Stevenage Desktop Engineer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Desktop Engineer role in IT contracts within the Stevenage 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 Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Desktop Engineer
Location Aberdeen Amersham Banstead Basildon Bath Beckenham Belfast Berkshire Bexley Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Colchester Conwy County Antrim Crawley Crewe Croydon Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dudley Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnham Filton Gateshead Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hastings Havant Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Llandudno London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Morecambe Motherwell Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tipton Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Kilbride West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Windlesham Windsor Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	11	13
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	1	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	1.754 %	4.040 %
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	£164	£160
% change on same period last year	+2.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.90	£16.75
Average hourly rate	£18.90	£17.75
% change on same period last year	+6.47 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.90	£18.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£14.52	£16.04
% change on same period last year	-9.52 %
Job Titles Stevenage
Matching contract IT job ads	57	99
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.075 %	0.099 %
Daily rates quoted	6	13
Average minimum daily rate	£310	£341
Average daily rate	£325	£344
% change on same period last year	-5.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£341	£346
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	26	42
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.71	£23.26
Average hourly rate	£33.90	£24.94
% change on same period last year	+35.94 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.08	£26.61
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.68	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.85 %
Desktop Engineer Hertfordshire

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 Engineer across the Stevenage region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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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 Engineer across the Stevenage region.

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Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Stevenage 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 2 (66.67 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (33.33 %) MS Office 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 2 1 (33.33 %) HP 2 1 (33.33 %) Dell 2 1 (33.33 %) Symantec 2 1 (33.33 %) Norton AntiVirus 2 1 (33.33 %) Government 2 1 (33.33 %) SC Cleared 2 1 (33.33 %) BC Cleared

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Stevenage 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.

Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Office	General 1 1 (33.33 %) Government
Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (33.33 %) SC Cleared 2 1 (33.33 %) BC Cleared
Systems Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Norton AntiVirus	Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 1 1 (33.33 %) HP 1 1 (33.33 %) Dell 1 1 (33.33 %) Symantec