Service Desk Engineer Contracts in Durham

Service Desk Engineer
North East > Durham

The median Service Desk Engineer daily rate in Durham is £300, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Service Desk Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Durham 2.38% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.44% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £288 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - -
75th Percentile £313 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median daily rate £300 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Durham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Durham. 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 Durham with a recognized job title 41 62 61
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.62% 86.11% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 28 47
10th Percentile £161 £163 £149
25th Percentile £213 £190 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% - +90.48%
75th Percentile £543 £545 £525
90th Percentile £588 £649 £595
North East median daily rate £461 £475 £540
% change year-on-year -2.89% -12.04% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 21 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.13 £10.42 -
Median hourly rate £18.75 £11.27 -
Median % change year-on-year +66.44% - -
75th Percentile £19.38 £18.13 -
90th Percentile - £20.77 -
North East median hourly rate £13.00 £13.99 £40.75
% change year-on-year -7.08% -65.67% +139.71%

Service Desk Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Durham

Job postings that featured Service Desk Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Durham.

Job vacancy trend for Service Desk Engineer in Durham

Service Desk Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Durham

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Service Desk Engineer within the Durham region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Stockton-on-Tees - 1 £300 -
Service Desk Engineer
North East

Service Desk Engineer Skill Set
Top 10 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Durham

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Service Desk 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 job ads across the Durham region featuring Service Desk Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (100.00%) Web Filtering

Service Desk Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Durham 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Web Filtering
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow