Desktop Support Jobs in the Midlands

Desktop Support
England > Midlands

The median Desktop Support salary in the Midlands is £32,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 248 293 299
Rank change year-on-year +45 +6 +9
Permanent jobs requiring a Desktop Support 9 28 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.13% 0.23% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.25% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 9 20 15
10th Percentile £27,800 £24,240 £23,230
25th Percentile £30,375 £25,935 £24,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,750 £31,000 £27,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.65% +14.81% +5.88%
75th Percentile £35,125 £33,750 £31,500
90th Percentile - £34,275 £32,500
England median annual salary £33,000 £32,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year +1.54% - -1.89%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 6,627 11,377 8,155
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 94.41% 89.65%
Number of salaries quoted 2,827 8,428 4,582
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,250 £28,512
25th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,741 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £56,500 £53,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.60% -12.83% +1.33%

Desktop Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Desktop Support in the Midlands

Desktop Support
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Desktop Support in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Desktop Support in the Midlands

Desktop Support
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Desktop Support within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 May 2025. 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
East Midlands +14 8 £32,750 +5.65% 1
West Midlands +38 1 £33,000 +10.92% 2
Desktop Support
England

Desktop Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 18 May 2025, Desktop Support 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 Midlands region featuring Desktop Support in the job title.

1 7 (77.78%) Social Skills
1 7 (77.78%) Driving Licence
1 7 (77.78%) SLA
2 6 (66.67%) Customer Service
3 3 (33.33%) Windows
4 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
5 1 (11.11%) Windows 10
5 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (11.11%) Incident Management
5 1 (11.11%) Problem Management
5 1 (11.11%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (11.11%) SCCM
5 1 (11.11%) Android
5 1 (11.11%) iPhone
5 1 (11.11%) Azure
5 1 (11.11%) Change Control
5 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (11.11%) Mobile Device Management
5 1 (11.11%) MobileIron
5 1 (11.11%) Line Management
5 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 1 (11.11%) BitLocker
5 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
5 1 (11.11%) HP
5 1 (11.11%) Apple
5 1 (11.11%) Firmware
5 1 (11.11%) Remedy
5 1 (11.11%) McAfee
5 1 (11.11%) DHCP

Desktop Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DHCP
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
General
1 7 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) Driving Licence
2 1 (11.11%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Android
2 1 (11.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Customer Service
2 1 (11.11%) Change Control
2 1 (11.11%) Change Management
2 1 (11.11%) Incident Management
2 1 (11.11%) ITSM
2 1 (11.11%) Line Management
2 1 (11.11%) Migration
2 1 (11.11%) Mobile Device Management
2 1 (11.11%) Problem Management
2 1 (11.11%) Service Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (77.78%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 1 (11.11%) BitLocker
1 1 (11.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Apple
2 1 (11.11%) HP
2 1 (11.11%) McAfee
2 1 (11.11%) MobileIron
2 1 (11.11%) Remedy