Deskside Support Engineer Jobs

Deskside Support Engineer
UK

The median Deskside Support Engineer salary in the UK is £42,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 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
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 710 892 889
Rank change year-on-year +182 -3 +314
Permanent jobs requiring a Deskside Support Engineer 2 9 71
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.004% 0.009% 0.070%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.004% 0.010% 0.077%
Number of salaries quoted 1 8 65
10th Percentile - £31,245 £24,000
25th Percentile £41,250 - £25,400
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £31,350 £26,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.57% +20.58% -7.14%
75th Percentile £43,750 £33,750 £29,400
90th Percentile - £37,200 £33,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £31,350 £26,000
% change year-on-year +35.57% +20.58% +1.96%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 50,162 93,945 92,753
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.62% 94.63% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,234 67,289 58,554
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.62% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £80,627
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +6.00%

Deskside Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Deskside Support Engineer in the UK

Deskside Support Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Deskside Support Engineer in the UK

Deskside Support Engineer
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Deskside Support Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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
England +145 2 £42,500 +35.57% 6
UK excluding London +179 1 £42,500 +35.57% 5
Work from Home +115 1 £42,500 +37.10%
South East +99 1 £42,500 - 2
London +98 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 13 May 2025, Deskside 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 featuring Deskside Support Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) Budget Management
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (50.00%) Okta
2 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Meraki
2 1 (50.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Aruba
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Google Workspace
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (50.00%) Statistics
2 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (50.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Stress Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (50.00%) Adobe
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office

Deskside Support 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 1 (50.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) Budget Management
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Statistics
2 1 (50.00%) Stress Testing
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Adobe
2 1 (50.00%) Aruba
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (50.00%) Meraki
2 1 (50.00%) Okta