Milton Keynes Desktop Support Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Desktop Support role in IT jobs within the Milton Keynes 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 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Desktop Support
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Amersham Andover Avon Banbury Barking Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Caterham Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Daresbury Devon Docklands, London Dorset Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edgware England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Hailsham Hammersmith Hampshire Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Horsham Hounslow Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knottingley Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Milton Keynes Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Perthshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Retford Rotherham Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stansted Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thame Thames Valley Thurrock Tonbridge Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Waltham Cross Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Whitstable Widnes Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	94
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching permanent IT job ads	0	5
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.331 %
Salaries quoted	0	4
Average minimum salary	-	£24,750
Average salary	-	£26,625
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	-	£28,500
UK excluding London average salary	£24,378	£24,713
% change on same period last year	-1.35 %
Job Titles Milton Keynes
Matching permanent IT job ads	1315	1509
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.718 %	0.634 %
Salaries quoted	1187	1248
Average minimum salary	£34,646	£33,318
Average salary	£37,484	£36,282
% change on same period last year	+3.31 %
Average maximum salary	£40,321	£39,246
UK excluding London average salary	£38,060	£39,458
% change on same period last year	-3.54 %
Desktop Support Buckinghamshire

Desktop Support
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Desktop Support across the Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Desktop Support
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 14 (82.35 %) Windows 2 8 (47.06 %) Active Directory 3 7 (41.18 %) Windows Server 2003 4 4 (23.53 %) Microsoft 5 3 (17.65 %) Windows XP 5 3 (17.65 %) Microsoft Certification 6 2 (11.76 %) MCP 6 2 (11.76 %) MCSE 6 2 (11.76 %) HTML 7 1 (5.882 %) PHP 7 1 (5.882 %) MySQL 7 1 (5.882 %) Dreamweaver 7 1 (5.882 %) Thin Client 7 1 (5.882 %) Citrix 7 1 (5.882 %) Wyse

7 1 (5.882 %) Migration 7 1 (5.882 %) Windows Vista 7 1 (5.882 %) Business Desktop Deployment 7 1 (5.882 %) Fat Client

Desktop Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 2 (11.76 %) HTML	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (5.882 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 1 (5.882 %) Dreamweaver	Miscellaneous 1 1 (5.882 %) Thin Client 1 1 (5.882 %) Fat Client
Operating Systems 1 14 (82.35 %) Windows 2 7 (41.18 %) Windows Server 2003 3 3 (17.65 %) Windows XP 4 1 (5.882 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (5.882 %) Migration 1 1 (5.882 %) Business Desktop Deployment
Programming Languages 1 1 (5.882 %) PHP	Qualifications 1 3 (17.65 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (11.76 %) MCP 2 2 (11.76 %) MCSE
System Software 1 8 (47.06 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 4 (23.53 %) Microsoft 2 1 (5.882 %) Citrix 2 1 (5.882 %) Wyse