North West Helpdesk Engineer Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Helpdesk Engineer role in IT jobs within the North West 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 Helpdesk Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 8 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Help Desk Engineer
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkhamsted Berkshire Birmingham Brierley Hill Buckinghamshire Calne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Coulsdon Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dudley Dunstable Durham East Grinstead East Midlands East of England Egham England Epsom Exeter Fareham Farnborough Gerrards Cross Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire Hounslow Kent Kidderminster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leicester Leicestershire London Loughborough Lutterworth Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Rugby Salford Scotland Shropshire Slough South East South West South Yorkshire Stratford-upon-Avon Surrey Telford Thame UK Upminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex Wilmslow Wiltshire Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	250	267
Rank change on same period last year	+17
Matching permanent IT job ads	11	11
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	0.110 %	0.088 %
Salaries quoted	11	6
Average minimum salary	£18,455	£17,611
Average salary	£19,545	£17,878
% change on same period last year	+9.32 %
Average maximum salary	£20,636	£18,144
UK excluding London average salary	£21,856	£21,487
% change on same period last year	+1.71 %
Job Titles North West
Matching permanent IT job ads	9967	12549
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	5.534 %	5.286 %
Salaries quoted	8520	10476
Average minimum salary	£32,320	£34,234
Average salary	£36,092	£37,876
% change on same period last year	-4.71 %
Average maximum salary	£39,863	£41,517
UK excluding London average salary	£38,057	£39,434
% change on same period last year	-3.49 %
Helpdesk Engineer England

Helpdesk Engineer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Helpdesk Engineer across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Helpdesk Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Helpdesk Engineer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Helpdesk Engineer across the North West region over the 3 months to 8 September 2008.

Helpdesk Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Helpdesk Engineer within the North West region over the 3 months to 8 September 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Cheshire	-15	7	£19,429	+11.02 %
Manchester	-	4	£19,750	-

Helpdesk Engineer England

Helpdesk Engineer
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT jobs across the North West region that cited Helpdesk 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 Helpdesk Engineer in their job title.

1 10 (55.56 %) Windows 2 8 (44.44 %) MS Excel 2 8 (44.44 %) Microsoft 3 6 (33.33 %) WAN 3 6 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 3 6 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 3 6 (33.33 %) MS Office 3 6 (33.33 %) Windows Vista 3 6 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 5 (27.78 %) LAN 5 4 (22.22 %) Windows XP 5 4 (22.22 %) TCP/IP 5 4 (22.22 %) SLA 5 4 (22.22 %) Active Directory 5 4 (22.22 %) Microsoft Certification

6 3 (16.67 %) Mac OS X 6 3 (16.67 %) MCP 6 3 (16.67 %) Windows 2000 6 3 (16.67 %) Firewall 6 3 (16.67 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 3 (16.67 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 2 (11.11 %) Broadband 8 1 (5.556 %) MCSE 8 1 (5.556 %) Internet 8 1 (5.556 %) ISA Server

Helpdesk Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT jobs across the North West region that cited Helpdesk 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 Helpdesk Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 6 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (16.67 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 3 (16.67 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 8 (44.44 %) MS Excel 2 6 (33.33 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 6 (33.33 %) WAN 2 5 (27.78 %) LAN 3 4 (22.22 %) TCP/IP 4 3 (16.67 %) Firewall 5 2 (11.11 %) Broadband 6 1 (5.556 %) Internet	Operating Systems 1 10 (55.56 %) Windows 2 6 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 2 6 (33.33 %) Windows Vista 2 6 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 4 (22.22 %) Windows XP 4 3 (16.67 %) Mac OS X 4 3 (16.67 %) Windows 2000
Qualifications 1 4 (22.22 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (16.67 %) MCP 3 1 (5.556 %) MCSE	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (22.22 %) SLA
System Software 1 4 (22.22 %) Active Directory 2 1 (5.556 %) ISA Server	Vendors 1 8 (44.44 %) Microsoft