Desktop Engineer Jobs in England

Desktop Engineer
UK > England

The median Desktop Engineer salary in England is £32,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 598 639 853
Rank change year-on-year +41 +214 -125
Permanent jobs requiring a Desktop Engineer 220 299 293
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.26% 0.32% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.35% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 200 259 246
10th Percentile £25,149 £23,949 £25,875
25th Percentile £27,750 £28,000 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £34,000 £33,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +3.03% -
75th Percentile £37,575 £39,500 £42,446
90th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £56,875
UK median annual salary £32,500 £34,000 £33,000
% change year-on-year -4.41% +3.03% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 80,172 84,782 125,764
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.46% 91.52% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 60,024 53,688 75,723
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

Desktop Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Desktop Engineer in England

Desktop Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Desktop Engineer in England

Desktop Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Desktop Engineer in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Desktop Engineer in England

Desktop Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Desktop Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 28 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
London +91 85 £42,500 +11.84% 24
South East -15 48 £32,500 +10.54% 3
North of England +41 30 £28,000 -7.44% 4
South West -22 26 £29,290 +6.51% 5
North West +14 19 £27,000 -1.82% 2
Midlands +7 19 £27,250 +2.83% 2
East Midlands 0 14 £30,000 +12.15% 1
East of England +6 12 £24,240 -30.74% 6
Yorkshire +101 11 £32,500 -15.13% 1
West Midlands +22 5 £26,500 - 1
Desktop Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, 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 across the England region featuring Desktop Engineer in the job title.

1 172 (78.18%) Windows
2 158 (71.82%) Microsoft
3 142 (64.55%) Active Directory
4 96 (43.64%) Microsoft 365
5 95 (43.18%) Microsoft Office
6 87 (39.55%) Social Skills
7 66 (30.00%) Windows 10
8 62 (28.18%) Customer Service
9 54 (24.55%) Problem-Solving
10 49 (22.27%) Microsoft Exchange
11 47 (21.36%) Finance
12 46 (20.91%) Degree
13 44 (20.00%) ITIL
14 43 (19.55%) Driving Licence
15 41 (18.64%) SCCM
16 40 (18.18%) Azure
17 39 (17.73%) Security Cleared
17 39 (17.73%) Microsoft Intune
18 37 (16.82%) Microsoft Certification
19 32 (14.55%) Mac OS
19 32 (14.55%) Onboarding
20 31 (14.09%) DBS Check
20 31 (14.09%) A+ Certification
21 30 (13.64%) Computer Science
21 30 (13.64%) Entra ID
22 29 (13.18%) Windows 7
22 29 (13.18%) Network Security
22 29 (13.18%) Smartphone
22 29 (13.18%) MCP
22 29 (13.18%) DNS

