The first table below looks at the demand for the Desktop Support Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Liverpool region. 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 19 June 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 Liverpool region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Desktop Support Engineer
Rank 58 58 47
Rank change year-on-year
0 -11
Permanent jobs requiring a Desktop Support Engineer 2 6 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Liverpool 0.490% 1.172% 0.599%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.503% 1.202% 0.621%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 1
Average salary £29,000 £24,500 £19,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.36% +28.94%
UK excluding London average salary £25,000 £24,150 £23,250
% change year-on-year
+3.51% +3.87%
All Job Titles
Liverpool
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
398 499 322
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Liverpool 97.55% 97.46% 96.41%
Number of salaries quoted 352 445 264
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £26,381 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
Desktop Support Engineer
Merseyside

Desktop Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Liverpool Desktop Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Desktop Support Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Liverpool Desktop Support Engineer Salary Trend

Desktop Support Engineer
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Liverpool 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 4 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Investment Banking
2 2 (50.00%) MS PowerPoint
2 2 (50.00%) SCCM
2 2 (50.00%) Windows 7
2 2 (50.00%) Bloomberg
2 2 (50.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) DHCP
2 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) Fidessa
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (25.00%) MCP
3 1 (25.00%) MCITP

Desktop Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Liverpool 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 2 (50.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MS PowerPoint
1 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DHCP
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (25.00%) MCP
1 1 (25.00%) MCITP
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Bloomberg
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Fidessa