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 20 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
20 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 854 960 1229
Rank change year-on-year +106 +269 -306
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Desktop Engineer 30 15 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.015% 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.016% 0.008%
Number of salaries quoted 24 14 8
10th Percentile £37,600 £31,375 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,188 £39,938 £32,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,500 £36,750
Median % change year-on-year +18.28% +26.53% -2.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £56,563 £40,000
90th Percentile £62,500 £80,000 £43,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,250 £45,500 £37,000
% change year-on-year -4.95% +22.97% -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 94,627 91,047 156,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,562 57,571 85,106
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 £70,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +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 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Desktop Engineer in the UK

Senior Desktop Engineer
Top 6 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 20 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 +96 26 £52,500 +12.90% 12
London +123 24 £55,000 +4.76% 3
Work from Home +88 11 £55,000 - 1
UK excluding London -9 4 £43,250 -4.95% 9
East of England - 2 £31,500 - 4
Scotland - 2 £55,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 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 23 (76.67%) Active Directory
2 22 (73.33%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (60.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (40.00%) ITIL
4 12 (40.00%) Windows
5 10 (33.33%) Finance
5 10 (33.33%) ServiceNow
5 10 (33.33%) Windows 10
6 9 (30.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (30.00%) Hyper-V
6 9 (30.00%) Firewall
6 9 (30.00%) VPN
7 8 (26.67%) SQL
7 8 (26.67%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
8 7 (23.33%) Azure
8 7 (23.33%) Customer Service
9 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
10 4 (13.33%) WPF
10 4 (13.33%) .NET
11 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
11 3 (10.00%) Configuration Management
11 3 (10.00%) Change Management
11 3 (10.00%) Dell
11 3 (10.00%) SCCM
11 3 (10.00%) Asset Management
11 3 (10.00%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (10.00%) CMDB
11 3 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
12 2 (6.67%) Break/Fix

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 8 (26.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (6.67%) Skype for Business
3 1 (3.33%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 22 (73.33%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (23.33%) Azure
3 2 (6.67%) Entra ID
3 2 (6.67%) OneDrive
4 1 (3.33%) Mimecast
4 1 (3.33%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 9 (30.00%) Firewall
1 9 (30.00%) VPN
2 3 (10.00%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (6.67%) DHCP
3 2 (6.67%) DNS
3 2 (6.67%) Skype
3 2 (6.67%) TCP/IP
3 2 (6.67%) WebEx
4 1 (3.33%) FTP
4 1 (3.33%) LAN
4 1 (3.33%) SMTP
4 1 (3.33%) SNMP
4 1 (3.33%) WAN
General
1 18 (60.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 10 (33.33%) Finance
3 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Banking
4 1 (3.33%) Legal
4 1 (3.33%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) .NET
1 4 (13.33%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) CMDB
2 1 (3.33%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 12 (40.00%) Windows
2 10 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.33%) Android
3 1 (3.33%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (40.00%) ITIL
2 7 (23.33%) Customer Service
3 3 (10.00%) Asset Management
3 3 (10.00%) Change Management
3 3 (10.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (6.67%) Break/Fix
4 2 (6.67%) ITSM
4 2 (6.67%) Ticket Management
5 1 (3.33%) Creative Thinking
5 1 (3.33%) Investment Management
5 1 (3.33%) Mentoring
5 1 (3.33%) Mobile Device Management
5 1 (3.33%) Patch Management
5 1 (3.33%) Resource Management
5 1 (3.33%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (3.33%) Service Delivery
5 1 (3.33%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 8 (26.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (6.67%) Degree
1 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 23 (76.67%) Active Directory
2 9 (30.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (30.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (10.00%) SCCM
3 1 (3.33%) AirWatch
3 1 (3.33%) WSUS
3 1 (3.33%) XenMobile
Vendors
1 10 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.00%) Dell
4 2 (6.67%) Apple
4 2 (6.67%) Cisco
4 2 (6.67%) Citrix
5 1 (3.33%) Becrypt
5 1 (3.33%) Bloomberg
5 1 (3.33%) HP
5 1 (3.33%) MobileIron
5 1 (3.33%) Reuters
5 1 (3.33%) Trend Micro