Sunbury-on-Thames Desktop Support Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Desktop Support role in IT contracts within the Sunbury-on-Thames 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 in their job title over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Desktop Support
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Banstead Barry Basingstoke Beckenham Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bootle Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Buxton Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dover Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fife Gateshead Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Guildford Gwent Halifax Hampshire Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Kidderminster Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Lutterworth Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Morecambe Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Rugby Sale Sandwich Scotland Scottish Borders Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Templecombe Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Kilbride West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Wiltshire Windlesham Windsor Wirral Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	21	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	1.235 %	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	£154	£168
% change on same period last year	-8.56 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	-
Average hourly rate	£20.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.79	£15.35
% change on same period last year	+2.81 %
Job Titles Sunbury-on-Thames
Matching contract IT job ads	81	44
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.114 %	0.044 %
Daily rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum daily rate	£338	£130
Average daily rate	£365	£130
% change on same period last year	+180.76 %
Average maximum daily rate	£392	£130
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.40	-
Average hourly rate	£20.05	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.70	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.76	£25.22
% change on same period last year	-5.77 %
Desktop Support Surrey

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 Support across the Sunbury-on-Thames region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Desktop Support
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Desktop Support across the Sunbury-on-Thames region.

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Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Sunbury-on-Thames region that cited Desktop 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 Desktop Support in their job title.

1 1 (50.00 %) ITIL 1 1 (50.00 %) Windows 1 1 (50.00 %) Windows 2000 1 1 (50.00 %) SMS 1 1 (50.00 %) ITIL Certification 1 1 (50.00 %) Windows Server 2003 1 1 (50.00 %) Asset Management 1 1 (50.00 %) Windows Vista

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Sunbury-on-Thames region that cited Desktop 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 Desktop Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 1 (50.00 %) SMS	Operating Systems 1 1 (50.00 %) Windows 1 1 (50.00 %) Windows 2000 1 1 (50.00 %) Windows Server 2003 1 1 (50.00 %) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (50.00 %) ITIL 1 1 (50.00 %) Asset Management	Qualifications 1 1 (50.00 %) ITIL Certification