Service Desk Support Analyst Jobs

Service Desk Support Analyst
UK

The median Service Desk Support Analyst salary in the UK is £26,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 850 907 1076
Rank change year-on-year +57 +169 -236
Permanent jobs requiring a Service Desk Support Analyst 53 76 135
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.054% 0.073% 0.087%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.057% 0.080% 0.090%
Number of salaries quoted 51 70 116
10th Percentile £22,000 £23,500 £19,313
25th Percentile £23,750 £25,000 £21,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £26,000 £32,500 £25,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +30.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £31,000 £35,938 £30,000
90th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £34,586
UK excluding London median annual salary £26,000 £27,500 £24,250
% change year-on-year -5.45% +13.40% +3.19%

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 93,219 95,232 149,773
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.54% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 66,883 59,878 85,286
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,777 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.04% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Service Desk Support Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Desk Support Analyst in the UK

Service Desk Support Analyst
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Service Desk Support Analyst.

Salary trend for Service Desk Support Analyst in the UK

Service Desk Support Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Service Desk Support Analyst over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Service Desk Support Analyst in the UK

Service Desk Support Analyst
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Service Desk Support Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +67 45 £26,000 -20.00% 3
UK excluding London -6 39 £26,000 -5.45% 5
North of England +53 17 £24,500 -20.97% 1
Yorkshire - 12 £24,500 -
South East 0 11 £26,000 -5.45% 2
London +108 10 £35,000 -
Work from Home +52 7 £26,500 -18.46% 1
North West +10 5 £21,000 -34.38% 1
East of England +7 4 £27,548 +17.22% 1
West Midlands +25 2 £26,250 +2.94%
Midlands +6 2 £26,250 +2.94%
Northern Ireland - 2 £31,500 - 1
Wales +7 1 £28,750 +15.00% 1
South West -22 1 £35,000 +12.90%
Scotland -65 1 - -

Service Desk Support Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, Service Desk Support Analyst 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 Service Desk Support Analyst in the job title.

1 37 (69.81%) Windows
2 34 (64.15%) Microsoft
3 31 (58.49%) Social Skills
4 27 (50.94%) Active Directory
5 25 (47.17%) Microsoft Office
6 24 (45.28%) Customer Service
7 23 (43.40%) Microsoft 365
8 21 (39.62%) Analytical Skills
9 17 (32.08%) Windows 10
10 15 (28.30%) ITSM
11 13 (24.53%) Incident Management
11 13 (24.53%) ServiceNow
11 13 (24.53%) SharePoint
12 12 (22.64%) Cisco
12 12 (22.64%) Mimecast
12 12 (22.64%) Windows Server
13 11 (20.75%) Management Information System
13 11 (20.75%) Dell
14 10 (18.87%) HP
14 10 (18.87%) NetApp
14 10 (18.87%) Microsoft Excel
14 10 (18.87%) VMware
14 10 (18.87%) Data Centre
14 10 (18.87%) Proactive Monitoring
14 10 (18.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
15 9 (16.98%) Remote Desktop
15 9 (16.98%) Telecoms
16 8 (15.09%) VoIP
16 8 (15.09%) SLA
16 8 (15.09%) SaaS

Service Desk Support Analyst 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 13 (24.53%) SharePoint
2 6 (11.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.77%) Confluence
4 1 (1.89%) CMS
Applications
1 25 (47.17%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (18.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (18.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (5.66%) assyst
2 1 (1.89%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 23 (43.40%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (22.64%) Mimecast
3 8 (15.09%) SaaS
4 2 (3.77%) Azure
5 1 (1.89%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (16.98%) Remote Desktop
2 8 (15.09%) VoIP
3 7 (13.21%) DHCP
3 7 (13.21%) VPN
4 6 (11.32%) TCP/IP
5 5 (9.43%) DNS
6 4 (7.55%) Firewall
7 1 (1.89%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (1.89%) LAN
7 1 (1.89%) WAN
7 1 (1.89%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 3 (5.66%) JIRA
General
1 31 (58.49%) Social Skills
2 21 (39.62%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (16.98%) Telecoms
4 6 (11.32%) Finance
4 6 (11.32%) Law
5 2 (3.77%) Banking
5 2 (3.77%) Electronics
5 2 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.77%) Legal
5 2 (3.77%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.77%) Marketing
5 2 (3.77%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.89%) Back Office
6 1 (1.89%) Local Government
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.75%) Management Information System
2 10 (18.87%) Data Centre
3 5 (9.43%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.89%) Blackberry
4 1 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.89%) Smartphone
4 1 (1.89%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 37 (69.81%) Windows
2 17 (32.08%) Windows 10
3 12 (22.64%) Windows Server
4 6 (11.32%) Windows Server 2016
4 6 (11.32%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (7.55%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (7.55%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (3.77%) Windows 7
6 2 (3.77%) Windows 8
7 1 (1.89%) Android
7 1 (1.89%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.89%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (45.28%) Customer Service
2 15 (28.30%) ITSM
3 13 (24.53%) Incident Management
4 10 (18.87%) Proactive Monitoring
5 7 (13.21%) Analytics
6 4 (7.55%) ITIL
7 3 (5.66%) Coaching
8 2 (3.77%) Active Listening
8 2 (3.77%) Analytical Thinking
8 2 (3.77%) Break/Fix
8 2 (3.77%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (3.77%) Customer Experience
8 2 (3.77%) Digital Marketing
8 2 (3.77%) Mentoring
8 2 (3.77%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (3.77%) Programme Management
8 2 (3.77%) Service Management
9 1 (1.89%) Practice Management
9 1 (1.89%) Security Operations
9 1 (1.89%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.89%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (3.77%) MCITP
1 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (1.89%) A+ Certification
2 1 (1.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.09%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (50.94%) Active Directory
2 6 (11.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (7.55%) Terminal Services
4 2 (3.77%) vSphere
5 1 (1.89%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (1.89%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 34 (64.15%) Microsoft
2 13 (24.53%) ServiceNow
3 12 (22.64%) Cisco
4 11 (20.75%) Dell
5 10 (18.87%) HP
5 10 (18.87%) NetApp
5 10 (18.87%) VMware
6 5 (9.43%) Citrix
7 4 (7.55%) NEC
8 2 (3.77%) Commvault
8 2 (3.77%) ConnectWise
8 2 (3.77%) N-able
8 2 (3.77%) SAP
8 2 (3.77%) SolarWinds
8 2 (3.77%) Sophos
9 1 (1.89%) Adobe
9 1 (1.89%) Apple
9 1 (1.89%) iManage
9 1 (1.89%) Intapp
9 1 (1.89%) Sun