Wiltshire Desktop Support Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Desktop Support role in IT jobs within the Wiltshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Desktop Support in their job title over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Desktop Support
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Aldershot Amersham Avonmouth Barnet Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexhill-On-Sea Bingley Birmingham Bolton Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Caterham Chelmsford Cheshire Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dunstable East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham Ely England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Hastings Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hitchin Hounslow Huddersfield Huntingdon Inverurie Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Perthshire Peterborough Plymouth Pontypool Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Rochester Rotherham Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Sidcup Slough Smethwick Solihull Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Neots Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Swindon Teddington Teesside Thurrock Torfaen Towcester Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Whitstable Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	99	106
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching permanent IT job ads	13	20
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	0.677 %	0.733 %
Salaries quoted	11	16
Average minimum salary	£22,182	£20,288
Average salary	£23,682	£21,319
% change on same period last year	+11.08 %
Average maximum salary	£25,182	£22,350
UK excluding London average salary	£24,726	£23,168
% change on same period last year	+6.72 %
Job Titles Wiltshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	1919	2728
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.283 %	1.217 %
Salaries quoted	1709	2232
Average minimum salary	£32,638	£34,621
Average salary	£35,821	£37,173
% change on same period last year	-3.63 %
Average maximum salary	£39,003	£39,725
UK excluding London average salary	£38,498	£39,074
% change on same period last year	-1.47 %
Desktop Support South West

Desktop Support
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Desktop Support across the Wiltshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Desktop Support
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Desktop Support across the Wiltshire region.

Desktop Support
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Desktop Support across the Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

Desktop Support
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Desktop Support within the Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Swindon	+6	8	£22,083	+3.58 %
Chippenham	-	2	£25,750	-
Salisbury	-	1	£29,000	-

Desktop Support South West

Desktop Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT jobs across the Wiltshire region that cited 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 Desktop Support in their job title.

1 19 (67.86 %) Windows 2 13 (46.43 %) Windows XP 3 11 (39.29 %) ITIL 4 10 (35.71 %) MS Excel 5 7 (25.00 %) MS Office 6 6 (21.43 %) Microsoft 7 5 (17.86 %) Microsoft Certification 7 5 (17.86 %) LAN 8 4 (14.29 %) Security Cleared 9 3 (10.71 %) TCP/IP 9 3 (10.71 %) Windows Server 2003 9 3 (10.71 %) HP 9 3 (10.71 %) Dell 9 3 (10.71 %) Citrix 9 3 (10.71 %) MS Exchange

9 3 (10.71 %) MCP 9 3 (10.71 %) IBM 9 3 (10.71 %) Government 9 3 (10.71 %) Health 9 3 (10.71 %) Pensions 9 3 (10.71 %) Exchange Server 2003 10 2 (7.143 %) Back Office 10 2 (7.143 %) Service Management 10 2 (7.143 %) UNIX 10 2 (7.143 %) Client/Server 10 2 (7.143 %) MCSE 10 2 (7.143 %) Active Directory 10 2 (7.143 %) DNS 10 2 (7.143 %) SLA 10 2 (7.143 %) WAN

Desktop Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT jobs across the Wiltshire region that cited 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 Desktop Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 3 (10.71 %) MS Exchange 1 3 (10.71 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 10 (35.71 %) MS Excel 2 7 (25.00 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 5 (17.86 %) LAN 2 3 (10.71 %) TCP/IP 3 2 (7.143 %) DNS 3 2 (7.143 %) WAN 4 1 (3.571 %) DHCP 4 1 (3.571 %) SMS 4 1 (3.571 %) VoIP 4 1 (3.571 %) NetScreen 4 1 (3.571 %) Wireless 4 1 (3.571 %) VPN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (3.571 %) SQL Server
General 1 3 (10.71 %) Government 1 3 (10.71 %) Health 1 3 (10.71 %) Pensions 2 2 (7.143 %) Back Office 3 1 (3.571 %) Insurance	Miscellaneous 1 2 (7.143 %) Client/Server 2 1 (3.571 %) Blackberry 2 1 (3.571 %) PDA
Operating Systems 1 19 (67.86 %) Windows 2 13 (46.43 %) Windows XP 3 3 (10.71 %) Windows Server 2003 4 2 (7.143 %) UNIX 4 2 (7.143 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 1 (3.571 %) Windows Vista 5 1 (3.571 %) AIX 5 1 (3.571 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (39.29 %) ITIL 2 4 (14.29 %) Security Cleared 3 2 (7.143 %) Service Management 4 1 (3.571 %) Release Management 4 1 (3.571 %) QMS 4 1 (3.571 %) SC Cleared
Programming Languages 1 1 (3.571 %) C 1 1 (3.571 %) VB	Qualifications 1 5 (17.86 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (10.71 %) MCP 3 2 (7.143 %) MCSE 3 2 (7.143 %) HP APS 4 1 (3.571 %) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (7.143 %) SLA	System Software 1 2 (7.143 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 1 (3.571 %) OpenView 1 1 (3.571 %) OVSD	Vendors 1 6 (21.43 %) Microsoft 2 3 (10.71 %) HP 2 3 (10.71 %) Dell 2 3 (10.71 %) Citrix 2 3 (10.71 %) IBM 3 1 (3.571 %) Oracle 3 1 (3.571 %) Cisco 3 1 (3.571 %) Symantec 3 1 (3.571 %) McAfee Security 3 1 (3.571 %) Sophos