The first table below looks at the demand for the Desktop Support role in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh 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 23 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 Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Desktop Support
Rank 84 89 101
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +12
Permanent jobs requiring a Desktop Support 2 3 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.188% 0.219% 0.252%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.196% 0.230% 0.265%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 2
Average salary £29,000 £25,000 £29,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.00% -15.25%
UK excluding London average salary £25,000 £25,000 £23,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.38%
All Job Titles
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1021 1304 1512
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 95.96% 95.39% 95.33%
Number of salaries quoted 593 952 1095
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £26,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Desktop Support
Scotland

Desktop Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Desktop Support Salary Trend

Desktop Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, 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 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) Windows 7
3 2 (50.00%) Degree
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (50.00%) XenApp
3 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (50.00%) Citrix
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (50.00%) PRINCE2
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (50.00%) ITIL
4 1 (25.00%) MCP
4 1 (25.00%) MS Office
4 1 (25.00%) UNIX
4 1 (25.00%) Dell
4 1 (25.00%) MCSE
4 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
4 1 (25.00%) CRM
4 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
4 1 (25.00%) Windows XP
4 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
4 1 (25.00%) LAN
4 1 (25.00%) DHCP
4 1 (25.00%) VPN
4 1 (25.00%) DNS
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (25.00%) RDF
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification

Desktop Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, 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 (25.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Office
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) LAN
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Replication
1 1 (25.00%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Windows 7
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (25.00%) UNIX
4 1 (25.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) CRM
2 1 (25.00%) RDF
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) MCP
2 1 (25.00%) MCSE
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) XenApp
3 1 (25.00%) Terminal Server
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Citrix
3 1 (25.00%) Dell
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft