ITSM Contracts in England

IT Service Management (ITSM)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for ITSM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ITSM over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 128 190
Rank change year-on-year +3 +62 +66
Contract jobs citing ITSM 680 1,068 1,087
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.84% 2.11% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.13% 2.34% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 424 729 763
10th Percentile £210 £213 £173
25th Percentile £400 £370 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.22% +2.11%
75th Percentile £578 £588 £585
90th Percentile £695 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £490
% change year-on-year +11.11% -8.16% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 32 34
10th Percentile - £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile - £13.79 £12.00
Median hourly rate £14.00 £14.50 £14.58
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -0.55% -21.19%
75th Percentile £19.00 £21.46 £21.00
90th Percentile £42.50 £78.88 £35.14
UK median hourly rate £14.00 £15.78 £13.66
% change year-on-year -11.29% +15.54% -26.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

ITSM is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,985 45,619 64,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.25% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,974 32,022 45,804
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,225 1,607 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

ITSM
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing ITSM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for ITSM in England

ITSM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ITSM in England.

Daily rate trend for ITSM in England

ITSM
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITSM in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ITSM in England

ITSM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ITSM in England.

Hourly rate trend for ITSM in England

ITSM
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ITSM in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for ITSM in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITSM within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London -14 294 £500 +9.89% 79
North of England +65 141 £515 +8.44% 54
South West +33 86 £475 +10.47% 23
South East -56 75 £500 +11.11% 31
Yorkshire +46 73 £540 +8.00% 13
North West +33 67 £488 +8.33% 35
Midlands +8 49 £525 -4.55% 30
West Midlands +25 28 £508 +45.00% 20
East of England -29 28 £600 +62.16% 22
East Midlands +8 20 £650 +18.18% 10
North East +22 4 £590 +93.44% 6
ITSM
UK

