The first table below looks at the demand for the Desktop Support Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Desktop Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 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 England region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Desktop Support Engineer
Rank 730 743 731
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -12
Permanent jobs requiring a Desktop Support Engineer 114 126 131
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.112% 0.111% 0.108%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.119% 0.117% 0.114%
Number of salaries quoted 86 111 115
Average salary £26,500 £24,500 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.16% -2.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £20,000 £19,975
10% offered a salary of more than £36,000 £32,100 £32,500
UK excluding London average salary £25,000 £24,150 £23,250
% change year-on-year
+3.51% +3.87%
All Job Titles
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
96088 107696 114482
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 94.37% 95.02% 94.23%
Number of salaries quoted 80815 93104 97727
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
Desktop Support Engineer
UK

Desktop Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Desktop Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Desktop Support Engineer
Salary Trend

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

England Desktop Support Engineer Salary Trend

Desktop Support Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Desktop Support Engineer across the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

England Desktop Support Engineer Salary Histogram

Desktop Support Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Desktop Support Engineer within the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
London +34 45 £31,750 +15.45% 8
South East +23 44 £24,000 -4.00% 1
North West +1 6 £26,500 +17.77% 3
Yorkshire +7 5 £20,500 -
East of England -8 5 £29,000 +7.40% 1
West Midlands -6 4 £23,500 +17.50%
South West 0 3 £28,000 +40.00%
East Midlands +10 2 £23,500 +17.50% 1
North East +5 2 £23,750 -10.37%
Desktop Support Engineer
UK

Desktop Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the England region that cited Desktop Support Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title.

1 198 (84.62%) Windows
2 144 (61.54%) Microsoft
3 113 (48.29%) Active Directory
4 96 (41.03%) Windows XP
5 93 (39.74%) MS Excel
6 87 (37.18%) Windows 7
7 70 (29.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 63 (26.92%) MS Office
9 61 (26.07%) Blackberry
10 59 (25.21%) MS Exchange
11 58 (24.79%) Windows Server 2003
12 56 (23.93%) Finance
13 55 (23.50%) Windows Server 2008
14 53 (22.65%) MCSE
15 48 (20.51%) DNS
15 48 (20.51%) VMware
16 45 (19.23%) HP
16 45 (19.23%) ITIL
17 44 (18.80%) MCP
18 43 (18.38%) TCP/IP
19 40 (17.09%) Citrix
19 40 (17.09%) SCCM
20 37 (15.81%) MCITP
21 32 (13.68%) Security Cleared
22 31 (13.25%) DHCP
23 29 (12.39%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
23 29 (12.39%) SC Cleared
24 25 (10.68%) Telecoms
24 25 (10.68%) MCSA
25 24 (10.26%) WAN

