Desktop Support Engineer Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Desktop Support Engineer role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Desktop Support 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 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Desktop Support Engineer
Rank 380 414 451
Rank change year-on-year
+34 +37
Contract jobs requiring a Desktop Support Engineer 152 173 133
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.328% 0.297% 0.218%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.356% 0.321% 0.235%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 43 42
Average daily rate £156 £140 £185
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.60% -24.32%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £98 £102 £115
10% offered a daily rate of more than £248 £197 £349
UK excluding London average daily rate £135 £138 £120
% change year-on-year
-1.81% +14.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 78 58
Average hourly rate £14.50 £16.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.37% +6.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.96 £10.66 £10.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £20.25 £20.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.50 £15.79 £14.00
% change year-on-year
-14.48% +12.76%
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Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 42733 53947 56601
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.11% 92.50% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24507 29722 30764
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £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 2112 2572 2930
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 £41.50 £40.00 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Desktop Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Desktop Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Desktop Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Desktop Support Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Desktop Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Desktop Support Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Desktop Support Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Desktop Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Desktop Support Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Desktop Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Desktop Support Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Desktop Support Engineer Hourly Rate Histogram

Desktop Support Engineer
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Desktop Support Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 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
England +23 136 £160 +14.28%
London +27 50 £175 +9.37%
South East -5 31 £135 -10.00%
South West +35 17 £210 +28.63%
City of London +12 17 £190 +55.10%
East Midlands +6 10 £98 -18.75%
Berkshire +2 9 - -
Yorkshire 0 9 £94 -31.81%
Scotland -5 9 £138 +37.75%
Surrey +9 8 £150 -6.25%
Reading +6 8 - -
Hampshire -4 8 £123 -18.33%
East of England +8 7 £168 +52.27%
West Yorkshire +5 7 - -
Wales +13 5 - -
Aberdeen +6 5 - -
Dorset +5 5 £205 -
Nottinghamshire - 5 - -
North West +16 4 - -
Bristol +15 4 - -
Somerset +9 4 £290 -
Bournemouth +5 4 £205 -
West Midlands +4 4 £110 -21.42%
Hartlepool - 4 - -
Pontefract - 4 - -
Yeovil - 4 £290 -
Durham - 4 - -
North East - 4 - -
South Wales - 4 - -
Camberley -2 3 - -

Desktop Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Desktop Support 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 Support Engineer in their job title.

1 240 (75.00%) Windows
2 155 (48.44%) Active Directory
3 145 (45.31%) Windows XP
3 145 (45.31%) Windows 7
4 107 (33.44%) Microsoft
5 100 (31.25%) MS Office
6 55 (17.19%) Blackberry
7 52 (16.25%) MS Exchange
8 45 (14.06%) MS Excel
9 44 (13.75%) TCP/IP
10 42 (13.13%) ITIL
11 37 (11.56%) Security Cleared
12 34 (10.63%) Citrix
13 32 (10.00%) HP
14 31 (9.688%) Microsoft Certification
14 31 (9.688%) Windows Server 2003
15 30 (9.375%) DHCP
16 29 (9.063%) Windows Vista
17 27 (8.438%) Windows Server 2008
17 27 (8.438%) DNS
18 26 (8.125%) SCCM
19 25 (7.813%) SC Cleared
19 25 (7.813%) Dell
20 23 (7.188%) LAN
21 22 (6.875%) Cisco
21 22 (6.875%) VPN
22 21 (6.563%) Finance
23 20 (6.250%) Internet
23 20 (6.250%) Windows 2000
24 18 (5.625%) MCP

