Desktop Engineer Contracts in Hertfordshire

Desktop Engineer
East of England > Hertfordshire

The median Desktop Engineer daily rate in Hertfordshire is £104 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 66 70
Rank change year-on-year 0 +4 -15
Contract jobs requiring a Desktop Engineer 5 8 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 0.61% 0.98% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 1.07% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 2
10th Percentile £94 £260 £135
25th Percentile £98 - £154
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £104 £350 £188
Median % change year-on-year -70.24% +86.67% -
75th Percentile - £375 £219
90th Percentile - - £238
East of England median daily rate £175 £175 £175
% change year-on-year +0.14% -0.14% +22.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £13.56 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - -22.54% -2.78%
East of England median hourly rate - £17.00 £18.25
% change year-on-year - -6.85% +1.39%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Hertfordshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire. 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 Hertfordshire with a recognized job title 738 750 723
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.67% 91.80% 92.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 409 445
10th Percentile £233 £210 £160
25th Percentile £313 £363 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £588
90th Percentile £700 £788 £675
East of England median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 149 84
10th Percentile £37.91 £20.54 £16.49
25th Percentile £43.00 £49.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +27.55% +22.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.80 -
East of England median hourly rate £43.00 £35.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year +22.86% +125.81% -7.32%

Desktop Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Desktop Engineer in Hertfordshire

Desktop Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Desktop Engineer in Hertfordshire.

Daily rate trend for Desktop Engineer in Hertfordshire

Desktop Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Desktop Engineer in Hertfordshire.

Hourly rate trend for Desktop Engineer in Hertfordshire

Desktop Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Hatfield -5 3 £104 -
Watford - 2 - -
Desktop Engineer
East of England

Desktop Engineer Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 Hertfordshire region featuring Desktop Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Presentation Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Windows
3 2 (40.00%) Python
3 2 (40.00%) VML
3 2 (40.00%) B2B
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) Adobe
3 2 (40.00%) Apple
3 2 (40.00%) CheckPoint
3 2 (40.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (40.00%) Sophos
3 2 (40.00%) Retail
3 2 (40.00%) Asset Management
3 2 (40.00%) Marketing
3 2 (40.00%) Time Management
3 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (40.00%) Sitecore
3 2 (40.00%) SAP
3 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Shopify
3 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (40.00%) Customer Acquisition
3 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (40.00%) BigCommerce
3 2 (40.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (20.00%) ITSM

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

Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) BigCommerce
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Marketing
3 2 (40.00%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) VML
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Asset Management
1 2 (40.00%) B2B
1 2 (40.00%) Customer Acquisition
1 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
1 2 (40.00%) Time Management
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (20.00%) ITSM
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (40.00%) Python
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Adobe
1 2 (40.00%) Apple
1 2 (40.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Salesforce
1 2 (40.00%) SAP
1 2 (40.00%) Sitecore
1 2 (40.00%) Sophos