Service Desk Engineer Contracts in South London

Service Desk Engineer
London > South London

The median Service Desk Engineer daily rate in South London is £463 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Service Desk Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 0.84% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £289 - -
25th Percentile £347 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - -
75th Percentile £597 - -
90th Percentile £666 - -
London median daily rate £213 £231 £190
% change year-on-year -8.16% +21.78% +8.57%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in South London. 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 South London with a recognized job title 232 354 352
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.48% 92.43% 96.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 279 271
10th Percentile £201 £213 £225
25th Percentile £402 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% -1.91%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £638
90th Percentile £638 £775 £700
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 13 13
10th Percentile £17.00 £18.75 £38.58
25th Percentile £21.25 £20.00 £39.75
Median hourly rate £23.50 £23.46 £46.29
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% -49.32% -0.27%
75th Percentile £75.00 £50.42 £48.58
90th Percentile £83.75 £52.46 £54.69
London median hourly rate £27.66 £35.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.10% +1.43% +12.90%

Service Desk Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Job postings that featured Service Desk Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South London.

Job vacancy trend for Service Desk Engineer in South London

Service Desk Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Service Desk Engineer in South London.

Daily rate trend for Service Desk Engineer in South London

Service Desk Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Desk Engineer in South London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Service Desk Engineer in South London

Service Desk Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Service Desk Engineer in South London.

Hourly rate trend for Service Desk Engineer in South London

Service Desk Engineer
Contract Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Service Desk Engineer within the South London region over the 6 months to 26 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
Croydon - 1 £675 -
Merton - 1 £250 -
Service Desk Engineer
London

Service Desk Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Service Desk 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 South London region featuring Service Desk Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) ITSM
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) OPNET
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Military
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (50.00%) PKI
2 1 (50.00%) Statistical Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 1 (50.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Matrix Management
2 1 (50.00%) SCCM

Service Desk Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) Skype
1 1 (50.00%) SMTP
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Military
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (50.00%) Android
2 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (50.00%) VMS
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) ITSM
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Matrix Management
2 1 (50.00%) Office Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (50.00%) OPNET
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
1 1 (50.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Remedy
2 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (50.00%) VMware