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

The first table below looks at the demand for the Desktop Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Desktop Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Desktop Engineer
Rank 100 103 90
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -13
Contract jobs requiring a Desktop Engineer 11 13 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.577% 0.569% 0.392%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.610% 0.601% 0.418%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 2
Average daily rate £98 £138 £160
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-29.09% -14.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £92 £120 £128
10% offered a daily rate of more than £134 £138 £192
UK excluding London average daily rate £175 £150 £134
% change year-on-year
+16.66% +12.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 2
Average hourly rate £12.75 £10.85 £16.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.51% -33.23%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £10.00 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.90 £12.90 £21.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.94 £16.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-12.90% +6.66%
All Job Titles
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 1803 2164 1674
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 94.55% 94.75% 93.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 914 1155 783
Average daily rate £320 £335 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.47% +3.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £190 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £452 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 110 122
Average hourly rate £13.71 £13.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.55% -22.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.30 £10.30 £7.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.00 £30.00 £40.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Desktop Engineer
England

Desktop Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire Desktop Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Desktop Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Desktop Engineer across the Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire Desktop Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Desktop Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Desktop Engineer across the Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire Desktop Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Desktop 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 Engineer within the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
West Yorkshire +4 7 - -
North Yorkshire +1 3 £94 -25.74%
Desktop Engineer
England

Desktop Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region that cited Desktop 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 Engineer in their job title.

1 26 (81.25%) Windows
2 16 (50.00%) Windows 7
3 15 (46.88%) Active Directory
3 15 (46.88%) Windows XP
4 13 (40.63%) Microsoft
4 13 (40.63%) Windows 2000
5 11 (34.38%) Windows Vista
6 9 (28.13%) MS Office
7 8 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (25.00%) Blackberry
8 6 (18.75%) MCP
9 4 (12.50%) SCCM
9 4 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
9 4 (12.50%) Internet
10 3 (9.375%) MS Excel
10 3 (9.375%) Security Cleared
10 3 (9.375%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (6.250%) iPhone
11 2 (6.250%) iPad
11 2 (6.250%) SC Cleared
11 2 (6.250%) SLA
11 2 (6.250%) TCP/IP
11 2 (6.250%) ITIL
11 2 (6.250%) MCSE
11 2 (6.250%) Lotus
12 1 (3.125%) 3G
12 1 (3.125%) Symantec
12 1 (3.125%) ZENworks
12 1 (3.125%) Remedy
12 1 (3.125%) Avaya

Desktop Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region that cited Desktop 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 Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (3.125%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.125%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 9 (28.13%) MS Office
2 3 (9.375%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) Internet
2 2 (6.250%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.125%) 3G
3 1 (3.125%) DNS
3 1 (3.125%) VoIP
3 1 (3.125%) Wireless
General
1 1 (3.125%) Finance
1 1 (3.125%) Advertising
1 1 (3.125%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.00%) Blackberry
2 2 (6.250%) iPhone
2 2 (6.250%) iPad
3 1 (3.125%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 26 (81.25%) Windows
2 16 (50.00%) Windows 7
3 15 (46.88%) Windows XP
4 13 (40.63%) Windows 2000
5 11 (34.38%) Windows Vista
6 4 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
7 3 (9.375%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (3.125%) Linux
8 1 (3.125%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (6.250%) ITIL
2 1 (3.125%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (3.125%) Network Management
2 1 (3.125%) Validation
2 1 (3.125%) Asset Management
2 1 (3.125%) Document Management
2 1 (3.125%) Incident Management
2 1 (3.125%) Software Deployment
Qualifications
1 8 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (18.75%) MCP
3 3 (9.375%) Security Cleared
4 2 (6.250%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.250%) MCSE
5 1 (3.125%) MCSA
5 1 (3.125%) MCDST
5 1 (3.125%) MCITP
5 1 (3.125%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.250%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (46.88%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.125%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) SCCM
2 1 (3.125%) ZENworks
2 1 (3.125%) DameWare
Vendors
1 13 (40.63%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.250%) Lotus
3 1 (3.125%) Symantec
3 1 (3.125%) Remedy
3 1 (3.125%) Avaya
3 1 (3.125%) HP
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