The first table below looks at the demand for the Desktop Technician role in IT jobs advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Desktop Technician in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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 South West region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Desktop Technician
Rank 206 209 214
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Desktop Technician 4 5 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 0.076% 0.090% 0.065%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.079% 0.094% 0.069%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 4
Average salary £23,500 £20,000 £21,125
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.50% -5.32%
90% offered a salary of more than £19,900 £18,800 £20,650
10% offered a salary of more than £24,700 £22,800 £21,250
UK excluding London average salary £23,500 £23,250 £21,375
% change year-on-year
+1.07% +8.77%
All Job Titles
South West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5066 5299 5804
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 96.55% 95.41% 94.93%
Number of salaries quoted 4456 4574 4970
Average salary £35,500 £36,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.38% +2.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £24,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Desktop Technician
England

Desktop Technician
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West Desktop Technician Jobs Demand Trend

Desktop Technician
Salary Trend

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

South West Desktop Technician Salary Trend

Desktop Technician
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Desktop Technician within the South West region over the 3 months to 23 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
Gloucestershire +11 2 £24,250 +25.97%
Wiltshire +10 1 £19,000 -19.14%
Dorset -13 1 - -
Desktop Technician
England

Desktop Technician
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West region that cited Desktop Technician 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 Technician in their job title.

1 7 (70.00%) ITIL
1 7 (70.00%) Windows
2 5 (50.00%) McAfee
3 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (40.00%) Windows 7
3 4 (40.00%) ITIL V3
4 3 (30.00%) Software Deployment
4 3 (30.00%) SCCM
4 3 (30.00%) Cisco
4 3 (30.00%) PDA
4 3 (30.00%) LANDesk
4 3 (30.00%) VPN
4 3 (30.00%) VoIP
4 3 (30.00%) MCP
4 3 (30.00%) MS Office
4 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (30.00%) Service Delivery
5 2 (20.00%) Change Management
5 2 (20.00%) Blackberry
5 2 (20.00%) Apple
5 2 (20.00%) VB
5 2 (20.00%) MS Excel
5 2 (20.00%) Windows XP
5 2 (20.00%) DNS
5 2 (20.00%) SLA
5 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
5 2 (20.00%) Problem Management
5 2 (20.00%) MCITP
5 2 (20.00%) Asset Management
5 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008

Desktop Technician
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West region that cited Desktop Technician 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 Technician in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (20.00%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (10.00%) Lotus Notes
1 1 (10.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) MS Office
2 2 (20.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) VPN
1 3 (30.00%) VoIP
2 2 (20.00%) DNS
3 1 (10.00%) DHCP
3 1 (10.00%) SMS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) PDA
2 2 (20.00%) Blackberry
3 1 (10.00%) Fat Client
3 1 (10.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Windows
2 4 (40.00%) Windows 7
3 2 (20.00%) Windows XP
3 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) ITIL
2 4 (40.00%) ITIL V3
3 3 (30.00%) Software Deployment
3 3 (30.00%) Service Delivery
4 2 (20.00%) Change Management
4 2 (20.00%) Problem Management
4 2 (20.00%) Asset Management
5 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) MCP
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (20.00%) MCITP
3 1 (10.00%) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) SCCM
2 2 (20.00%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) McAfee
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (30.00%) Cisco
3 3 (30.00%) LANDesk
4 2 (20.00%) Apple
4 2 (20.00%) Lumension
5 1 (10.00%) Citrix
5 1 (10.00%) Remedy
5 1 (10.00%) CommVault
5 1 (10.00%) Lotus
5 1 (10.00%) VMware
Gloucestershire, South West
DESKTOP SUPPORT TECHNICIAN - £25,000 - GLOUCESTERSHIREMicrosoft / Windows 7 / Remote Administration / Software / Desktop / Support / ITIL / Microsoft Word 2010 / AV / Framework / McAfee / SCCMMy client is requiring a desktop technician to...
OPUS
Salary: GBP25000 per annum
Posted: 30 April 2013
Gloucestershire, South West
You will have experience of working in a Windows environment with experience Windows 7 Enterprise... Experience of working in a ITIL V3 framework will also be needed... Experience...
Salary: £22000.00 - £25000.00 per annum
Posted: 30 April 2013
Gloucester, South West
You will have experience of working in a Windows environment with experience Windows 7 Enterprise... Experience of working in a ITIL V3 framework will also be needed... Experience...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £28000.00 - £30000.00 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Swindon, South West
LAN administration for NT 2000 2003 server - LAN WAN technology experience, in particular TCP IPA - Implementation of 3rd party software - client/server applications To be successful as IT...
JAM
Salary: £35000.00 per annum
Posted: 2 May 2013