Desktop Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 49 (22.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.73%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.73%) Skype for Business
3 2 (0.91%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (0.45%) CMS
4 1 (0.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 95 (43.18%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (7.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (7.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.36%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 96 (43.64%) Microsoft 365
2 40 (18.18%) Azure
3 30 (13.64%) Entra ID
4 18 (8.18%) OneDrive
5 9 (4.09%) Mimecast
6 5 (2.27%) WhatsApp
7 3 (1.36%) AWS
8 2 (0.91%) Slack
9 1 (0.45%) GCP
9 1 (0.45%) PaaS
9 1 (0.45%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (13.18%) DNS
1 29 (13.18%) Network Security
2 19 (8.64%) LAN
3 16 (7.27%) Remote Desktop
3 16 (7.27%) Wi-Fi
4 14 (6.36%) Firewall
5 13 (5.91%) VPN
6 10 (4.55%) Skype
7 8 (3.64%) DHCP
7 8 (3.64%) TCP/IP
8 7 (3.18%) WAN
9 5 (2.27%) Cisco IOS
10 4 (1.82%) VoIP
11 3 (1.36%) Internet
11 3 (1.36%) Telepresence
11 3 (1.36%) WebEx
12 2 (0.91%) Wireless
13 1 (0.45%) Ethernet
13 1 (0.45%) PBX
13 1 (0.45%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.91%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.45%) MySQL
2 1 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Bitbucket
1 1 (0.45%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.45%) JIRA
1 1 (0.45%) MSI
1 1 (0.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 87 (39.55%) Social Skills
2 47 (21.36%) Finance
3 21 (9.55%) Organisational Skills
4 18 (8.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (3.64%) Automotive
5 8 (3.64%) Banking
5 8 (3.64%) Legal
6 5 (2.27%) Law
6 5 (2.27%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.36%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (1.36%) Retail
8 2 (0.91%) Aerospace
8 2 (0.91%) Billing
8 2 (0.91%) Games
9 1 (0.45%) Back Office
9 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.45%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.45%) .NET
1 1 (0.45%) .NET Framework
1 1 (0.45%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 43 (19.55%) Driving Licence
2 32 (14.55%) Onboarding
3 29 (13.18%) Smartphone
4 8 (3.64%) Video Conferencing
5 7 (3.18%) iPhone
6 3 (1.36%) CMDB
6 3 (1.36%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.36%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.91%) Blackberry
7 2 (0.91%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.91%) Fat Client
7 2 (0.91%) iPad
7 2 (0.91%) Thin Client
8 1 (0.45%) EPoS
8 1 (0.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 172 (78.18%) Windows
2 66 (30.00%) Windows 10
3 32 (14.55%) Mac OS
4 29 (13.18%) Windows 7
5 18 (8.18%) Android
6 15 (6.82%) Windows Server
7 10 (4.55%) Apple iOS
8 6 (2.73%) Mac OS X
9 5 (2.27%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (1.36%) Windows XP
11 2 (0.91%) Linux
12 1 (0.45%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (28.18%) Customer Service
2 54 (24.55%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (20.00%) ITIL
4 30 (13.64%) Computer Science
5 23 (10.45%) Break/Fix
6 18 (8.18%) Asset Management
7 17 (7.73%) ITSM
8 15 (6.82%) Service Delivery
8 15 (6.82%) Ticket Management
9 13 (5.91%) Proactive Maintenance
9 13 (5.91%) Software Deployment
10 11 (5.00%) Customer Requirements
10 11 (5.00%) Software Testing
11 10 (4.55%) Time Management
12 9 (4.09%) Mobile Device Management
13 8 (3.64%) Service Management
14 7 (3.18%) Change Management
14 7 (3.18%) Root Cause Analysis
15 6 (2.73%) Continuous Improvement
15 6 (2.73%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (5.00%) SQL
2 8 (3.64%) PowerShell
3 3 (1.36%) Bash
4 2 (0.91%) Python
5 1 (0.45%) C#
Qualifications
1 46 (20.91%) Degree
2 39 (17.73%) Security Cleared
3 37 (16.82%) Microsoft Certification
4 31 (14.09%) A+ Certification
4 31 (14.09%) DBS Check
5 29 (13.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (13.18%) MCP
6 15 (6.82%) DV Cleared
7 14 (6.36%) SC Cleared
8 13 (5.91%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (3.18%) CCNA
9 7 (3.18%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (2.73%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (1.36%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.36%) MBA
12 1 (0.45%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.45%) MCSE
12 1 (0.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.09%) SLA
2 13 (5.91%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.82%) GDPR
4 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 142 (64.55%) Active Directory
2 13 (5.91%) KVM
3 12 (5.45%) Firmware
4 11 (5.00%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.36%) vSphere
7 2 (0.91%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.45%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 41 (18.64%) SCCM
2 39 (17.73%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.45%) AirWatch
3 1 (0.45%) Backup Exec
3 1 (0.45%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 158 (71.82%) Microsoft
2 20 (9.09%) ServiceNow
3 19 (8.64%) Dell
4 13 (5.91%) Apple
4 13 (5.91%) HP
5 11 (5.00%) Cisco
6 10 (4.55%) Citrix
7 8 (3.64%) McAfee
7 8 (3.64%) MobileIron
7 8 (3.64%) VMware
8 7 (3.18%) Bloomberg
9 5 (2.27%) Ivanti
10 3 (1.36%) Polycom
11 2 (0.91%) Cognizant
11 2 (0.91%) Okta
11 2 (0.91%) Palo Alto
11 2 (0.91%) SolarWinds
11 2 (0.91%) Trayport
12 1 (0.45%) Intapp
12 1 (0.45%) Snow