The first table below looks at the demand for the Help Desk Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Help Desk Engineer 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 Guildford region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Help Desk Engineer
Rank 82 80 50
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -30
Permanent jobs requiring a Help Desk Engineer 2 2 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford 0.225% 0.276% 1.066%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.231% 0.285% 1.085%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 5
Average salary £19,500 £22,000 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.36% -12.00%
UK excluding London average salary £21,500 £22,250 £24,000
% change year-on-year
-3.37% -7.29%
All Job Titles
Guildford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
866 702 461
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford 97.52% 96.96% 98.29%
Number of salaries quoted 722 675 429
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £50,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Help Desk Engineer
Surrey

Help Desk Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford Help Desk Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Help Desk Engineer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Help Desk Engineer across the Guildford region.

Guildford Help Desk Engineer Salary Trend

Help Desk Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Guildford region that cited Help Desk 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 Help Desk Engineer in their job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) Dell
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (50.00%) Blackberry
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) TELNET
3 1 (25.00%) CMS
3 1 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Symposium
3 1 (25.00%) IP Telephony
3 1 (25.00%) VLAN
3 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) Nortel
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix
3 1 (25.00%) Avaya
3 1 (25.00%) DEFINITY
3 1 (25.00%) Avaya Certification
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
3 1 (25.00%) CRM
3 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
3 1 (25.00%) Broadband
3 1 (25.00%) LAN
3 1 (25.00%) WAN
3 1 (25.00%) DHCP
3 1 (25.00%) HTTP
3 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP

Help Desk Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Guildford region that cited Help Desk 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 Help Desk Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) CMS
1 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) TELNET
2 1 (25.00%) Symposium
2 1 (25.00%) IP Telephony
2 1 (25.00%) VLAN
2 1 (25.00%) DEFINITY
2 1 (25.00%) Broadband
2 1 (25.00%) LAN
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
2 1 (25.00%) DHCP
2 1 (25.00%) HTTP
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
General
1 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) CRM
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Avaya Certification
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Dell
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (25.00%) Nortel
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix
3 1 (25.00%) Avaya