Service Desk Analyst Contracts in the North West

Service Desk Analyst
England > North West

The median Service Desk Analyst daily rate in the North West is £200 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 124 117
Rank change year-on-year +27 -7 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Service Desk Analyst 41 31 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.53% 1.00% 1.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.62% 1.05% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 28
10th Percentile £125 £109 £110
25th Percentile £168 £133 £113
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £153 £145
Median % change year-on-year +31.15% +5.17% -12.12%
75th Percentile £230 £200 £189
90th Percentile £267 - £202
England median daily rate £175 £180 £160
% change year-on-year -2.78% +12.50% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 11 9
10th Percentile - £16.19 £15.00
25th Percentile £10.95 £16.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £15.66 £16.85 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.06% -6.39% +26.32%
75th Percentile £16.85 £18.75 £19.25
90th Percentile £22.15 £22.41 -
England median hourly rate £15.17 £15.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year -2.13% +3.33% +11.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North West with a recognized job title 2,533 2,948 3,886
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.59% 94.91% 96.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,645 2,094 2,832
10th Percentile £275 £300 £213
25th Percentile £388 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +13.10%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £569
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 128 176
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.72 £11.56
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £27.00 £32.88 £24.75
Median % change year-on-year -17.88% +32.84% +36.63%
75th Percentile £46.91 £49.61 £50.01
90th Percentile £69.14 £66.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £44.77 £23.00
% change year-on-year -16.23% +94.63% +4.55%

Service Desk Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Desk Analyst in the North West

Service Desk Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Service Desk Analyst in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Service Desk Analyst in the North West

Service Desk Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Desk Analyst in the North West over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Service Desk Analyst in the North West

Service Desk Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Service Desk Analyst in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Service Desk Analyst in the North West

Service Desk Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Service Desk Analyst in the North West over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Service Desk Analyst in the North West

Service Desk Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Service Desk Analyst within the North West region over the 6 months to 11 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cumbria -9 13 - -
Manchester +22 12 £203 +44.64% 2
Merseyside +16 11 - - 2
Lancashire - 3 £200 - 1
Cheshire +3 2 - - 4
Service Desk Analyst
England

Service Desk Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, Service Desk Analyst contract 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 contract job ads across the North West region featuring Service Desk Analyst in the job title.

1 39 (95.12%) Customer Service
2 31 (75.61%) Windows
3 22 (53.66%) Microsoft
4 21 (51.22%) Windows 10
5 18 (43.90%) Microsoft Office
6 16 (39.02%) Active Directory
6 16 (39.02%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (39.02%) ServiceNow
7 15 (36.59%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (34.15%) Time Management
8 14 (34.15%) Security Cleared
9 13 (31.71%) SC Cleared
9 13 (31.71%) Disclosure Scotland
9 13 (31.71%) SLA
9 13 (31.71%) Decision-Making
10 12 (29.27%) Public Sector
11 10 (24.39%) Microsoft Excel
11 10 (24.39%) Social Skills
12 9 (21.95%) ITIL
12 9 (21.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
13 7 (17.07%) Incident Management
13 7 (17.07%) Migration
14 6 (14.63%) Degree
15 5 (12.20%) Service Management
16 4 (9.76%) Mentoring
16 4 (9.76%) Coaching
16 4 (9.76%) Azure
17 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Intune
17 3 (7.32%) Service Delivery
17 3 (7.32%) SharePoint

Service Desk Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (7.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 18 (43.90%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (24.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (21.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 16 (39.02%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (9.76%) Azure
3 2 (4.88%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (4.88%) Mimecast
4 1 (2.44%) AWS
4 1 (2.44%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.44%) IaaS
4 1 (2.44%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) DHCP
1 2 (4.88%) DNS
2 1 (2.44%) Broadband
General
1 12 (29.27%) Public Sector
2 10 (24.39%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.44%) Advertising
4 1 (2.44%) French Language
4 1 (2.44%) German Language
4 1 (2.44%) Italian Language
4 1 (2.44%) Law
4 1 (2.44%) Spanish Language
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.44%) Life Science
1 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 31 (75.61%) Windows
2 21 (51.22%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.44%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (95.12%) Customer Service
2 15 (36.59%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (34.15%) Time Management
4 13 (31.71%) Decision-Making
5 9 (21.95%) ITIL
6 7 (17.07%) Incident Management
6 7 (17.07%) Migration
7 5 (12.20%) Service Management
8 4 (9.76%) Coaching
8 4 (9.76%) Mentoring
9 3 (7.32%) Service Delivery
10 2 (4.88%) Collaborative Working
10 2 (4.88%) Customer Engagement
10 2 (4.88%) Problem Management
10 2 (4.88%) Security Hardening
10 2 (4.88%) Workflow
11 1 (2.44%) Continuous Improvement
11 1 (2.44%) DevOps
11 1 (2.44%) Mobile Device Management
11 1 (2.44%) Process Improvement
Qualifications
1 14 (34.15%) Security Cleared
2 13 (31.71%) SC Cleared
3 6 (14.63%) Degree
4 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.88%) MCP
5 2 (4.88%) MCSE
5 2 (4.88%) MOS
6 1 (2.44%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (31.71%) Disclosure Scotland
1 13 (31.71%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (39.02%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.88%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (4.88%) SCCM
Vendors
1 22 (53.66%) Microsoft
2 16 (39.02%) ServiceNow
3 2 (4.88%) Sophos
4 1 (2.44%) iManage