The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Desktop Support role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Senior Desktop Support in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Desktop Support
Rank 844 879 866
Rank change year-on-year
+35 -13
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Desktop Support 14 17 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.013% 0.014% 0.004%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.014% 0.015% 0.004%
Number of salaries quoted 12 15 5
Average salary £32,500 £32,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.56% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,050 £25,000 £27,200
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £70,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £31,250 £27,000 £28,500
% change year-on-year
+15.74% -5.26%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
101791 114576 116360
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.44% 94.74% 94.25%
Number of salaries quoted 84727 98303 98213
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,000 £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%

Senior Desktop Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Senior Desktop Support Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Desktop Support
Salary Trend

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

Senior Desktop Support Salary Trend

Senior Desktop Support
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Senior Desktop Support over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 within the UK.

Senior Desktop Support Salary Histogram

Senior Desktop Support
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Desktop Support within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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 +32 14 £32,500 +1.56%
London +27 7 £36,250 -3.33%
City of London +11 3 £24,000 -43.52%
Yorkshire - 3 £30,000 -
West Yorkshire - 3 £30,000 -
Leeds - 3 £30,000 -
South East +5 2 £32,500 +20.37%
Berkshire - 2 £32,500 -
Surrey - 2 £32,500 -
West Midlands - 1 £27,500 -
North West - 1 - -
Cheshire - 1 - -
Warrington - 1 - -
Birmingham - 1 £27,500 -

Senior Desktop Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Senior Desktop Support 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 Senior Desktop Support in their job title.

1 13 (76.47%) Windows
2 7 (41.18%) Windows 7
2 7 (41.18%) MS Office
3 5 (29.41%) MS Excel
3 5 (29.41%) Windows XP
3 5 (29.41%) MS Exchange
3 5 (29.41%) Active Directory
4 4 (23.53%) LAN
4 4 (23.53%) ITIL
4 4 (23.53%) Exchange Server 2007
4 4 (23.53%) SCCM
5 3 (17.65%) Incident Management
5 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (17.65%) FMCG
5 3 (17.65%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (17.65%) Problem Management
5 3 (17.65%) Software Deployment
6 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (11.76%) MCDST
6 2 (11.76%) A+ Certification
6 2 (11.76%) Exchange Server 2003
6 2 (11.76%) Degree
6 2 (11.76%) Mac OS X
6 2 (11.76%) Apple
6 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (11.76%) Citrix
6 2 (11.76%) MCSE
6 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
7 1 (5.882%) CCNA
7 1 (5.882%) MCSA

Senior Desktop Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Senior Desktop Support 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 Senior Desktop Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 5 (29.41%) MS Exchange
2 4 (23.53%) Exchange Server 2007
3 3 (17.65%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (11.76%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (5.882%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 7 (41.18%) MS Office
2 5 (29.41%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) LAN
2 1 (5.882%) WAN
2 1 (5.882%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.882%) DNS
2 1 (5.882%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (5.882%) Finance
1 1 (5.882%) Banking
1 1 (5.882%) Retail
1 1 (5.882%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) FMCG
2 1 (5.882%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 13 (76.47%) Windows
2 7 (41.18%) Windows 7
3 5 (29.41%) Windows XP
4 2 (11.76%) Mac OS X
4 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (5.882%) UNIX
5 1 (5.882%) Linux
5 1 (5.882%) Windows 2000
5 1 (5.882%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (23.53%) ITIL
2 3 (17.65%) Incident Management
2 3 (17.65%) Problem Management
2 3 (17.65%) Software Deployment
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (11.76%) A+ Certification
2 2 (11.76%) MCSE
2 2 (11.76%) MCDST
2 2 (11.76%) Degree
3 1 (5.882%) VTSP
3 1 (5.882%) MCSA
3 1 (5.882%) CCNA
3 1 (5.882%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.882%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (5.882%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
1 2 (11.76%) Citrix
1 2 (11.76%) Apple
2 1 (5.882%) VMware
2 1 (5.882%) Fidessa
2 1 (5.882%) HP
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Specialising with Windows desktop related IT services and SCCM, you will promote customer service excellence, add input into and delivery of the desktop roadmap and translate end user...
4it Recruitment Ltd
Salary: Up to £30,000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
London
Our client, a Specialist Investment Banking Group based in London is looking for a Senior Desktop Support Engineer , with a genuine passion for IT and technology and an...
Skye Group
Salary: £50,000 per annum with Company Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013