The first table below looks at the demand for the Desktop Support Specialist role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Desktop Support Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Desktop Support Specialist
Rank 848 879 849
Rank change year-on-year
+31 -30
Permanent jobs requiring a Desktop Support Specialist 12 8 22
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.011% 0.007% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% 0.007% 0.019%
Number of salaries quoted 12 7 7
Average salary £42,500 £26,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+63.46% -25.71%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £25,400 £25,700
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £57,500 £36,600
UK excluding London average salary - £23,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year
- -23.33%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
102582 114838 114977
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.43% 94.76% 94.22%
Number of salaries quoted 85352 98508 97090
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%

Desktop Support Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Desktop Support Specialist within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Desktop Support Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Desktop Support Specialist
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Desktop Support Specialist within the UK.

Desktop Support Specialist Salary Trend

Desktop Support Specialist
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Desktop Support Specialist over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 within the UK.

Desktop Support Specialist Salary Histogram

Desktop Support Specialist
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Desktop Support Specialist within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +36 12 £42,500 +63.46%
England +13 12 £42,500 +63.46%
City of London +9 7 £42,500 +1.79%

Desktop Support Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Desktop Support Specialist 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 Support Specialist in their job title.

1 24 (100.00%) Windows
2 15 (62.50%) Windows 7
3 14 (58.33%) Microsoft
4 13 (54.17%) Apple
5 12 (50.00%) Blackberry
6 11 (45.83%) MS Office
7 10 (41.67%) MS Excel
7 10 (41.67%) Citrix
8 9 (37.50%) Active Directory
8 9 (37.50%) Front Office
9 8 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (33.33%) Lotus
9 8 (33.33%) Lotus Notes
10 7 (29.17%) TCP/IP
10 7 (29.17%) Windows XP
10 7 (29.17%) Project Planning
11 6 (25.00%) MS PowerPoint
11 6 (25.00%) DHCP
12 5 (20.83%) VoIP
12 5 (20.83%) VPN
12 5 (20.83%) DNS
12 5 (20.83%) MCSE
12 5 (20.83%) HP
12 5 (20.83%) Internet
12 5 (20.83%) MCITP
13 4 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
13 4 (16.67%) Finance
13 4 (16.67%) VMware
13 4 (16.67%) ITIL
14 3 (12.50%) MS Visio

Desktop Support Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Desktop Support Specialist 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 Support Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (8.333%) Application Packaging
1 2 (8.333%) .NET
1 2 (8.333%) ASP.NET
1 2 (8.333%) COM
Application Platforms
1 8 (33.33%) Lotus Notes
2 2 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (8.333%) SharePoint
2 2 (8.333%) MS Exchange
3 1 (4.167%) Lotus Domino
Applications
1 11 (45.83%) MS Office
2 10 (41.67%) MS Excel
3 6 (25.00%) MS PowerPoint
4 3 (12.50%) MS Visio
5 2 (8.333%) Acrobat
Communications & Networking
1 7 (29.17%) TCP/IP
2 6 (25.00%) DHCP
3 5 (20.83%) VoIP
3 5 (20.83%) VPN
3 5 (20.83%) DNS
3 5 (20.83%) Internet
4 3 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (12.50%) Wireless
5 2 (8.333%) MPLS
5 2 (8.333%) Firewall
5 2 (8.333%) LDAP
5 2 (8.333%) LAN
5 2 (8.333%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.333%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (8.333%) MSI
General
1 9 (37.50%) Front Office
2 4 (16.67%) Finance
3 3 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (12.50%) Back Office
4 2 (8.333%) Local Government
4 2 (8.333%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 12 (50.00%) Blackberry
2 3 (12.50%) PDA
2 3 (12.50%) Biotechnology
2 3 (12.50%) iPad
3 2 (8.333%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 24 (100.00%) Windows
2 15 (62.50%) Windows 7
3 7 (29.17%) Windows XP
4 2 (8.333%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (8.333%) CentOS
4 2 (8.333%) Mac OS X Server
4 2 (8.333%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (8.333%) SUSE
4 2 (8.333%) Debian
4 2 (8.333%) Linux
4 2 (8.333%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (29.17%) Project Planning
2 4 (16.67%) ITIL
3 3 (12.50%) Validation
3 3 (12.50%) Change Management
3 3 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (12.50%) Web Development
3 3 (12.50%) Software Distribution
4 1 (4.167%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.50%) VBA
2 2 (8.333%) PowerShell
2 2 (8.333%) C#
2 2 (8.333%) Perl
2 2 (8.333%) SQL
2 2 (8.333%) T-SQL
2 2 (8.333%) VBScript
2 2 (8.333%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (20.83%) MCSE
2 5 (20.83%) MCITP
3 3 (12.50%) Degree
4 2 (8.333%) MCDST
4 2 (8.333%) MCSA
5 1 (4.167%) MCTS
System Software
1 9 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 4 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (8.333%) Hyper-V
3 2 (8.333%) XenApp
3 2 (8.333%) XenServer
3 2 (8.333%) XenDesktop
3 2 (8.333%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 2 (8.333%) Samba
3 2 (8.333%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) SCCM
2 2 (8.333%) Tivoli Endpoint Manager
2 2 (8.333%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 14 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 13 (54.17%) Apple
3 10 (41.67%) Citrix
4 8 (33.33%) Lotus
5 5 (20.83%) HP
6 4 (16.67%) VMware
7 3 (12.50%) Dell
7 3 (12.50%) Mitel
8 2 (8.333%) Bloomberg
8 2 (8.333%) AppSense
8 2 (8.333%) Adobe
8 2 (8.333%) Red Hat