Service Desk Engineer Jobs in Leeds

Service Desk Engineer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Service Desk Engineer salary in Leeds is £26,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 May 2025.

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

 6 months to
17 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 127 173
Rank change year-on-year +53 +46 +33
Permanent jobs requiring a Service Desk Engineer 3 2 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 0.38% 0.087% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.091% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £32,750 £23,250
25th Percentile £25,500 £35,000 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £26,000 £40,000 £27,500
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% +45.45% +3.77%
75th Percentile £26,500 £45,000 £28,750
90th Percentile - £47,250 -
West Yorkshire median annual salary £40,000 £32,500 £27,500
% change year-on-year +23.08% +18.18% +3.77%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Leeds. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Leeds with a recognized job title 740 2,197 2,780
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 96.06% 95.14%
Number of salaries quoted 505 1,595 1,672
10th Percentile £28,600 £31,250 £32,525
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £78,000 £69,914 £73,750
90th Percentile £96,500 £83,934 £87,375
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.00% -9.09% +7.84%

Service Desk Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Desk Engineer in Leeds

Service Desk Engineer
Salary Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Service Desk Engineer in Leeds.

Salary trend for Service Desk Engineer in Leeds

Service Desk Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 17 May 2025, Service Desk Engineer 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 permanent job ads across the Leeds region featuring Service Desk Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Time Management
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Splunk
3 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Service Desk Management
3 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (33.33%) OneDrive
3 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 1 (33.33%) Creative Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) Remote Monitoring and Management
3 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Veeam
3 1 (33.33%) OneLogin

Service Desk Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) OneDrive
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Time Management
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Creative Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Remote Monitoring and Management
3 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Service Desk Management
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) OneLogin
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (33.33%) Veeam