The first table below looks at the demand for the Help Desk Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Stoke-on-Trent 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 20 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 Stoke-on-Trent region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Help Desk Engineer
Rank 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Help Desk Engineer 3 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stoke-on-Trent 2.041% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.083% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
Average salary £21,250 - -
UK excluding London average salary £21,500 £22,000 £23,750
% change year-on-year
-2.27% -7.36%
All Job Titles
Stoke-on-Trent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
144 185 177
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stoke-on-Trent 97.96% 98.40% 96.20%
Number of salaries quoted 131 152 125
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Help Desk Engineer
Staffordshire

Help Desk Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stoke-on-Trent 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 Stoke-on-Trent region.

Stoke-on-Trent Help Desk Engineer Salary Trend

Help Desk Engineer
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stoke-on-Trent 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 7 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (85.71%) DNS
2 6 (85.71%) LAN
2 6 (85.71%) WAN
3 5 (71.43%) MS Office
4 4 (57.14%) Validation
4 4 (57.14%) VMware
4 4 (57.14%) CMDB
4 4 (57.14%) Exchange Server 2007
4 4 (57.14%) Windows 7
4 4 (57.14%) VoIP
4 4 (57.14%) Windows
4 4 (57.14%) Lotus Notes
4 4 (57.14%) LDAP
4 4 (57.14%) Windows XP
4 4 (57.14%) MS Exchange
4 4 (57.14%) DHCP
4 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
4 4 (57.14%) VPN
4 4 (57.14%) SAN
4 4 (57.14%) Lotus
4 4 (57.14%) MPLS
4 4 (57.14%) Configuration Management
5 3 (42.86%) Citrix
6 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
7 1 (14.29%) ITIL

Help Desk Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stoke-on-Trent 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 4 (57.14%) Lotus Notes
1 4 (57.14%) MS Exchange
1 4 (57.14%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 5 (71.43%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) LAN
1 6 (85.71%) WAN
1 6 (85.71%) DNS
2 4 (57.14%) SAN
2 4 (57.14%) MPLS
2 4 (57.14%) LDAP
2 4 (57.14%) VPN
2 4 (57.14%) DHCP
2 4 (57.14%) VoIP
3 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
1 4 (57.14%) Windows XP
1 4 (57.14%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Configuration Management
1 4 (57.14%) Validation
2 1 (14.29%) ITIL
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Lotus
1 4 (57.14%) VMware
2 3 (42.86%) Citrix