Desktop Support Jobs in the North West

Desktop Support
England > North West

The median Desktop Support salary in the North West is £27,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 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
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 266 258 320
Rank change year-on-year -8 +62 -91
Permanent jobs requiring a Desktop Support 22 42 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.23% 0.53% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.60% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 20 34 9
10th Percentile £23,916 £14,250 £24,900
25th Percentile £26,000 £23,688 £25,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,000 £25,840 £28,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.49% -7.71% -7.44%
75th Percentile £35,000 £26,575 £33,000
90th Percentile £35,100 £29,850 -
England median annual salary £32,500 £32,000 £33,500
% change year-on-year +1.56% -4.48% +3.08%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 9,205 7,031 9,058
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 89.07% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 7,083 4,084 5,495
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,882 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.90% +4.54% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,700 £81,425 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,635 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.45% +0.95% +9.09%

Desktop Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Desktop Support in the North West

Desktop Support
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Desktop Support in the North West

Desktop Support
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Desktop Support in the North West over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Desktop Support in the North West

Desktop Support
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Desktop Support within the North West region over the 6 months to 30 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
Lancashire -5 11 £27,000 -10.00%
Cheshire -30 5 £34,000 +31.58% 2
Manchester +15 3 £29,000 +16.00%
Merseyside +15 3 £22,000 -28.46%
Desktop Support
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 2024, 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 North West region featuring Desktop Support in the job title.

1 17 (77.27%) Microsoft
2 15 (68.18%) Windows
3 13 (59.09%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (45.45%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (40.91%) Driving Licence
6 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
7 6 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (22.73%) TCP/IP
9 4 (18.18%) Active Directory
9 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (18.18%) ITSM
9 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (18.18%) ServiceNow
10 3 (13.64%) Degree
10 3 (13.64%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (13.64%) Law
10 3 (13.64%) Firewall
10 3 (13.64%) SCCM
10 3 (13.64%) Video Conferencing
10 3 (13.64%) WAN
10 3 (13.64%) ITIL
10 3 (13.64%) LAN
11 2 (9.09%) VoIP
11 2 (9.09%) E-Commerce
11 2 (9.09%) Windows XP
11 2 (9.09%) VPN
11 2 (9.09%) DNS
11 2 (9.09%) Thin Client
11 2 (9.09%) Terminal Services
11 2 (9.09%) Internet

Desktop Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (59.09%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (45.45%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (4.55%) AWS
2 1 (4.55%) Azure
2 1 (4.55%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (22.73%) TCP/IP
2 3 (13.64%) Firewall
2 3 (13.64%) LAN
2 3 (13.64%) WAN
2 3 (13.64%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (9.09%) DHCP
3 2 (9.09%) DNS
3 2 (9.09%) Internet
3 2 (9.09%) VoIP
3 2 (9.09%) VPN
4 1 (4.55%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (4.55%) Wireless
General
1 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Law
3 2 (9.09%) Billing
3 2 (9.09%) Games
3 2 (9.09%) Legal
4 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 9 (40.91%) Driving Licence
2 3 (13.64%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (9.09%) Fat Client
3 2 (9.09%) iPhone
3 2 (9.09%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 15 (68.18%) Windows
2 2 (9.09%) Android
2 2 (9.09%) Windows 10
2 2 (9.09%) Windows XP
3 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (18.18%) ITSM
3 3 (13.64%) ITIL
4 2 (9.09%) Customer Service
4 2 (9.09%) E-Commerce
4 2 (9.09%) Service Management
4 2 (9.09%) Statistics
5 1 (4.55%) Asset Management
5 1 (4.55%) Data Management
5 1 (4.55%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (4.55%) Document Management
5 1 (4.55%) Proactive Maintenance
5 1 (4.55%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (13.64%) Degree
3 1 (4.55%) A+ Certification
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.55%) CCNA
3 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) PCI DSS
1 1 (4.55%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 2 (9.09%) Terminal Services
3 1 (4.55%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.55%) KVM
3 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (13.64%) SCCM
Vendors
1 17 (77.27%) Microsoft
2 4 (18.18%) ServiceNow
3 2 (9.09%) Citrix
4 1 (4.55%) Aruba
4 1 (4.55%) Dell
4 1 (4.55%) Unisys
4 1 (4.55%) VMware