Deskside Support Contracts in the UK excluding London

Deskside Support
UK > UK excluding London

The median Deskside Support daily rate in the UK excluding London is £198 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 383 407 497
Rank change year-on-year +24 +90 -62
Contract jobs requiring a Deskside Support 17 31 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.082% 0.14% 0.089%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.088% 0.14% 0.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 22 16
10th Percentile £190 £158 £134
25th Percentile £190 £183 £135
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £198 £190 £148
Median % change year-on-year +3.95% +28.81% +17.06%
75th Percentile £208 £219 £189
90th Percentile £214 £249 £250
UK median daily rate £190 £195 £150
% change year-on-year -2.56% +30.00% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 1
10th Percentile £26.38 - -
25th Percentile £26.75 £17.50 -
Median hourly rate £28.50 £18.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.33% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £31.19 £18.91 -
90th Percentile £40.75 £19.19 -
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year +54.05% -7.50% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,247 21,469 29,158
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 94.25% 95.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,616 14,937 20,515
10th Percentile £213 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £390 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.21%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,085 1,398
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.03 £14.91
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.20
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.50 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%

Deskside Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Deskside Support in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Deskside Support in the UK excluding London

Deskside Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Deskside Support in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Deskside Support in the UK excluding London

Deskside Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Deskside Support in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Deskside Support in the UK excluding London

Deskside Support
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Deskside Support in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Deskside Support in the UK excluding London

Deskside Support
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Deskside Support within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
South East +8 7 £205 +7.89%
North of England +22 4 £190 -24.00%
North East - 4 £190 -
South West +8 3 - - 3
Midlands +22 2 £226 +37.12% 1
West Midlands +15 2 £226 - 1
Scotland +37 1 - - 4
Deskside Support
UK

Deskside Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Deskside 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Deskside Support in the job title.

1 11 (64.71%) Windows
2 9 (52.94%) Active Directory
2 9 (52.94%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
4 6 (35.29%) ServiceNow
4 6 (35.29%) Microsoft
5 5 (29.41%) Operations Management
5 5 (29.41%) Windows 10
5 5 (29.41%) Onboarding
6 4 (23.53%) Driving Licence
6 4 (23.53%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (23.53%) SCCM
6 4 (23.53%) B2B
6 4 (23.53%) EPoS
6 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (23.53%) SharePoint
7 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (17.65%) LAN
7 3 (17.65%) WAN
7 3 (17.65%) DHCP
7 3 (17.65%) VPN
7 3 (17.65%) DNS
7 3 (17.65%) AppManager
7 3 (17.65%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (17.65%) XMPP
7 3 (17.65%) Cisco
7 3 (17.65%) VMware
7 3 (17.65%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (17.65%) Ivanti
7 3 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure

Deskside Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 4 (23.53%) SharePoint
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (17.65%) OneDrive
3 2 (11.76%) Azure
4 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) DHCP
1 3 (17.65%) DNS
1 3 (17.65%) LAN
1 3 (17.65%) VLAN
1 3 (17.65%) VPN
1 3 (17.65%) WAN
1 3 (17.65%) WebEx
1 3 (17.65%) Wi-Fi
General
1 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Onboarding
2 4 (23.53%) Driving Licence
2 4 (23.53%) EPoS
3 1 (5.88%) Life Science
3 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.88%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 11 (64.71%) Windows
2 5 (29.41%) Windows 10
3 1 (5.88%) Android
3 1 (5.88%) Apple iOS
3 1 (5.88%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Operations Management
2 4 (23.53%) B2B
2 4 (23.53%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (11.76%) Incident Management
3 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (5.88%) Application Rationalisation
4 1 (5.88%) Asset Management
4 1 (5.88%) Case Management
4 1 (5.88%) Compatibility Testing
4 1 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (5.88%) Customer Service
4 1 (5.88%) DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) ITIL
4 1 (5.88%) Migration
4 1 (5.88%) Portfolio Management
4 1 (5.88%) Software Asset Management
4 1 (5.88%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
1 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (52.94%) Active Directory
2 3 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) SCCM
2 3 (17.65%) AppManager
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft
1 6 (35.29%) ServiceNow
2 3 (17.65%) Cisco
2 3 (17.65%) Ivanti
2 3 (17.65%) VMware