2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Second Line Desktop Support Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Second Line Desktop Support Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £102 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 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
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 342 447 625
Rank change year-on-year +105 +178 -144
Contract jobs requiring a 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer 3 30 7
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.12% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.021% 0.12% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 22 5
10th Percentile - £200 -
25th Percentile - £200 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £102 £204 £175
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +16.57% -
75th Percentile - £229 £195
90th Percentile - £250 £203
UK median daily rate £193 £208 £190
% change year-on-year -7.27% +9.26% +19.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £23.50 £13.28
% change year-on-year - +77.02% -36.94%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,352 24,650 42,717
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.33% 95.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,594 17,415 30,863
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.69% +2.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 579 565 611
10th Percentile £14.38 £18.50 £13.12
25th Percentile £23.39 £26.00 £18.75
Median hourly rate £44.74 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -19.07% +91.49% +3.14%

2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer.

2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer.

2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 30 April 2024, 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Computacenter
2 1 (33.33%) Smartphone
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) CMDB
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Electronics
2 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) Programme Management
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) CSS

2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Electronics
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
1 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) CMDB
1 1 (33.33%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
1 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
1 1 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
1 1 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
1 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
1 1 (33.33%) Information Security
1 1 (33.33%) Programme Management
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Computacenter
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) SAP
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow