The first table below looks at the demand for the Desktop Support Technician role in IT jobs advertised for the Gloucester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Desktop Support Technician in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 Gloucester region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Desktop Support Technician
Rank - 60 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Desktop Support Technician 0 2 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Gloucester - 0.488% -
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.517% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 0
Average salary - £19,250 -
UK excluding London average salary £23,500 £26,500 £21,250
% change year-on-year
-11.32% +24.70%
All Job Titles
Gloucester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
227 387 202
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Gloucester 94.58% 94.39% 96.65%
Number of salaries quoted 187 295 163
Average salary £41,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.50% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £30,000 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £60,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Desktop Support Technician
Gloucestershire

Desktop Support Technician
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucester Desktop Support Technician Jobs Demand Trend

Desktop Support Technician
Salary Trend

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

Gloucester Desktop Support Technician Salary Trend

Desktop Support Technician
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Gloucester region that cited Desktop Support 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 Desktop Support Technician in their job title.

1 2 (100.00%) VB
1 2 (100.00%) MS Office
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) MCP
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Apple
1 2 (100.00%) McAfee
1 2 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 2 (100.00%) MCITP
1 2 (100.00%) Application Packaging
1 2 (100.00%) LANDesk
1 2 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 2 (100.00%) SCCM
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 7
1 2 (100.00%) Sysprep
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL V3
1 2 (100.00%) Lumension
1 2 (100.00%) Software Deployment

Desktop Support Technician
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Gloucester region that cited Desktop Support 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 Desktop Support Technician in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) Application Packaging
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) MS Office
1 2 (100.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 2 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL V3
1 2 (100.00%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) MCP
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (100.00%) MCITP
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) SCCM
1 2 (100.00%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Apple
1 2 (100.00%) McAfee
1 2 (100.00%) LANDesk
1 2 (100.00%) Lumension
Gloucester, South West
You will have experience of working in a Windows environment with experience Windows 7 Enterprise... Experience of working in a ITIL V3 framework will also be needed... Experience...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £28000.00 - £30000.00 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013