Senior Desktop Engineer Jobs

Senior Desktop Engineer
UK

The median Senior Desktop Engineer salary in the UK is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 866 966 1200
Rank change year-on-year +100 +234 -338
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Desktop Engineer 23 12 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.011% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.012% 0.010%
Number of salaries quoted 18 12 8
10th Percentile £46,750 £29,575 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £37,375 £32,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £36,750
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% +29.25% -2.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £63,125 £40,000
90th Percentile £62,500 £80,000 £43,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £30,500 £37,000
% change year-on-year +80.33% -17.57% -1.33%

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 92,477 96,786 147,852
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.57% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 66,588 60,676 85,408
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,075
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Senior Desktop Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Desktop Engineer in the UK

Senior Desktop Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Desktop Engineer in the UK

Senior Desktop Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Desktop Engineer over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Desktop Engineer in the UK

Senior Desktop 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 Senior Desktop Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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
London +142 19 £55,000 +4.76% 1
England +121 19 £55,000 +15.79% 4
Work from Home +86 10 £55,000 -31.25% 1
UK excluding London +2 2 £55,000 +80.33% 3
Scotland - 2 £55,000 -

Senior Desktop Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, Senior 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 featuring Senior Desktop Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (73.91%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (69.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 16 (69.57%) Active Directory
3 9 (39.13%) ITIL
3 9 (39.13%) ServiceNow
4 8 (34.78%) Finance
4 8 (34.78%) Hyper-V
5 7 (30.43%) Windows
5 7 (30.43%) SQL
5 7 (30.43%) VPN
5 7 (30.43%) Windows 10
6 6 (26.09%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (26.09%) Customer Service
6 6 (26.09%) Firewall
6 6 (26.09%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (17.39%) .NET
7 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
7 4 (17.39%) Azure
7 4 (17.39%) WPF
8 3 (13.04%) Change Management
8 3 (13.04%) Configuration Management
8 3 (13.04%) CMDB
9 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
9 2 (8.70%) Skype
9 2 (8.70%) ITSM
9 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
9 2 (8.70%) Dell
9 2 (8.70%) Skype for Business
10 1 (4.35%) Root Cause Analysis
10 1 (4.35%) Android

Senior Desktop 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (26.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (8.70%) Skype for Business
3 1 (4.35%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (73.91%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (17.39%) Azure
3 1 (4.35%) Mimecast
3 1 (4.35%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 7 (30.43%) VPN
2 6 (26.09%) Firewall
3 2 (8.70%) Skype
4 1 (4.35%) WebEx
General
1 16 (69.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 8 (34.78%) Finance
3 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) .NET
1 4 (17.39%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) CMDB
2 1 (4.35%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 7 (30.43%) Windows
1 7 (30.43%) Windows 10
2 1 (4.35%) Android
2 1 (4.35%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) ITIL
2 6 (26.09%) Customer Service
3 3 (13.04%) Change Management
3 3 (13.04%) Configuration Management
4 2 (8.70%) ITSM
5 1 (4.35%) Asset Management
5 1 (4.35%) Resource Management
5 1 (4.35%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (4.35%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 16 (69.57%) Active Directory
2 8 (34.78%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) ServiceNow
2 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.70%) Dell
4 1 (4.35%) Apple
4 1 (4.35%) Becrypt
4 1 (4.35%) Cisco
4 1 (4.35%) Citrix