Service Desk Management Jobs

Service Desk Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Service Desk Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Service Desk Management over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 678 831 878
Rank change year-on-year +153 +47 +292
Permanent jobs citing Service Desk Management 24 76 90
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.043% 0.073% 0.094%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.046% 0.087% 0.098%
Number of salaries quoted 20 58 82
10th Percentile £34,750 £31,250 £23,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £49,375 £42,875
Median % change year-on-year -23.04% +15.16% +22.50%
75th Percentile £50,000 £65,593 £55,000
90th Percentile £62,500 £69,921 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £42,750 £38,750
% change year-on-year -12.28% +10.32% +25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Service Desk Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 52,256 87,133 91,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.58% 84.04% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 25,854 60,896 54,581
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%

Service Desk Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Service Desk Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Service Desk Management in the UK

Service Desk Management
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Service Desk Management in the UK

Service Desk Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Service Desk Management over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Service Desk Management in the UK

Service Desk Management
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Service Desk Management within the UK over the 6 months to 31 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
England +117 22 £38,000 -23.04% 18
UK excluding London +141 16 £37,500 -12.28% 12
South East +79 7 £37,500 -30.56% 2
London +93 6 £53,750 -21.82% 11
North of England +22 5 £36,750 -8.13% 4
Work from Home +100 4 £60,000 +50.00% 18
Yorkshire +49 4 £35,000 +14.75%
East of England +43 3 £46,250 +42.31% 1
Midlands +51 1 £47,500 -15.18%
West Midlands +50 1 £47,500 -25.49%
North West -4 1 £52,500 -14.19% 4

Service Desk Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Magento
1 1 (4.17%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 13 (54.17%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (45.83%) Azure
3 2 (8.33%) AWS
4 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.17%) GCP
4 1 (4.17%) OneDrive
4 1 (4.17%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Firewall
1 2 (8.33%) VPN
2 1 (4.17%) CATAPAN
2 1 (4.17%) DHCP
2 1 (4.17%) IPsec
2 1 (4.17%) iSCSI
2 1 (4.17%) Multicast
2 1 (4.17%) Network Security
2 1 (4.17%) OSPF
2 1 (4.17%) SAN
2 1 (4.17%) SNMP
2 1 (4.17%) SSH
2 1 (4.17%) SSL
2 1 (4.17%) VLAN
2 1 (4.17%) VoIP
2 1 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (4.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Redis
1 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (29.17%) JIRA
2 1 (4.17%) GitLab
General
1 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Finance
2 2 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Retail
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.17%) Law
3 1 (4.17%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) IT Support
2 6 (25.00%) IT Engineer
2 6 (25.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 6 (25.00%) Service Desk Manager
2 6 (25.00%) Service Manager
2 6 (25.00%) Support Engineer
3 5 (20.83%) Support Manager
4 3 (12.50%) Customer Support Manager
5 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Network Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Applications Specialist
6 1 (4.17%) Applications Support
6 1 (4.17%) Applications Support Specialist
6 1 (4.17%) IT Manager
6 1 (4.17%) IT Support Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Operations Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Service Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Support Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) 802.1X
1 1 (4.17%) Middleware
1 1 (4.17%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
1 1 (4.17%) PACS
1 1 (4.17%) PKI
1 1 (4.17%) Replication
1 1 (4.17%) Smartcard
1 1 (4.17%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (41.67%) Windows
2 9 (37.50%) Windows 10
3 7 (29.17%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (8.33%) Windows Server
5 1 (4.17%) Linux
5 1 (4.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) ITIL
2 8 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 8 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (20.83%) Customer Service
4 5 (20.83%) Trend Analysis
5 4 (16.67%) Customer Experience
5 4 (16.67%) Incident Management
6 3 (12.50%) Customer-Centricity
6 3 (12.50%) ITSM
6 3 (12.50%) Process Improvement
6 3 (12.50%) Project Management
6 3 (12.50%) Service Management
7 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Management
7 2 (8.33%) Performance Metrics
7 2 (8.33%) Project Delivery
7 2 (8.33%) Scrum
7 2 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 1 (4.17%) Conflict Resolution
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.33%) SQL
2 1 (4.17%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (8.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.17%) A+ Certification
3 1 (4.17%) CCNA
3 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.17%) Degree
3 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) MCITP
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.17%) PMI Certification
3 1 (4.17%) PMP
3 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (4.17%) DICOM
2 1 (4.17%) HL7
2 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (8.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.17%) Varnish
2 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.17%) Ansible
2 1 (4.17%) FortiGate
2 1 (4.17%) Nessus
2 1 (4.17%) WMI
2 1 (4.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (45.83%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.17%) Adobe
2 1 (4.17%) Cisco
2 1 (4.17%) Dell
2 1 (4.17%) Freshdesk
2 1 (4.17%) Google
2 1 (4.17%) iManage
2 1 (4.17%) OneLogin
2 1 (4.17%) PayPal
2 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow
2 1 (4.17%) Splunk
2 1 (4.17%) Veeam
2 1 (4.17%) VMware