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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Desktop Engineer
Rank 136 134 165
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +31
Permanent jobs requiring a Desktop Engineer 6 11 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.245% 0.434% 0.059%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.262% 0.451% 0.063%
Number of salaries quoted 6 8 2
Average salary £22,500 £30,000 £30,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-25.00% -0.82%
UK excluding London average salary £25,000 £25,000 £22,750
% change year-on-year
- +9.89%
All Job Titles
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2294 2439 3192
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 93.82% 96.29% 93.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1869 1978 2595
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +3.65%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £59,500 £59,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Desktop Engineer
East of England

Desktop Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire Desktop Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Desktop Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Hertfordshire Desktop Engineer Salary Trend

Desktop Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Desktop Engineer within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 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
St Albans - 2 £22,500 -
Desktop Engineer
East of England

Desktop Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 6 (85.71%) Windows
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
2 5 (71.43%) VMware
2 5 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (71.43%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (57.14%) VMware ESX
3 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
3 4 (57.14%) Windows 7
3 4 (57.14%) Cisco
4 3 (42.86%) Windows XP
4 3 (42.86%) MS Excel
5 2 (28.57%) Firewall
5 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (28.57%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 2 (28.57%) Business Desktop Deployment
5 2 (28.57%) MCP
5 2 (28.57%) MCSE
5 2 (28.57%) IIS
5 2 (28.57%) VoIP
5 2 (28.57%) DHCP
5 2 (28.57%) DNS
5 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (28.57%) SCCM
5 2 (28.57%) vSphere
5 2 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (28.57%) Lync
6 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (14.29%) Windows 8
6 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2013

Desktop Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) IIS
1 2 (28.57%) Lync
2 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2013
2 1 (14.29%) MS Exchange
2 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 3 (42.86%) MS Excel
2 1 (14.29%) MS Office
2 1 (14.29%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
1 2 (28.57%) VoIP
1 2 (28.57%) DHCP
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Windows
2 5 (71.43%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (57.14%) Windows 7
4 3 (42.86%) Windows XP
5 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (14.29%) Windows 8
6 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (14.29%) Linux
6 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) MCP
1 2 (28.57%) MCSE
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (57.14%) VMware ESX
2 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
3 2 (28.57%) vSphere
3 2 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 2 (28.57%) Business Desktop Deployment
1 2 (28.57%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
2 5 (71.43%) VMware
3 4 (57.14%) Cisco
4 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
4 1 (14.29%) Apple