Senior Desktop Engineer Contract Job Trends in the North West

Senior Desktop Engineer
England > North West

The median Senior Desktop Engineer daily rate in the North West is £456, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Desktop Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.051% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.056% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £420 - -
25th Percentile £430 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 - -
75th Percentile £478 - -
90th Percentile £486 - -
England median daily rate £506 - £350

All Contract IT Job Roles
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 North West with a recognized job title 3,588 1,999 2,242
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.65% 92.25% 94.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,062 1,308 1,292
10th Percentile £300 £267 £275
25th Percentile £404 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £493
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -8.72% -1.40%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £588
90th Percentile £680 £656 £675
England median daily rate £525 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +3.75% -3.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 408 158 164
10th Percentile £15.98 £13.00 £15.54
25th Percentile £25.46 £17.30 £18.00
Median hourly rate £47.40 £24.88 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year +90.50% -32.75% +16.46%
75th Percentile £73.25 £47.12 £54.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £71.77 £71.32
England median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +72.96% -47.05% +5.56%

Senior Desktop Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Desktop Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Senior Desktop Engineer job vacancy trend in the North West

Senior Desktop Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Desktop Engineer job vacancies in the North West.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Desktop Engineer job vacancies in the North West

Senior Desktop Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Desktop Engineer job vacancies in the North West.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Desktop Engineer job vacancies in the North West

Senior Desktop Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Desktop Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 13 September 2026. 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
Cumbria - 1 £488 -
Lancashire - 1 £425 - 1
Senior Desktop Engineer
England

Senior Desktop Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 13 September 2026, Senior Desktop Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North West region featuring Senior Desktop Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Application Packaging
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) BeyondTrust
2 1 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Ivanti
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 10

Senior Desktop Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Application Packaging
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Bicep
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) BeyondTrust
2 1 (50.00%) Ivanti
2 1 (50.00%) Zscaler