Service Desk Engineer Contracts in Wiltshire

Service Desk Engineer
South West > Wiltshire

The median Service Desk Engineer daily rate in Wiltshire is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 91 78
Rank change year-on-year +5 -13 -19
Contract jobs requiring a Service Desk Engineer 4 3 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 0.42% 0.27% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.29% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile £162 - -
25th Percentile £169 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £180 £525
Median % change year-on-year +136.11% -65.71% +16.02%
75th Percentile £713 £361 -
90th Percentile - £470 -
South West median daily rate £220 £180 £525
% change year-on-year +22.22% -65.71% +16.02%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Wiltshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire. 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 Wiltshire with a recognized job title 867 1,042 854
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.17% 94.30% 95.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 867 616
10th Percentile £263 £325 £300
25th Percentile £460 £455 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year - +7.84% +7.37%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £613
90th Percentile £725 £723 £675
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 16 23
10th Percentile - £40.63 £15.00
25th Percentile £14.25 £61.13 £25.25
Median hourly rate £20.75 £65.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -68.32% +19.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £69.05
90th Percentile - £83.75 £69.81
South West median hourly rate £49.00 £65.00 £45.60
% change year-on-year -24.62% +42.54% +7.29%

Service Desk Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Desk Engineer in Wiltshire

Service Desk Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for Service Desk Engineer in Wiltshire

Service Desk Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Desk Engineer in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Service Desk Engineer in Wiltshire

Service Desk Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 25 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
Corsham -12 2 £675 +26.17%
Trowbridge - 2 £170 -
Service Desk Engineer
South West

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

For the 6 months to 25 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 Wiltshire region featuring Service Desk Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (50.00%) HP
3 2 (50.00%) Remedy
3 2 (50.00%) Project Management
3 2 (50.00%) Service Management
3 2 (50.00%) Change Management
3 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (50.00%) Firewall
3 2 (50.00%) ITSM
3 2 (50.00%) OPNET
3 2 (50.00%) VMware
3 2 (50.00%) Military
3 2 (50.00%) SAP
3 2 (50.00%) ITIL
3 2 (50.00%) PRINCE2
3 2 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (50.00%) LAN
3 2 (50.00%) WAN
3 2 (50.00%) SMTP
3 2 (50.00%) DHCP
3 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (50.00%) DNS
3 2 (50.00%) SLA
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) PKI
3 2 (50.00%) Statistical Analysis

Service Desk Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DHCP
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) LAN
1 2 (50.00%) Skype
1 2 (50.00%) SMTP
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (50.00%) WAN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Military
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows 10
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Change Management
1 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) ITSM
1 2 (50.00%) Matrix Management
1 2 (50.00%) Office Automation
1 2 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 2 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 2 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Project Management
1 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) Service Management
1 2 (50.00%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (50.00%) OPNET
1 2 (50.00%) SCCM
1 2 (50.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) HP
2 2 (50.00%) Remedy
2 2 (50.00%) SAP
2 2 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (25.00%) Snow