The first table below looks at the demand for the Service Desk Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Service Desk Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Manchester region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service Desk Engineer
Rank - - 164
Permanent jobs requiring a Service Desk Engineer 0 0 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester - - 0.228%
As % of the Job Titles category - - 0.237%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 4
Average salary - - £22,500
UK excluding London average salary £22,500 £24,000 £22,500
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
All Job Titles
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
3875 3500 3791
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 95.49% 96.53% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 3350 3122 3469
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £23,000 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Service Desk Engineer
North West

Service Desk Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester Service Desk Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Service Desk Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Manchester Service Desk Engineer Salary Trend

Service Desk Engineer
Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region that cited Service 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 Service Desk Engineer in their job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (50.00%) ADSL

Service Desk Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region that cited Service 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 Service Desk Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) ADSL
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) VMware