Desktop Technician Jobs in the UK excluding London

Desktop Technician
UK > UK excluding London

The median Desktop Technician salary in the UK excluding London is £28,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 742 738 829
Rank change year-on-year -4 +91 -150
Permanent jobs requiring a Desktop Technician 20 18 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.029% 0.029% 0.024%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.033% 0.025%
Number of salaries quoted 11 15 13
10th Percentile £26,500 £20,175 £21,300
25th Percentile £27,000 £20,250 £22,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,000 £27,500 £25,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £36,375 £28,750 £27,500
90th Percentile £43,750 - -
UK median annual salary £30,000 £27,500 £25,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 66,441 54,823 67,755
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 89.23% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,080 31,110 43,010
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

Desktop Technician
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Desktop Technician in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Desktop Technician in the UK excluding London

Desktop Technician
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Desktop Technician in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Desktop Technician in the UK excluding London

Desktop Technician
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Desktop Technician in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Desktop Technician in the UK excluding London

Desktop Technician
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Desktop Technician within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +20 6 £42,500 +105.56%
East of England - 5 £28,000 -
Scotland - 4 - - 1
East Midlands - 3 - -
Midlands - 3 - -
North of England - 2 £28,204 -
North East - 1 £28,407 -
North West - 1 £28,000 -
Desktop Technician
UK

Desktop Technician Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Desktop Technician job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Desktop Technician in the job title.

1 14 (70.00%) Windows
2 13 (65.00%) Microsoft
3 10 (50.00%) Active Directory
4 8 (40.00%) Retail
5 6 (30.00%) ITIL
5 6 (30.00%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (25.00%) Sage
6 5 (25.00%) VMware
6 5 (25.00%) McAfee
6 5 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (25.00%) Acronis
6 5 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
7 4 (20.00%) Windows 10
7 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
7 4 (20.00%) AWS
7 4 (20.00%) vSphere
7 4 (20.00%) McAfee ePO
8 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (15.00%) IT Asset Management
8 3 (15.00%) Mac OS
8 3 (15.00%) Customer Engagement
8 3 (15.00%) Azure
8 3 (15.00%) Customer Service
8 3 (15.00%) Finance
8 3 (15.00%) Video Conferencing
8 3 (15.00%) Asset Management
8 3 (15.00%) Multimedia

Desktop Technician Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (15.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (20.00%) AWS
3 3 (15.00%) Azure
4 1 (5.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (5.00%) Firewall
2 1 (5.00%) LAN
2 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.00%) WAN
2 1 (5.00%) Wireless
General
1 8 (40.00%) Retail
2 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Finance
3 3 (15.00%) Multimedia
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (70.00%) Windows
2 4 (20.00%) Windows 10
3 3 (15.00%) Mac OS
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) ITIL
2 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (15.00%) Asset Management
3 3 (15.00%) Customer Engagement
3 3 (15.00%) Customer Service
3 3 (15.00%) IT Asset Management
4 1 (5.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (5.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) NVQ Level 3
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.00%) CCNA
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 10 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (20.00%) vSphere
4 1 (5.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) McAfee ePO
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (65.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (25.00%) Acronis
2 5 (25.00%) McAfee
2 5 (25.00%) Sage
2 5 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (5.00%) Aruba
3 1 (5.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (5.00%) Citrix
3 1 (5.00%) Dell
3 1 (5.00%) HP