Desktop Engineer Contracts

Desktop Engineer
UK

The median Desktop Engineer daily rate in the UK is £200 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 348 341 373
Rank change year-on-year -7 +32 +58
Contract jobs requiring a Desktop Engineer 264 437 626
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.61% 0.73% 0.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 0.77% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 330 452
10th Percentile £125 £140 £128
25th Percentile £143 £160 £140
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £200 £176
Median % change year-on-year - +13.48% +6.82%
75th Percentile £230 £238 £223
90th Percentile £300 £288 £275
UK excluding London median daily rate £200 £200 £175
% change year-on-year - +14.29% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 23 61
10th Percentile £16.25 £13.10 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.63 £15.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.00 £17.00 £19.22
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -11.53% +11.39%
75th Percentile £21.41 £23.63 £23.53
90th Percentile £25.28 £25.71 £27.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.00 £17.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year - -10.53% +11.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 40,172 56,583 84,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,161 39,538 59,512
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.93% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,585 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.55%

Desktop Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Desktop Engineer in the UK

Desktop Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Desktop Engineer in the UK

Desktop Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Desktop Engineer over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Desktop Engineer in the UK

Desktop Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Desktop Engineer in the UK

Desktop Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Desktop Engineer over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Desktop Engineer in the UK

Desktop Engineer
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 UK 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
England +18 238 £205 +2.50% 44
UK excluding London -20 172 £200 - 30
London +54 92 £210 +5.00% 22
South East +4 62 £215 +7.50% 3
South West +10 34 £190 -5.00% 5
Work from Home +90 30 £225 +5.84% 8
North of England +14 24 £160 -24.71% 4
North West +16 16 £153 -26.51% 2
Scotland +14 16 £160 -38.46% 7
Midlands +12 14 £122 -39.00% 2
East of England -11 13 £175 +0.14% 6
West Midlands +25 8 £117 -40.00% 1
Wales +5 7 £135 -15.63% 3
East Midlands +12 6 £122 -43.91% 1
North East +16 4 £163 -25.49% 1
Yorkshire +5 4 £198 -1.25% 1
Northern Ireland +8 3 £140 -37.78%

Desktop Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

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 featuring Desktop Engineer in the job title.

1 187 (70.83%) Windows
2 108 (40.91%) Windows 10
3 105 (39.77%) Microsoft
3 105 (39.77%) Social Skills
4 83 (31.44%) Active Directory
5 81 (30.68%) Microsoft 365
6 66 (25.00%) SCCM
6 66 (25.00%) Security Cleared
7 61 (23.11%) Customer Service
8 57 (21.59%) Problem-Solving
9 56 (21.21%) Microsoft Office
10 48 (18.18%) Windows 7
11 45 (17.05%) ITIL
12 39 (14.77%) Azure
13 35 (13.26%) SC Cleared
13 35 (13.26%) Finance
13 35 (13.26%) Public Sector
14 29 (10.98%) Organisational Skills
15 27 (10.23%) Telecoms
15 27 (10.23%) VPN
16 26 (9.85%) Microsoft Exchange
17 25 (9.47%) Manufacturing
18 24 (9.09%) Apple
18 24 (9.09%) DV Cleared
18 24 (9.09%) Driving Licence
18 24 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
19 23 (8.71%) ServiceNow
19 23 (8.71%) Citrix
20 22 (8.33%) NHS
20 22 (8.33%) SAP

