Service Desk Technician Jobs in the North of England

Service Desk Technician
England > North of England

The median Service Desk Technician salary in the North of England is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 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
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 370 426
Rank change year-on-year +42 +56 +14
Permanent jobs requiring a Service Desk Technician 1 9 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.009% 0.052% 0.041%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.010% 0.054% 0.045%
Number of salaries quoted 1 9 6
10th Percentile - £26,200 £24,000
25th Percentile - £27,000 £24,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £30,000 £32,477
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -7.63% +44.34%
75th Percentile - £32,500 £40,626
90th Percentile - £76,000 £41,308
England median annual salary £36,000 £30,000 £26,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% +15.38% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 10,443 16,576 15,393
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.81% 94.91% 89.36%
Number of salaries quoted 5,850 12,833 8,151
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £69,649
90th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Service Desk Technician
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Service Desk Technician in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Service Desk Technician in the North of England

Service Desk Technician
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Service Desk Technician in the North of England.

Salary trend for Service Desk Technician in the North of England

Service Desk Technician
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Service Desk Technician within the North of England region over the 6 months to 9 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Yorkshire +56 1 £40,000 +33.33%
Service Desk Technician
England

Service Desk Technician Skill Set
Top 13 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 9 May 2025, Service Desk Technician 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 North of England region featuring Service Desk Technician in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Web Filtering

Service Desk Technician Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Web Filtering
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow