Senior Desktop Engineer Contracts

Senior Desktop Engineer
UK

The median Senior Desktop Engineer daily rate in the UK is £350, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 575 690 831
Rank change year-on-year +115 +141 -110
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Desktop Engineer 9 7 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.013% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.013% 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 13
10th Percentile £310 £211 £191
25th Percentile £325 £216 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £250 £235
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% +6.38% -47.78%
75th Percentile £375 £325 £295
90th Percentile £390 £355 £360
UK excluding London median daily rate £300 £350 £235
% change year-on-year -14.29% +48.94% -47.78%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Senior Desktop Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Desktop Engineer in the UK

Senior Desktop Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Desktop Engineer in the UK

Senior Desktop Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Desktop Engineer in the UK

Senior Desktop Engineer
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Desktop Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
England +88 9 £350 +40.00% 2
UK excluding London +31 5 £300 -14.29% 2
London +82 4 £400 +72.04%
West Midlands +20 3 - -
Midlands +19 3 - -
Work from Home +115 1 £400 +14.29%
South East - 1 - - 1
South West - 1 £300 -

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Senior 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 Senior Desktop Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 6 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 6 (66.67%) Citrix
2 5 (55.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (44.44%) Windows
3 4 (44.44%) PowerShell
3 4 (44.44%) Windows 10
3 4 (44.44%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
4 3 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (33.33%) Customer Service
4 3 (33.33%) Windows Server
4 3 (33.33%) Azure
4 3 (33.33%) OneDrive
4 3 (33.33%) Patch Management
4 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (33.33%) NetScaler
4 3 (33.33%) XenApp
4 3 (33.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (33.33%) XenDesktop
4 3 (33.33%) Asset Management
4 3 (33.33%) Application Packaging
4 3 (33.33%) SharePoint
4 3 (33.33%) DNS
4 3 (33.33%) NetApp
4 3 (33.33%) Change Management
4 3 (33.33%) ITSM
5 2 (22.22%) Service Delivery
5 2 (22.22%) Legal
5 2 (22.22%) CMS

Senior 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 5 (55.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (33.33%) SharePoint
3 2 (22.22%) CMS
3 2 (22.22%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
1 3 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (33.33%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) DNS
1 3 (33.33%) NetScaler
2 2 (22.22%) Skype
2 2 (22.22%) VPN
3 1 (11.11%) Remote Desktop
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Legal
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Blackberry
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
1 4 (44.44%) Windows 10
2 3 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (11.11%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Application Packaging
1 3 (33.33%) Asset Management
1 3 (33.33%) Change Management
1 3 (33.33%) Customer Service
1 3 (33.33%) ITSM
1 3 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 2 (22.22%) ITIL
2 2 (22.22%) Resource Management
2 2 (22.22%) Service Delivery
3 1 (11.11%) Business Continuity
3 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (11.11%) Data Privacy
3 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (11.11%) Identity Management
3 1 (11.11%) Load Balancing
3 1 (11.11%) Migration
3 1 (11.11%) Problem Management
3 1 (11.11%) Process Improvement
3 1 (11.11%) Service Management
3 1 (11.11%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) PowerShell
2 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (44.44%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (33.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 3 (33.33%) XenApp
3 3 (33.33%) XenDesktop
4 1 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (11.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Citrix
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) NetApp
3 2 (22.22%) Becrypt
3 2 (22.22%) ServiceNow
4 1 (11.11%) F5
4 1 (11.11%) QinetiQ
4 1 (11.11%) VMware