Kent Desktop Support Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Desktop Support role in IT jobs within the Kent 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 in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Desktop Support
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Amersham Andover Avon Banbury Banstead Barking Barnsley Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blaenau Gwent Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chesterfield City of London Clapham County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Daresbury Daventry Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Ealing East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edgware Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Hailsham Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Hounslow Huddersfield Inverness Ipswich Kent Knottingley Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich Newbury Newport North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Perth and Kinross Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Retford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stansted Stockport Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thame Thames Valley Thurrock Tonbridge Tredegar Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Waltham Cross Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Whitstable Widnes Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	80	85
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching permanent IT job ads	17	9
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	1.343 %	0.675 %
Salaries quoted	17	8
Average minimum salary	£21,833	£23,125
Average salary	£22,861	£24,000
% change on same period last year	-4.74 %
Average maximum salary	£23,889	£24,875
UK excluding London average salary	£24,729	£24,053
% change on same period last year	+2.81 %
Job Titles Kent
Matching permanent IT job ads	1266	1334
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.668 %	0.546 %
Salaries quoted	1024	1109
Average minimum salary	£32,247	£31,566
Average salary	£35,048	£33,770
% change on same period last year	+3.78 %
Average maximum salary	£37,849	£35,974
UK excluding London average salary	£38,197	£39,483
% change on same period last year	-3.25 %
Desktop Support South East

Desktop Support
Demand Trend

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

Desktop Support
Salary Trend

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

Desktop Support
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Desktop Support across the Kent region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Desktop Support
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Desktop Support within the Kent region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Maidstone	-	8	£21,250	-
Tunbridge Wells	-5	2	£23,500	+6.01 %
Stansted	-	1	£26,500	-
Tonbridge	-	1	£21,000	-
Whitstable	-	1	£16,000	-

Desktop Support South East

Desktop Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Kent region that cited Desktop Support 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 in their job title.

1 17 (70.83 %) Windows 1 17 (70.83 %) Active Directory 2 13 (54.17 %) Windows XP 3 12 (50.00 %) Microsoft Certification 4 11 (45.83 %) Microsoft 4 11 (45.83 %) MS Exchange 5 10 (41.67 %) MCSE 5 10 (41.67 %) MCP 6 9 (37.50 %) MS Office 6 9 (37.50 %) MS Excel 7 7 (29.17 %) Cisco 7 7 (29.17 %) Exchange Server 2003 8 5 (20.83 %) TCP/IP 8 5 (20.83 %) DNS 9 4 (16.67 %) IIS

10 3 (12.50 %) Back Office 10 3 (12.50 %) Finance 10 3 (12.50 %) Pensions 10 3 (12.50 %) SQL 10 3 (12.50 %) SLA 10 3 (12.50 %) HP 10 3 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 10 3 (12.50 %) Blackberry 11 2 (8.333 %) VoIP 11 2 (8.333 %) Windows 2000 11 2 (8.333 %) MCSA 11 2 (8.333 %) Insurance 11 2 (8.333 %) Education 11 2 (8.333 %) Health 12 1 (4.167 %) Firewall

Desktop Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Kent region that cited Desktop Support 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 in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (4.167 %) .NET 1 1 (4.167 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 11 (45.83 %) MS Exchange 2 7 (29.17 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 4 (16.67 %) IIS 4 1 (4.167 %) Lotus Notes 4 1 (4.167 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 4 1 (4.167 %) Exchange Server 2000
Applications 1 9 (37.50 %) MS Office 1 9 (37.50 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 5 (20.83 %) TCP/IP 1 5 (20.83 %) DNS 2 2 (8.333 %) VoIP 3 1 (4.167 %) WAN 3 1 (4.167 %) FTP 3 1 (4.167 %) LAN 3 1 (4.167 %) PBX 3 1 (4.167 %) Firewall 3 1 (4.167 %) Wireless
General 1 3 (12.50 %) Back Office 1 3 (12.50 %) Finance 1 3 (12.50 %) Pensions 2 2 (8.333 %) Education 2 2 (8.333 %) Health 2 2 (8.333 %) Insurance	Miscellaneous 1 3 (12.50 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 17 (70.83 %) Windows 2 13 (54.17 %) Windows XP 3 3 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 4 2 (8.333 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (4.167 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (4.167 %) E-Commerce
Programming Languages 1 3 (12.50 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 12 (50.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 10 (41.67 %) MCP 2 10 (41.67 %) MCSE 3 2 (8.333 %) MCSA 4 1 (4.167 %) CNA 4 1 (4.167 %) CNE 4 1 (4.167 %) Novell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (12.50 %) SLA	System Software 1 17 (70.83 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 11 (45.83 %) Microsoft 2 7 (29.17 %) Cisco 3 3 (12.50 %) HP 4 1 (4.167 %) Dell 4 1 (4.167 %) Citrix 4 1 (4.167 %) Lotus