Edinburgh Desktop Support Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Desktop Support role in IT jobs within the Edinburgh region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT job ads that have cited Desktop Support in their job title over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Amersham Andover Avon Banstead Barking Barnsley Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Belper Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blaenau Gwent Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Clapham County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Daresbury Daventry Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Ealing East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edgware Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Hailsham Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Hounslow Huddersfield Inverness Ipswich Kent Kettering Knottingley Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich Newbury Newport North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Perth and Kinross Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Retford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stansted Stirling Stockport Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton-in-Ashfield Swansea Swindon Thame Thames Valley Thurrock Tredegar Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Waltham Cross Warrington Warwickshire Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Whitstable Widnes Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	85	95
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching permanent IT job ads	2	6
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	0.153 %	0.297 %
Salaries quoted	2	4
Average minimum salary	£20,000	£23,750
Average salary	£20,625	£24,375
% change on same period last year	-15.38 %
Average maximum salary	£21,250	£25,000
UK excluding London average salary	£24,590	£23,980
% change on same period last year	+2.54 %
Job Titles Edinburgh
Matching permanent IT job ads	1309	2022
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.683 %	0.834 %
Salaries quoted	939	1358
Average minimum salary	£31,194	£33,607
Average salary	£34,493	£36,930
% change on same period last year	-6.60 %
Average maximum salary	£37,792	£40,253
UK excluding London average salary	£38,227	£39,513
% change on same period last year	-3.25 %
Desktop Support Scotland

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Demand Trend

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

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Desktop Support across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008.

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Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 2 (66.67 %) MS Office 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows 1 2 (66.67 %) MS Excel 1 2 (66.67 %) Finance 2 1 (33.33 %) Legal 2 1 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 2 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory 2 1 (33.33 %) Blackberry 2 1 (33.33 %) Financial Institution

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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	Applications 1 2 (66.67 %) MS Office 1 2 (66.67 %) MS Excel
General 1 2 (66.67 %) Finance 2 1 (33.33 %) Legal 2 1 (33.33 %) Financial Institution	Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows	System Software 1 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft