Desktop Technician Jobs

Desktop Technician
UK

The median Desktop Technician salary in the UK is £30,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 867 940 1209
Rank change year-on-year +73 +269 -314
Permanent jobs requiring a Desktop Technician 29 30 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.029% 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.031% 0.031% 0.016%
Number of salaries quoted 20 27 17
10th Percentile £26,950 £19,980 £21,900
25th Percentile £27,000 £20,213 £22,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £27,500 £25,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £32,500 £29,464 £27,500
90th Percentile £43,750 £30,000 £35,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £28,000 £27,500 £25,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% +10.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Desktop Technician
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Desktop Technician in the UK

Desktop Technician
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Desktop Technician.

Salary trend for Desktop Technician in the UK

Desktop Technician
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Desktop Technician over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Desktop Technician in the UK

Desktop Technician
Top 12 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 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
England +107 21 £29,204 +6.19%
UK excluding London +15 20 £28,000 +1.82% 1
Work from Home +99 8 £28,000 -37.78%
South East +29 6 £42,500 +107.32%
London +126 5 £30,000 -
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 Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 27 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 featuring Desktop Technician in the job title.

1 18 (62.07%) Windows
2 17 (58.62%) Microsoft
3 15 (51.72%) Active Directory
4 10 (34.48%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (31.03%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
6 8 (27.59%) Retail
6 8 (27.59%) Windows 10
7 7 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (24.14%) ITIL
8 6 (20.69%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (17.24%) LAN
9 5 (17.24%) Sage
9 5 (17.24%) McAfee
9 5 (17.24%) Acronis
9 5 (17.24%) VMware
9 5 (17.24%) VMware Infrastructure
10 4 (13.79%) Driving Licence
10 4 (13.79%) Samsung
10 4 (13.79%) Cost Reduction
10 4 (13.79%) iPhone
10 4 (13.79%) Local Government
10 4 (13.79%) Smartphone
10 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
10 4 (13.79%) iPad
10 4 (13.79%) AWS
10 4 (13.79%) vSphere
10 4 (13.79%) McAfee ePO
10 4 (13.79%) User Experience

Desktop Technician Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (20.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (10.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (31.03%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (34.48%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (13.79%) AWS
3 3 (10.34%) Azure
4 1 (3.45%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.24%) LAN
2 4 (13.79%) Internet
2 4 (13.79%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (6.90%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (3.45%) Firewall
4 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.45%) WAN
4 1 (3.45%) Wireless
General
1 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 8 (27.59%) Retail
3 7 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (13.79%) Local Government
5 3 (10.34%) Finance
5 3 (10.34%) Multimedia
6 1 (3.45%) Law
6 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Driving Licence
1 4 (13.79%) iPad
1 4 (13.79%) iPhone
1 4 (13.79%) Smartphone
2 3 (10.34%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 18 (62.07%) Windows
2 8 (27.59%) Windows 10
3 3 (10.34%) Mac OS
4 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (24.14%) ITIL
3 4 (13.79%) Asset Management
3 4 (13.79%) Cost Reduction
3 4 (13.79%) User Experience
4 3 (10.34%) Customer Engagement
4 3 (10.34%) Customer Service
4 3 (10.34%) IT Asset Management
5 1 (3.45%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (3.45%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) DV Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) NVQ Level 3
3 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.45%) CCNA
3 1 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 15 (51.72%) Active Directory
2 5 (17.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (13.79%) vSphere
4 1 (3.45%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) McAfee ePO
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (6.90%) SCCM
Vendors
1 17 (58.62%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.24%) Acronis
2 5 (17.24%) McAfee
2 5 (17.24%) Sage
2 5 (17.24%) VMware
3 4 (13.79%) Samsung
4 1 (3.45%) Aruba
4 1 (3.45%) CheckPoint
4 1 (3.45%) Citrix
4 1 (3.45%) Dell
4 1 (3.45%) HP