Bedford Desktop Support Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Desktop Support role in IT jobs within the Bedford region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. 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 3 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Desktop Support
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Aldershot Amersham Avonmouth Barnet Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexhill-On-Sea Bingley Birmingham Bolton Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Caterham Chelmsford Cheshire Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham Ely England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Hastings Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hitchin Hounslow Huddersfield Huntingdon Inverurie Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Perthshire Peterborough Plymouth Pontypool Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Rochester Rotherham Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Sidcup Slough Smethwick Solihull Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Neots Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Swindon Teddington Teesside Thurrock Torfaen Towcester Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Whitstable Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 3 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	35	32
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching permanent IT job ads	6	3
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	2.390 %	1.068 %
Salaries quoted	6	3
Average minimum salary	£25,000	£20,000
Average salary	£25,000	£20,000
% change on same period last year	+25.00 %
Average maximum salary	£25,000	£20,000
UK excluding London average salary	£24,707	£23,159
% change on same period last year	+6.68 %
Job Titles Bedford
Matching permanent IT job ads	251	281
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.169 %	0.128 %
Salaries quoted	235	258
Average minimum salary	£31,182	£33,818
Average salary	£33,927	£38,506
% change on same period last year	-11.89 %
Average maximum salary	£36,673	£43,194
UK excluding London average salary	£38,491	£39,065
% change on same period last year	-1.46 %
Desktop Support Bedfordshire

Desktop Support
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Desktop Support across the Bedford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Desktop Support
Salary Trend

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

Desktop Support
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Desktop Support across the Bedford region over the 3 months to 3 December 2008.

Desktop Support
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT jobs across the Bedford 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 10 (90.91 %) Microsoft 2 9 (81.82 %) Blackberry 2 9 (81.82 %) Windows 2 9 (81.82 %) Lotus Notes 2 9 (81.82 %) Lotus 2 9 (81.82 %) VMware 3 8 (72.73 %) AS400 3 8 (72.73 %) MS Office 3 8 (72.73 %) Citrix 3 8 (72.73 %) Pensions 4 2 (18.18 %) MS Excel 4 2 (18.18 %) Electric 5 1 (9.091 %) MCDST 5 1 (9.091 %) Backup Exec 5 1 (9.091 %) McAfee Security

5 1 (9.091 %) Windows XP 5 1 (9.091 %) DHCP 5 1 (9.091 %) DNS 5 1 (9.091 %) IBM 5 1 (9.091 %) Lotus Domino 5 1 (9.091 %) MCSA 5 1 (9.091 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (9.091 %) Microsoft Certification 5 1 (9.091 %) VERITAS 5 1 (9.091 %) Active Directory 5 1 (9.091 %) Intel

Desktop Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT jobs across the Bedford 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.

Application Platforms 1 9 (81.82 %) Lotus Notes 2 1 (9.091 %) Lotus Domino	Applications 1 8 (72.73 %) MS Office 2 2 (18.18 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 1 (9.091 %) DHCP 1 1 (9.091 %) DNS	General 1 8 (72.73 %) Pensions 2 2 (18.18 %) Electric
Miscellaneous 1 9 (81.82 %) Blackberry 2 8 (72.73 %) AS400	Operating Systems 1 9 (81.82 %) Windows 2 1 (9.091 %) Windows 2000 2 1 (9.091 %) Windows XP
Qualifications 1 1 (9.091 %) MCSA 1 1 (9.091 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (9.091 %) MCDST	System Software 1 1 (9.091 %) Active Directory 1 1 (9.091 %) Backup Exec
Vendors 1 10 (90.91 %) Microsoft 2 9 (81.82 %) Lotus 2 9 (81.82 %) VMware 3 8 (72.73 %) Citrix 4 1 (9.091 %) VERITAS 4 1 (9.091 %) Intel 4 1 (9.091 %) IBM 4 1 (9.091 %) McAfee Security