The first table below looks at the demand for the Desktop Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Aberdeen region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Desktop Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Aberdeen region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Desktop Engineer
Rank 43 43 -
Rank change year-on-year
0 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Desktop Engineer 6 7 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Aberdeen 1.749% 1.837% -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.824% 2.017% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 6 0
Average salary £27,000 £25,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.00% -
UK excluding London average salary £25,250 £25,000 £23,750
% change year-on-year
+1.00% +5.26%
All Job Titles
Aberdeen
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
329 347 296
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Aberdeen 95.92% 91.08% 94.27%
Number of salaries quoted 231 269 247
Average salary £42,500 £39,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.97% -13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £58,500 £54,507 £72,800
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
Desktop Engineer
Scotland

Desktop Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Desktop Engineer across the Aberdeen region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Aberdeen Desktop Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Desktop Engineer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Desktop Engineer across the Aberdeen region.

Aberdeen Desktop Engineer Salary Trend

Desktop Engineer
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Aberdeen region that cited Desktop Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Desktop Engineer in their job title.

1 4 (50.00%) ITIL
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
1 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (50.00%) SLA
1 4 (50.00%) Windows 7
2 3 (37.50%) SCCM
3 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (25.00%) Altiris
3 2 (25.00%) Apple
3 2 (25.00%) Blackberry
3 2 (25.00%) HP
3 2 (25.00%) Dell
3 2 (25.00%) Windows XP
3 2 (25.00%) VoIP
4 1 (12.50%) DHCP
4 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
4 1 (12.50%) DNS
4 1 (12.50%) Linux
4 1 (12.50%) MCP
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (12.50%) A+ Certification
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 1 (12.50%) MCDST
4 1 (12.50%) MCTS
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (12.50%) MS Office
4 1 (12.50%) Problem Management

Desktop Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Aberdeen region that cited Desktop Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Desktop Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) VoIP
2 1 (12.50%) DHCP
2 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
1 4 (50.00%) Windows 7
2 2 (25.00%) Windows XP
3 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (12.50%) Problem Management
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) MCP
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (12.50%) A+ Certification
1 1 (12.50%) MCDST
1 1 (12.50%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Altiris
1 2 (25.00%) Apple
1 2 (25.00%) HP
1 2 (25.00%) Dell
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
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