Surrey Desktop Engineer Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Desktop Engineer role in IT jobs within the Surrey 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 Desktop Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Desktop Engineer
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Amersham Avon Banbury Barking Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bolton Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Castleford Caterham Cheltenham Cheshire Chippenham City of London Clapham County Antrim Crawley Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Enfield England Essex Exeter Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hailsham Hampshire Hendon Hertford Hertfordshire Hitchin Hull Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Leeds London Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern Manchester Middlesbrough Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury Newport North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Retford Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staines Stansted Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Thame Thurrock Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wigan Wiltshire Windsor Woking Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	199	220
Rank change on same period last year	+21
Matching permanent IT job ads	35	50
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.021 %
As % of the category below	0.454 %	0.506 %
Salaries quoted	30	31
Average minimum salary	£24,550	£30,032
Average salary	£25,908	£31,629
% change on same period last year	-18.08 %
Average maximum salary	£27,267	£33,226
UK excluding London average salary	£23,933	£24,374
% change on same period last year	-1.80 %
Job Titles Surrey
Matching permanent IT job ads	7717	9891
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	4.213 %	4.153 %
Salaries quoted	5903	8270
Average minimum salary	£36,315	£38,245
Average salary	£39,652	£41,612
% change on same period last year	-4.70 %
Average maximum salary	£42,990	£44,979
UK excluding London average salary	£38,060	£39,458
% change on same period last year	-3.54 %
Desktop Engineer South East

Desktop Engineer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Desktop Engineer across the Surrey region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Desktop Engineer
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Desktop Engineer across the Surrey region.

Desktop Engineer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Desktop Engineer across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Desktop Engineer within the Surrey region over the 3 months to 29 August 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
Staines	-	6	£33,000	-
Woking	-24	2	£20,875	-35.76 %
Caterham	-	2	£20,000	-
Guildford	+23	2	£27,250	-12.09 %
Sunbury-on-Thames	-	2	£31,500	-

Desktop Engineer South East

Desktop Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Surrey region that cited Desktop 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 Desktop Engineer in their job title.

1 47 (83.93 %) Windows 2 40 (71.43 %) Active Directory 3 30 (53.57 %) MS Office 4 27 (48.21 %) Windows XP 5 25 (44.64 %) Windows Server 2003 6 24 (42.86 %) Microsoft 7 20 (35.71 %) MS Exchange 8 19 (33.93 %) MS Excel 9 18 (32.14 %) Windows 2000 Server 10 15 (26.79 %) Microsoft Certification 11 14 (25.00 %) Windows 2000 12 13 (23.21 %) MCP 13 12 (21.43 %) MCSE 14 11 (19.64 %) SQL Server 15 10 (17.86 %) Exchange Server 2003

15 10 (17.86 %) Citrix 16 9 (16.07 %) Wireless 17 8 (14.29 %) Toshiba 17 8 (14.29 %) Terminal Server 17 8 (14.29 %) Sophos 17 8 (14.29 %) Blackberry 17 8 (14.29 %) Dell 17 8 (14.29 %) SurfControl 18 7 (12.50 %) Windows Vista 18 7 (12.50 %) LAN 18 7 (12.50 %) Terminal Services 18 7 (12.50 %) DameWare 19 6 (10.71 %) SLA 19 6 (10.71 %) MS Visio 20 5 (8.929 %) Exchange Server 2000

Desktop Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Surrey region that cited Desktop 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 Desktop Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 20 (35.71 %) MS Exchange 2 10 (17.86 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 5 (8.929 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 3 (5.357 %) IIS 5 2 (3.571 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 1 (1.786 %) SharePoint 6 1 (1.786 %) Site Server	Applications 1 30 (53.57 %) MS Office 2 19 (33.93 %) MS Excel 3 6 (10.71 %) MS Visio 4 2 (3.571 %) MS Project
Communications & Networking 1 9 (16.07 %) Wireless 2 7 (12.50 %) LAN 3 5 (8.929 %) DHCP 3 5 (8.929 %) TCP/IP 3 5 (8.929 %) DNS 4 2 (3.571 %) SMS 4 2 (3.571 %) WAN 4 2 (3.571 %) Broadband 5 1 (1.786 %) Cisco IPT 5 1 (1.786 %) Firewall	Database & Business Intelligence 1 11 (19.64 %) SQL Server 2 2 (3.571 %) SQL Server 2000
General 1 5 (8.929 %) Finance 2 3 (5.357 %) Health 3 2 (3.571 %) Insurance 3 2 (3.571 %) Pensions 3 2 (3.571 %) Construction 4 1 (1.786 %) Education	Miscellaneous 1 8 (14.29 %) Blackberry 2 4 (7.143 %) Spanish Language 3 2 (3.571 %) NHS 3 2 (3.571 %) Biology
Operating Systems 1 47 (83.93 %) Windows 2 27 (48.21 %) Windows XP 3 25 (44.64 %) Windows Server 2003 4 18 (32.14 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 14 (25.00 %) Windows 2000 6 7 (12.50 %) Windows Vista 7 2 (3.571 %) Mac OS X 8 1 (1.786 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (5.357 %) ITIL
Programming Languages 1 2 (3.571 %) SQL 1 2 (3.571 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 15 (26.79 %) Microsoft Certification 2 13 (23.21 %) MCP 3 12 (21.43 %) MCSE 4 2 (3.571 %) MCSA 4 2 (3.571 %) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (10.71 %) SLA	System Software 1 40 (71.43 %) Active Directory 2 8 (14.29 %) Terminal Server 3 7 (12.50 %) Terminal Services
Systems Management 1 7 (12.50 %) DameWare 2 2 (3.571 %) MOM 2 2 (3.571 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 1 (1.786 %) Norton AntiVirus	Vendors 1 24 (42.86 %) Microsoft 2 10 (17.86 %) Citrix 3 8 (14.29 %) Dell 3 8 (14.29 %) Sophos 3 8 (14.29 %) Toshiba 3 8 (14.29 %) SurfControl 4 5 (8.929 %) LANDesk 5 4 (7.143 %) HP 5 4 (7.143 %) Cisco 6 2 (3.571 %) Oracle 6 2 (3.571 %) Adobe 7 1 (1.786 %) CommVault 7 1 (1.786 %) Reuters 7 1 (1.786 %) Bloomberg 7 1 (1.786 %) Symantec 7 1 (1.786 %) CQG 7 1 (1.786 %) BT