Desktop Support Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Desktop Support Engineer
England > North of England

The median Desktop Support Engineer salary in the North of England is £27,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 388 409 438
Rank change year-on-year +21 +29 -77
Permanent jobs requiring a Desktop Support Engineer 24 14 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.12% 0.089% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.100% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 24 10 27
10th Percentile £24,768 £24,950 £22,500
25th Percentile £26,450 £25,000 £25,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,500 £25,250 £27,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% -8.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £33,750 £28,750 £30,750
90th Percentile £35,000 £29,475 £33,000
England median annual salary £32,000 £32,500 £33,250
% change year-on-year -1.54% -2.26% +0.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 North of England with a recognized job title 19,059 14,033 18,223
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.93% 89.31% 96.30%
Number of salaries quoted 14,336 7,943 10,955
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,649 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%

Desktop Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Desktop Support Engineer in the North of England

Desktop Support Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Desktop Support Engineer in the North of England.

Salary trend for Desktop Support Engineer in the North of England

Desktop Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Desktop Support Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Desktop Support Engineer in the North of England

Desktop Support Engineer
Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
North West -16 18 £27,000 +8.00%
Yorkshire +71 6 £32,500 +16.07% 1
Desktop Support Engineer
England

Desktop Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, 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 North of England region featuring Desktop Support Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (83.33%) Windows
1 20 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 18 (75.00%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (41.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 10 (41.67%) Driving Licence
3 10 (41.67%) Social Skills
4 9 (37.50%) Degree
4 9 (37.50%) Active Directory
5 8 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (29.17%) Customer Service
7 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (25.00%) Computer Science
7 6 (25.00%) TCP/IP
8 5 (20.83%) A+ Certification
8 5 (20.83%) MCP
8 5 (20.83%) Network Security
8 5 (20.83%) Mac OS
8 5 (20.83%) DBS Check
8 5 (20.83%) Onboarding
8 5 (20.83%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (16.67%) SCCM
10 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (12.50%) ServiceNow
10 3 (12.50%) Windows 10
10 3 (12.50%) LAN
10 3 (12.50%) WAN
10 3 (12.50%) Firewall
10 3 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (8.33%) Law

Desktop Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 18 (75.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (4.17%) AWS
2 1 (4.17%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 5 (20.83%) Network Security
3 3 (12.50%) Firewall
3 3 (12.50%) LAN
3 3 (12.50%) WAN
3 3 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (8.33%) DHCP
4 2 (8.33%) DNS
4 2 (8.33%) Internet
4 2 (8.33%) VPN
5 1 (4.17%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (4.17%) Wireless
General
1 10 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Billing
2 2 (8.33%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 10 (41.67%) Driving Licence
2 5 (20.83%) Onboarding
3 2 (8.33%) Fat Client
3 2 (8.33%) Thin Client
3 2 (8.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 20 (83.33%) Windows
2 5 (20.83%) Mac OS
3 3 (12.50%) Windows 10
4 2 (8.33%) Windows XP
5 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (29.17%) Customer Service
2 6 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 6 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (8.33%) ITSM
3 2 (8.33%) Service Management
3 2 (8.33%) Statistics
4 1 (4.17%) Asset Management
4 1 (4.17%) Data Security
4 1 (4.17%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (4.17%) Proactive Maintenance
4 1 (4.17%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (41.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (37.50%) Degree
3 5 (20.83%) A+ Certification
3 5 (20.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (20.83%) DBS Check
3 5 (20.83%) MCP
4 1 (4.17%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.17%) CCNA
4 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
1 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.33%) Terminal Services
3 1 (4.17%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.17%) KVM
3 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) SCCM
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 20 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 2 (8.33%) Citrix
4 1 (4.17%) Aruba
4 1 (4.17%) Dell
4 1 (4.17%) VMware