The first table below looks at the demand for the Help Desk 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 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 Hertfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Help Desk Engineer
Rank 141 - 166
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Help Desk Engineer 1 0 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.041% - 0.029%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% - 0.031%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
Average salary £23,000 - £20,500
UK excluding London average salary £21,500 £22,250 £24,000
% change year-on-year
-3.37% -7.29%
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%
Help Desk Engineer
East of England

Help Desk Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Help Desk Engineer Salary Trend

Help Desk Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Help Desk 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
Hemel Hempstead - 1 £23,000 -
Help Desk Engineer
East of England

Help Desk Engineer
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Vista
2 3 (75.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 3 (75.00%) MCTS
2 3 (75.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (75.00%) Windows 7
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (75.00%) MCSA
2 3 (75.00%) MCP
2 3 (75.00%) Windows XP
2 3 (75.00%) MS Exchange
2 3 (75.00%) Broadband
2 3 (75.00%) DHCP
2 3 (75.00%) DNS
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) IIS
3 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (25.00%) Firewall
3 1 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) VMware ESX
3 1 (25.00%) vSphere
3 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (25.00%) NAS
3 1 (25.00%) iSCSI
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure

Help Desk Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 3 (75.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 3 (75.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 3 (75.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (25.00%) IIS
2 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Broadband
1 3 (75.00%) DHCP
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) NAS
2 1 (25.00%) iSCSI
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Vista
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (75.00%) Windows 7
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (75.00%) Windows XP
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) MCTS
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (75.00%) MCSA
1 3 (75.00%) MCP
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) VMware ESX
2 1 (25.00%) vSphere
2 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) VMware