Desktop Engineer Jobs in the South West

Desktop Engineer
England > South West

The median Desktop Engineer salary in the South West is £29,290 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 265 246 289
Rank change year-on-year -19 +43 -19
Permanent jobs requiring a Desktop Engineer 26 22 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.28% 0.31% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.35% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 23 20 9
10th Percentile - £21,250 £26,050
25th Percentile £28,500 £25,563 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,290 £27,500 £33,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.51% -16.67% +22.68%
75th Percentile £29,500 £33,750 £40,000
90th Percentile £29,763 £35,000 -
England median annual salary £32,500 £34,000 £33,000
% change year-on-year -4.41% +3.03% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South 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 South West with a recognized job title 8,796 6,256 7,645
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.13% 89.28% 96.45%
Number of salaries quoted 6,444 3,885 5,118
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.15% +1.50% +9.09%

Desktop Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Desktop Engineer in the South West

Desktop Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Desktop Engineer in the South West.

Salary trend for Desktop Engineer in the South West

Desktop Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Desktop Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Desktop Engineer in the South West

Desktop Engineer
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Desktop Engineer within the South West region over the 6 months to 26 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
Somerset +17 15 £29,290 - 2
Devon -13 5 £29,000 +5.45% 1
Gloucestershire -20 5 £29,440 +30.84% 1
Bristol +5 1 £57,500 +101.75% 2
Desktop Engineer
England

Desktop Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 26 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 South West region featuring Desktop Engineer in the job title.

1 24 (92.31%) Windows
2 23 (88.46%) Active Directory
3 19 (73.08%) Microsoft
4 18 (69.23%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (50.00%) SCCM
5 13 (50.00%) Windows 10
6 10 (38.46%) DBS Check
6 10 (38.46%) Mac OS
6 10 (38.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
6 10 (38.46%) Customer Service
6 10 (38.46%) Onboarding
6 10 (38.46%) Network Security
6 10 (38.46%) Degree
6 10 (38.46%) Computer Science
6 10 (38.46%) MCP
6 10 (38.46%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (38.46%) A+ Certification
7 9 (34.62%) Time Management
7 9 (34.62%) SC Cleared
7 9 (34.62%) Security Cleared
7 9 (34.62%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (30.77%) Windows 7
8 8 (30.77%) Mobile Device Management
8 8 (30.77%) MobileIron
8 8 (30.77%) Driving Licence
8 8 (30.77%) Break/Fix
8 8 (30.77%) Smartphone
8 8 (30.77%) McAfee

Desktop Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Applications
1 18 (69.23%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.85%) AWS
2 1 (3.85%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 10 (38.46%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 9 (34.62%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (19.23%) Automotive
4 4 (15.38%) Finance
5 2 (7.69%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) .NET
1 1 (3.85%) .NET Framework
1 1 (3.85%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (38.46%) Onboarding
2 8 (30.77%) Driving Licence
2 8 (30.77%) Smartphone
3 5 (19.23%) iPhone
4 1 (3.85%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 24 (92.31%) Windows
2 13 (50.00%) Windows 10
3 10 (38.46%) Mac OS
4 8 (30.77%) Windows 7
5 6 (23.08%) Android
6 1 (3.85%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) Computer Science
1 10 (38.46%) Customer Service
1 10 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (34.62%) Time Management
3 8 (30.77%) Break/Fix
3 8 (30.77%) Mobile Device Management
4 4 (15.38%) Incident Management
4 4 (15.38%) ITIL
5 1 (3.85%) Agile
5 1 (3.85%) Android Development
5 1 (3.85%) iOS Development
5 1 (3.85%) Mobile Application Development
5 1 (3.85%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.85%) C#
Qualifications
1 10 (38.46%) A+ Certification
1 10 (38.46%) Computer Science Degree
1 10 (38.46%) DBS Check
1 10 (38.46%) Degree
1 10 (38.46%) MCP
1 10 (38.46%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (34.62%) SC Cleared
2 9 (34.62%) Security Cleared
3 4 (15.38%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (15.38%) GDPR
System Software
1 23 (88.46%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (73.08%) Microsoft
2 8 (30.77%) McAfee
2 8 (30.77%) MobileIron
3 4 (15.38%) Dell
3 4 (15.38%) ServiceNow