The first table below looks at the demand for the Desktop Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Desktop Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 North West region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Desktop Engineer
Rank 234 231 224
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a Desktop Engineer 9 16 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.125% 0.225% 0.146%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.131% 0.235% 0.152%
Number of salaries quoted 6 15 9
Average salary £25,000 £22,500 £19,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% +18.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £19,300 £16,500
10% offered a salary of more than £27,750 £30,000 £27,600
UK excluding London average salary £25,000 £25,000 £22,750
% change year-on-year
- +9.89%
All Job Titles
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
6864 6805 6559
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 95.53% 95.87% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 5816 6001 5810
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £22,807 £22,500
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%
Desktop Engineer
England

Desktop Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West Desktop Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Desktop Engineer
Salary Trend

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

North West Desktop Engineer Salary Trend

Desktop Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Desktop Engineer within the North West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Manchester -16 6 £24,250 -6.73%
Merseyside +14 3 £27,000 +20.00%
Desktop Engineer
England

Desktop Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West region that cited Desktop 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 Engineer in their job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Windows
2 11 (84.62%) Windows XP
2 11 (84.62%) Microsoft
3 10 (76.92%) Active Directory
4 8 (61.54%) Blackberry
5 7 (53.85%) Windows 7
6 6 (46.15%) MS Office
6 6 (46.15%) ITIL
7 5 (38.46%) MS Exchange
8 4 (30.77%) WAN
8 4 (30.77%) Cisco
8 4 (30.77%) Finance
9 3 (23.08%) Banking
9 3 (23.08%) SCCM
9 3 (23.08%) DNS
9 3 (23.08%) TCP/IP
9 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (23.08%) LAN
9 3 (23.08%) MS Excel
9 3 (23.08%) Windows 8
10 2 (15.38%) Mobile Computing
10 2 (15.38%) VoIP
10 2 (15.38%) MCP
10 2 (15.38%) A+ Certification
10 2 (15.38%) SAN
10 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (15.38%) Fidessa
10 2 (15.38%) HP
10 2 (15.38%) DHCP
10 2 (15.38%) Investment Banking

Desktop Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West region that cited Desktop 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 Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (7.692%) Application Packaging
1 1 (7.692%) HTML
1 1 (7.692%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 5 (38.46%) MS Exchange
2 2 (15.38%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (7.692%) Lync
Applications
1 6 (46.15%) MS Office
2 3 (23.08%) MS Excel
3 2 (15.38%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) WAN
2 3 (23.08%) DNS
2 3 (23.08%) TCP/IP
2 3 (23.08%) LAN
3 2 (15.38%) VoIP
3 2 (15.38%) SAN
3 2 (15.38%) DHCP
4 1 (7.692%) Wireless
4 1 (7.692%) NAS
4 1 (7.692%) Ethernet
4 1 (7.692%) VPN
4 1 (7.692%) Broadband
General
1 4 (30.77%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Banking
3 2 (15.38%) Investment Banking
4 1 (7.692%) Publishing
4 1 (7.692%) Marketing
4 1 (7.692%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) Blackberry
2 2 (15.38%) Mobile Computing
3 1 (7.692%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Windows
2 11 (84.62%) Windows XP
3 7 (53.85%) Windows 7
4 3 (23.08%) Windows 8
5 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (15.38%) Windows Vista
6 1 (7.692%) Mac OS
6 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (7.692%) UNIX
6 1 (7.692%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) ITIL
2 1 (7.692%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (7.692%) Workflow
2 1 (7.692%) Direct Marketing
2 1 (7.692%) Database Marketing
2 1 (7.692%) Problem Management
2 1 (7.692%) Incident Management
2 1 (7.692%) Asset Management
2 1 (7.692%) ITIL V2
2 1 (7.692%) Customer Insight
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.692%) JavaScript
1 1 (7.692%) VBScript
1 1 (7.692%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (15.38%) MCP
2 2 (15.38%) A+ Certification
3 1 (7.692%) MCITP
3 1 (7.692%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.692%) SLA
1 1 (7.692%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (76.92%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.692%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) SCCM
2 1 (7.692%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) Microsoft
2 4 (30.77%) Cisco
3 2 (15.38%) Fidessa
3 2 (15.38%) HP
3 2 (15.38%) Bloomberg
4 1 (7.692%) SurfControl
4 1 (7.692%) Remedy
4 1 (7.692%) Sophos
4 1 (7.692%) Websense
4 1 (7.692%) IBM
4 1 (7.692%) Dell
4 1 (7.692%) EMC
4 1 (7.692%) Intel