The first table below looks at the demand for the Help Desk Support role in IT jobs advertised for the Brighton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Help Desk Support 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 Brighton region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Help Desk Support
Rank 86 78 64
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -14
Permanent jobs requiring a Help Desk Support 3 6 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brighton 0.372% 0.814% 0.965%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.383% 0.826% 1.002%
Number of salaries quoted 3 6 5
Average salary £25,000 £35,000 £18,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-28.57% +89.18%
UK excluding London average salary £21,250 £20,000 £20,000
% change year-on-year
+6.25% -
All Job Titles
Brighton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
783 726 499
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brighton 97.03% 98.51% 96.33%
Number of salaries quoted 709 643 476
Average salary £35,000 £34,500 £34,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.44% -
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £22,000 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £42,500 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
Help Desk Support
East Sussex

Help Desk Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton Help Desk Support Jobs Demand Trend

Help Desk Support
Salary Trend

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

Brighton Help Desk Support Salary Trend

Help Desk Support
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Brighton region that cited Help Desk 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 Help Desk Support in their job title.

1 9 (90.00%) MS Office
2 8 (80.00%) MS Excel
3 7 (70.00%) ITIL
4 3 (30.00%) Windows 7
4 3 (30.00%) Windows
5 2 (20.00%) Windows XP
5 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
5 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (20.00%) Firewall
5 2 (20.00%) VMware
6 1 (10.00%) Backup Exec
6 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (10.00%) Xen
6 1 (10.00%) Windows Vista
6 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
6 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
6 1 (10.00%) Symantec
6 1 (10.00%) Mac OS X
6 1 (10.00%) MS Exchange
6 1 (10.00%) Cisco
6 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
6 1 (10.00%) C#
6 1 (10.00%) VB
6 1 (10.00%) .NET
6 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
6 1 (10.00%) IIS

Help Desk Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Brighton region that cited Help Desk 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 Help Desk Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (10.00%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (90.00%) MS Office
2 8 (80.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows 7
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) Windows XP
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Vista
3 1 (10.00%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (10.00%) C#
1 1 (10.00%) VB
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Xen
2 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (20.00%) VMware
2 1 (10.00%) Symantec
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco