Service Desk Officer Contracts in England

Service Desk Officer
UK > England

The median Service Desk Officer daily rate in England is £155, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 493 557 -
Rank change year-on-year +64 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Service Desk Officer 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.008% 0.005% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.008% 0.006% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £153 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £155 £190 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.42% - -
75th Percentile £158 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £155 £190 £135
% change year-on-year -18.42% +40.74% -26.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £26.68 -
UK median hourly rate - £26.68 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 24,278 34,696 45,028
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 92.91% 94.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,841 22,709 31,930
10th Percentile £293 £300 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,141 2,561 1,374
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.88 £14.42
25th Percentile £17.98 £17.00 £19.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £43.69
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -8.45% +74.76%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £37.75 £43.00
% change year-on-year -29.80% -12.21% +68.63%

Service Desk Officer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Desk Officer in England

Service Desk Officer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Service Desk Officer in England

Service Desk Officer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Service Desk Officer in England

Service Desk Officer
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 Officer within the England region over the 6 months to 4 July 2025. 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
South East - 2 £155 - 1
Service Desk Officer
UK

Service Desk Officer Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 4 July 2025, Service Desk Officer 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 England region featuring Service Desk Officer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) CRM
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) Terminal Services
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Law
1 2 (100.00%) Legal
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 2 (100.00%) Remote Desktop
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (100.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Preventative Maintenance
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016

Service Desk Officer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Remote Desktop
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Law
1 2 (100.00%) Legal
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) CRM
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Preventative Maintenance
1 2 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) Terminal Services
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) VMware