Desktop Engineer
South East > Oxfordshire
The median Desktop Engineer daily rate in Oxfordshire is £275, 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 | 17 | 21 | 29 |
| Rank change year-on-year | +4 | +8 | +2 |
| Contract jobs requiring a Desktop Engineer | 5 | 6 | 1 |
| As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire | 4.72% | 2.64% | 0.40% |
| As % of the Job Titles category | 5.00% | 3.11% | 0.43% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 5 | 4 | 1 |
| 10th Percentile | - | - | - |
| 25th Percentile | £250 | £131 | - |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £275 | £191 | £250 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +43.79% | -23.50% | +112.77% |
| 75th Percentile | £288 | £250 | - |
| 90th Percentile | - | - | - |
| South East median daily rate | £213 | £210 | £200 |
| % change year-on-year | +1.19% | +5.00% | +14.29% |
All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Oxfordshire
For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Oxfordshire. 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 Oxfordshire with a recognized job title | 100 | 193 | 230 |
| % of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title | 94.34% | 85.02% | 92.00% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 57 | 123 | 152 |
| 10th Percentile | £250 | £132 | £250 |
| 25th Percentile | £263 | £180 | £350 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £500 | £375 | £450 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +33.33% | -16.67% | +5.88% |
| 75th Percentile | £638 | £500 | £550 |
| 90th Percentile | £688 | £550 | £638 |
| South East median daily rate | £500 | £500 | £500 |
| % change year-on-year | - | - | +2.42% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 9 | 30 | 17 |
| 10th Percentile | £22.97 | £12.92 | - |
| 25th Percentile | £23.50 | £13.97 | £18.08 |
| Median hourly rate | £27.76 | £19.50 | £25.95 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +42.36% | -24.86% | +29.75% |
| 75th Percentile | £46.30 | £26.00 | £32.30 |
| 90th Percentile | £46.54 | £65.00 | £51.20 |
| South East median hourly rate | £32.50 | £47.50 | £48.40 |
| % change year-on-year | -31.58% | -1.86% | +130.48% |
Desktop Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire
Job postings that featured Desktop Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.
Desktop Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Desktop Engineer in Oxfordshire.
Desktop Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire
3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Desktop Engineer in Oxfordshire.
Desktop Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire
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 Oxfordshire 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wantage | - | 3 | £275 | - | 1 |
| Desktop Engineer South East |
|||||
Desktop Engineer Skill Set
Top 11 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire
For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Oxfordshire region featuring Desktop Engineer in the job title.
|
Desktop Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:
|
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||