Service Desk Management Contracts

Service Desk Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Service Desk Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Service Desk Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 588 694 814
Rank change year-on-year +106 +120 -149
Contract jobs citing Service Desk Management 10 25 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.042% 0.039%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.027% 0.046% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 18 24
10th Percentile £208 £153 £210
25th Percentile £261 £216 £243
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £350 £394
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% -3.37%
75th Percentile £354 £384 £491
90th Percentile £356 £487 £576
UK excluding London median daily rate £175 £268 £273
% change year-on-year -34.58% -1.83% -35.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - £13.05
25th Percentile - £14.65 £14.25
Median hourly rate - £15.31 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year - +2.03% -
75th Percentile - £15.96 £16.50
90th Percentile - - £20.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £15.31 £15.00
% change year-on-year - +2.03% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Service Desk Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Service Desk Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Service Desk Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Service Desk Management in the UK

Service Desk Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Service Desk Management in the UK

Service Desk Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Desk Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Service Desk Management in the UK

Service Desk Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Service Desk Management in the UK

Service Desk Management
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Service Desk Management within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +118 10 £350 - 7
UK excluding London +52 6 £175 -34.58% 7
South East +30 5 - - 2
London +99 4 £353 -13.23% 3
Work from Home +120 1 £355 +57.78% 5
East Midlands - 1 £175 -
Midlands - 1 £175 -

Service Desk Management
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 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) LAN
2 1 (10.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Analyst
1 6 (60.00%) Service Desk Analyst
2 5 (50.00%) Service Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Service Manager
4 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) IT Support
4 1 (10.00%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Service Desk Supervisor
4 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Linux
1 5 (50.00%) Unix
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Service Management
2 5 (50.00%) ITIL
2 5 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
3 4 (40.00%) ITSM
3 4 (40.00%) Service Delivery
4 3 (30.00%) Budgeting
4 3 (30.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
4 3 (30.00%) Programme Management
4 3 (30.00%) Systems Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Coaching
5 2 (20.00%) Customer Service
5 2 (20.00%) High Availability
5 2 (20.00%) Incident Management
5 2 (20.00%) SIAM
6 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2
6 1 (10.00%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (20.00%) ISO 9001
2 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 7 (70.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) IBM BigFix
1 5 (50.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Oracle
1 5 (50.00%) Remedy
1 5 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (10.00%) Citrix
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft