Desktop Support Technician Jobs
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Desktop Support Technician 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 Technician in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Desktop Support Technician
Rank 832 885 863
Rank change year-on-year
+53 -22
Permanent jobs requiring a Desktop Support Technician 30 14 18
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.028% 0.012% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.029% 0.012% 0.015%
Number of salaries quoted 28 11 17
Average salary £25,000 £26,000 £22,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.84% +18.18%
90% offered a salary of more than £19,000 £20,000 £19,300
10% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £31,000 £25,700
UK excluding London average salary £23,500 £25,500 £21,250
% change year-on-year
-7.84% +20.00%
Search 8 Desktop Support Technician jobs
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 102035 114410 117207
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.41% 94.80% 94.20%
Number of salaries quoted 84835 98106 99148
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 Technician
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Desktop Support Technician Jobs Demand Trend

Desktop Support Technician
Salary Trend

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

Desktop Support Technician Salary Trend

Desktop Support Technician
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Desktop Support Technician over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 within the UK.

Desktop Support Technician Salary Histogram

Desktop Support Technician
Top 28 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Desktop Support Technician within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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
England +40 29 £25,000 -3.84%
London +57 8 £29,000 +11.53%
East of England +9 7 £23,500 -
South East +8 7 £22,000 -21.42%
Gloucestershire +8 3 £25,000 +29.87%
South West 0 3 £25,000 +29.87%
Tyne and Wear - 3 £19,000 -
Oxford - 3 £22,000 -
Norwich - 3 £23,500 -
Newcastle upon Tyne - 3 £19,000 -
St Albans - 3 £25,250 -
North East - 3 £19,000 -
Oxfordshire - 3 £22,000 -
Norfolk - 3 £23,500 -
Hertfordshire - 3 £25,250 -
Hampshire - 2 £11,250 -
City of London - 2 £32,500 -
Gloucester +7 1 £29,000 +50.64%
Yorkshire +3 1 £19,000 -17.39%
Surrey +3 1 £27,000 -3.57%
Suffolk -13 1 £22,000 -
Scotland - 1 £26,000 -
East Sussex - 1 £29,000 -
South Yorkshire - 1 £19,000 -
Sheffield - 1 £19,000 -
Ipswich - 1 £22,000 -
Brighton - 1 £29,000 -
Aberdeen - 1 £26,000 -

Desktop Support Technician
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Desktop Support Technician 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 Technician in their job title.

1 44 (84.62%) Windows
2 29 (55.77%) Active Directory
3 22 (42.31%) MS Office
4 20 (38.46%) Microsoft
5 19 (36.54%) Windows 7
6 17 (32.69%) Windows XP
6 17 (32.69%) MS Exchange
7 14 (26.92%) Windows Server 2008
8 13 (25.00%) ITIL
9 12 (23.08%) Citrix
9 12 (23.08%) Windows Server 2003
10 10 (19.23%) Cisco
11 8 (15.38%) VPN
11 8 (15.38%) McAfee
11 8 (15.38%) Exchange Server 2010
12 7 (13.46%) Windows Vista
12 7 (13.46%) DNS
13 6 (11.54%) VoIP
13 6 (11.54%) DHCP
13 6 (11.54%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (11.54%) VMware
13 6 (11.54%) ITIL V3
14 5 (9.615%) LANDesk
14 5 (9.615%) SCCM
14 5 (9.615%) Apple
14 5 (9.615%) Disaster Recovery
14 5 (9.615%) SLA
14 5 (9.615%) MCP
15 4 (7.692%) Firewall
15 4 (7.692%) Service Delivery

