Staffordshire Helpdesk Support Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Helpdesk Support role in IT jobs within the Staffordshire 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 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Help Desk Support
Location Abingdon Aldershot Andover Aylesbury Banbury Barking Barnet Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkhamsted Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brierley Hill Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire Chessington Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Dunstable East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Faversham Glasgow Gloucestershire Godalming Greenford Greenock Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Haverhill Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hoddesdon Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Huntingdon Ilford Inverclyde Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlborough Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrew Renfrewshire Ripon Rochester Romford Salford Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Street Suffolk Surrey Swindon Tamworth Teddington Telford Thame Thames Valley Thurrock Trowbridge Twickenham Uckfield UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	54	56
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching permanent IT job ads	6	4
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	0.902 %	0.621 %
Salaries quoted	6	4
Average minimum salary	£16,667	£15,919
Average salary	£18,167	£16,919
% change on same period last year	+7.37 %
Average maximum salary	£19,667	£17,919
UK excluding London average salary	£21,035	£20,526
% change on same period last year	+2.47 %
Job Titles Staffordshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	665	644
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.388 %	0.276 %
Salaries quoted	530	553
Average minimum salary	£29,943	£32,847
Average salary	£32,932	£35,581
% change on same period last year	-7.44 %
Average maximum salary	£35,920	£38,315
UK excluding London average salary	£38,201	£39,267
% change on same period last year	-2.71 %
Helpdesk Support West Midlands

Helpdesk Support
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Helpdesk Support across the Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Helpdesk Support
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Helpdesk Support across the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

Helpdesk Support
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Helpdesk Support within the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Tamworth	-	4	£19,000	-
Burton-upon-Trent	-	2	£16,500	-

Helpdesk Support West Midlands

Helpdesk Support
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 10 (71.43 %) Windows 2 6 (42.86 %) Active Directory 2 6 (42.86 %) Terminal Services 3 5 (35.71 %) Citrix 3 5 (35.71 %) SLA 4 4 (28.57 %) Chemicals 4 4 (28.57 %) Construction 4 4 (28.57 %) Microsoft Certification 4 4 (28.57 %) ITIL 4 4 (28.57 %) MCSA 4 4 (28.57 %) Windows NT 4 4 (28.57 %) Windows XP 5 3 (21.43 %) MS Excel 5 3 (21.43 %) Windows 2000 5 3 (21.43 %) Microsoft

6 2 (14.29 %) C 7 1 (7.143 %) SQL 7 1 (7.143 %) SQL Server 7 1 (7.143 %) MS Exchange 7 1 (7.143 %) Windows Server 2003 7 1 (7.143 %) French Language 7 1 (7.143 %) Spanish Language 7 1 (7.143 %) Windows 2000 Server

Helpdesk Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 1 (7.143 %) MS Exchange	Applications 1 3 (21.43 %) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (7.143 %) SQL Server	General 1 4 (28.57 %) Chemicals 1 4 (28.57 %) Construction
Miscellaneous 1 1 (7.143 %) French Language 1 1 (7.143 %) Spanish Language	Operating Systems 1 10 (71.43 %) Windows 2 4 (28.57 %) Windows NT 2 4 (28.57 %) Windows XP 3 3 (21.43 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (7.143 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (7.143 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (28.57 %) ITIL	Programming Languages 1 2 (14.29 %) C 2 1 (7.143 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 4 (28.57 %) MCSA 1 4 (28.57 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (35.71 %) SLA
System Software 1 6 (42.86 %) Active Directory 1 6 (42.86 %) Terminal Services	Vendors 1 5 (35.71 %) Citrix 2 3 (21.43 %) Microsoft