Deskside Support Engineer Contracts

Deskside Support Engineer
UK

The median Deskside Support Engineer daily rate in the UK is £180, 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 572 666 822
Rank change year-on-year +94 +156 -96
Contract jobs requiring a Deskside Support Engineer 12 31 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.056% 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.059% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 18 15
10th Percentile £162 £149 £135
25th Percentile £165 £183 £143
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £180 £190 £150
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +26.67% +31.04%
75th Percentile £195 £230 £209
90th Percentile £211 £250 £250
UK excluding London median daily rate £200 £190 £150
% change year-on-year +5.26% +26.67% +31.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile £50.30 - -
25th Percentile £50.75 £17.50 -
Median hourly rate £51.50 £18.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +186.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £52.25 £18.91 -
90th Percentile £52.70 £19.19 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +186.11% -10.00% -

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%

Deskside Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Deskside Support Engineer in the UK

Deskside Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Deskside Support Engineer.

Daily rate trend for Deskside Support Engineer in the UK

Deskside Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Deskside Support Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for Deskside Support Engineer in the UK

Deskside Support 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 Deskside Support 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 +68 12 £180 -5.26% 8
London +81 8 £175 -30.00% 1
UK excluding London +11 4 £200 +5.26% 10
South East +13 2 - -
Work from Home +110 1 £150 -24.34%
West Midlands +18 1 £190 - 1
Midlands +15 1 £190 +15.15% 1
South West - 1 £210 - 3

Deskside Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Deskside Support 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 Deskside Support Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 6 (50.00%) Windows
2 5 (41.67%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 4 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 4 (33.33%) SCCM
3 4 (33.33%) Legal
3 4 (33.33%) Migration
4 3 (25.00%) Incident Management
4 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
4 3 (25.00%) ITIL
4 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (25.00%) Azure
5 2 (16.67%) PDA
5 2 (16.67%) CMDB
5 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow
5 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
5 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 2 (16.67%) Case Management
5 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
5 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
6 1 (8.33%) Android
6 1 (8.33%) Mac OS
6 1 (8.33%) Degree
6 1 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (8.33%) Smartphone
6 1 (8.33%) Multimedia
6 1 (8.33%) Workflow

Deskside Support 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:

Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (25.00%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) FTP
1 1 (8.33%) Internet
1 1 (8.33%) VPN
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Legal
3 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Aerospace
4 1 (8.33%) Multimedia
4 1 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) CMDB
1 2 (16.67%) PDA
2 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (8.33%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Windows
2 4 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 1 (8.33%) Android
3 1 (8.33%) Apple iOS
3 1 (8.33%) Mac OS
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Customer Service
1 4 (33.33%) Migration
2 3 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (16.67%) Case Management
4 1 (8.33%) Break/Fix
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Software Distribution
4 1 (8.33%) Systems Engineering
4 1 (8.33%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) SCCM
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow