Desktop Engineer Contracts in the East of England

Desktop Engineer
England > East of England

The median Desktop Engineer daily rate in the East of England is £218, 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 62 100 83
Rank change year-on-year +38 -17 +24
Contract jobs requiring a Desktop Engineer 20 12 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.13% 0.63% 1.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.41% 0.70% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 23
10th Percentile - £104 -
25th Percentile £200 £157 £143
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £218 £193 £175
Median % change year-on-year +12.99% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £245 £220 £256
90th Percentile £248 £226 £370
England median daily rate £210 £205 £200
% change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £12.67
25th Percentile - - £14.09
Median hourly rate - - £17.00
75th Percentile - - £18.50
90th Percentile - - £18.65
England median hourly rate £24.66 £20.82 £17.00
% change year-on-year +18.47% +22.44% -10.53%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 East of England with a recognized job title 829 1,710 1,891
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.38% 89.58% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 773 1,156
10th Percentile £200 £206 £185
25th Percentile £379 £313 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £563 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 591 294
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.61 £16.30 £15.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £43.00 £35.40
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% +21.47% +128.39%
75th Percentile £72.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Desktop Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings that featured Desktop Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Desktop Engineer in the East of England

Desktop Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Desktop Engineer in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Desktop Engineer in the East of England

Desktop Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Desktop Engineer in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Desktop Engineer in the East of England

Desktop Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Desktop Engineer in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Desktop Engineer in the East of England

Desktop Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Desktop Engineer within the East of England 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
Suffolk -2 10 £200 -9.09% 1
Hertfordshire +28 4 £450 +332.03%
Essex - 3 £245 - 1
Norfolk - 2 £140 -
Bedfordshire - 1 £225 -
Desktop Engineer
England

Desktop Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Desktop 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 East of England region featuring Desktop Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (80.00%) Windows
1 16 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (65.00%) Social Skills
3 10 (50.00%) Customer Service
3 10 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 10 (50.00%) Active Directory
4 9 (45.00%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (45.00%) VPN
4 9 (45.00%) Windows 10
4 9 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (40.00%) SharePoint
6 7 (35.00%) SC Cleared
7 6 (30.00%) ITIL
8 5 (25.00%) McAfee
8 5 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (25.00%) Time Management
8 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (25.00%) iPhone
8 5 (25.00%) Azure
8 5 (25.00%) iPad
8 5 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (25.00%) Antivirus Management
8 5 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (25.00%) Inventory Management
9 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
9 4 (20.00%) PowerShell
9 4 (20.00%) Incident Management
9 4 (20.00%) SCCM
9 4 (20.00%) DNS

Desktop Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 8 (40.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (45.00%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (25.00%) Azure
3 3 (15.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 9 (45.00%) VPN
2 4 (20.00%) DNS
2 4 (20.00%) LAN
2 4 (20.00%) WAN
3 3 (15.00%) DHCP
3 3 (15.00%) VLAN
3 3 (15.00%) VoIP
3 3 (15.00%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (10.00%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (5.00%) Firewall
5 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 13 (65.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Legal
2 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (15.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) iPad
1 5 (25.00%) iPhone
1 5 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (5.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 16 (80.00%) Windows
2 9 (45.00%) Windows 10
3 4 (20.00%) Linux
4 2 (10.00%) Mac OS
5 1 (5.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 9 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (30.00%) ITIL
4 5 (25.00%) Antivirus Management
4 5 (25.00%) Inventory Management
4 5 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (25.00%) Time Management
5 4 (20.00%) Incident Management
6 1 (5.00%) Agile
6 1 (5.00%) Coaching
6 1 (5.00%) Computer Security
6 1 (5.00%) Decision-Making
6 1 (5.00%) ITSM
6 1 (5.00%) Line Management
6 1 (5.00%) Project Management
6 1 (5.00%) Software Testing
6 1 (5.00%) Validation
6 1 (5.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (35.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (10.00%) A+ Certification
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) SLA
2 1 (5.00%) GxP
System Software
1 10 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (20.00%) SCCM
3 3 (15.00%) AppManager
3 3 (15.00%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 16 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (25.00%) McAfee
3 3 (15.00%) Ivanti
3 3 (15.00%) Remedy
3 3 (15.00%) VMware
4 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow