Service Desk Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Service Desk Analyst
UK > England

The median Service Desk Analyst daily rate in England is £200, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 July 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 464 364 262
Rank change year-on-year -100 -102 +28
Contract jobs requiring a Service Desk Analyst 162 151 301
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.36% 0.55% 0.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.60% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 61 121
10th Percentile £131 £132 £135
25th Percentile £150 £150 £168
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £200 £190
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £238 £238 £250
90th Percentile £294 £288 £300
UK median daily rate £200 £200 £190
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +6.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 46 139
10th Percentile £14.32 £14.45 £12.65
25th Percentile £14.80 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £16.50 £16.30 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +1.23% - +5.16%
75th Percentile £23.04 £19.41 £21.37
90th Percentile £27.14 £22.86 £21.57
UK median hourly rate £15.88 £16.30 £16.30
% change year-on-year -2.58% - +5.20%

All Contract IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 41,767 25,148 32,288
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 91.78% 93.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,470 16,339 21,305
10th Percentile £325 £288 £300
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,003 1,263 2,075
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £22.42 £17.80 £18.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +70.13% -38.49% -2.39%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.04 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.85 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +70.39% -39.40% -5.26%

Service Desk Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Service Desk Analyst' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Service Desk Analyst job vacancy trend in England

Service Desk Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Service Desk Analyst job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Service Desk Analyst job vacancies in England

Service Desk Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Desk Analyst in England over the 6 months to 25 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Service Desk Analyst in England

Service Desk Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Service Desk Analyst job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Service Desk Analyst job vacancies in England

Service Desk Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Service Desk Analyst in England over the 6 months to 25 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Service Desk Analyst in England

Service Desk Analyst
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Service Desk Analyst within the England region over the 6 months to 25 July 2026. 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
North of England -71 48 £175 +16.67% 22
North West -38 39 £163 +4.00% 15
South East -62 28 £210 +5.00% 7
South West -20 23 £225 +45.16% 3
East of England -31 23 £205 -8.89% 6
London -65 23 £220 -5.38% 1
Midlands -51 21 £131 -30.97% 6
East Midlands -7 13 £131 -0.88% 5
West Midlands -59 8 £190 -24.00% 1
Yorkshire -58 5 £225 +60.71% 7
North East -41 4 £200 +11.11% 2
Service Desk Analyst
UK

Service Desk Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 25 July 2026, Service Desk Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Service Desk Analyst in the job title.

1 67 (41.36%) Windows
2 61 (37.65%) Customer Service
3 57 (35.19%) Active Directory
3 57 (35.19%) Microsoft
4 56 (34.57%) Microsoft 365
5 49 (30.25%) ITIL
6 38 (23.46%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (21.60%) ServiceNow
8 31 (19.14%) Windows 10
9 28 (17.28%) ITSM
10 26 (16.05%) Security Cleared
11 20 (12.35%) Microsoft Office
12 17 (10.49%) SC Cleared
12 17 (10.49%) Service Management
13 16 (9.88%) SLA
14 14 (8.64%) Customer Experience
14 14 (8.64%) Incident Management
15 13 (8.02%) Azure
15 13 (8.02%) Microsoft Exchange
16 12 (7.41%) Android
16 12 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
17 11 (6.79%) DHCP
17 11 (6.79%) DNS
17 11 (6.79%) Remedy
18 10 (6.17%) VPN
19 9 (5.56%) Collaborative Working
19 9 (5.56%) Degree
19 9 (5.56%) Mac OS
19 9 (5.56%) Remedy ITSM
19 9 (5.56%) Service Delivery

Service Desk Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 13 (8.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (5.56%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.09%) Mattermost
Applications
1 20 (12.35%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.85%) Acrobat
2 3 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (5.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 56 (34.57%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (8.02%) Azure
3 8 (4.94%) Entra ID
3 8 (4.94%) OneDrive
4 7 (4.32%) Google Workspace
5 5 (3.09%) GCP
6 4 (2.47%) Mimecast
7 3 (1.85%) IaaS
8 2 (1.23%) AWS
8 2 (1.23%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.62%) OCI
9 1 (0.62%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.62%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.79%) DHCP
1 11 (6.79%) DNS
2 10 (6.17%) VPN
3 6 (3.70%) TCP/IP
4 5 (3.09%) VoIP
5 3 (1.85%) Wireless
6 2 (1.23%) NAS
6 2 (1.23%) SAN
6 2 (1.23%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.62%) Broadband
7 1 (0.62%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.62%) LAN
7 1 (0.62%) WAN
7 1 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.62%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (4.94%) JIRA
General
1 56 (34.57%) Social Skills
2 12 (7.41%) Legal
3 10 (6.17%) Organisational Skills
4 7 (4.32%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (4.32%) Manufacturing
4 7 (4.32%) Public Sector
4 7 (4.32%) Retail
5 5 (3.09%) Military
6 4 (2.47%) Finance
7 3 (1.85%) Advertising
7 3 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.85%) Law
7 3 (1.85%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.23%) Banking
8 2 (1.23%) Dutch Language
8 2 (1.23%) Hungarian Language
8 2 (1.23%) Romanian Language
9 1 (0.62%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.62%) Local Government
9 1 (0.62%) Spanish Language
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.79%) Onboarding
2 8 (4.94%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (4.94%) Smartphone
3 6 (3.70%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.85%) Blackberry
4 3 (1.85%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.62%) CMDB
6 1 (0.62%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.62%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.62%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 67 (41.36%) Windows
2 31 (19.14%) Windows 10
3 12 (7.41%) Android
4 9 (5.56%) Mac OS
5 6 (3.70%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.23%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.62%) Unix
7 1 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (37.65%) Customer Service
2 49 (30.25%) ITIL
3 38 (23.46%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (17.28%) ITSM
5 17 (10.49%) Service Management
6 14 (8.64%) Customer Experience
6 14 (8.64%) Incident Management
7 12 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (5.56%) Collaborative Working
8 9 (5.56%) Service Delivery
9 7 (4.32%) Active Listening
9 7 (4.32%) Digital Strategy
10 6 (3.70%) CRM
11 5 (3.09%) Agile
11 5 (3.09%) DevOps
11 5 (3.09%) Workflow
12 4 (2.47%) Change Management
12 4 (2.47%) Configuration Management
12 4 (2.47%) Cybersecurity
12 4 (2.47%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 26 (16.05%) Security Cleared
2 17 (10.49%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.56%) Degree
4 6 (3.70%) DV Cleared
4 6 (3.70%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (2.47%) A+ Certification
5 4 (2.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 4 (2.47%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (1.23%) MCSE
8 1 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.62%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.62%) MCSA
8 1 (0.62%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.88%) SLA
2 1 (0.62%) GDPR
System Software
1 57 (35.19%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.62%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.62%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.62%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (3.09%) SCCM
3 2 (1.23%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.62%) Dell DRAC
4 1 (0.62%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 57 (35.19%) Microsoft
2 35 (21.60%) ServiceNow
3 11 (6.79%) Remedy
4 7 (4.32%) Google
5 5 (3.09%) iManage
6 4 (2.47%) Cisco
6 4 (2.47%) Citrix
6 4 (2.47%) Freshdesk
6 4 (2.47%) Sophos
7 3 (1.85%) Adobe
7 3 (1.85%) Intapp
7 3 (1.85%) Litera
7 3 (1.85%) VMware
8 2 (1.23%) Dell
9 1 (0.62%) Apple
9 1 (0.62%) Commvault
9 1 (0.62%) HP
9 1 (0.62%) Mitel
9 1 (0.62%) Polycom
9 1 (0.62%) Veeam