The first table below looks at the demand for the Deskside Support role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Deskside Support 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 currently tracked.

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
Deskside Support
Rank 529 557 569
Rank change year-on-year
+28 +12
Contract jobs requiring a Deskside Support 12 22 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.025% 0.038% 0.034%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.027% 0.042% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 5
Average daily rate £100 £190 £130
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-47.36% +46.15%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £84 £190 £98
10% offered a daily rate of more than £116 £190 £146
UK excluding London average daily rate £100 - £130
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 12
Average hourly rate £15.00 £16.00 £16.20
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% -1.23%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.45 £9.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.85 £20.00 £16.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £16.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -1.23%
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
45063 52855 57510
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.16% 92.46% 92.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 25972 29220 31540
Average daily rate £400 £400 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2142 2525 2941
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.77 £40.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Deskside Support
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Deskside Support within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Deskside Support Jobs Demand Trend

Deskside Support
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Deskside Support within the UK.

Deskside Support Daily Rate Trend

Deskside Support
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Deskside Support within the UK.

Deskside Support Hourly Rate Trend

Deskside Support
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Deskside Support within the UK over the 3 months to 20 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +20 10 £120 -36.84% 3
South East +24 3 - - 1
London +20 2 - -
East of England +17 2 - - 1
Hampshire -5 2 - - 1
Portsmouth - 2 - - 1
Hertfordshire +23 1 - - 1
Manchester +13 1 - - 1
North West +5 1 - - 1
Stevenage - 1 - - 1
Cheshire - - - -
Newcastle upon Tyne - - - -
City of London - - - -
North East - - - -
Cheadle - - - -
Tyne and Wear - - - -

Deskside Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Deskside 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 Deskside Support in their job title.

1 13 (54.17%) Windows
2 10 (41.67%) Windows 7
3 8 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 8 (33.33%) Security Cleared
4 7 (29.17%) Active Directory
5 6 (25.00%) HP
5 6 (25.00%) Windows XP
5 6 (25.00%) SC Cleared
6 5 (20.83%) SLA
6 5 (20.83%) Finance
7 4 (16.67%) UNIX
7 4 (16.67%) MS Exchange
7 4 (16.67%) LAN
7 4 (16.67%) Linux
7 4 (16.67%) Red Hat
8 3 (12.50%) MS Excel
8 3 (12.50%) NFS
8 3 (12.50%) Solaris
8 3 (12.50%) MS Office
8 3 (12.50%) VPN
8 3 (12.50%) Service Management
8 3 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (12.50%) High Availability
9 2 (8.333%) PDA
9 2 (8.333%) Telecoms
9 2 (8.333%) Windows Vista
9 2 (8.333%) Blackberry
9 2 (8.333%) ITIL
9 2 (8.333%) WAN
9 2 (8.333%) Compaq

Deskside Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Deskside 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 Deskside Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (4.167%) HTML
1 1 (4.167%) ASP
1 1 (4.167%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 4 (16.67%) MS Exchange
2 1 (4.167%) GroupWise
Applications
1 3 (12.50%) MS Excel
1 3 (12.50%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.167%) 3000 Xtra
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) LAN
2 3 (12.50%) VPN
3 2 (8.333%) WAN
4 1 (4.167%) TCP/IP
4 1 (4.167%) Intranet
Development Applications
1 1 (4.167%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (20.83%) Finance
2 2 (8.333%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.333%) PDA
1 2 (8.333%) Blackberry
2 1 (4.167%) Client/Server
2 1 (4.167%) Thin Client
2 1 (4.167%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.167%) Mathematics
2 1 (4.167%) Fat Client
2 1 (4.167%) iPhone
2 1 (4.167%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 13 (54.17%) Windows
2 10 (41.67%) Windows 7
3 6 (25.00%) Windows XP
4 4 (16.67%) UNIX
4 4 (16.67%) Linux
5 3 (12.50%) Solaris
5 3 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (8.333%) Windows Vista
7 1 (4.167%) NetWare
7 1 (4.167%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (12.50%) Service Management
1 3 (12.50%) High Availability
2 2 (8.333%) ITIL
3 1 (4.167%) Project Management
3 1 (4.167%) Service Delivery
3 1 (4.167%) Change Management
3 1 (4.167%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (4.167%) ITSM
3 1 (4.167%) Validation
3 1 (4.167%) Business Continuity
3 1 (4.167%) Problem Management
3 1 (4.167%) Incident Management
3 1 (4.167%) Web Development
3 1 (4.167%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.167%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.333%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.167%) MCSE
4 1 (4.167%) MCSA
4 1 (4.167%) MCP
4 1 (4.167%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (29.17%) Active Directory
2 3 (12.50%) NFS
3 1 (4.167%) XenDesktop
3 1 (4.167%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (25.00%) HP
3 4 (16.67%) Red Hat
4 2 (8.333%) Compaq
5 1 (4.167%) Reuters
5 1 (4.167%) Bloomberg
5 1 (4.167%) Remedy
5 1 (4.167%) Wyse
5 1 (4.167%) VMware
Manchester, Lancashire
This desk side support engineer will provide software support and hardware support, both remotely and at the desk side on IT products within the required Service Level Agreement (...
Global Technology Solutions Ltd
Rate: £12 - £14 per hour
Posted: 14 June 2013
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