Hertfordshire Desktop Support Engineer Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Desktop Support Engineer role in IT jobs within the Hertfordshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. 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 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Desktop Support Engineer
Location Abingdon Amersham Avon Banbury Barking Basingstoke Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Caterham Cheltenham Cheshire Chippenham City of London Clapham Crawley Croydon Daventry Devon Docklands, London East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Essex Exeter Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hailsham Hampshire Hendon Hertford Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Leatherhead Leeds London Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern Manchester Middlesbrough Middlesex Newbury Newport North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Retford Scotland Sheffield Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staines Stansted Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Thame Thurrock Trowbridge UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Woking Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	162	174
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching permanent IT job ads	6	8
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	0.142 %	0.167 %
Salaries quoted	5	4
Average minimum salary	£20,600	£24,250
Average salary	£21,100	£26,750
% change on same period last year	-21.12 %
Average maximum salary	£21,600	£29,250
UK excluding London average salary	£24,787	£24,064
% change on same period last year	+3.00 %
Job Titles Hertfordshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	4220	4782
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.272 %	1.993 %
Salaries quoted	3577	4151
Average minimum salary	£37,451	£37,023
Average salary	£41,307	£40,383
% change on same period last year	+2.28 %
Average maximum salary	£45,164	£43,743
UK excluding London average salary	£38,055	£39,430
% change on same period last year	-3.48 %
Desktop Support Engineer East of England

Desktop Support Engineer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Desktop Support Engineer across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Desktop Support Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Desktop Support Engineer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Desktop Support Engineer across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

Desktop Support Engineer
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Desktop Support Engineer within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Welwyn Garden City	-	3	£20,000	-
Hertford	-	1	£19,000	-

Desktop Support Engineer East of England

Desktop Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 32 (86.49 %) Windows 2 21 (56.76 %) Active Directory 3 18 (48.65 %) Microsoft 4 17 (45.95 %) HP 5 16 (43.24 %) Windows 2000 6 14 (37.84 %) Windows XP 7 13 (35.14 %) Windows Server 2003 8 12 (32.43 %) Citrix 8 12 (32.43 %) SLA 9 11 (29.73 %) Lotus 9 11 (29.73 %) Lotus Notes 9 11 (29.73 %) MS Office 10 10 (27.03 %) DNS 10 10 (27.03 %) Windows 2000 Server 11 9 (24.32 %) PDA

11 9 (24.32 %) Dell 11 9 (24.32 %) Nortel 11 9 (24.32 %) Avaya 11 9 (24.32 %) Blackberry 11 9 (24.32 %) DHCP 11 9 (24.32 %) ADSL 11 9 (24.32 %) ISDN 12 8 (21.62 %) Remedy 13 7 (18.92 %) MS Exchange 13 7 (18.92 %) MS Excel 14 5 (13.51 %) Service Delivery 14 5 (13.51 %) Exchange Server 5.5 14 5 (13.51 %) Remedy AR System 15 4 (10.81 %) SC Cleared 15 4 (10.81 %) Security Cleared

Desktop Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 Platforms 1 11 (29.73 %) Lotus Notes 2 7 (18.92 %) MS Exchange 3 5 (13.51 %) Exchange Server 5.5 4 1 (2.703 %) Exchange Server 2000	Applications 1 11 (29.73 %) MS Office 2 7 (18.92 %) MS Excel
Business Applications 1 5 (13.51 %) Remedy AR System	Communications & Networking 1 10 (27.03 %) DNS 2 9 (24.32 %) ADSL 2 9 (24.32 %) ISDN 2 9 (24.32 %) DHCP 3 4 (10.81 %) TCP/IP 4 2 (5.405 %) Firewall 5 1 (2.703 %) Internet 5 1 (2.703 %) VPN
General 1 3 (8.108 %) Pharmaceutical 2 2 (5.405 %) Electric 3 1 (2.703 %) Finance 3 1 (2.703 %) Education	Miscellaneous 1 9 (24.32 %) Blackberry 1 9 (24.32 %) PDA
Operating Systems 1 32 (86.49 %) Windows 2 16 (43.24 %) Windows 2000 3 14 (37.84 %) Windows XP 4 13 (35.14 %) Windows Server 2003 5 10 (27.03 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 1 (2.703 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (13.51 %) Service Delivery 2 4 (10.81 %) SC Cleared 2 4 (10.81 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (2.703 %) ITIL
Programming Languages 1 1 (2.703 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 1 (2.703 %) MCSE 1 1 (2.703 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (2.703 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 12 (32.43 %) SLA 2 1 (2.703 %) ISO9000	System Software 1 21 (56.76 %) Active Directory 2 4 (10.81 %) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors 1 18 (48.65 %) Microsoft 2 17 (45.95 %) HP 3 12 (32.43 %) Citrix 4 11 (29.73 %) Lotus 5 9 (24.32 %) Avaya 5 9 (24.32 %) Dell 5 9 (24.32 %) Nortel 6 8 (21.62 %) Remedy 7 4 (10.81 %) VMware 8 3 (8.108 %) Cisco 9 1 (2.703 %) McAfee Security 9 1 (2.703 %) Novell 9 1 (2.703 %) VERITAS