Oxfordshire Desktop Support Engineer Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Desktop Support Engineer role in IT jobs within the Oxfordshire 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 Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Desktop Support Engineer
Location Abingdon Amersham Avon Banbury Barking Basingstoke Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Caterham Cheltenham Cheshire Chippenham City of London Clapham Crawley Croydon Devon Docklands, London East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Essex Exeter Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hailsham Hampshire Hendon Hertford Hertfordshire Hitchin Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Leeds London Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern Manchester Middlesbrough Middlesex Newbury Newport North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Retford Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staines Stansted Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Thame Thurrock Trowbridge UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Windsor Woking Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	131	132
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching permanent IT job ads	7	6
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	0.260 %	0.205 %
Salaries quoted	7	6
Average minimum salary	£18,364	£24,250
Average salary	£19,227	£25,583
% change on same period last year	-24.84 %
Average maximum salary	£20,091	£26,917
UK excluding London average salary	£24,703	£24,135
% change on same period last year	+2.35 %
Job Titles Oxfordshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	2689	2928
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.468 %	1.229 %
Salaries quoted	2383	2551
Average minimum salary	£32,247	£32,185
Average salary	£35,558	£35,434
% change on same period last year	+0.35 %
Average maximum salary	£38,869	£38,682
UK excluding London average salary	£38,060	£39,458
% change on same period last year	-3.54 %
Desktop Support Engineer South East

Desktop Support Engineer
Demand Trend

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

Desktop Support Engineer
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Desktop Support Engineer across the Oxfordshire region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Desktop Support Engineer across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Desktop Support Engineer within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 29 August 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
Oxford	+2	4	£18,500	-45.18 %
Bicester	-	3	£18,333	-
Abingdon	+1	2	£21,000	-6.66 %
Banbury	-	1	£19,000	-
Thame	-	1	£21,500	-

Desktop Support Engineer South East

Desktop Support Engineer
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire region that cited Desktop Support 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 Support Engineer in their job title.

1 9 (100.00 %) Windows 1 9 (100.00 %) Microsoft 2 6 (66.67 %) Windows XP 3 5 (55.56 %) Windows 2000 3 5 (55.56 %) TCP/IP 4 4 (44.44 %) DNS 4 4 (44.44 %) MS Excel 5 3 (33.33 %) Active Directory 6 2 (22.22 %) VPN 7 1 (11.11 %) Windows Vista 7 1 (11.11 %) SLA 7 1 (11.11 %) Dell 7 1 (11.11 %) Microsoft Certification 7 1 (11.11 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 7 1 (11.11 %) MCP

7 1 (11.11 %) MCSE 7 1 (11.11 %) MS Visio 7 1 (11.11 %) LAN 7 1 (11.11 %) WAN 7 1 (11.11 %) DHCP

Desktop Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire region that cited Desktop Support 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 Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 4 (44.44 %) MS Excel 2 1 (11.11 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 5 (55.56 %) TCP/IP 2 4 (44.44 %) DNS 3 2 (22.22 %) VPN 4 1 (11.11 %) LAN 4 1 (11.11 %) WAN 4 1 (11.11 %) DHCP
Operating Systems 1 9 (100.00 %) Windows 2 6 (66.67 %) Windows XP 3 5 (55.56 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (11.11 %) Windows Vista	Qualifications 1 1 (11.11 %) MCP 1 1 (11.11 %) MCSE 1 1 (11.11 %) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (11.11 %) SLA 1 1 (11.11 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	System Software 1 3 (33.33 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 9 (100.00 %) Microsoft 2 1 (11.11 %) Dell