Deskside Support Jobs

Deskside Support
UK

The median Deskside Support salary in the UK is £37,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 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
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 686 881 889
Rank change year-on-year +195 +8 +307
Permanent jobs requiring a Deskside Support 4 21 84
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.021% 0.083%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.008% 0.022% 0.091%
Number of salaries quoted 3 13 74
10th Percentile £35,250 £31,070 £23,500
25th Percentile £35,625 £31,350 £25,400
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £33,000 £26,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +26.92% -13.33%
75th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £29,440
90th Percentile £42,750 £39,600 £33,525
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £31,350 £26,000
% change year-on-year +35.57% +20.58% -2.55%

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 49,007 93,784 92,686
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.47% 94.63% 91.46%
Number of salaries quoted 27,411 67,216 58,370
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,375 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%

Deskside Support
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Deskside Support in the UK

Deskside Support
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Deskside Support in the UK

Deskside Support
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 within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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 +150 4 £37,500 +19.62% 12
London +111 3 £36,250 -0.68% 3
UK excluding London +172 1 £42,500 +35.57% 10
Work from Home +143 1 £42,500 +39.34%
South East +93 1 £42,500 +41.67% 2

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2025, Deskside 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 featuring Deskside Support in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Aruba
3 1 (25.00%) iPad
3 1 (25.00%) Hedge funds
3 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Google Workspace
3 1 (25.00%) Logistics
3 1 (25.00%) Google
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) Statistics
3 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (25.00%) Project Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Stress Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) Firewall
3 1 (25.00%) ITSM
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Advertising
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity

Deskside Support 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) Google Workspace
3 1 (25.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) LAN
1 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Advertising
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Hedge funds
1 1 (25.00%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (25.00%) Budget Management
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Fault Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) ITSM
2 1 (25.00%) Logistics
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Service Management
2 1 (25.00%) Statistics
2 1 (25.00%) Stress Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Systematic Trading
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Adobe
2 1 (25.00%) Aruba
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix
2 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Meraki
2 1 (25.00%) Okta