The first table below looks at the demand for the Service Desk Technician role in IT jobs advertised for the Southampton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Service Desk Technician 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 Southampton region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service Desk Technician
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Service Desk Technician 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton - - -
As % of the Job Titles category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £22,500 £19,000 £21,500
% change year-on-year
+18.42% -11.62%
All Job Titles
Southampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
815 898 600
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 97.72% 97.61% 96.15%
Number of salaries quoted 743 840 543
Average salary £37,500 £38,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.31% +8.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £22,500 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Service Desk Technician
Hampshire

Service Desk Technician
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton Service Desk Technician Jobs Demand Trend

Service Desk Technician
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Service Desk Technician across the Southampton region.

Southampton Service Desk Technician Salary Trend

Service Desk Technician
Top 6 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton region that cited Service Desk 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 Service Desk Technician in their job title.

1 1 (100.00%) MS Office
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft

Service Desk Technician
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton region that cited Service Desk 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 Service Desk Technician in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft