Desktop Support Engineer Contracts in Romford

Desktop Support Engineer
Havering > Romford

The median Desktop Support Engineer daily rate in Romford is £245, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Desktop Support Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Romford 28.57% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 28.57% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £243 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £245 - -
75th Percentile £248 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Havering median daily rate £245 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Romford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Romford. 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 Romford with a recognized job title 7 1 4
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 50.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile £213 - £180
25th Percentile £232 - £195
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £245 £440 £327
Median % change year-on-year -44.32% +34.67% +48.52%
75th Percentile £257 - £475
90th Percentile £274 - -
Havering median daily rate £245 £440 £327
% change year-on-year -44.32% +34.67% +14.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £11.33 - -
25th Percentile £16.33 - -
Median hourly rate £24.66 - -
75th Percentile £30.83 - -
90th Percentile £34.53 - -
Havering median hourly rate £24.66 £23.32 £36.00
% change year-on-year +5.75% -35.22% +61.58%

Desktop Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Romford

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

Job vacancy trend for Desktop Support Engineer in Romford

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, 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 Romford region featuring Desktop Support Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) VoIP
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) AppManager
1 2 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
1 2 (100.00%) Ivanti
1 2 (100.00%) SCCM
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) OneDrive
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Service

Desktop Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Romford 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 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
1 2 (100.00%) VoIP
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Service
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) AppManager
1 2 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Ivanti
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) VMware