Senior Help Desk Support Contracts

Senior Help Desk Support
UK

The median Senior Help Desk Support daily rate in the UK is £225 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 590 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Help Desk Support 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.002% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £213 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 - -
75th Percentile £238 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £225 - -

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 40,021 55,966 84,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,056 39,104 59,482
10th Percentile £280 £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 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,666 1,571 2,084
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.29 £65.75 £49.19
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%

Senior Help Desk Support
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior Help Desk Support in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Help Desk Support in the UK

Senior Help Desk Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Help Desk Support.

Daily rate trend for Senior Help Desk Support in the UK

Senior Help Desk Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Help Desk Support.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Help Desk Support in the UK

Senior Help Desk Support
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Help Desk Support within the UK over the 6 months to 4 May 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
Yorkshire - 1 £225 -
England - 1 £225 -
UK excluding London - 1 £225 -
North of England - 1 £225 -

Senior Help Desk Support Skill Set
Top 14 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Senior Help Desk Support 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 Senior Help Desk Support in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) iPad
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service

Senior Help Desk Support 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 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft