Desktop Engineer Contracts in London

Desktop Engineer
England > London

The median Desktop Engineer daily rate in London is £213 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 304 349 444
Rank change year-on-year +45 +95 +17
Contract jobs requiring a Desktop Engineer 89 146 152
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.51% 0.57% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.60% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 111 122
10th Percentile £125 £133 £130
25th Percentile £145 £153 £151
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £213 £200 £200
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -20.79%
75th Percentile £331 £238 £239
90th Percentile £600 £306 £281
England median daily rate £200 £200 £189
% change year-on-year - +5.96% +7.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 9
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.19 £13.60
25th Percentile £17.66 £20.77 £15.00
Median hourly rate £18.13 £24.25 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.24% +21.25% -
75th Percentile £21.41 £25.18 £23.00
90th Percentile £22.57 £25.50 £32.20
England median hourly rate £18.13 £20.75 £19.00
% change year-on-year -12.63% +9.21% +11.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,399 24,342 36,962
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 95.15% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,837 17,773 27,187
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 278 414
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.83 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.53 £23.24
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £47.18 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.40 £82.33 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.47%

Desktop Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Desktop Engineer in London

Desktop Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Desktop Engineer in London

Desktop Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Desktop Engineer in London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Desktop Engineer in London

Desktop Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Desktop Engineer in London

Desktop Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Central London +19 22 £210 +50.00%
West London +23 6 £125 -10.71% 1
East London -7 2 £310 +65.33%
Desktop Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 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 across the London region featuring Desktop Engineer in the job title.

1 62 (69.66%) Windows
2 36 (40.45%) Social Skills
3 35 (39.33%) Microsoft
4 34 (38.20%) Active Directory
5 29 (32.58%) Windows 10
6 27 (30.34%) Microsoft 365
7 22 (24.72%) Customer Service
8 18 (20.22%) Security Cleared
8 18 (20.22%) Azure
9 17 (19.10%) ServiceNow
10 16 (17.98%) SCCM
10 16 (17.98%) VPN
10 16 (17.98%) Microsoft Office
11 13 (14.61%) SC Cleared
11 13 (14.61%) Windows 7
11 13 (14.61%) Citrix
11 13 (14.61%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (13.48%) ITIL
12 12 (13.48%) Asset Management
13 11 (12.36%) Blackberry
14 10 (11.24%) Microsoft Intune
14 10 (11.24%) Finance
14 10 (11.24%) Microsoft Exchange
14 10 (11.24%) Degree
14 10 (11.24%) iPhone
15 8 (8.99%) Banking
15 8 (8.99%) SLA
15 8 (8.99%) Firewall
15 8 (8.99%) ITSM
15 8 (8.99%) Service Delivery

Desktop Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 10 (11.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.49%) CMS
2 4 (4.49%) Skype for Business
3 3 (3.37%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 2 (2.25%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.12%) Confluence
Applications
1 16 (17.98%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.12%) DaVinci Resolve
2 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 27 (30.34%) Microsoft 365
2 18 (20.22%) Azure
3 8 (8.99%) Entra ID
4 4 (4.49%) OneDrive
5 2 (2.25%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (2.25%) AWS
6 1 (1.12%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (1.12%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.12%) Azure Stack
6 1 (1.12%) Miro
6 1 (1.12%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 16 (17.98%) VPN
2 8 (8.99%) Firewall
3 4 (4.49%) Skype
4 3 (3.37%) LAN
4 3 (3.37%) WAN
5 2 (2.25%) DNS
5 2 (2.25%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (2.25%) SAN
5 2 (2.25%) Wireless
6 1 (1.12%) 3G
6 1 (1.12%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (1.12%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (3.37%) JIRA
2 1 (1.12%) Hudson
General
1 36 (40.45%) Social Skills
2 10 (11.24%) Finance
3 8 (8.99%) Banking
4 7 (7.87%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.74%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (6.74%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (4.49%) Legal
7 3 (3.37%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.25%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.12%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.25%) XMPP
2 1 (1.12%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.36%) Blackberry
2 10 (11.24%) iPhone
3 5 (5.62%) iPad
3 5 (5.62%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.49%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.25%) BYOD
5 2 (2.25%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.25%) Wiki
6 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.12%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.12%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.12%) Smartphone
6 1 (1.12%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 62 (69.66%) Windows
2 29 (32.58%) Windows 10
3 13 (14.61%) Windows 7
4 6 (6.74%) Android
5 5 (5.62%) Windows 8
6 3 (3.37%) Mac OS
6 3 (3.37%) Mac OS X
7 2 (2.25%) Linux
7 2 (2.25%) Windows Server
7 2 (2.25%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.12%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (24.72%) Customer Service
2 13 (14.61%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (13.48%) Asset Management
3 12 (13.48%) ITIL
4 8 (8.99%) ITSM
4 8 (8.99%) Service Delivery
5 6 (6.74%) Break/Fix
5 6 (6.74%) Customer Experience
5 6 (6.74%) Decision-Making
5 6 (6.74%) Time Management
6 4 (4.49%) Data Protection
6 4 (4.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (4.49%) Migration
6 4 (4.49%) Resource Management
6 4 (4.49%) Runbook
7 3 (3.37%) Logistics
7 3 (3.37%) Mobile Device Management
7 3 (3.37%) Problem Management
7 3 (3.37%) Root Cause Analysis
8 2 (2.25%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.25%) PowerShell
1 2 (2.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 18 (20.22%) Security Cleared
2 13 (14.61%) SC Cleared
3 10 (11.24%) Degree
4 7 (7.87%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.37%) MCSA
5 3 (3.37%) MCSE
6 2 (2.25%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.25%) MCP
7 1 (1.12%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.12%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.12%) CCNA
7 1 (1.12%) CCNP
7 1 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.99%) SLA
2 4 (4.49%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 34 (38.20%) Active Directory
2 8 (8.99%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (4.49%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (17.98%) SCCM
2 10 (11.24%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.25%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (1.12%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 35 (39.33%) Microsoft
2 17 (19.10%) ServiceNow
3 13 (14.61%) Citrix
4 8 (8.99%) Apple
5 7 (7.87%) Bloomberg
5 7 (7.87%) Dell
6 5 (5.62%) Adobe
6 5 (5.62%) HP
7 4 (4.49%) Becrypt
8 3 (3.37%) Ivanti
8 3 (3.37%) Reuters
9 2 (2.25%) Cisco
9 2 (2.25%) MobileIron
9 2 (2.25%) Okta
9 2 (2.25%) Refinitiv
9 2 (2.25%) VMware
10 1 (1.12%) Datto
10 1 (1.12%) EMC
10 1 (1.12%) FactSet
10 1 (1.12%) Meraki