69
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.084 %	0.068 %
As % of the category below	0.543 %	0.427 %
Daily rates quoted	7	10
Average minimum daily rate	£160	£151
Average daily rate	£170	£152
% change on same period last year	+11.74 %
Average maximum daily rate	£181	£154
UK excluding London average daily rate	£156	£165
% change on same period last year	-5.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	38	38
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.54	£14.19
Average hourly rate	£14.48	£15.10
% change on same period last year	-4.09 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.42	£16.01
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£14.46	£15.66
% change on same period last year	-7.61 %
Job Titles South East
Matching contract IT job ads	11411	16150
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	15.42 %	15.93 %
Daily rates quoted	2943	4160
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£339
Average daily rate	£356	£357
% change on same period last year	-0.29 %
Average maximum daily rate	£376	£375
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£355
% change on same period last year	-0.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	1352	2039
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.46	£25.59
Average hourly rate	£23.96	£27.04
% change on same period last year	-11.37 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.47	£28.49
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.85	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.14 %
Desktop Support Engineer England

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.

Desktop Support Engineer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Desktop Support Engineer across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Desktop Support Engineer
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 South East region.

Desktop Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Desktop Support Engineer across the South East region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

Desktop Support Engineer
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 South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 5 September 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 South East region over the 3 months to 5 September 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
Berkshire	+46	28	£126	-14.63 %
Surrey	+10	13	-	-
Buckinghamshire	+8	6	£260	+73.33 %
Hampshire	+14	4	£168	+11.66 %
Kent	+9	4	-	-
Middlesex	+4	2	-	-
Thames Valley	+15	1	-	-
West Sussex	+6	1	-	-
East Sussex	+12	1	-	-
Oxfordshire	-3	1	-	-

Desktop Support Engineer England

Desktop Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 94 (77.05 %) Windows 2 44 (36.07 %) MS Office 2 44 (36.07 %) Windows XP 3 40 (32.79 %) Microsoft 4 25 (20.49 %) Active Directory 5 23 (18.85 %) MS Excel 6 19 (15.57 %) Microsoft Certification 7 18 (14.75 %) Blackberry 8 17 (13.93 %) Windows 2000 8 17 (13.93 %) MCP 9 16 (13.11 %) HP 10 14 (11.48 %) VPN 10 14 (11.48 %) Wireless 11 12 (9.836 %) Windows Vista 12 11 (9.016 %) Altiris

12 11 (9.016 %) LAN 13 10 (8.197 %) ITIL 13 10 (8.197 %) Novell 13 10 (8.197 %) Remedy 13 10 (8.197 %) Windows Server 2003 13 10 (8.197 %) Windows 2000 Server 14 8 (6.557 %) NHS 14 8 (6.557 %) NetWare 14 8 (6.557 %) TCP/IP 15 7 (5.738 %) MS Exchange 15 7 (5.738 %) GroupWise 16 6 (4.918 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 16 6 (4.918 %) Dell 16 6 (4.918 %) Linux 16 6 (4.918 %) Security Cleared

Desktop Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 Development 1 1 (0.820 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 7 (5.738 %) MS Exchange 1 7 (5.738 %) GroupWise 2 3 (2.459 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 3 (2.459 %) Lotus Notes 3 1 (0.820 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 1 (0.820 %) Exchange Server 2000
Applications 1 44 (36.07 %) MS Office 2 23 (18.85 %) MS Excel 3 1 (0.820 %) MS Visio 3 1 (0.820 %) Spreadsheet 3 1 (0.820 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 1 (0.820 %) Summit
Communications & Networking 1 14 (11.48 %) VPN 1 14 (11.48 %) Wireless 2 11 (9.016 %) LAN 3 8 (6.557 %) TCP/IP 4 5 (4.098 %) Internet 4 5 (4.098 %) WAN 5 3 (2.459 %) DNS 6 2 (1.639 %) DHCP 6 2 (1.639 %) 3G 7 1 (0.820 %) Wi-Fi 7 1 (0.820 %) VoIP 7 1 (0.820 %) ADSL 7 1 (0.820 %) Broadband	Development Applications 1 1 (0.820 %) Dreamweaver
General 1 5 (4.098 %) Government 2 4 (3.279 %) Finance 3 3 (2.459 %) Pharmaceutical 4 1 (0.820 %) Back Office 4 1 (0.820 %) Telecoms 4 1 (0.820 %) Health	Miscellaneous 1 18 (14.75 %) Blackberry 2 8 (6.557 %) NHS 3 2 (1.639 %) PDA 4 1 (0.820 %) German Language 4 1 (0.820 %) Spanish Language 4 1 (0.820 %) AS400
Operating Systems 1 94 (77.05 %) Windows 2 44 (36.07 %) Windows XP 3 17 (13.93 %) Windows 2000 4 12 (9.836 %) Windows Vista 5 10 (8.197 %) Windows Server 2003 5 10 (8.197 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 8 (6.557 %) NetWare 7 6 (4.918 %) Linux 8 4 (3.279 %) Windows NT 9 3 (2.459 %) Windows Server 2008 10 1 (0.820 %) UNIX 10 1 (0.820 %) HPUX 10 1 (0.820 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (8.197 %) ITIL 2 6 (4.918 %) Security Cleared 3 5 (4.098 %) SC Cleared 4 1 (0.820 %) Configuration Management 4 1 (0.820 %) Service Management 4 1 (0.820 %) Service Delivery 4 1 (0.820 %) Validation 4 1 (0.820 %) Migration 4 1 (0.820 %) Asset Management 4 1 (0.820 %) Time Management
Programming Languages 1 2 (1.639 %) C 2 1 (0.820 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 19 (15.57 %) Microsoft Certification 2 17 (13.93 %) MCP 3 6 (4.918 %) MCDST 4 3 (2.459 %) CNA 4 3 (2.459 %) CNE 4 3 (2.459 %) Novell Certification 5 2 (1.639 %) MCSE 6 1 (0.820 %) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.820 %) SLA	System Software 1 25 (20.49 %) Active Directory 2 1 (0.820 %) Backup Exec 2 1 (0.820 %) NDS
Systems Management 1 6 (4.918 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 5 (4.098 %) ZENworks 3 1 (0.820 %) OpenView	Vendors 1 40 (32.79 %) Microsoft 2 16 (13.11 %) HP 3 11 (9.016 %) Altiris 4 10 (8.197 %) Novell 4 10 (8.197 %) Remedy 5 6 (4.918 %) Dell 6 4 (3.279 %) Compaq 7 3 (2.459 %) IBM 7 3 (2.459 %) Lotus 8 2 (1.639 %) McAfee Security 8 2 (1.639 %) VMware 9 1 (0.820 %) Peregrine 9 1 (0.820 %) Apple 9 1 (0.820 %) Quark 9 1 (0.820 %) CheckPoint 9 1 (0.820 %) Symantec 9 1 (0.820 %) SAP 9 1 (0.820 %) Adobe 9 1 (0.820 %) Citrix