East Midlands Desktop Support Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Desktop Support 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 in their job title over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Desktop Support
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Amersham Avonmouth Banbury Barking Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Bingley Birmingham Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Caterham Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Coulsdon County Antrim Crawley Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dunstable Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edgware Egham Ely England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Hailsham Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Hitchin Horsham Huddersfield Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Perthshire Peterborough Pontypool Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Retford Rotherham Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Smethwick Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Swindon Teddington Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Tonbridge Torfaen Towcester Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Whitstable Wiltshire Windsor Witham Woking Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	161	146
Rank change on same period last year	-15
Matching permanent IT job ads	20	47
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.020 %
As % of the category below	0.390 %	0.855 %
Salaries quoted	18	39
Average minimum salary	£22,722	£20,487
Average salary	£23,542	£20,942
% change on same period last year	+12.41 %
Average maximum salary	£24,361	£21,397
UK excluding London average salary	£24,217	£23,810
% change on same period last year	+1.71 %
Job Titles East Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads	5124	5494
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.966 %	2.364 %
Salaries quoted	4511	4529
Average minimum salary	£32,064	£31,808
Average salary	£34,677	£34,263
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Average maximum salary	£37,290	£36,717
UK excluding London average salary	£38,208	£39,261
% change on same period last year	-2.68 %
Desktop Support England

Desktop Support
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Desktop Support across the East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

Desktop Support
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Desktop Support across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

Desktop Support
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Desktop Support within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 10 October 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
Nottinghamshire	-6	11	£23,694	+14.68 %
Leicestershire	-5	4	£24,000	+13.04 %
Lincolnshire	-19	3	£23,167	+49.46 %
Northamptonshire	-2	1	£22,500	+14.13 %
Derbyshire	-4	1	£22,500	-8.16 %

Desktop Support England

Desktop Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the East Midlands 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 27 (48.21 %) Windows 1 27 (48.21 %) Active Directory 2 19 (33.93 %) Microsoft 3 15 (26.79 %) Microsoft Certification 3 15 (26.79 %) Windows XP 4 13 (23.21 %) MS Excel 4 13 (23.21 %) MS Office 5 12 (21.43 %) MCP 6 11 (19.64 %) Windows 2000 7 9 (16.07 %) LAN 7 9 (16.07 %) Citrix 7 9 (16.07 %) Pensions 8 8 (14.29 %) Degree 8 8 (14.29 %) TCP/IP 8 8 (14.29 %) Windows Server 2003

9 7 (12.50 %) Health 9 7 (12.50 %) WAN 10 6 (10.71 %) SLA 10 6 (10.71 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 11 5 (8.929 %) MS Exchange 12 4 (7.143 %) Lotus Notes 12 4 (7.143 %) MCSE 12 4 (7.143 %) HND 12 4 (7.143 %) MS Project 12 4 (7.143 %) Lotus 12 4 (7.143 %) Terminal Services 12 4 (7.143 %) Windows 2000 Server 13 3 (5.357 %) PDA 13 3 (5.357 %) Wireless 13 3 (5.357 %) SQL

Desktop Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the East Midlands 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 5 (8.929 %) MS Exchange 2 4 (7.143 %) Lotus Notes 3 2 (3.571 %) CMS 4 1 (1.786 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 1 (1.786 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 1 (1.786 %) SharePoint 4 1 (1.786 %) IIS	Applications 1 13 (23.21 %) MS Office 1 13 (23.21 %) MS Excel 2 4 (7.143 %) MS Project 3 2 (3.571 %) MS Visio
Communications & Networking 1 9 (16.07 %) LAN 2 8 (14.29 %) TCP/IP 3 7 (12.50 %) WAN 4 3 (5.357 %) VPN 4 3 (5.357 %) Wireless 5 2 (3.571 %) RIP 5 2 (3.571 %) BGP 5 2 (3.571 %) EIGRP 5 2 (3.571 %) Firewall 5 2 (3.571 %) VoIP 6 1 (1.786 %) DHCP 6 1 (1.786 %) DNS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (1.786 %) SQL Server
General 1 9 (16.07 %) Pensions 2 7 (12.50 %) Health 3 2 (3.571 %) Marketing 3 2 (3.571 %) Finance 3 2 (3.571 %) Automotive 3 2 (3.571 %) Construction 4 1 (1.786 %) Education	Miscellaneous 1 3 (5.357 %) PDA 2 2 (3.571 %) French Language 2 2 (3.571 %) Fat Client 2 2 (3.571 %) Thin Client 2 2 (3.571 %) Blackberry 3 1 (1.786 %) NHS
Operating Systems 1 27 (48.21 %) Windows 2 15 (26.79 %) Windows XP 3 11 (19.64 %) Windows 2000 4 8 (14.29 %) Windows Server 2003 5 4 (7.143 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 2 (3.571 %) UNIX 6 2 (3.571 %) Windows NT 6 2 (3.571 %) Linux 7 1 (1.786 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (3.571 %) Logistics 2 1 (1.786 %) ITIL 2 1 (1.786 %) PRINCE2 2 1 (1.786 %) Project Management
Programming Languages 1 3 (5.357 %) SQL 2 2 (3.571 %) C	Qualifications 1 15 (26.79 %) Microsoft Certification 2 12 (21.43 %) MCP 3 8 (14.29 %) Degree 4 4 (7.143 %) HND 4 4 (7.143 %) MCSE 5 1 (1.786 %) MCSA 5 1 (1.786 %) CCNA 5 1 (1.786 %) Cisco Certification 5 1 (1.786 %) ITIL Certification 5 1 (1.786 %) ECDL
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (10.71 %) SLA	System Software 1 27 (48.21 %) Active Directory 2 4 (7.143 %) Terminal Services
Systems Management 1 6 (10.71 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 19 (33.93 %) Microsoft 2 9 (16.07 %) Citrix 3 4 (7.143 %) Lotus 4 2 (3.571 %) Symantec 4 2 (3.571 %) McAfee Security 4 2 (3.571 %) Cisco 4 2 (3.571 %) VERITAS 4 2 (3.571 %) Avaya 5 1 (1.786 %) Novell