Desktop Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Desktop Support 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 Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 14 (4.375%) .NET
2 3 (0.938%) Application Packaging
3 1 (0.313%) Software Packaging
Application Platforms
1 52 (16.25%) MS Exchange
2 18 (5.625%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 17 (5.313%) Exchange Server 2007
4 9 (2.813%) Exchange Server 2003
5 7 (2.188%) Exchange Server 2010
5 7 (2.188%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.875%) Lotus Notes
7 2 (0.625%) Lync
8 1 (0.313%) WorkSite
Applications
1 100 (31.25%) MS Office
2 45 (14.06%) MS Excel
3 14 (4.375%) Acrobat
4 2 (0.625%) MS PowerPoint
5 1 (0.313%) Vectorworks
5 1 (0.313%) Google Apps
5 1 (0.313%) Office 365
5 1 (0.313%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.313%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.313%) CODA-Financials
Communications & Networking
1 44 (13.75%) TCP/IP
2 30 (9.375%) DHCP
3 27 (8.438%) DNS
4 23 (7.188%) LAN
5 22 (6.875%) VPN
6 20 (6.250%) Internet
7 18 (5.625%) WAN
8 13 (4.063%) VoIP
9 12 (3.750%) Wireless
10 6 (1.875%) SAN
11 5 (1.563%) IPsec
12 4 (1.250%) Firewall
12 4 (1.250%) 3G
12 4 (1.250%) NAS
13 3 (0.938%) IPv6
13 3 (0.938%) HTTP
13 3 (0.938%) Ethernet
13 3 (0.938%) Wi-Fi
14 2 (0.625%) WLAN
14 2 (0.625%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.625%) MS Access
2 1 (0.313%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 1 (0.313%) MSI
General
1 21 (6.563%) Finance
2 11 (3.438%) Banking
3 8 (2.500%) Telecoms
4 5 (1.563%) Investment Banking
5 4 (1.250%) Back Office
6 3 (0.938%) Advertising
6 3 (0.938%) Front Office
7 2 (0.625%) Electronics
8 1 (0.313%) Marketing
8 1 (0.313%) German Language
8 1 (0.313%) Portuguese Language
8 1 (0.313%) Local Government
8 1 (0.313%) Retail
8 1 (0.313%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.313%) Law
8 1 (0.313%) Legal
8 1 (0.313%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 55 (17.19%) Blackberry
2 14 (4.375%) Smartcard
3 8 (2.500%) iPhone
4 5 (1.563%) iPad
4 5 (1.563%) iSeries
4 5 (1.563%) PDA
5 4 (1.250%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.250%) Handset
5 4 (1.250%) Clustering
5 4 (1.250%) NHS
6 3 (0.938%) Video Conferencing
6 3 (0.938%) PKI
7 2 (0.625%) Client/Server
7 2 (0.625%) Thin Client
7 2 (0.625%) Smartphone
7 2 (0.625%) Fat Client
7 2 (0.625%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.313%) Mobile Computing
8 1 (0.313%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 240 (75.00%) Windows
2 145 (45.31%) Windows XP
2 145 (45.31%) Windows 7
3 31 (9.688%) Windows Server 2003
4 29 (9.063%) Windows Vista
5 27 (8.438%) Windows Server 2008
6 20 (6.250%) Windows 2000
7 15 (4.688%) Mac OS X
8 9 (2.813%) Linux
9 6 (1.875%) Windows 2000 Server
10 5 (1.563%) Windows Mobile
11 3 (0.938%) Windows NT
12 2 (0.625%) Windows 8
12 2 (0.625%) Android
12 2 (0.625%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.313%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.313%) Windows Phone
13 1 (0.313%) NetWare
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (13.13%) ITIL
2 14 (4.375%) Root Cause Analysis
3 9 (2.813%) Incident Management
3 9 (2.813%) Asset Management
4 8 (2.500%) Migration
5 5 (1.563%) Release Management
5 5 (1.563%) Service Management
5 5 (1.563%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (1.250%) Network Management
7 3 (0.938%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (0.938%) Software Deployment
7 3 (0.938%) Information Management
7 3 (0.938%) Service Delivery
7 3 (0.938%) Change Management
7 3 (0.938%) Project Management
8 2 (0.625%) ITSM
8 2 (0.625%) Information Security
8 2 (0.625%) Configuration Management
8 2 (0.625%) E-Commerce
8 2 (0.625%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 15 (4.688%) C#
1 15 (4.688%) VB
2 14 (4.375%) VB.NET
2 14 (4.375%) VB6
3 7 (2.188%) C
4 5 (1.563%) PowerShell
4 5 (1.563%) SQL
4 5 (1.563%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 37 (11.56%) Security Cleared
2 31 (9.688%) Microsoft Certification
3 25 (7.813%) SC Cleared
4 18 (5.625%) MCP
4 18 (5.625%) MCSE
5 8 (2.500%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.875%) MCSA
7 4 (1.250%) MCDST
7 4 (1.250%) MCITP
7 4 (1.250%) Degree
8 3 (0.938%) BC Cleared
9 2 (0.625%) HNC
10 1 (0.313%) SCSE
10 1 (0.313%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.438%) SLA
2 6 (1.875%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 155 (48.44%) Active Directory
2 11 (3.438%) XenApp
2 11 (3.438%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.250%) XenDesktop
4 3 (0.938%) Terminal Services
4 3 (0.938%) VMware Workstation
4 3 (0.938%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.625%) VirtualBox
6 1 (0.313%) XenServer
6 1 (0.313%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 26 (8.125%) SCCM
2 5 (1.563%) Backup Exec
3 4 (1.250%) SCOM
4 3 (0.938%) WSUS
4 3 (0.938%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.313%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (0.313%) ServiceCenter
5 1 (0.313%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.313%) DameWare
Vendors
1 107 (33.44%) Microsoft
2 34 (10.63%) Citrix
3 32 (10.00%) HP
4 25 (7.813%) Dell
5 22 (6.875%) Cisco
6 14 (4.375%) VMware
7 12 (3.750%) Apple
8 9 (2.813%) Avaya
8 9 (2.813%) McAfee
9 8 (2.500%) Lotus
10 5 (1.563%) Oracle
11 4 (1.250%) CheckPoint
12 3 (0.938%) LANDesk
12 3 (0.938%) Juniper
12 3 (0.938%) NetApp
12 3 (0.938%) Veritas
12 3 (0.938%) Symantec
12 3 (0.938%) Wyse
13 2 (0.625%) AppSense
13 2 (0.625%) Reuters
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Crawley, West Sussex
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