Desktop Support Technician
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Desktop Support Technician 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 Technician in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (3.846%) Application Packaging
2 1 (1.923%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 17 (32.69%) MS Exchange
2 8 (15.38%) Exchange Server 2010
3 4 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2007
4 2 (3.846%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (1.923%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (1.923%) Lync
5 1 (1.923%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (1.923%) IIS
5 1 (1.923%) Lotus Notes
5 1 (1.923%) SharePoint
Applications
1 22 (42.31%) MS Office
2 3 (5.769%) MS Excel
3 1 (1.923%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (1.923%) MS Project
3 1 (1.923%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 8 (15.38%) VPN
2 7 (13.46%) DNS
3 6 (11.54%) VoIP
3 6 (11.54%) DHCP
4 4 (7.692%) Firewall
5 3 (5.769%) VLAN
6 2 (3.846%) LAN
6 2 (3.846%) TCP/IP
6 2 (3.846%) LDAP
6 2 (3.846%) Wireless
6 2 (3.846%) Internet
6 2 (3.846%) Network Security
6 2 (3.846%) IP Telephony
7 1 (1.923%) Junos
7 1 (1.923%) WAN
7 1 (1.923%) SMTP
7 1 (1.923%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.923%) MySQL
General
1 3 (5.769%) Finance
2 2 (3.846%) Telecoms
3 1 (1.923%) Automotive
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.692%) Blackberry
2 3 (5.769%) PDA
2 3 (5.769%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.923%) iPhone
3 1 (1.923%) FMCG
3 1 (1.923%) Fat Client
3 1 (1.923%) Computer Science
3 1 (1.923%) Video Editing
3 1 (1.923%) Thin Client
3 1 (1.923%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 44 (84.62%) Windows
2 19 (36.54%) Windows 7
3 17 (32.69%) Windows XP
4 14 (26.92%) Windows Server 2008
5 12 (23.08%) Windows Server 2003
6 7 (13.46%) Windows Vista
7 2 (3.846%) Windows 2000
7 2 (3.846%) Apple iOS
7 2 (3.846%) Windows 2000 Server
8 1 (1.923%) Android
8 1 (1.923%) Windows Mobile
8 1 (1.923%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (25.00%) ITIL
2 6 (11.54%) ITIL V3
3 5 (9.615%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (7.692%) Service Delivery
5 3 (5.769%) Software Deployment
6 2 (3.846%) Change Management
6 2 (3.846%) Problem Management
6 2 (3.846%) Asset Management
6 2 (3.846%) Data Management
6 2 (3.846%) Software Distribution
7 1 (1.923%) Business Process Improvement
7 1 (1.923%) Network Management
7 1 (1.923%) Root Cause Analysis
7 1 (1.923%) Infrastructure Management
7 1 (1.923%) Information Security
7 1 (1.923%) QMS
7 1 (1.923%) BCP
7 1 (1.923%) Service Management
7 1 (1.923%) Quality Management
7 1 (1.923%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.846%) VB
2 1 (1.923%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.923%) PHP
2 1 (1.923%) SQL
2 1 (1.923%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 6 (11.54%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (9.615%) MCP
3 4 (7.692%) Degree
4 3 (5.769%) MCSE
5 2 (3.846%) MCITP
6 1 (1.923%) MCDST
6 1 (1.923%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.615%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (55.77%) Active Directory
2 4 (7.692%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.923%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 5 (9.615%) SCCM
2 2 (3.846%) Backup Exec
2 2 (3.846%) Sysprep
3 1 (1.923%) Unicenter
Vendors
1 20 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 12 (23.08%) Citrix
3 10 (19.23%) Cisco
4 8 (15.38%) McAfee
5 6 (11.54%) VMware
6 5 (9.615%) LANDesk
6 5 (9.615%) Apple
7 2 (3.846%) Reuters
7 2 (3.846%) Bloomberg
7 2 (3.846%) HP
7 2 (3.846%) Dell
7 2 (3.846%) Lumension
8 1 (1.923%) Altiris
8 1 (1.923%) Intel
8 1 (1.923%) CA
8 1 (1.923%) CommVault
8 1 (1.923%) Lotus
8 1 (1.923%) Symantec
Desktop Support Technician - Gloucestershire - £25,000
Gloucestershire, South West
DESKTOP SUPPORT TECHNICIAN - £25,000 - GLOUCESTERSHIREMicrosoft / Windows 7 / Remote Administration / Software / Desktop / Support / ITIL / Microsoft Word 2010 / AV / Framework / McAfee / SCCMMy client is requiring a desktop technician to...
OPUS
Salary: GBP25000 per annum
Posted: 30 April 2013
Desktop Support Technician
Gloucestershire, South West
You will have experience of working in a Windows environment with experience Windows 7 Enterprise... Experience of working in a ITIL V3 framework will also be needed... Experience...
Salary: £22000.00 - £25000.00 per annum
Posted: 30 April 2013
Desktop Support Technician
Gloucester, South West
You will have experience of working in a Windows environment with experience Windows 7 Enterprise... Experience of working in a ITIL V3 framework will also be needed... Experience...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £28000.00 - £30000.00 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Regional Network and Desktop Support Technician
Winchester, Hampshire
18,846 - £21,213 per annum. Winchester. 37 hours per week, permanent. Job Ref: HCC1333122. The Regional Network & Desktop support teams provide technical and business IT advice, consultancy,...
Hampshire County Council
Salary: From £18,846 to £21,213 per annum
Posted: 9 May 2013
Helpdesk/Desktop Support Technician - Brighton - up to £30,000
Brighton, East Sussex
The successful candidate will have substantial experience supporting Windows 7 and should be comfortable in a user facing environment dealing with MS Office and Windows Desktop issues. Experience...
Ashdown IT
Salary: £28000 - £30000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Senior Desktop Support Technician
City, London
Strong knowledge of Windows XP Professional / Windows 7 / Wintel environment - Exceptional working knowledge of all products within the Microsoft Office 2010 Suite - Very high level knowledge of Active...
Coal IT Services
Salary: From £30,000 to £35,000 per annum + Circa 10% Bonus & Excellent Benefi
Posted: 23 May 2013
IT Desktop Support Technician - £38k -Swindon
Swindon, South West
LAN administration for NT 2000 2003 server - LAN WAN technology experience, in particular TCP IPA - Implementation of 3rd party software - client/server applications To be successful as IT...
JAM
Salary: £35000.00 per annum
Posted: 2 May 2013
Desktop Support Technician / Helpdesk Analyst
West London
Primary areas of support include: * PC/Hardware Troubleshooting * Operating Systems: Windows XP/ 7 * MS Office and Exchange 2010 * Active Directory * Telecoms Support Candidates must have very good interpersonal...
Ashdown IT
Salary: £20000 - £30000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
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