Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
desk job
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A police surgeon had advised him to find a desk job within the force, but none had been available.
▪ And it's a desk job at a moderate salary in London terms.
▪ Now that he was to become a father, Stewart hoped for an 055 desk job in Washington.
Wiktionary
desk job
n. (context informal English) An employment position in which one remains mostly seated at a desk, performing routine office work.
Usage examples of "desk job".
Is there any connection between my present desk job and a lack of physical grace?
But the posting is adjutant of the Training Team, which I'm told is a desk job at Headquarters, Australian Force Vietnam, Saigon, and well out of the battle, so I reckon it will be all right.
I went into politics largely because it was a desk job and naturally I thought that in a desk job I would not have to shovel any more bullshit.
He couldn't hack the streets anymore, and turned down a desk job with UPD.