2nd Line Service Desk Analyst Jobs in the UK excluding London

Second Line Service Desk Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Second Line Service Desk Analyst salary in the UK excluding London is £27,000 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 566 743 702
Rank change year-on-year +177 -41 +114
Permanent jobs requiring a 2nd Line Service Desk Analyst 9 15 60
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.023% 0.021% 0.100%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.022% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 8 15 58
10th Percentile £22,625 £25,050 -
25th Percentile £23,750 £27,125 £23,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,000 £32,000 £27,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +16.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £31,000 £33,500 £32,000
90th Percentile £31,150 £36,500 £35,675
UK median annual salary £29,000 £32,000 £29,714
% change year-on-year -9.38% +7.69% -0.95%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,016 67,223 53,634
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.55% 94.80% 89.17%
Number of salaries quoted 18,742 47,591 30,483
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,906 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,225 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured 2nd Line Service Desk Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for 2nd Line Service Desk Analyst in the UK excluding London

2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing 2nd Line Service Desk Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for 2nd Line Service Desk Analyst in the UK excluding London

2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing 2nd Line Service Desk Analyst within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +44 3 £28,000 -6.67% 1
South West +114 2 £25,500 -7.27% 1
Scotland - 2 £28,000 -
North East - 2 £28,000 -
South East +93 1 £22,500 -38.57%
North West +6 1 - - 1
Midlands - 1 £31,000 -
West Midlands - 1 £31,000 -
2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
UK

2nd Line Service Desk Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 9 May 2025, 2nd Line Service Desk Analyst 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 UK excluding London region featuring 2nd Line Service Desk Analyst in the job title.

1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
1 6 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 5 (55.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (55.56%) VMware
3 4 (44.44%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (33.33%) Service Management
4 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 3 (33.33%) Windows
4 3 (33.33%) ITSM
4 3 (33.33%) Windows Server
4 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
5 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
5 2 (22.22%) DBS Check
5 2 (22.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (22.22%) RBAC
5 2 (22.22%) Power BI
5 2 (22.22%) Onboarding
5 2 (22.22%) Workflow
5 2 (22.22%) Data Analysis
5 2 (22.22%) Workflow Management
5 2 (22.22%) JIRA
5 2 (22.22%) CMDB
5 2 (22.22%) AWS
5 2 (22.22%) ServiceNow
5 2 (22.22%) User Experience
5 2 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (22.22%) ITIL
5 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence

2nd Line Service Desk Analyst Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudTrail
2 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DHCP
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
1 1 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (11.11%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) CMDB
1 2 (22.22%) Onboarding
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) EPoS
2 1 (11.11%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
1 3 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (33.33%) ITSM
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) Service Management
3 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
3 2 (22.22%) Data Analysis
3 2 (22.22%) ITIL
3 2 (22.22%) RBAC
3 2 (22.22%) User Experience
3 2 (22.22%) Workflow
3 2 (22.22%) Workflow Management
4 1 (11.11%) Customer Service
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (22.22%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 5 (55.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) VMware
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (22.22%) ServiceNow