The first table below looks at the demand for the Help Desk Engineer 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 Help Desk Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Help Desk Engineer
Rank - 30 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Help Desk Engineer 0 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans - 0.752% -
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.813% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 0
Average salary - £28,500 -
UK excluding London average salary £21,500 £21,875 £24,000
% change year-on-year
-1.71% -8.85%
All Job Titles
St Albans
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
165 123 163
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans 91.67% 92.48% 91.06%
Number of salaries quoted 108 90 77
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 £25,500 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £45,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Help Desk Engineer
Hertfordshire

Help Desk Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

St Albans Help Desk Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Help Desk Engineer
Salary Trend

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

St Albans Help Desk Engineer Salary Trend

Help Desk Engineer
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans region that cited Help Desk 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 Help Desk Engineer in their job title.

1 2 (100.00%) IIS
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Vista
2 1 (50.00%) iSCSI
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) NAS
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESX
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft

Help Desk Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans region that cited Help Desk 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 Help Desk Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) IIS
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) iSCSI
2 1 (50.00%) NAS
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Vista
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESX
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft