Desktop Support Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Desktop Support Engineer
England > North of England

The median Desktop Support Engineer salary in the North of England is £28,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 367 417 417
Rank change year-on-year +50 0 -53
Permanent jobs requiring a Desktop Support Engineer 25 15 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.14% 0.090% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.10% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 25 10 26
10th Percentile £24,944 £24,950 £22,000
25th Percentile £26,600 £25,000 £25,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,000 £25,250 £27,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.89% -8.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £33,750 £30,500 £30,750
90th Percentile £35,000 £33,875 £33,000
England median annual salary £32,500 £32,500 £33,000
% change year-on-year - -1.52% +0.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the North of England with a recognized job title 17,160 14,889 17,534
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.07% 89.43% 96.26%
Number of salaries quoted 13,252 8,066 10,891
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.65% +1.33% +9.09%

Desktop Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Desktop Support Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Desktop Support Engineer in the North of England

Desktop Support Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Desktop Support Engineer in the North of England.

Salary trend for Desktop Support Engineer in the North of England

Desktop Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Desktop Support Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 26 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Desktop Support Engineer in the North of England

Desktop Support Engineer
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Desktop Support Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 26 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +16 19 £27,000 +8.00% 2
Yorkshire +77 6 £32,500 +3.17% 1
Desktop Support Engineer
England

Desktop Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 26 May 2024, Desktop Support Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North of England region featuring Desktop Support Engineer in the job title.

1 21 (84.00%) Microsoft
2 20 (80.00%) Windows
3 18 (72.00%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (44.00%) Social Skills
5 10 (40.00%) Driving Licence
5 10 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (36.00%) Active Directory
6 9 (36.00%) Degree
6 9 (36.00%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (28.00%) Customer Service
8 6 (24.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (24.00%) Computer Science
8 6 (24.00%) TCP/IP
9 5 (20.00%) A+ Certification
9 5 (20.00%) MCP
9 5 (20.00%) Mac OS
9 5 (20.00%) Network Security
9 5 (20.00%) DBS Check
9 5 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (20.00%) Onboarding
10 4 (16.00%) ServiceNow
10 4 (16.00%) SCCM
11 3 (12.00%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (12.00%) Firewall
11 3 (12.00%) ITSM
11 3 (12.00%) WAN
11 3 (12.00%) LAN
11 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (12.00%) Windows 10

Desktop Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 18 (72.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (36.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (4.00%) AWS
2 1 (4.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (24.00%) TCP/IP
2 5 (20.00%) Network Security
3 3 (12.00%) Firewall
3 3 (12.00%) LAN
3 3 (12.00%) WAN
3 3 (12.00%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (8.00%) DHCP
4 2 (8.00%) DNS
4 2 (8.00%) Internet
4 2 (8.00%) VPN
5 1 (4.00%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (4.00%) VoIP
5 1 (4.00%) Wireless
General
1 11 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.00%) Billing
2 2 (8.00%) Law
3 1 (4.00%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 10 (40.00%) Driving Licence
2 5 (20.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (8.00%) Fat Client
3 2 (8.00%) Thin Client
3 2 (8.00%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (4.00%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 20 (80.00%) Windows
2 5 (20.00%) Mac OS
3 3 (12.00%) Windows 10
4 2 (8.00%) Windows XP
5 1 (4.00%) Android
5 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (28.00%) Customer Service
2 6 (24.00%) Computer Science
2 6 (24.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (12.00%) ITSM
4 2 (8.00%) Service Management
4 2 (8.00%) Statistics
5 1 (4.00%) Asset Management
5 1 (4.00%) Data Security
5 1 (4.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (4.00%) E-Commerce
5 1 (4.00%) ITIL
5 1 (4.00%) Proactive Maintenance
5 1 (4.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (36.00%) Degree
3 5 (20.00%) A+ Certification
3 5 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (20.00%) DBS Check
3 5 (20.00%) MCP
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.00%) CCNA
4 1 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (36.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.00%) Terminal Services
3 1 (4.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.00%) KVM
3 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) SCCM
2 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 21 (84.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (8.00%) Citrix
4 1 (4.00%) Aruba
4 1 (4.00%) Dell
4 1 (4.00%) VMware