Desktop Support Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Desktop Support Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Desktop Support Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £29,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 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
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 519 623 609
Rank change year-on-year +104 -14 +139
Permanent jobs requiring a Desktop Support Engineer 56 141 125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.20% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.21% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 49 132 110
10th Percentile £21,250 £24,240 £25,000
25th Percentile £23,000 £25,760 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,500 £28,645 £27,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.98% +4.16% -8.33%
75th Percentile £33,500 £33,750 £32,500
90th Percentile £34,250 £34,975 £35,100
UK median annual salary £33,000 £29,803 £32,500
% change year-on-year +10.73% -8.30% -1.52%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 36,142 67,932 52,599
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.79% 94.86% 89.20%
Number of salaries quoted 18,697 47,996 30,020
10th Percentile £26,987 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,320 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.37% -12.50% -

Desktop Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Desktop Support Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Desktop Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

Desktop Support Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Desktop Support Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Desktop Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

Desktop Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Desktop Support Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Desktop Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

Desktop Support Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Desktop Support Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 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
South East +87 27 £29,500 -1.67% 6
East of England +39 12 £22,500 -7.18% 9
North of England +31 12 £33,000 +17.86% 1
Yorkshire +66 9 £33,000 +1.54% 1
South West +80 5 £30,000 +2.42% 1
North West -22 3 £28,250 +4.63%
Midlands +55 1 £23,000 -29.23%
East Midlands +14 1 £23,000 -29.23%
Desktop Support Engineer
UK

Desktop Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 19 May 2025, Desktop Support 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 UK excluding London region featuring Desktop Support Engineer in the job title.

1 40 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 37 (66.07%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (46.43%) Active Directory
4 24 (42.86%) Windows
5 18 (32.14%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (28.57%) Social Skills
7 14 (25.00%) Driving Licence
7 14 (25.00%) Cisco
8 13 (23.21%) ITIL
9 12 (21.43%) Customer Service
10 11 (19.64%) Azure
11 9 (16.07%) Video Conferencing
11 9 (16.07%) Microsoft Office
12 8 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
12 8 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
13 7 (12.50%) Entra ID
13 7 (12.50%) Windows 10
13 7 (12.50%) Preventative Maintenance
14 6 (10.71%) Vulnerability Management
14 6 (10.71%) Cisco IOS
14 6 (10.71%) Android
14 6 (10.71%) Degree
14 6 (10.71%) Retail
14 6 (10.71%) VPN
14 6 (10.71%) SLA
15 5 (8.93%) Wi-Fi
15 5 (8.93%) Electronics
15 5 (8.93%) DNS
15 5 (8.93%) DHCP
15 5 (8.93%) TCP/IP

Desktop Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (16.07%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (8.93%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 37 (66.07%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (19.64%) Azure
3 7 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 4 (7.14%) Mimecast
4 4 (7.14%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.79%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.71%) Cisco IOS
1 6 (10.71%) VPN
2 5 (8.93%) DHCP
2 5 (8.93%) DNS
2 5 (8.93%) TCP/IP
2 5 (8.93%) VLAN
2 5 (8.93%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.79%) LAN
3 1 (1.79%) WAN
General
1 16 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.71%) Retail
3 5 (8.93%) Electronics
4 3 (5.36%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.79%) Finance
5 1 (1.79%) Law
5 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.79%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 14 (25.00%) Driving Licence
2 9 (16.07%) Video Conferencing
3 5 (8.93%) Onboarding
4 4 (7.14%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.57%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 24 (42.86%) Windows
2 7 (12.50%) Windows 10
3 6 (10.71%) Android
4 5 (8.93%) Windows Server
5 2 (3.57%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (32.14%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (23.21%) ITIL
3 12 (21.43%) Customer Service
4 7 (12.50%) Preventative Maintenance
5 6 (10.71%) Vulnerability Management
6 5 (8.93%) Break/Fix
6 5 (8.93%) Problem Management
6 5 (8.93%) Project Delivery
7 4 (7.14%) Client Onboarding
7 4 (7.14%) Collaborative Working
7 4 (7.14%) Configuration Management
7 4 (7.14%) CRM
7 4 (7.14%) Email Filtering
7 4 (7.14%) Incident Management
7 4 (7.14%) Kalman Filter
7 4 (7.14%) Process Improvement
7 4 (7.14%) Project Management
8 1 (1.79%) Information Security
8 1 (1.79%) Line Management
8 1 (1.79%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.79%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (10.71%) Degree
2 2 (3.57%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.57%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.79%) Dell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.71%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (46.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (3.57%) SCCM
3 1 (1.79%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 40 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 14 (25.00%) Cisco
3 5 (8.93%) Google
4 4 (7.14%) Meraki
5 1 (1.79%) Dell
5 1 (1.79%) HP
5 1 (1.79%) Veritas