Desktop Support Engineer Contracts in the East of England

Desktop Support Engineer
England > East of England

The median Desktop Support Engineer daily rate in the East of England is £210, 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 66 100 100
Rank change year-on-year +34 0 +25
Contract jobs requiring a Desktop Support Engineer 16 12 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.71% 0.63% 1.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.93% 0.70% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 18
10th Percentile - £104 £142
25th Percentile £200 £157 £143
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £210 £193 £168
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +14.93% -11.84%
75th Percentile £246 £220 £228
90th Percentile £248 £226 £358
England median daily rate £200 £200 £200
% change year-on-year - - +6.67%

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 Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Desktop Support Engineer in the East of England

Desktop Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Desktop Support Engineer in the East of England

Desktop Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Desktop Support Engineer in the East of England

Desktop Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Desktop Support Engineer in the East of England

Desktop Support 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 Support 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 -3 9 £200 -9.09% 1
Essex - 3 £245 - 1
Norfolk - 2 £140 -
Hertfordshire +25 1 £450 +332.03%
Bedfordshire - 1 £225 -
Desktop Support Engineer
England

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

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

1 15 (93.75%) Windows
2 12 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (75.00%) Social Skills
3 10 (62.50%) Customer Service
3 10 (62.50%) Active Directory
4 9 (56.25%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (56.25%) Windows 10
4 9 (56.25%) Security Cleared
5 8 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (50.00%) VPN
5 8 (50.00%) SharePoint
6 6 (37.50%) SC Cleared
7 5 (31.25%) Time Management
7 5 (31.25%) iPhone
7 5 (31.25%) Azure
7 5 (31.25%) iPad
7 5 (31.25%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (31.25%) Antivirus Management
7 5 (31.25%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Office
7 5 (31.25%) ITIL
7 5 (31.25%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (31.25%) McAfee
7 5 (31.25%) Inventory Management
8 4 (25.00%) Legal
8 4 (25.00%) LAN
8 4 (25.00%) WAN
8 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
8 4 (25.00%) PowerShell

Desktop Support 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 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (31.25%) Azure
3 3 (18.75%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 8 (50.00%) VPN
2 4 (25.00%) LAN
2 4 (25.00%) WAN
3 3 (18.75%) DHCP
3 3 (18.75%) DNS
3 3 (18.75%) VLAN
3 3 (18.75%) VoIP
3 3 (18.75%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (12.50%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (6.25%) Firewall
General
1 12 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Legal
2 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) iPad
1 5 (31.25%) iPhone
1 5 (31.25%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (6.25%) Operational Technology
2 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.25%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 15 (93.75%) Windows
2 9 (56.25%) Windows 10
3 2 (12.50%) Mac OS
4 1 (6.25%) Apple iOS
4 1 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Customer Service
2 9 (56.25%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (31.25%) Antivirus Management
3 5 (31.25%) Inventory Management
3 5 (31.25%) ITIL
3 5 (31.25%) Root Cause Analysis
3 5 (31.25%) Time Management
4 1 (6.25%) Agile
4 1 (6.25%) Coaching
4 1 (6.25%) Computer Security
4 1 (6.25%) Decision-Making
4 1 (6.25%) Incident Management
4 1 (6.25%) Line Management
4 1 (6.25%) Project Management
4 1 (6.25%) Software Testing
4 1 (6.25%) Validation
4 1 (6.25%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (56.25%) Security Cleared
2 6 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 5 (31.25%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (12.50%) A+ Certification
4 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) GxP
System Software
1 10 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (25.00%) SCCM
3 3 (18.75%) AppManager
Vendors
1 12 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (31.25%) McAfee
3 3 (18.75%) Ivanti
3 3 (18.75%) VMware
4 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow