The first table below looks at the demand for the Desktop Support role in IT jobs advertised for the Croydon 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 Croydon region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Desktop Support
Rank 37 47 34
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -13
Permanent jobs requiring a Desktop Support 3 1 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Croydon 1.017% 0.300% 3.203%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.099% 0.336% 3.285%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 9
Average salary £34,000 £26,500 £22,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+28.30% +17.77%
UK excluding London average salary £25,000 £25,000 £24,000
% change year-on-year
- +4.16%
All Job Titles
Croydon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
273 298 274
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Croydon 92.54% 89.49% 97.51%
Number of salaries quoted 243 273 259
Average salary £45,000 £37,500 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.00% -8.53%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £25,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £75,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Desktop Support
London

Desktop Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Croydon 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 Croydon region.

Croydon Desktop Support Salary Trend

Desktop Support
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Croydon 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 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows 7
2 2 (66.67%) Network Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Backup Exec
2 2 (66.67%) Mitel
2 2 (66.67%) VLAN
2 2 (66.67%) SCCM
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
2 2 (66.67%) Windows XP
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) SAN
2 2 (66.67%) Symantec
2 2 (66.67%) MSI
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
3 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010

Desktop Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Croydon 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 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
1 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
1 2 (66.67%) VLAN
1 2 (66.67%) SAN
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) MSI
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows 7
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Network Architecture
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Backup Exec
1 2 (66.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) Mitel
1 2 (66.67%) Symantec
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft