Service Desk Management Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Service Desk Management
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring Service Desk Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Service Desk Management 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 0.40% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £120 - -
North West median daily rate £120 £575 -
% change year-on-year -79.13% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merseyside

Service Desk Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 226 165 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 90.04% 72.69% 88.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 85 74
10th Percentile £130 £149 £222
25th Percentile £151 £188 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £280 £413 £450
Median % change year-on-year -32.12% -8.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £500 £501 £563
90th Percentile £643 £630 £600
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 9 14
10th Percentile £13.99 £13.28 £13.77
25th Percentile £15.18 £15.22 £16.25
Median hourly rate £20.04 £20.19 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% +7.68% +6.78%
75th Percentile £51.02 £23.53 £26.71
90th Percentile - £26.02 £43.70
North West median hourly rate £34.50 £32.01 £35.50
% change year-on-year +7.78% -9.83% +37.54%

Service Desk Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Service Desk Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside.

Service Desk Management job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Service Desk Management
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Service Desk Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Service Desk Management

Service Desk Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Service Desk Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Service Desk Management

Service Desk Management
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Liverpool - 1 £120 -
Service Desk Management
North West

Service Desk Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Mimecast
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) IT Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Service Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Service Desk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) Sophos