Desktop Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the England region that cited Desktop Support Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (1.282%) Application Packaging
2 1 (0.427%) Software Packaging
2 1 (0.427%) X-Windows
2 1 (0.427%) COM
2 1 (0.427%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 59 (25.21%) MS Exchange
2 21 (8.974%) Exchange Server 2010
3 19 (8.120%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 13 (5.556%) Exchange Server 2003
5 11 (4.701%) IBM Notes
6 10 (4.274%) SharePoint
7 8 (3.419%) Exchange Server 2007
8 3 (1.282%) IIS
9 2 (0.855%) Lync
10 1 (0.427%) Lotus Domino
Applications
1 93 (39.74%) MS Excel
2 63 (26.92%) MS Office
3 8 (3.419%) MS PowerPoint
4 4 (1.709%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.427%) Google Apps
5 1 (0.427%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 1 (0.427%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 48 (20.51%) DNS
2 43 (18.38%) TCP/IP
3 31 (13.25%) DHCP
4 24 (10.26%) WAN
5 22 (9.402%) VPN
5 22 (9.402%) LAN
6 21 (8.974%) Firewall
7 18 (7.692%) Wireless
8 12 (5.128%) SAN
9 10 (4.274%) IP Telephony
10 8 (3.419%) VoIP
11 6 (2.564%) Internet
12 5 (2.137%) Broadband
13 3 (1.282%) Cisco IOS
13 3 (1.282%) Wi-Fi
13 3 (1.282%) MPLS
14 2 (0.855%) Ethernet
14 2 (0.855%) FTP
14 2 (0.855%) DMZ
14 2 (0.855%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.846%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.855%) MS Access
2 2 (0.855%) MySQL
2 2 (0.855%) Crystal Reports
2 2 (0.855%) SQL Server 2000
2 2 (0.855%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 5 (2.137%) MSI
2 2 (0.855%) InstallShield
3 1 (0.427%) Subversion
General
1 56 (23.93%) Finance
2 25 (10.68%) Telecoms
3 24 (10.26%) Retail
4 19 (8.120%) Banking
5 13 (5.556%) Investment Banking
6 9 (3.846%) German Language
7 6 (2.564%) French Language
8 5 (2.137%) Advertising
8 5 (2.137%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (2.137%) Front Office
9 4 (1.709%) Back Office
10 3 (1.282%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.855%) Publishing
12 1 (0.427%) Electronics
12 1 (0.427%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 61 (26.07%) Blackberry
2 8 (3.419%) iPad
3 7 (2.991%) Replication
4 6 (2.564%) Thin Client
4 6 (2.564%) Fat Client
4 6 (2.564%) Video Conferencing
4 6 (2.564%) iPhone
4 6 (2.564%) PDA
5 5 (2.137%) Hedge funds
5 5 (2.137%) Handset
6 4 (1.709%) Client/Server
6 4 (1.709%) Smartphone
7 3 (1.282%) Mobile Computing
7 3 (1.282%) Biotechnology
7 3 (1.282%) CCTV
8 2 (0.855%) Smartcard
8 2 (0.855%) Computer Science
8 2 (0.855%) Life Science
8 2 (0.855%) Open Source
9 1 (0.427%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 198 (84.62%) Windows
2 96 (41.03%) Windows XP
3 87 (37.18%) Windows 7
4 58 (24.79%) Windows Server 2003
5 55 (23.50%) Windows Server 2008
6 19 (8.120%) Linux
7 13 (5.556%) Windows Vista
8 12 (5.128%) Mac OS X
9 9 (3.846%) Windows 2000 Server
9 9 (3.846%) Windows 8
10 3 (1.282%) Apple iOS
10 3 (1.282%) Android
10 3 (1.282%) Mac OS
10 3 (1.282%) Windows NT
11 2 (0.855%) CentOS
11 2 (0.855%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.855%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.427%) Windows Mobile
12 1 (0.427%) SUSE
12 1 (0.427%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (19.23%) ITIL
2 24 (10.26%) Software Distribution
3 21 (8.974%) Software Deployment
4 8 (3.419%) Service Delivery
4 8 (3.419%) Change Management
5 5 (2.137%) Incident Management
5 5 (2.137%) Time Management
5 5 (2.137%) Workflow
5 5 (2.137%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (1.282%) Release Management
6 3 (1.282%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (1.282%) Validation
6 3 (1.282%) Migration
6 3 (1.282%) Project Management
7 2 (0.855%) CRM
7 2 (0.855%) ERP
7 2 (0.855%) Service Management
7 2 (0.855%) Data Security
7 2 (0.855%) Asset Management
7 2 (0.855%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 17 (7.265%) SQL
2 7 (2.991%) C
3 6 (2.564%) Java
4 4 (1.709%) VBScript
5 2 (0.855%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.427%) VB
Qualifications
1 70 (29.91%) Microsoft Certification
2 53 (22.65%) MCSE
3 44 (18.80%) MCP
4 37 (15.81%) MCITP
5 32 (13.68%) Security Cleared
6 29 (12.39%) SC Cleared
7 25 (10.68%) MCSA
8 13 (5.556%) MCDST
9 10 (4.274%) Degree
10 9 (3.846%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (3.419%) CCNA
12 4 (1.709%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.855%) A+ Certification
14 1 (0.427%) VTSP
14 1 (0.427%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 1 (0.427%) Network+ Certification
14 1 (0.427%) CCA
14 1 (0.427%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.556%) SLA
2 2 (0.855%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.427%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 113 (48.29%) Active Directory
2 23 (9.829%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (2.991%) VMware ESX
4 6 (2.564%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.564%) XenApp
5 3 (1.282%) XenDesktop
5 3 (1.282%) vSphere
6 2 (0.855%) ISA Server
6 2 (0.855%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (0.855%) Citrix Presentation Server
7 1 (0.427%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.427%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.427%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 40 (17.09%) SCCM
2 29 (12.39%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 21 (8.974%) OpenView Configuration Management
4 18 (7.692%) Backup Exec
5 7 (2.991%) SCOM
6 5 (2.137%) Norton AntiVirus
7 4 (1.709%) WSUS
7 4 (1.709%) HP SIM
8 3 (1.282%) MOM
9 2 (0.855%) OpenView
9 2 (0.855%) DameWare
9 2 (0.855%) Sysprep
9 2 (0.855%) Business Desktop Deployment
9 2 (0.855%) McAfee ePO
9 2 (0.855%) Puppet
10 1 (0.427%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 144 (61.54%) Microsoft
2 48 (20.51%) VMware
3 45 (19.23%) HP
4 40 (17.09%) Citrix
5 24 (10.26%) McAfee
6 22 (9.402%) Sophos
7 21 (8.974%) Fujitsu
8 18 (7.692%) Cisco
8 18 (7.692%) Bloomberg
9 13 (5.556%) Remedy
9 13 (5.556%) Apple
10 11 (4.701%) Lotus
10 11 (4.701%) Fidessa
11 10 (4.274%) Reuters
11 10 (4.274%) Symantec
12 9 (3.846%) Dell
13 8 (3.419%) Avaya
14 7 (2.991%) Adobe
15 4 (1.709%) Novell
15 4 (1.709%) WatchGuard
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