Desktop Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Desktop Engineer
England > North of England

The median Desktop Engineer salary in the North of England is £27,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 357 419 415
Rank change year-on-year +62 -4 -80
Permanent jobs requiring a Desktop Engineer 31 25 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.18% 0.14% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.16% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 30 20 30
10th Percentile £23,966 £24,450 £25,500
25th Percentile £26,000 £25,000 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,500 £27,500 £27,750
Median % change year-on-year - -0.90% +6.73%
75th Percentile £33,750 £32,563 £32,875
90th Percentile £35,000 £37,130 £36,250
England median annual salary £32,500 £34,000 £33,000
% change year-on-year -4.41% +3.03% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 16,276 15,873 17,422
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.15% 89.53% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 12,610 8,359 11,247
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,438 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,720
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.74% +0.83% +9.09%

Desktop Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Desktop Engineer in the North of England

Desktop Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Desktop Engineer in the North of England

Desktop Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Desktop Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Desktop Engineer in the North of England

Desktop Engineer
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 19 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
North West +12 18 £27,000 +8.00% 2
Yorkshire +109 13 £32,500 -15.13% 4
Desktop Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 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 North of England region featuring Desktop Engineer in the job title.

1 26 (83.87%) Microsoft
2 24 (77.42%) Windows
3 19 (61.29%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (48.39%) Active Directory
5 14 (45.16%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (41.94%) Social Skills
6 13 (41.94%) Customer Service
7 12 (38.71%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (35.48%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (32.26%) Degree
9 10 (32.26%) Mac OS
10 9 (29.03%) Computer Science
11 8 (25.81%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (25.81%) Driving Licence
11 8 (25.81%) DBS Check
11 8 (25.81%) Onboarding
11 8 (25.81%) Network Security
11 8 (25.81%) MCP
11 8 (25.81%) A+ Certification
12 6 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
13 5 (16.13%) ITIL
14 4 (12.90%) TCP/IP
14 4 (12.90%) ITSM
14 4 (12.90%) Windows 10
15 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Intune
15 3 (9.68%) ServiceNow
15 3 (9.68%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (9.68%) Wi-Fi
15 3 (9.68%) Android
15 3 (9.68%) WAN

Desktop Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 19 (61.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (35.48%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.23%) AWS
2 1 (3.23%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (25.81%) Network Security
2 4 (12.90%) TCP/IP
3 3 (9.68%) Firewall
3 3 (9.68%) LAN
3 3 (9.68%) WAN
3 3 (9.68%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (6.45%) DHCP
4 2 (6.45%) DNS
4 2 (6.45%) Internet
4 2 (6.45%) VoIP
4 2 (6.45%) VPN
5 1 (3.23%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (3.23%) Wireless
General
1 13 (41.94%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.68%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Billing
3 2 (6.45%) Games
3 2 (6.45%) Law
4 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.81%) Driving Licence
1 8 (25.81%) Onboarding
2 2 (6.45%) Fat Client
2 2 (6.45%) iPhone
2 2 (6.45%) Thin Client
2 2 (6.45%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 24 (77.42%) Windows
2 10 (32.26%) Mac OS
3 4 (12.90%) Windows 10
4 3 (9.68%) Android
5 2 (6.45%) Windows XP
6 1 (3.23%) Apple iOS
6 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (41.94%) Customer Service
2 12 (38.71%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (29.03%) Computer Science
4 6 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (16.13%) ITIL
6 4 (12.90%) ITSM
7 2 (6.45%) E-Commerce
7 2 (6.45%) Service Management
7 2 (6.45%) Statistics
8 1 (3.23%) Asset Management
8 1 (3.23%) Data Security
8 1 (3.23%) Disaster Recovery
8 1 (3.23%) Proactive Maintenance
8 1 (3.23%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (45.16%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (32.26%) Degree
3 8 (25.81%) A+ Certification
3 8 (25.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (25.81%) DBS Check
3 8 (25.81%) MCP
4 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.23%) CCNA
4 1 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) PCI DSS
1 1 (3.23%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (48.39%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.45%) Terminal Services
3 1 (3.23%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.23%) KVM
3 1 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (6.45%) SCCM
Vendors
1 26 (83.87%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.68%) ServiceNow
3 2 (6.45%) Citrix
4 1 (3.23%) Aruba
4 1 (3.23%) Dell
4 1 (3.23%) VMware