Service Desk Analyst Job Trends in England

Service Desk Analyst
UK > England

The median Service Desk Analyst salary in England is £30,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 July 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 471 388
Rank change year-on-year +66 -83 +28
Permanent jobs requiring a Service Desk Analyst 370 180 523
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.42% 0.42% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.46% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 227 150 400
10th Percentile £25,125 £25,000 £22,000
25th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £23,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £29,000 £26,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +11.54% -3.70%
75th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £30,250
90th Percentile £35,000 £42,625 £35,250
UK median annual salary £30,000 £29,250 £26,000
% change year-on-year +2.56% +12.50% -1.89%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 83,046 39,108 80,838
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.29% 90.47% 94.65%
Number of salaries quoted 58,488 23,588 58,616
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,000 £39,477
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,900 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,806
% change year-on-year - +4.15% -11.99%

Service Desk Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Service Desk Analyst' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Service Desk Analyst job vacancy trend in England

Service Desk Analyst
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Service Desk Analyst job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Service Desk Analyst job vacancies in England

Service Desk Analyst
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Service Desk Analyst in England over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Service Desk Analyst in England

Service Desk Analyst
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Service Desk Analyst within the England region over the 6 months to 18 July 2026. 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 +17 112 £28,000 +1.82% 19
North West +55 75 £30,000 +7.15% 12
South West -9 64 £30,000 +5.26% 6
South East +10 54 £28,500 -5.00% 12
East of England +24 50 £30,000 +11.11% 9
Midlands -21 40 £28,500 +5.56% 4
London -41 37 £34,000 -2.86% 3
West Midlands +5 33 £28,000 +12.00%
Yorkshire -25 29 £26,000 -5.45% 6
North East -48 8 £26,000 +4.00% 3
East Midlands -30 7 £29,000 +7.41% 4
Service Desk Analyst
UK

Service Desk Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 18 July 2026, Service Desk Analyst job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Service Desk Analyst in the job title.

1 166 (44.86%) Microsoft 365
2 159 (42.97%) Microsoft
3 154 (41.62%) Customer Service
4 132 (35.68%) ITIL
5 117 (31.62%) Microsoft Office
6 102 (27.57%) ITSM
7 98 (26.49%) Degree
8 96 (25.95%) ServiceNow
9 81 (21.89%) AWS
10 80 (21.62%) Windows
11 74 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
11 74 (20.00%) QA
12 73 (19.73%) MCSE
13 72 (19.46%) AWS Certification
13 72 (19.46%) Performance Metrics
14 63 (17.03%) Active Directory
15 53 (14.32%) Problem-Solving
16 40 (10.81%) Windows 10
17 31 (8.38%) SLA
18 26 (7.03%) Azure
18 26 (7.03%) Microsoft Intune
19 24 (6.49%) Incident Management
19 24 (6.49%) SCCM
20 23 (6.22%) Service Management
21 21 (5.68%) Mentoring
22 19 (5.14%) Entra ID
22 19 (5.14%) Service Delivery
23 18 (4.86%) Change Management
23 18 (4.86%) Continuous Improvement
23 18 (4.86%) SharePoint

Service Desk Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (4.86%) SharePoint
2 16 (4.32%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 117 (31.62%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.08%) Chatbot
3 4 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.27%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 6 (1.62%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.81%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.54%) Carpe Diem
4 1 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 166 (44.86%) Microsoft 365
2 81 (21.89%) AWS
3 26 (7.03%) Azure
4 19 (5.14%) Entra ID
5 9 (2.43%) Power Platform
5 9 (2.43%) PowerApps
6 5 (1.35%) Mimecast
6 5 (1.35%) SaaS
7 3 (0.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (0.81%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.27%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.27%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.59%) VPN
2 15 (4.05%) DNS
3 14 (3.78%) DHCP
4 12 (3.24%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.89%) Broadband
5 7 (1.89%) SSL
5 7 (1.89%) Wireless
6 5 (1.35%) 4G
6 5 (1.35%) LAN
6 5 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.81%) Firewall
7 3 (0.81%) HTTP
7 3 (0.81%) WAN
8 2 (0.54%) SMTP
8 2 (0.54%) SSH
8 2 (0.54%) VoIP
8 2 (0.54%) WebEx
9 1 (0.27%) DKIM
9 1 (0.27%) DMARC
9 1 (0.27%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.54%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (4.05%) JIRA
General
1 151 (40.81%) Social Skills
2 50 (13.51%) Swedish Language
3 26 (7.03%) French Language
4 23 (6.22%) Finance
5 21 (5.68%) Retail
6 19 (5.14%) Games
7 10 (2.70%) Legal
8 9 (2.43%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (2.16%) Law
10 7 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.81%) Automotive
13 2 (0.54%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.54%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.54%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.27%) Advertising
14 1 (0.27%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (0.81%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (0.81%) Kafka
1 3 (0.81%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 23 (6.22%) Onboarding
2 7 (1.89%) Video Conferencing
3 6 (1.62%) EPoS
4 4 (1.08%) Driving Licence
5 3 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.54%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.27%) Blackberry
7 1 (0.27%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.27%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.27%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 80 (21.62%) Windows
2 40 (10.81%) Windows 10
3 13 (3.51%) Android
4 10 (2.70%) Apple iOS
5 9 (2.43%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.54%) Linux
7 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (41.62%) Customer Service
2 132 (35.68%) ITIL
3 102 (27.57%) ITSM
4 72 (19.46%) Performance Metrics
5 53 (14.32%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (6.49%) Incident Management
7 23 (6.22%) Service Management
8 21 (5.68%) Mentoring
9 19 (5.14%) Service Delivery
10 18 (4.86%) Change Management
10 18 (4.86%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (4.05%) Customer Experience
12 13 (3.51%) Problem Management
13 11 (2.97%) Collaborative Working
14 10 (2.70%) Ticket Management
15 9 (2.43%) Application Packaging
15 9 (2.43%) Asset Management
15 9 (2.43%) User Experience
15 9 (2.43%) Vulnerability Management
16 8 (2.16%) Knowledge Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (2.16%) SQL
2 4 (1.08%) PowerShell
3 3 (0.81%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.27%) R
Qualifications
1 98 (26.49%) Degree
2 74 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 73 (19.73%) MCSE
4 72 (19.46%) AWS Certification
5 7 (1.89%) Security Cleared
6 6 (1.62%) A+ Certification
7 3 (0.81%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.27%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.27%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (20.00%) QA
2 31 (8.38%) SLA
3 2 (0.54%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 63 (17.03%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.54%) Samba
Systems Management
1 26 (7.03%) Microsoft Intune
2 24 (6.49%) SCCM
3 3 (0.81%) Kibana
4 1 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 159 (42.97%) Microsoft
2 96 (25.95%) ServiceNow
3 8 (2.16%) Palo Alto
3 8 (2.16%) Qualys
4 5 (1.35%) Starlink
5 4 (1.08%) Cisco
5 4 (1.08%) iManage
5 4 (1.08%) Intapp
6 3 (0.81%) Citrix
6 3 (0.81%) Litera
6 3 (0.81%) SAP
6 3 (0.81%) Sophos
7 2 (0.54%) Apple
7 2 (0.54%) DocuSign
7 2 (0.54%) HighQ
7 2 (0.54%) IBM
8 1 (0.27%) Adobe
8 1 (0.27%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.27%) Remedy