Service Desk Manager Contracts in London

Service Desk Manager
England > London

The median Service Desk Manager daily rate in London is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 386 471 544
Rank change year-on-year +85 +73 -70
Contract jobs requiring a Service Desk Manager 14 17 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.079% 0.065% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.085% 0.068% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 49
10th Percentile £363 £381 £321
25th Percentile £514 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +47.37% -1.04% +32.41%
75th Percentile £740 £538 £563
90th Percentile £772 £550 £625
England median daily rate £700 £375 £465
% change year-on-year +86.67% -19.35% +24.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £32.29
Median hourly rate - £7.00 £34.45
Median % change year-on-year - -79.68% -
75th Percentile - - £36.61
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £17.60 £7.00 £34.45
% change year-on-year +151.43% -79.68% +11.13%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,495 25,012 36,533
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.29% 95.24% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,929 18,143 26,715
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £683 £700 £684
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 328 281 442
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.75 £22.68
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.61% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £45.18 £62.68 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.01 £80.00 £68.06
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.55
% change year-on-year -17.38% +99.60% +2.48%

Service Desk Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Service Desk Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Service Desk Manager in London

Service Desk Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Service Desk Manager in London.

Daily rate trend for Service Desk Manager in London

Service Desk Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Desk Manager in London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Service Desk Manager in London

Service Desk Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Service Desk Manager in London.

Hourly rate trend for Service Desk Manager in London

Service Desk Manager
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Service Desk Manager within the London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +47 3 £750 -
Service Desk Manager
England

Service Desk Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, Service Desk Manager contract 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 contract job ads across the London region featuring Service Desk Manager in the job title.

1 5 (35.71%) ITIL
1 5 (35.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 3 (21.43%) ITSM
3 3 (21.43%) Finance
3 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (21.43%) Process Improvement
3 3 (21.43%) Customer Service
3 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
4 2 (14.29%) IT Asset Management
4 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (14.29%) Problem Management
4 2 (14.29%) SLA
4 2 (14.29%) Agile
4 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
4 2 (14.29%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 2 (14.29%) PRINCE2
4 2 (14.29%) Windows
5 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
5 1 (7.14%) MS Visio
5 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (7.14%) DHCP
5 1 (7.14%) DNS
5 1 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (7.14%) Change Management
5 1 (7.14%) Legal
5 1 (7.14%) Incident Management

Service Desk Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
2 1 (7.14%) Mimecast
2 1 (7.14%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) DHCP
1 1 (7.14%) DNS
General
1 5 (35.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Legal
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) ITIL
2 3 (21.43%) Customer Service
2 3 (21.43%) ITSM
2 3 (21.43%) Process Improvement
2 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (14.29%) Agile
3 2 (14.29%) IT Asset Management
3 2 (14.29%) PRINCE2
3 2 (14.29%) Problem Management
4 1 (7.14%) Budgeting
4 1 (7.14%) Change Management
4 1 (7.14%) Data Protection
4 1 (7.14%) Incident Management
4 1 (7.14%) Mentoring
4 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (7.14%) Value Proposition
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) VMware