The first table below looks at the demand for the Desktop Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Swindon 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 20 June 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 Swindon 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Desktop Engineer
Rank 42 33 38
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Desktop Engineer 2 5 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 0.563% 1.493% 0.269%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.602% 1.623% 0.294%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Average daily rate £118 £128 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.84% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £175 £134 £125
% change year-on-year
+30.84% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Average hourly rate - £13.25 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +1.92%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £15.25 £14.00
% change year-on-year
-8.19% +8.92%
All Job Titles
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
332 308 340
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 93.52% 91.94% 91.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 202 206
Average daily rate £420 £355 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.30% -11.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £210 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £475 £504
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 10 17
Average hourly rate £14.00 £16.00 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% -41.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.50 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £25.00 £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Desktop Engineer
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Desktop Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon Desktop Engineer Daily Rate Trend

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 Swindon region.

Swindon Desktop Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Desktop Engineer
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) MCP
3 1 (25.00%) MS Office
3 1 (25.00%) HP
3 1 (25.00%) Dell
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (25.00%) SAN
3 1 (25.00%) NHS
3 1 (25.00%) LAN
3 1 (25.00%) WAN
3 1 (25.00%) DHCP
3 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (25.00%) DNS
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) MCITP
3 1 (25.00%) WSUS
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) VMware

Desktop Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 (25.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) SAN
1 1 (25.00%) LAN
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) MCP
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (25.00%) MCITP
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) HP
1 1 (25.00%) Dell
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) VMware
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