Desktop Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 26 (9.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (4.92%) SharePoint
3 9 (3.41%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 4 (1.52%) CMS
4 4 (1.52%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.38%) Confluence
5 1 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.38%) IIS
Applications
1 56 (21.21%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.76%) Eikon
1 2 (0.76%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 81 (30.68%) Microsoft 365
2 39 (14.77%) Azure
3 15 (5.68%) OneDrive
4 11 (4.17%) Entra ID
5 6 (2.27%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (0.76%) BigCommerce
6 2 (0.76%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (0.76%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.38%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.38%) AWS
7 1 (0.38%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (0.38%) Azure Stack
7 1 (0.38%) Mimecast
7 1 (0.38%) Miro
7 1 (0.38%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 27 (10.23%) VPN
2 9 (3.41%) DNS
3 8 (3.03%) Firewall
4 7 (2.65%) Internet
4 7 (2.65%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (2.27%) Remote Desktop
6 5 (1.89%) NetScaler
6 5 (1.89%) Wireless
7 4 (1.52%) Skype
8 3 (1.14%) Cisco IOS
8 3 (1.14%) LAN
8 3 (1.14%) Telepresence
8 3 (1.14%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.76%) DHCP
9 2 (0.76%) WAN
9 2 (0.76%) WebEx
10 1 (0.38%) HTTP
10 1 (0.38%) Structured Cabling
10 1 (0.38%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.38%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (1.14%) JIRA
2 1 (0.38%) Hudson
General
1 105 (39.77%) Social Skills
2 35 (13.26%) Finance
2 35 (13.26%) Public Sector
3 29 (10.98%) Organisational Skills
4 27 (10.23%) Telecoms
5 25 (9.47%) Manufacturing
6 24 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
7 22 (8.33%) Marketing
8 20 (7.58%) Electronics
9 15 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
10 10 (3.79%) Banking
11 6 (2.27%) Legal
12 2 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.76%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.76%) Local Government
12 2 (0.76%) Retail
13 1 (0.38%) Law
13 1 (0.38%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.76%) VML
1 2 (0.76%) XMPP
2 1 (0.38%) CSS
2 1 (0.38%) JSON
2 1 (0.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.09%) Driving Licence
2 22 (8.33%) NHS
3 15 (5.68%) Blackberry
4 14 (5.30%) iPhone
5 10 (3.79%) CMDB
5 10 (3.79%) iPad
5 10 (3.79%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.65%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.27%) Smartphone
8 5 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.14%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.14%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.14%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (0.76%) BYOD
10 2 (0.76%) Wiki
11 1 (0.38%) Enterprise Storage
11 1 (0.38%) Handset
11 1 (0.38%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.38%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 187 (70.83%) Windows
2 108 (40.91%) Windows 10
3 48 (18.18%) Windows 7
4 13 (4.92%) Android
5 12 (4.55%) Mac OS
5 12 (4.55%) Windows Server
6 11 (4.17%) Mac OS X
7 9 (3.41%) Windows 8
8 6 (2.27%) Apple iOS
9 4 (1.52%) Windows Vista
10 2 (0.76%) Linux
11 1 (0.38%) Unix
11 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (23.11%) Customer Service
2 57 (21.59%) Problem-Solving
3 45 (17.05%) ITIL
4 22 (8.33%) Asset Management
4 22 (8.33%) Hardware Maintenance
5 20 (7.58%) Business Intelligence
5 20 (7.58%) Digital Marketing
5 20 (7.58%) Programme Management
6 19 (7.20%) Break/Fix
7 18 (6.82%) Service Delivery
8 17 (6.44%) Migration
9 16 (6.06%) Customer Requirements
9 16 (6.06%) Time Management
10 14 (5.30%) Customer Experience
11 13 (4.92%) Decision-Making
12 12 (4.55%) Patch Management
13 10 (3.79%) Mobile Device Management
14 9 (3.41%) Software Deployment
15 8 (3.03%) Application Packaging
15 8 (3.03%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 17 (6.44%) PowerShell
2 3 (1.14%) Python
3 1 (0.38%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 66 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 35 (13.26%) SC Cleared
3 24 (9.09%) DV Cleared
4 20 (7.58%) Degree
5 14 (5.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.89%) MCSE
7 4 (1.52%) A+ Certification
7 4 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (1.14%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.14%) MCSA
9 2 (0.76%) MCDST
9 2 (0.76%) MCP
10 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.33%) SLA
2 4 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 83 (31.44%) Active Directory
2 16 (6.06%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (2.27%) XenApp
3 6 (2.27%) XenDesktop
4 5 (1.89%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 3 (1.14%) Firmware
6 2 (0.76%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.38%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.38%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 66 (25.00%) SCCM
2 21 (7.95%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (1.89%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (0.76%) AirWatch
4 2 (0.76%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.38%) SCOM
5 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 105 (39.77%) Microsoft
2 24 (9.09%) Apple
3 23 (8.71%) Citrix
3 23 (8.71%) ServiceNow
4 22 (8.33%) HP
4 22 (8.33%) SAP
5 9 (3.41%) Adobe
6 8 (3.03%) Cisco
7 7 (2.65%) Bloomberg
7 7 (2.65%) Dell
8 6 (2.27%) Ivanti
9 5 (1.89%) NetApp
10 4 (1.52%) Becrypt
11 3 (1.14%) McAfee
11 3 (1.14%) Reuters
11 3 (1.14%) Sophos
12 2 (0.76%) CheckPoint
12 2 (0.76%) MobileIron
12 2 (0.76%) Remedy
12 2 (0.76%) Salesforce
55 Desktop Engineer jobs Nationwide