Portsmouth Helpdesk Support Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Helpdesk Support role in IT jobs within the Portsmouth 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 Support in their job title over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Help Desk Support
Location Aldershot Andover Aylesbury Banbury Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkhamsted Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brierley Hill Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Colchester Coulsdon Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Daventry Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dunstable East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenford Greenock Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Haverhill Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hoddesdon Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Inverclyde Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Lymington Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Monmouthshire Newbury Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Renfrew Renfrewshire Romford Salford Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swindon Tadworth Tamworth Telford Thame Thames Valley Torquay Trowbridge Twickenham Uckfield UK Upminster Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	45	49
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching permanent IT job ads	7	3
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	1.502 %	0.617 %
Salaries quoted	4	0
Average minimum salary	£19,000	-
Average salary	£21,375	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	£23,750	-
UK excluding London average salary	£20,652	£20,525
% change on same period last year	+0.61 %
Job Titles Portsmouth
Matching permanent IT job ads	466	486
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.251 %	0.203 %
Salaries quoted	376	348
Average minimum salary	£33,297	£33,908
Average salary	£36,591	£38,022
% change on same period last year	-3.76 %
Average maximum salary	£39,886	£42,136
UK excluding London average salary	£38,055	£39,430
% change on same period last year	-3.48 %
Helpdesk Support Hampshire

Helpdesk Support
Demand Trend

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

Helpdesk Support
Salary Trend

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

Helpdesk Support
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Helpdesk Support across the Portsmouth region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

Helpdesk Support
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Portsmouth region that cited Helpdesk 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 Helpdesk Support in their job title.

1 7 (100.00 %) Microsoft 2 6 (85.71 %) Windows 3 4 (57.14 %) MS Office 4 2 (28.57 %) Cisco Certification 4 2 (28.57 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 2 (28.57 %) Cisco 4 2 (28.57 %) MS Excel 4 2 (28.57 %) MS Exchange 4 2 (28.57 %) CCNA 4 2 (28.57 %) Windows Server 2003 5 1 (14.29 %) Symantec 5 1 (14.29 %) Norton AntiVirus 5 1 (14.29 %) Active Directory 5 1 (14.29 %) HP 5 1 (14.29 %) Citrix

5 1 (14.29 %) VPN 5 1 (14.29 %) Windows XP 5 1 (14.29 %) MCP 5 1 (14.29 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (14.29 %) MCSE 5 1 (14.29 %) Microsoft Certification 5 1 (14.29 %) VERITAS

Helpdesk Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms 1 2 (28.57 %) MS Exchange 1 2 (28.57 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 4 (57.14 %) MS Office 2 2 (28.57 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 1 (14.29 %) VPN	Operating Systems 1 6 (85.71 %) Windows 2 2 (28.57 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (14.29 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (14.29 %) Windows XP
Qualifications 1 2 (28.57 %) CCNA 1 2 (28.57 %) Cisco Certification 2 1 (14.29 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (14.29 %) MCP 2 1 (14.29 %) MCSE	System Software 1 1 (14.29 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 1 (14.29 %) Norton AntiVirus	Vendors 1 7 (100.00 %) Microsoft 2 2 (28.57 %) Cisco 3 1 (14.29 %) HP 3 1 (14.29 %) Citrix 3 1 (14.29 %) VERITAS 3 1 (14.29 %) Symantec