The first table below looks at the demand for the Desktop Support role in IT jobs advertised for the St Albans region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Desktop Support 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 St Albans region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Desktop Support
Rank 32 31 37
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +6
Permanent jobs requiring a Desktop Support 3 2 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans 1.695% 1.418% 0.521%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.807% 1.538% 0.588%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 1
Average salary £25,250 £26,000 £22,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.88% +18.18%
UK excluding London average salary £25,000 £25,000 £24,000
% change year-on-year
- +4.16%
All Job Titles
St Albans
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
166 130 170
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans 93.79% 92.20% 88.54%
Number of salaries quoted 103 98 74
Average salary £35,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.25% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,250 £26,000 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £45,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Desktop Support
Hertfordshire

Desktop Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

St Albans Desktop Support Jobs Demand Trend

Desktop Support
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Desktop Support across the St Albans region.

St Albans Desktop Support Salary Trend

Desktop Support
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans region that cited Desktop 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 Desktop Support in their job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (50.00%) Backup Exec
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (25.00%) Symantec
4 1 (25.00%) Linux
4 1 (25.00%) Citrix
4 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (25.00%) Thin Client
4 1 (25.00%) Terminal Services
4 1 (25.00%) VMware
4 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
4 1 (25.00%) Fat Client
4 1 (25.00%) MS Office

Desktop Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans region that cited Desktop 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 Desktop Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Office
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Thin Client
1 1 (25.00%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Symantec
1 1 (25.00%) Citrix
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (25.00%) VMware