Junior Desktop Support Engineer Contracts in England

Junior Desktop Support Engineer
UK > England

The median Junior Desktop Support Engineer daily rate in England is £138, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024.

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

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 532 597 790
Rank change year-on-year +65 +193 -45
Contract jobs requiring a Junior Desktop Support Engineer 2 11 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.006% 0.026% 0.011%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% 0.027% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 11 7
10th Percentile £125 £105 £126
25th Percentile £129 £110 £129
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £138 £115 £143
Median % change year-on-year +19.57% -19.30% +54.05%
75th Percentile £144 £126 £155
90th Percentile £148 £150 £192
UK median daily rate £138 £115 £143
% change year-on-year +19.57% -19.30% +54.05%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 30,503 40,030 67,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.95% 94.22% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,997 27,956 48,305
10th Percentile £300 £300 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,457 1,375 1,623
10th Percentile £14.56 £15.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £21.25 £19.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £46.18 £45.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.62% +73.08% +30.00%
75th Percentile £67.50 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.80 £70.75
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £44.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -3.37% +71.15% +30.00%

Junior Desktop Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior Desktop Support Engineer in England

Junior Desktop Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Junior Desktop Support Engineer in England

Junior Desktop Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Junior Desktop Support Engineer in England

Junior Desktop Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Junior Desktop Support Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 20 September 2024. 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
London +62 1 £125 +11.11%
South East - 1 £150 -
Junior Desktop Support Engineer
UK

Junior Desktop Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 21 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 20 September 2024, Junior 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 England region featuring Junior Desktop Support Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (50.00%) BitLocker
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Terminal Services
2 1 (50.00%) Sophos
2 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (50.00%) Logistics
2 1 (50.00%) Barracuda Networks
2 1 (50.00%) iPhone
2 1 (50.00%) Azure

Junior Desktop Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Logistics
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) BitLocker
1 1 (50.00%) Terminal Services
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Barracuda Networks
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (50.00%) Sophos