The first table below looks at the demand for the Desktop Support role in IT jobs advertised for the Bath region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Desktop Support in their job title over the 3 months to 24 May 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 Bath region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Desktop Support
Rank 48 - 40
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Desktop Support 1 0 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bath 0.267% - 0.971%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.279% - 0.971%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
Average salary £35,000 - £32,500
UK excluding London average salary £25,000 £25,000 £24,000
% change year-on-year
- +4.16%
All Job Titles
Bath
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
358 213 206
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bath 95.72% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 334 210 193
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £25,000 £25,250
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £62,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Desktop Support
Somerset

Desktop Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bath Desktop Support Jobs Demand Trend

Desktop Support
Salary Trend

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

Bath Desktop Support Salary Trend

Desktop Support
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bath region that cited Desktop Support 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 Support in their job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 4 (100.00%) Windows 7
2 3 (75.00%) Windows 2000
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (75.00%) MS Office
2 3 (75.00%) WAN
2 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) UNIX
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) LAN

Desktop Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bath region that cited Desktop Support 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 Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 3 (75.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) WAN
1 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (25.00%) LAN
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 4 (100.00%) Windows 7
2 3 (75.00%) Windows 2000
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (25.00%) UNIX
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft