Apprentice Service Desk Analyst
FRONTLINE LIMITED
Peterborough (PE1 5DD)
Closes on Friday 6 March 2026
Posted on 9 January 2026
Contents
Summary
As a Service Desk Analyst, you will play a crucial role in supporting our business customers as a member of the Service Desk team.
- Wage
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£22,500 a year
- Training course
- Digital support technician (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday- Friday
Shifts to be confirmed
38 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 6 April 2026
- Duration
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1 year 3 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
Please note that this is an apprenticeship position and therefore anyone with more than six months professional experience working in relevant job role or who holds relevant professional qualifications or a tech degree will not be eligible.
You will also need to commit to completing a Level 3 Digital Support Technician Apprenticeship.
Your primary responsibilities will include providing technical support, troubleshooting issues, creating comprehensive documentation, and adhering to established ITIL processes to ensure the delivery of high-quality and responsive service to all business customers. Collaboration with team members to handle escalations and facilitate knowledge transfer will also be essential in this role.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide Technical Support: Respond to and resolve technical support requests from business customers, ensuring a high level of customer satisfaction
- Troubleshoot Issues: Diagnose and troubleshoot hardware, software, and network issues efficiently, utilising various tools and techniques
- Create and Maintain Documentation: Develop comprehensive and accessible technical documentation, ensuring it is kept up to date and useful for team members and users
- Adhere to Processes: Follow established service desk processes and procedures to ensure consistent and high-quality service delivery
- Collaborate with Team Members: Work closely with team members to handle escalations, share knowledge, and facilitate problem resolution
- Prioritise and Manage Support Tickets: Effectively prioritise and manage multiple support tickets in a high-pressure environment, ensuring timely resolution
- Utilise IT Service Management Tools: Use IT service management tools (e.g. Freshservice) to track and manage support requests and maintain accurate records
- Verify Issue Resolution: Ensure that technical issues are fully resolved and communicate resolution details to the customer
Some of the systems you may be expected to use, administer and help maintain on a daily basis include:
- Windows 11/ 10
- Active Directory / Microsoft Entra
- Microsoft Office 365
- Microsoft Azure
- Microsoft Intune
- Microsoft SharePoint
- Microsoft Teams
- Business Central / Dynamics 365
- Freshservice ITSM
Key Core Competencies and Skills Required:
- Wide knowledge of Windows 10/11 operating systems
- Excellent communication and customer service skills, both written and verbal
- Ability to collaborate and work well with others
- Ability to take ownership of work and see it through to completion, both alone and with a team
- Strong writing abilities for preparing readable, efficient and actionable technical and non-technical documentation
- Attention to detail
- Ability to remain calm and organised during major incidents, periods of high workload and urgent work
- Empathy of the needs of others, understanding that everyone has different abilities; finding a way to work in a friendly and helpful manner to accommodate said needs
- Experience with coding, programming, or scripting (e.g., PowerShell, Python, or similar) is desirable
Location: We are based in Peterborough (PE1 5DD) and although we offer hybrid working, this is at the discretion of the line manager and especially at the start of the apprenticeship, the apprentice must be willing to attend the office for 4 days a week. Therefore, the successful candidate is likely to have a commute of 1hr 15mins or less.
Where you'll work
Stuart House (1st Floor)
St John's Street
Peterborough
PE1 5DD
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
DIGITAL NATIVE (UK) LIMITED
Training course
Digital support technician (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- use digital technologies, including collaborative tools, to operate effectively as part of a team, and with other stakeholders, enabling sharing of information and best practice.
- use data accurately and securely to meet business requirements and in line with organisational procedures and legislation.
- apply information security principles, for example: information transfer, deletion, storage, usage and communications that may include using mobile devices.
- provide an appropriate and effective response to enquiries, providing support and information utilising digital channels and in line with organisation protocols
- operate digital information systems, for example• Management- Finance Human Resources• Bespoke departmental or organisational systems or databases
- communicate effectively through a variety of different channels using terminology appropriate to the audience
- use digital resources to extend own knowledge and skills relevant to their role
- risk assess the organisational impact of decisions that they take
- use digital systems to identify productivity and performance improvements
- use digital technologies to operate effectively as part of a team, and with other stakeholders, enabling sharing of information and best practice
- maintain system security in line with organisational policies.
- support digital operations or digital change and transformation activities.
- investigate application problems and enable resolution to maintain productivity and improve quality of service.
- coach and guide stakeholders to develop their applications skills to use digital systems effectively.
- monitor data to analyse systems use and provide insights to recommend use or applications developments.
- support customers in the use of information, products and services through digital channels.
- diagnoses technical problems by identifying and applying tools and techniques to undertake fault finding, recording and rectification.
- maintain end-user systems physically or remotely. For example: software, hardware or operating systems
- provide and direct end-users to tools and resources to help them to resolve their digital problems.
- use digital technologies, including collaborative tools, to operate effectively as part of a team, and with other stakeholders, enabling sharing of information and best practice.
- use data accurately and securely to meet business requirements and in line with organisational procedures and legislation.
- apply information security principles, for example: information transfer, deletion, storage, usage and communications that may include using mobile devices.
- provide an appropriate and effective response to enquiries, providing support and information utilising digital channels and in line with organisation protocols
- operate digital information systems, for example• Management- Finance Human Resources• Bespoke departmental or organisational systems or databases
- communicate effectively through a variety of different channels using terminology appropriate to the audience
- use digital resources to extend own knowledge and skills relevant to their role
- risk assess the organisational impact of decisions that they take
- use digital systems to identify productivity and performance improvements
- use digital technologies to operate effectively as part of a team, and with other stakeholders, enabling sharing of information and best practice
- maintain system security in line with organisational policies.
Training schedule
You will undertake the Level 3 Digital Support Technician Apprenticeship Standard and be given the opportunity to gain relevant British Computer Society qualifications.
You will work alongside our experienced Service Desk team and build your skills through a combination of:
- 1-2-1 Coaching
- Group activities
- Online learning
- Work based tasks
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
Desirable qualifications
A Level in:
BTEC in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
About this employer
We are The Frontline Group, the UK’s leading retail sales, marketing and distribution company working within publishing and home entertainment. We pride ourselves on our honesty and integrity, we place client value at the centre of every decision we make and are constantly finding new ways to overcome challenges. We are committed to working and developing people who work hard to achieve greatness.
After this apprenticeship
- Ongoing employment and career progression
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
DIGITAL NATIVE (UK) LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000007955.
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Closes on Friday 6 March 2026
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