The first table below looks at the demand for the Service Desk Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Staffordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Service Desk Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 Staffordshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service Desk Engineer
Rank - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Service Desk Engineer 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire - - -
As % of the Job Titles category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £105 £200
% change year-on-year
+185.71% -47.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £12.50 £11.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% +8.69%
All Job Titles
Staffordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
79 211 207
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 94.05% 97.69% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 86 90
Average daily rate £325 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £238 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £368 £371 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 20 13
Average hourly rate £15.26 £17.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.81% +25.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.13 £13.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.29 £35.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Service Desk Engineer
West Midlands

Service Desk Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staffordshire Service Desk Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Service Desk Engineer
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire region that cited Service Desk 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 Service Desk Engineer in their job title.

1 2 (66.67%) MS Office
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Lotus
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (33.33%) Altiris
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
2 1 (33.33%) Lotus Notes
2 1 (33.33%) Lotus Domino
2 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
2 1 (33.33%) Windows XP
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) WAN

Service Desk Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire region that cited Service Desk 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 Service Desk Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Lotus Notes
1 1 (33.33%) Lotus Domino
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) MS Office
2 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
2 1 (33.33%) Windows XP
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Lotus
1 1 (33.33%) Altiris