Deskside Engineer
UK

The median Deskside Engineer salary in the UK is £31,350 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 878 883 1194
Rank change year-on-year +5 +311 -291
Permanent jobs requiring a Deskside Engineer 24 89 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.088% 0.022%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.096% 0.023%
Number of salaries quoted 23 81 19
10th Percentile - £24,000 £24,425
25th Percentile £26,500 £25,400 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,350 £26,680 £28,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.50% -4.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £32,500 £29,440 £32,000
90th Percentile £34,250 £34,250 £36,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £31,350 £26,680 £26,680
% change year-on-year +17.50% - +6.72%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 93,776 92,678 150,788
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,209 58,362 84,200
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Deskside Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Deskside Engineer in the UK

Deskside Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Deskside Engineer.

Salary trend for Deskside Engineer in the UK

Deskside Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Deskside Engineer over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Deskside Engineer in the UK

Deskside Engineer
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Deskside Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 9 May 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
England +32 22 £31,350 +17.50% 13
UK excluding London -59 21 £31,350 +17.50% 10
South West -22 12 £27,000 -1.82% 5
Work from Home +72 4 £32,250 +24.04%
Midlands -11 4 £32,000 -4.48%
London +103 3 £33,000 - 5
East Midlands - 3 £32,000 -
South East -28 2 £30,000 +7.14%
Wales - 2 £33,500 -
Yorkshire +86 1 £30,000 +20.00%
North of England +32 1 £30,000 +16.10%
West Midlands +8 1 £33,500 -

Deskside Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, Deskside 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 featuring Deskside Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (83.33%) Microsoft 365
2 19 (79.17%) ITIL
3 17 (70.83%) Social Skills
4 16 (66.67%) Windows
4 16 (66.67%) Active Directory
5 15 (62.50%) Microsoft
6 12 (50.00%) SLA
7 11 (45.83%) Customer Service
8 9 (37.50%) Windows 10
9 8 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (33.33%) Azure
9 8 (33.33%) ServiceNow
9 8 (33.33%) Service Management
10 7 (29.17%) Service Delivery
10 7 (29.17%) Degree
10 7 (29.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 7 (29.17%) Remote Desktop
10 7 (29.17%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (29.17%) Customer-Centricity
11 6 (25.00%) Incident Management
11 6 (25.00%) DNS
11 6 (25.00%) DHCP
12 5 (20.83%) Finance
12 5 (20.83%) Driving Licence
13 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
13 4 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (16.67%) SCCM
13 4 (16.67%) Time Management
13 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
13 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared

Deskside Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (83.33%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (29.17%) Remote Desktop
2 6 (25.00%) DHCP
2 6 (25.00%) DNS
3 4 (16.67%) TCP/IP
4 2 (8.33%) LAN
4 2 (8.33%) VPN
5 1 (4.17%) Ethernet
5 1 (4.17%) Internet
5 1 (4.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (29.17%) Amazon RDS
General
1 17 (70.83%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Finance
3 4 (16.67%) Automotive
3 4 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (8.33%) Banking
5 2 (8.33%) Legal
6 1 (4.17%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Driving Licence
2 4 (16.67%) iPhone
3 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (66.67%) Windows
2 9 (37.50%) Windows 10
3 4 (16.67%) Android
4 3 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 3 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (4.17%) Linux
5 1 (4.17%) Windows 7
5 1 (4.17%) Windows NT
5 1 (4.17%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (79.17%) ITIL
2 11 (45.83%) Customer Service
3 8 (33.33%) Service Management
4 7 (29.17%) Customer-Centricity
4 7 (29.17%) Service Delivery
5 6 (25.00%) Incident Management
6 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (16.67%) Time Management
7 3 (12.50%) Break/Fix
8 2 (8.33%) Software Licensing
8 2 (8.33%) Workflow
9 1 (4.17%) Case Management
9 1 (4.17%) Data Ingestion
9 1 (4.17%) Data Management
9 1 (4.17%) Hardware Maintenance
9 1 (4.17%) ITSM
9 1 (4.17%) Migration
9 1 (4.17%) Patch Management
9 1 (4.17%) Performance Tuning
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (29.17%) Degree
2 7 (29.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 4 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
3 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
4 3 (12.50%) DBS Check
5 1 (4.17%) A+ Certification
5 1 (4.17%) CCNA
5 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (4.17%) MCDST
5 1 (4.17%) MCSA
5 1 (4.17%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (4.17%) VTSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) SCCM
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 15 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 8 (33.33%) ServiceNow
3 4 (16.67%) Dell
4 1 (4.17%) HP