Desktop Support Engineer Contracts in West Yorkshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Desktop Support Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. 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 advertised for the West Yorkshire 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Desktop Support Engineer
Rank 81 86 74
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -12
Contract jobs requiring a Desktop Support Engineer 7 5 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.558% 0.319% 0.444%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.591% 0.338% 0.472%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
Average daily rate - - £120
UK excluding London average daily rate £135 £138 £120
% change year-on-year
-1.81% +14.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 0
Average hourly rate £12.13 £10.30 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.71% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.50 £15.79 £14.00
% change year-on-year
-14.48% +12.76%
All Job Titles
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 1185 1480 1059
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 94.42% 94.57% 94.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 603 828 495
Average daily rate £313 £340 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.08% +4.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £200 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 67 74
Average hourly rate £12.75 £15.00 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-15.00% +20.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.53 £10.00 £7.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.00 £32.50 £24.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Desktop Support Engineer
Yorkshire

Desktop Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire Desktop Support Engineer Daily Rate Trend

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 across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire Desktop Support Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Desktop Support Engineer
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 West Yorkshire region 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
Pontefract - 4 - -
Wakefield +1 2 - -
Huddersfield -2 1 - -
Desktop Support Engineer
Yorkshire

Desktop Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region 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 14 (77.78%) Windows
2 11 (61.11%) Active Directory
3 10 (55.56%) Windows 2000
3 10 (55.56%) Windows XP
3 10 (55.56%) Windows Vista
4 8 (44.44%) Blackberry
4 8 (44.44%) MS Office
5 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
5 7 (38.89%) Windows 7
6 4 (22.22%) Internet
6 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (22.22%) MCP
7 2 (11.11%) SLA
7 2 (11.11%) Lotus
7 2 (11.11%) ITIL
7 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
8 1 (5.556%) Windows 8
8 1 (5.556%) iPad
8 1 (5.556%) Network Management
8 1 (5.556%) SCCM
8 1 (5.556%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (5.556%) iPhone
8 1 (5.556%) DNS
8 1 (5.556%) Lotus Notes
8 1 (5.556%) MS Excel
8 1 (5.556%) Linux
8 1 (5.556%) Avaya
8 1 (5.556%) HP
8 1 (5.556%) Asset Management
8 1 (5.556%) Incident Management

Desktop Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region 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 Platforms
1 1 (5.556%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 8 (44.44%) MS Office
2 1 (5.556%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) Internet
2 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.556%) DNS
3 1 (5.556%) 3G
3 1 (5.556%) Wireless
General
1 1 (5.556%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 8 (44.44%) Blackberry
2 1 (5.556%) iPad
2 1 (5.556%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (5.556%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 14 (77.78%) Windows
2 10 (55.56%) Windows 2000
2 10 (55.56%) Windows XP
2 10 (55.56%) Windows Vista
3 7 (38.89%) Windows 7
4 1 (5.556%) Windows 8
4 1 (5.556%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (11.11%) ITIL
2 1 (5.556%) Network Management
2 1 (5.556%) Asset Management
2 1 (5.556%) Incident Management
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (22.22%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (61.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.556%) SCCM
1 1 (5.556%) DameWare
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Lotus
3 1 (5.556%) Avaya
3 1 (5.556%) HP
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