East Midlands Desktop Support Technician Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Desktop Support Technician role in IT jobs within the East Midlands 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 Technician in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Desktop Support Technician
Location Banstead Bedford Bedfordshire Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire City of London Croydon East Midlands East of England England Farnborough Gloucestershire Hampshire Ipswich Kent Leeds London Maidstone Manchester Middlesex Milton Keynes North West Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire South East South West Southampton Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swindon UK Warrington West Sussex West Yorkshire Whitstable Wiltshire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	174	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching permanent IT job ads	2	0
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.044 %	0.000 %
Salaries quoted	2	0
Average minimum salary	£25,500	-
Average salary	£27,500	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	£29,500	-
UK excluding London average salary	£22,151	£19,778
% change on same period last year	+11.99 %
Job Titles East Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads	4586	5371
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.421 %	2.199 %
Salaries quoted	3895	4467
Average minimum salary	£32,139	£31,427
Average salary	£34,828	£33,959
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Average maximum salary	£37,517	£36,492
UK excluding London average salary	£38,197	£39,483
% change on same period last year	-3.25 %
Desktop Support Technician England

Desktop Support Technician
Demand Trend

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

Desktop Support Technician
Salary Trend

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

Desktop Support Technician
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Desktop Support Technician within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Northamptonshire	-	1	£22,000	-
Nottinghamshire	-	1	£33,000	-

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Desktop Support Technician
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the East Midlands region that cited Desktop Support Technician 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 Technician in their job title.

1 9 (81.82 %) Microsoft 2 7 (63.64 %) MS Office 3 6 (54.55 %) Windows 3 6 (54.55 %) Windows 2000 3 6 (54.55 %) Windows XP 3 6 (54.55 %) Active Directory 4 4 (36.36 %) Avaya 4 4 (36.36 %) McAfee Security 4 4 (36.36 %) BGP 4 4 (36.36 %) Blackberry 4 4 (36.36 %) EIGRP 4 4 (36.36 %) MS Exchange 4 4 (36.36 %) VoIP 4 4 (36.36 %) RIP 4 4 (36.36 %) VPN

4 4 (36.36 %) MS Project 4 4 (36.36 %) Cisco 4 4 (36.36 %) C 4 4 (36.36 %) Firewall 4 4 (36.36 %) Automotive 4 4 (36.36 %) CMS 5 3 (27.27 %) Wireless 5 3 (27.27 %) PDA 5 3 (27.27 %) MCP 5 3 (27.27 %) MCSA 5 3 (27.27 %) MS Excel 5 3 (27.27 %) TCP/IP 5 3 (27.27 %) Citrix 5 3 (27.27 %) Microsoft Certification 6 2 (18.18 %) VERITAS

Desktop Support Technician
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the East Midlands region that cited Desktop Support Technician 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 Technician in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 4 (36.36 %) MS Exchange 1 4 (36.36 %) CMS 2 1 (9.091 %) Lotus Notes	Applications 1 7 (63.64 %) MS Office 2 4 (36.36 %) MS Project 3 3 (27.27 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 4 (36.36 %) VPN 1 4 (36.36 %) BGP 1 4 (36.36 %) EIGRP 1 4 (36.36 %) Firewall 1 4 (36.36 %) VoIP 1 4 (36.36 %) RIP 2 3 (27.27 %) TCP/IP 2 3 (27.27 %) Wireless 3 2 (18.18 %) LAN	General 1 4 (36.36 %) Automotive 2 1 (9.091 %) Health 2 1 (9.091 %) Pensions
Miscellaneous 1 4 (36.36 %) Blackberry 2 3 (27.27 %) PDA	Operating Systems 1 6 (54.55 %) Windows 1 6 (54.55 %) Windows 2000 1 6 (54.55 %) Windows XP
Programming Languages 1 4 (36.36 %) C 2 2 (18.18 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 3 (27.27 %) MCP 1 3 (27.27 %) MCSA 1 3 (27.27 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (9.091 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (18.18 %) SLA	System Software 1 6 (54.55 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 1 (9.091 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 9 (81.82 %) Microsoft 2 4 (36.36 %) Avaya 2 4 (36.36 %) Cisco 2 4 (36.36 %) McAfee Security 3 3 (27.27 %) Citrix 4 2 (18.18 %) VERITAS 4 2 (18.18 %) Symantec 5 1 (9.091 %) Lotus