The first table below looks at the demand for the Service Desk Technician role in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Service Desk Technician in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service Desk Technician
Rank 91 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Service Desk Technician 1 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.095% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.099% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £22,500 £19,250 £20,000
% change year-on-year
+16.88% -3.75%
All Job Titles
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1009 1284 1472
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 95.46% 95.82% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 587 951 1062
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 £26,000 £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%
Service Desk Technician
Scotland

Service Desk Technician
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh Service Desk Technician Jobs Demand Trend

Service Desk Technician
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region that cited Service Desk 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 Service Desk Technician in their job title.

1 2 (66.67%) MS Office
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Lotus Notes
1 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
1 2 (66.67%) Windows XP
1 2 (66.67%) MS Exchange
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) Citrix
1 2 (66.67%) Lotus
1 2 (66.67%) Mainframe
1 2 (66.67%) Windows 7
1 2 (66.67%) Lync
2 1 (33.33%) Finance

Service Desk Technician
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region that cited Service Desk 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 Service Desk Technician in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Lotus Notes
1 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
1 2 (66.67%) MS Exchange
1 2 (66.67%) Lync
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) MS Office
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows XP
1 2 (66.67%) Windows 7
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Citrix
1 2 (66.67%) Lotus