Senior Desktop Engineer Jobs

Senior Desktop Engineer
UK

The median Senior Desktop Engineer salary in the UK is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 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
10 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 870 966 1187
Rank change year-on-year +96 +221 -281
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Desktop Engineer 28 14 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.014% 0.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.015% 0.009%
Number of salaries quoted 22 14 8
10th Percentile £45,125 £31,375 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £39,938 £32,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,500 £36,750
Median % change year-on-year +18.28% +26.53% -2.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £56,563 £40,000
90th Percentile £62,500 £80,000 £43,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £45,500 £37,000
% change year-on-year +20.88% +22.97% -1.33%

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 93,878 92,381 151,160
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,248 58,258 84,340
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Senior Desktop Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Desktop Engineer in the UK

Senior Desktop Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Desktop Engineer in the UK

Senior Desktop Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Desktop Engineer over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Desktop Engineer in the UK

Senior Desktop Engineer
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Desktop Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 10 May 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
London +130 24 £55,000 +4.76% 2
England +108 24 £55,000 +18.28% 12
Work from Home +69 11 £55,000 - 1
UK excluding London -12 2 £55,000 +20.88% 9
Scotland - 2 £55,000 -

Senior Desktop Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Senior Desktop Engineer 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 Senior Desktop Engineer in the job title.

1 21 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 20 (71.43%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (64.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (35.71%) ITIL
4 10 (35.71%) Windows
4 10 (35.71%) ServiceNow
4 10 (35.71%) Windows 10
5 9 (32.14%) Finance
5 9 (32.14%) Hyper-V
5 9 (32.14%) VPN
5 9 (32.14%) Firewall
6 8 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (28.57%) SQL
7 7 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (25.00%) Customer Service
8 5 (17.86%) Azure
8 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
9 4 (14.29%) .NET
9 4 (14.29%) WPF
9 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
10 3 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (10.71%) SCCM
10 3 (10.71%) CMDB
10 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Office
10 3 (10.71%) Dell
10 3 (10.71%) Configuration Management
10 3 (10.71%) Change Management
11 2 (7.14%) ITSM
11 2 (7.14%) Apple
11 2 (7.14%) Citrix

Senior Desktop Engineer 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 8 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (7.14%) Skype for Business
3 1 (3.57%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (71.43%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (17.86%) Azure
3 1 (3.57%) Mimecast
3 1 (3.57%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 9 (32.14%) Firewall
1 9 (32.14%) VPN
2 2 (7.14%) DHCP
2 2 (7.14%) DNS
2 2 (7.14%) Skype
2 2 (7.14%) TCP/IP
2 2 (7.14%) WebEx
3 1 (3.57%) FTP
3 1 (3.57%) LAN
3 1 (3.57%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (3.57%) SMTP
3 1 (3.57%) SNMP
3 1 (3.57%) WAN
General
1 18 (64.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 9 (32.14%) Finance
3 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Banking
4 1 (3.57%) Legal
4 1 (3.57%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) .NET
1 4 (14.29%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) CMDB
2 1 (3.57%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 10 (35.71%) Windows
1 10 (35.71%) Windows 10
2 1 (3.57%) Android
2 1 (3.57%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (35.71%) ITIL
2 7 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 3 (10.71%) Change Management
3 3 (10.71%) Configuration Management
3 3 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (7.14%) ITSM
5 1 (3.57%) Asset Management
5 1 (3.57%) Creative Thinking
5 1 (3.57%) Investment Management
5 1 (3.57%) Mentoring
5 1 (3.57%) Mobile Device Management
5 1 (3.57%) Patch Management
5 1 (3.57%) Resource Management
5 1 (3.57%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (3.57%) Service Delivery
5 1 (3.57%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 8 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) Degree
2 1 (3.57%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 21 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 9 (32.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (10.71%) SCCM
3 1 (3.57%) AirWatch
3 1 (3.57%) WSUS
3 1 (3.57%) XenMobile
Vendors
1 10 (35.71%) ServiceNow
2 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.71%) Dell
4 2 (7.14%) Apple
4 2 (7.14%) Cisco
4 2 (7.14%) Citrix
5 1 (3.57%) Becrypt
5 1 (3.57%) Bloomberg
5 1 (3.57%) HP
5 1 (3.57%) MobileIron
5 1 (3.57%) Reuters
5 1 (3.57%) Trend Micro