Desktop Technician Jobs in England

Desktop Technician
UK > England

The median Desktop Technician salary in England is £28,407 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 815 921 1099
Rank change year-on-year +106 +178 -259
Permanent jobs requiring a Desktop Technician 22 26 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.026% 0.028% 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.027% 0.030% 0.015%
Number of salaries quoted 17 24 14
10th Percentile £26,800 £19,980 £21,450
25th Percentile £27,000 £20,175 £22,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,407 £27,500 £25,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.30% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £32,500 £29,197 £29,375
90th Percentile £43,750 £30,000 £35,000
UK median annual salary £30,000 £27,500 £25,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -

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 80,250 85,781 125,417
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.57% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,143 54,189 75,436
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,375 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.80% - +9.09%

Desktop Technician
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Desktop Technician in England

Desktop Technician
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Desktop Technician in England

Desktop Technician
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Desktop Technician in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Desktop Technician in England

Desktop Technician
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 Technician within the England region over the 6 months to 25 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
South East +19 6 £42,500 +107.32%
London +121 5 £30,000 -
East of England - 5 £28,000 -
North of England - 3 £28,407 -
East Midlands - 3 - -
Midlands - 3 - -
North East - 2 £28,407 -
North West - 1 £28,000 -
Desktop Technician
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 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 across the England region featuring Desktop Technician in the job title.

1 15 (68.18%) Windows
2 13 (59.09%) Microsoft
3 11 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 11 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (45.45%) Social Skills
5 9 (40.91%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (40.91%) Microsoft Office
6 8 (36.36%) Retail
7 7 (31.82%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (27.27%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (22.73%) Sage
9 5 (22.73%) Acronis
10 4 (18.18%) Samsung
10 4 (18.18%) Windows 10
10 4 (18.18%) iPad
10 4 (18.18%) Smartphone
10 4 (18.18%) iPhone
10 4 (18.18%) AWS
10 4 (18.18%) Asset Management
10 4 (18.18%) Customer Service
11 3 (13.64%) Multimedia
11 3 (13.64%) Finance
11 3 (13.64%) ITIL
11 3 (13.64%) SharePoint
11 3 (13.64%) Mac OS
11 3 (13.64%) Customer Engagement
11 3 (13.64%) Azure
11 3 (13.64%) Video Conferencing
11 3 (13.64%) IT Asset Management
11 3 (13.64%) Remote Desktop

Desktop Technician 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 6 (27.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (13.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (40.91%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (18.18%) AWS
3 3 (13.64%) Azure
4 1 (4.55%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (4.55%) Firewall
2 1 (4.55%) LAN
2 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.55%) WAN
2 1 (4.55%) Wireless
General
1 10 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 8 (36.36%) Retail
3 7 (31.82%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (13.64%) Finance
4 3 (13.64%) Multimedia
5 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.55%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) iPad
1 4 (18.18%) iPhone
1 4 (18.18%) Smartphone
2 3 (13.64%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 15 (68.18%) Windows
2 4 (18.18%) Windows 10
3 3 (13.64%) Mac OS
4 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (18.18%) Asset Management
2 4 (18.18%) Customer Service
3 3 (13.64%) Customer Engagement
3 3 (13.64%) IT Asset Management
3 3 (13.64%) ITIL
4 1 (4.55%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (4.55%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) DV Cleared
1 2 (9.09%) NVQ Level 3
1 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.55%) CCNA
2 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 11 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.55%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (9.09%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (59.09%) Microsoft
2 5 (22.73%) Acronis
2 5 (22.73%) Sage
3 4 (18.18%) Samsung
4 1 (4.55%) Aruba
4 1 (4.55%) CheckPoint
4 1 (4.55%) Citrix
4 1 (4.55%) Dell
4 1 (4.55%) HP
4 1 (4.55%) McAfee
4 1 (4.55%) VMware