Service Desk Management Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Service Desk Management
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Service Desk Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 166 189
Rank change year-on-year -54 +23 +43
Contract jobs citing Service Desk Management 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.021% 0.029% 0.022%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.024% 0.033% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £120 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year -79.13% - -
England median daily rate £120 £325 £340
% change year-on-year -63.08% -4.41% +9.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £16.50
75th Percentile - - £16.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £19.50

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,204 3,052 4,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.23% 87.18% 88.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,797 1,740 2,710
10th Percentile £220 £263 £293
25th Percentile £363 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £644 £669 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 144 199
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.07 £15.21
25th Percentile £19.75 £17.08 £17.72
Median hourly rate £29.60 £27.26 £30.05
Median % change year-on-year +8.60% -9.30% +33.56%
75th Percentile £55.00 £44.92 £46.18
90th Percentile £69.25 £66.98 £62.35
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +26.76%

Service Desk Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Service Desk Management job vacancy trend in the North of England

Service Desk Management
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Service Desk Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Service Desk Management

Service Desk Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Service Desk Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Service Desk Management

Service Desk Management
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 1 January 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 West -26 1 £120 -79.13%
Service Desk Management
England

Service Desk Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 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