Berkshire Desktop Support Engineer Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Desktop Support Engineer role in IT jobs within the Berkshire 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 Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Desktop Support Engineer
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Aldershot Avonmouth Barnet Bath Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Caterham Chelmsford Chippenham City of London Coulsdon Coventry Croydon Devon Docklands, London East Kilbride East Midlands East of England England Essex Exeter Fareham Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Hitchin Inverurie Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leicester Leicestershire Livingston London Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Newbury Norfolk North West Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Pontypool Preston Reading Rochester Scotland Slough Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West Southampton St Neots Staines Suffolk Surrey Swindon Torfaen Twickenham UK Wales Wallingford Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Windsor Witham Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	208	268
Rank change on same period last year	+60
Matching permanent IT job ads	32	18
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	0.420 %	0.158 %
Salaries quoted	28	16
Average minimum salary	£21,397	£24,531
Average salary	£22,793	£25,844
% change on same period last year	-11.80 %
Average maximum salary	£24,190	£27,156
UK excluding London average salary	£24,446	£23,366
% change on same period last year	+4.62 %
Job Titles Berkshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	7610	11412
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	4.910 %	5.108 %
Salaries quoted	6369	9337
Average minimum salary	£38,871	£38,405
Average salary	£42,272	£42,054
% change on same period last year	+0.51 %
Average maximum salary	£45,673	£45,703
UK excluding London average salary	£38,468	£39,125
% change on same period last year	-1.68 %
Desktop Support Engineer South East

Desktop Support Engineer
Demand Trend

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

Desktop Support Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Desktop Support Engineer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Desktop Support Engineer across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

Desktop Support Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Desktop Support Engineer within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Reading	+25	10	£22,083	-16.66 %
Slough	0	8	£19,313	-22.75 %
Newbury	-	6	£26,167	-
Windsor	-	3	£29,333	-
Bracknell	-	2	£20,000	-
Maidenhead	-	2	£22,500	-
Wokingham	-	1	£24,000	-

Desktop Support Engineer South East

Desktop Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT jobs across the Berkshire region that cited Desktop Support 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 Support Engineer in their job title.

1 45 (75.00 %) Windows 2 32 (53.33 %) Microsoft 3 24 (40.00 %) Active Directory 4 23 (38.33 %) Microsoft Certification 5 21 (35.00 %) MS Excel 6 20 (33.33 %) MS Office 7 18 (30.00 %) Windows Server 2003 8 16 (26.67 %) TCP/IP 9 15 (25.00 %) Windows XP 10 14 (23.33 %) MCSE 11 13 (21.67 %) Windows Vista 12 11 (18.33 %) Computer Science 13 10 (16.67 %) MCP 13 10 (16.67 %) MS Exchange 14 9 (15.00 %) LAN

14 9 (15.00 %) Blackberry 15 7 (11.67 %) A+ Certification 15 7 (11.67 %) Exchange Server 2003 15 7 (11.67 %) MCDST 16 6 (10.00 %) Lotus 16 6 (10.00 %) Network+ Certification 16 6 (10.00 %) Lotus Notes 17 5 (8.333 %) Windows 2000 17 5 (8.333 %) ITIL 17 5 (8.333 %) WAN 17 5 (8.333 %) CCNA 17 5 (8.333 %) Cisco Certification 17 5 (8.333 %) Degree 18 4 (6.667 %) PDA 18 4 (6.667 %) Citrix

Desktop Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT jobs across the Berkshire region that cited Desktop Support 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 Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 10 (16.67 %) MS Exchange 2 7 (11.67 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 6 (10.00 %) Lotus Notes 4 3 (5.000 %) Exchange Server 2007 5 2 (3.333 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 1 (1.667 %) GroupWise	Applications 1 21 (35.00 %) MS Excel 2 20 (33.33 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 16 (26.67 %) TCP/IP 2 9 (15.00 %) LAN 3 5 (8.333 %) WAN 4 4 (6.667 %) VPN 4 4 (6.667 %) DNS 4 4 (6.667 %) Ethernet 5 3 (5.000 %) DHCP 6 2 (3.333 %) Internet 7 1 (1.667 %) Wireless 7 1 (1.667 %) Broadband 7 1 (1.667 %) DEFINITY 7 1 (1.667 %) SMTP 7 1 (1.667 %) VoIP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (3.333 %) SQL Server
General 1 3 (5.000 %) Pharmaceutical 1 3 (5.000 %) Electric 1 3 (5.000 %) Pensions 2 1 (1.667 %) Legal	Miscellaneous 1 11 (18.33 %) Computer Science 2 9 (15.00 %) Blackberry 3 4 (6.667 %) PDA 4 1 (1.667 %) Dutch Language
Operating Systems 1 45 (75.00 %) Windows 2 18 (30.00 %) Windows Server 2003 3 15 (25.00 %) Windows XP 4 13 (21.67 %) Windows Vista 5 5 (8.333 %) Windows 2000 6 3 (5.000 %) Windows 2000 Server 7 2 (3.333 %) Linux 8 1 (1.667 %) Windows NT 8 1 (1.667 %) NetWare	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (8.333 %) ITIL 2 2 (3.333 %) Incident Management 3 1 (1.667 %) PRINCE 3 1 (1.667 %) Service Management 3 1 (1.667 %) ITSM 3 1 (1.667 %) Migration 3 1 (1.667 %) Network Design
Programming Languages 1 2 (3.333 %) SQL 2 1 (1.667 %) C	Qualifications 1 23 (38.33 %) Microsoft Certification 2 14 (23.33 %) MCSE 3 10 (16.67 %) MCP 4 7 (11.67 %) A+ Certification 4 7 (11.67 %) MCDST 5 6 (10.00 %) Network+ Certification 6 5 (8.333 %) Degree 6 5 (8.333 %) CCNA 6 5 (8.333 %) Cisco Certification 7 2 (3.333 %) MCSA 8 1 (1.667 %) HP APS
System Software 1 24 (40.00 %) Active Directory 2 3 (5.000 %) MetaFrame	Systems Management 1 1 (1.667 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 1 (1.667 %) ZENworks
Vendors 1 32 (53.33 %) Microsoft 2 6 (10.00 %) Lotus 3 4 (6.667 %) Citrix 4 3 (5.000 %) HP 4 3 (5.000 %) Cisco 5 1 (1.667 %) Oracle 5 1 (1.667 %) Avaya 5 1 (1.667 %) Lucent 5 1 (1.667 %) Novell 5 1 (1.667 %) CheckPoint 5 1 (1.667 %) Altiris