Service Desk Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Service Desk Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Service Desk Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Service Desk Management over the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 383 430
Rank change year-on-year +51 +47 +65
Contract jobs citing Service Desk Management 6 7 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.047% 0.034% 0.067%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.052% 0.040% 0.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 10
10th Percentile - - £156
25th Percentile £375 £173 £216
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £175 £313
Median % change year-on-year +128.57% -44.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £425 £178 £375
90th Percentile - - £388
UK median daily rate £400 £350 £350
% change year-on-year +14.29% - -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £14.65
Median hourly rate - - £15.31
75th Percentile - - £15.96
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £15.31
% change year-on-year - - +2.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,581 17,478 21,391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.43% 84.68% 89.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,255 10,443 14,838
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 839 2,054 1,309
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.31 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.34 £15.24 £15.63
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.96 £36.00
% change year-on-year -19.35% -0.11% +44.00%

Service Desk Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Service Desk Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Service Desk Management in the UK excluding London

Service Desk Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Service Desk Management in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Service Desk Management in the UK excluding London

Service Desk Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Service Desk Management in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Service Desk Management in the UK excluding London

Service Desk Management
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 May 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
Yorkshire - 6 £400 - 1
North of England - 6 £400 - 3
Service Desk Management
UK

Service Desk Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Entra ID
General
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Support Manager
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 6 (100.00%) Security Patching
1 6 (100.00%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) ACSP
1 6 (100.00%) ACTC
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Apple
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (100.00%) ServiceNow