Senior Desktop Support Engineer Contracts in England

Senior Desktop Support Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Desktop Support Engineer daily rate in England is £245, 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 480 540 650
Rank change year-on-year +60 +110 +124
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Desktop Support Engineer 5 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.021% 0.005% 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.006% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile - - £183
25th Percentile £243 - £199
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £245 - £250
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.91%
75th Percentile £248 - £288
90th Percentile - - £295
UK median daily rate £245 - £250
% change year-on-year - - -2.91%

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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Senior Desktop Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Desktop Support Engineer in England

Senior Desktop Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Desktop Support Engineer in England

Senior Desktop Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Desktop Support Engineer in England

Senior 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 Senior Desktop Support Engineer within the 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
London +38 2 £245 -
East of England - 2 £245 -
North of England - 1 £245 -
Yorkshire - 1 £245 -
Senior Desktop Support Engineer
UK

Senior Desktop Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Desktop Support Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (100.00%) LAN
1 5 (100.00%) VoIP
1 5 (100.00%) WAN
1 5 (100.00%) DHCP
1 5 (100.00%) VPN
1 5 (100.00%) DNS
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 5 (100.00%) AppManager
1 5 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
1 5 (100.00%) VLAN
1 5 (100.00%) Ivanti
1 5 (100.00%) SCCM
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 5 (100.00%) OneDrive
1 5 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 5 (100.00%) Customer Service

Senior 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (100.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 5 (100.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) DHCP
1 5 (100.00%) DNS
1 5 (100.00%) LAN
1 5 (100.00%) VLAN
1 5 (100.00%) VoIP
1 5 (100.00%) VPN
1 5 (100.00%) WAN
1 5 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Customer Service
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) AppManager
1 5 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Ivanti
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) VMware