Senior Desktop Support Contracts

Senior Desktop Support
UK

The median Senior Desktop Support daily rate in the UK is £419 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 578 708 843
Rank change year-on-year +130 +135 -171
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Desktop Support 4 4 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.007% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.010% 0.007% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 8
10th Percentile £284 £183 £201
25th Percentile £327 £199 £229
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £250 £258
Median % change year-on-year +67.50% -2.91% +18.39%
75th Percentile £527 £288 £306
90th Percentile £578 £295 £340
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £240
% change year-on-year - - +47.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £22.09
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,476 56,906 85,219
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,420 39,710 59,771
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,641 1,614 2,118
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.92 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

Senior Desktop Support
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior Desktop Support in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Desktop Support in the UK

Senior Desktop Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Desktop Support.

Daily rate trend for Senior Desktop Support in the UK

Senior Desktop Support
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Desktop Support over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Desktop Support in the UK

Senior Desktop Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Desktop Support.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Desktop Support in the UK

Senior Desktop Support
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Desktop Support within the UK over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +124 4 £419 +67.50% 1
London +103 4 £419 +67.50% 1

Senior Desktop Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Senior Desktop Support contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Senior Desktop Support in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Customer Service
1 3 (75.00%) Legal
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) Citrix
2 2 (50.00%) VPN
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) CMS
2 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) ITSM
2 2 (50.00%) Blackberry
2 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (50.00%) Becrypt
2 2 (50.00%) Skype
2 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (50.00%) Resource Management
2 2 (50.00%) Skype for Business
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Smartphone
3 1 (25.00%) Wiki
3 1 (25.00%) Investment Management
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking

Senior Desktop Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (50.00%) CMS
2 2 (50.00%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Skype
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
General
1 3 (75.00%) Legal
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Blackberry
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Smartphone
2 1 (25.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) ITSM
2 2 (50.00%) Resource Management
2 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Investment Management
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Becrypt
2 2 (50.00%) Citrix
2 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (25.00%) Cognizant