Service Desk Management Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Service Desk Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 303 344 465
Rank change year-on-year +41 +121 +151
Contract jobs citing Service Desk Management 1 1 12
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.010% 0.007% 0.046%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.011% 0.007% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - £145
25th Percentile - £353 £153
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £260 £355 £225
Median % change year-on-year -26.76% +57.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile - £358 £356
90th Percentile - - £375
UK median daily rate £400 £350 £350
% change year-on-year +14.29% - -6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Service Desk Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Service Desk Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Service Desk Management trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Service Desk Management
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Service Desk Management.

Service Desk Management daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Service Desk Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) OneDrive
1 1 (100.00%) Yammer
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (100.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Support 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%) Service Delivery
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) Toshiba