ITSM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 42 (6.18%) SharePoint
2 32 (4.71%) Confluence
3 31 (4.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 28 (4.12%) SharePoint Server
5 16 (2.35%) Skype for Business
6 6 (0.88%) CMS
Applications
1 70 (10.29%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 41 (6.03%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.44%) SAP ERP
2 3 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.29%) Remedy AR System
3 2 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.29%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.29%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (0.29%) SAP FSCM
3 2 (0.29%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.15%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.15%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.15%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 83 (12.21%) Azure
2 80 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
3 28 (4.12%) AWS
4 27 (3.97%) Azure Stack
5 21 (3.09%) Power Platform
6 16 (2.35%) SaaS
7 14 (2.06%) IaaS
8 13 (1.91%) Entra ID
9 11 (1.62%) OpenShift
10 8 (1.18%) GCP
11 7 (1.03%) PaaS
12 6 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (0.88%) OneDrive
13 5 (0.74%) GitHub
14 3 (0.44%) SuccessFactors
15 2 (0.29%) Amazon EKS
15 2 (0.29%) AWS CloudFormation
15 2 (0.29%) AWS Lambda
15 2 (0.29%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 2 (0.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 70 (10.29%) Firewall
2 46 (6.76%) BGP
3 37 (5.44%) VPN
4 29 (4.26%) Cisco Nexus
4 29 (4.26%) Wireless
5 23 (3.38%) DMZ
6 19 (2.79%) Skype
7 18 (2.65%) IPsec
7 18 (2.65%) OSPF
8 17 (2.50%) SD-WAN
8 17 (2.50%) WAN
9 13 (1.91%) Cisco IOS
10 12 (1.76%) Cisco ASA
10 12 (1.76%) Cisco Firepower
10 12 (1.76%) Cisco ISE
10 12 (1.76%) EIGRP
10 12 (1.76%) HSRP
10 12 (1.76%) LAN
10 12 (1.76%) NetScaler
10 12 (1.76%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (2.94%) Power BI
2 11 (1.62%) Relational Database
3 7 (1.03%) RDBMS
4 6 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (0.88%) SQL Server
5 5 (0.74%) Metadata
6 3 (0.44%) Tableau
7 2 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.29%) Pentaho
8 1 (0.15%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.15%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 42 (6.18%) JIRA
2 4 (0.59%) Jenkins
2 4 (0.59%) Visual Studio
3 3 (0.44%) Hudson
4 2 (0.29%) GitLab
4 2 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.15%) Git
General
1 220 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 129 (18.97%) Finance
3 81 (11.91%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (8.38%) Public Sector
5 52 (7.65%) Banking
6 37 (5.44%) Telecoms
7 30 (4.41%) Legal
8 25 (3.68%) Presentation Skills
9 20 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (1.91%) Retail
11 11 (1.62%) Financial Institution
11 11 (1.62%) Investment Banking
12 9 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.03%) Marketing
14 6 (0.88%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.74%) Electronics
15 5 (0.74%) French Language
15 5 (0.74%) Law
16 4 (0.59%) Military
Job Titles
1 150 (22.06%) Analyst
2 104 (15.29%) Architect
3 70 (10.29%) Service Analyst
4 68 (10.00%) Developer
5 63 (9.26%) ServiceNow Developer
6 56 (8.24%) ServiceNow Architect
7 50 (7.35%) Service Manager
8 44 (6.47%) Network Engineer
9 42 (6.18%) Service Desk Analyst
10 39 (5.74%) Consultant
10 39 (5.74%) IT Analyst
10 39 (5.74%) Senior
11 37 (5.44%) Service Architect
12 29 (4.26%) Lead
13 28 (4.12%) Banking Analyst
14 25 (3.68%) Data Analyst
15 24 (3.53%) Technical Analyst
16 22 (3.24%) IT Manager
17 21 (3.09%) Business Analyst
17 21 (3.09%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (4.71%) Web Services
2 12 (1.76%) Kafka
3 11 (1.62%) CSS
3 11 (1.62%) HTML
3 11 (1.62%) Jinja
4 7 (1.03%) XML
5 6 (0.88%) ActiveMQ
5 6 (0.88%) AngularJS
5 6 (0.88%) JSON
6 4 (0.59%) LDAP
6 4 (0.59%) Middleware
6 4 (0.59%) REST
6 4 (0.59%) SOAP
7 3 (0.44%) .NET
8 2 (0.29%) Ajax
8 2 (0.29%) jQuery
8 2 (0.29%) Lightning Web Components
8 2 (0.29%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 1 (0.15%) HTML5
9 1 (0.15%) JAX-WS
Miscellaneous
1 86 (12.65%) CMDB
2 43 (6.32%) Management Information System
3 28 (4.12%) Private Cloud
4 14 (2.06%) Data Centre
4 14 (2.06%) Product Ownership
5 12 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (1.62%) iPhone
7 10 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (1.47%) Cloud Native
7 10 (1.47%) Hedge funds
8 7 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.03%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.03%) Operational Technology
9 6 (0.88%) Data Structures
9 6 (0.88%) NHS
10 4 (0.59%) Blackberry
10 4 (0.59%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (0.59%) Smartphone
10 4 (0.59%) Video Conferencing
11 3 (0.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 124 (18.24%) Windows
2 55 (8.09%) Windows 10
3 23 (3.38%) Apple iOS
4 18 (2.65%) Linux
5 17 (2.50%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.62%) Windows 7
7 10 (1.47%) Unix
8 4 (0.59%) Android
9 3 (0.44%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.44%) VMS
10 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.15%) Solaris
11 1 (0.15%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 377 (55.44%) ITIL
2 349 (51.32%) Service Management
3 127 (18.68%) Change Management
4 120 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
5 115 (16.91%) Agile
6 94 (13.82%) Customer Service
7 87 (12.79%) Service Delivery
8 64 (9.41%) Incident Management
9 59 (8.68%) Asset Management
10 58 (8.53%) Continuous Improvement
11 50 (7.35%) Configuration Management
11 50 (7.35%) DevOps
12 49 (7.21%) Customer Requirements
13 44 (6.47%) IT Asset Management
13 44 (6.47%) Problem Management
14 43 (6.32%) Project Management
15 41 (6.03%) Network Management
16 38 (5.59%) Roadmaps
17 34 (5.00%) Stakeholder Management
18 33 (4.85%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (2.65%) Python
2 14 (2.06%) JavaScript
2 14 (2.06%) PowerShell
3 13 (1.91%) Perl
4 11 (1.62%) SQL
4 11 (1.62%) Tcl
5 8 (1.18%) Swift
6 3 (0.44%) C#
6 3 (0.44%) Java
7 2 (0.29%) Apex Code
7 2 (0.29%) Bash
7 2 (0.29%) PHP
7 2 (0.29%) Ruby
7 2 (0.29%) SOQL
8 1 (0.15%) C
8 1 (0.15%) C++
8 1 (0.15%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.15%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 212 (31.18%) Security Cleared
2 139 (20.44%) SC Cleared
3 71 (10.44%) DV Cleared
4 63 (9.26%) Degree
5 40 (5.88%) ITIL Certification
6 31 (4.56%) Cisco Certification
7 27 (3.97%) CCNA
8 18 (2.65%) CCNP
9 16 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
10 14 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
10 14 (2.06%) MCP
11 10 (1.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 9 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 4 (0.59%) MCITP
14 4 (0.59%) PMI Certification
14 4 (0.59%) VCAP
15 3 (0.44%) PMP
16 2 (0.29%) A+ Certification
16 2 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (8.68%) SLA
2 28 (4.12%) Government Security Classifications
3 8 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.03%) QA
5 6 (0.88%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.59%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.44%) GRC
7 3 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.29%) GDPR
8 2 (0.29%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.15%) COBIT
9 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.15%) ISO 9000
9 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.15%) NCSC
9 1 (0.15%) NIST
9 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 68 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 19 (2.79%) Firmware
3 15 (2.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.32%) VMware NSX
5 7 (1.03%) vSphere
6 4 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.44%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.29%) Docker
8 2 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.15%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.15%) NFS
9 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 32 (4.71%) SCCM
2 25 (3.68%) SCOM
3 23 (3.38%) Ansible
4 13 (1.91%) Jamf Pro
5 10 (1.47%) Kubernetes
6 9 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.88%) Argo
8 6 (0.88%) Grafana
8 6 (0.88%) Istio
8 6 (0.88%) Kibana
8 6 (0.88%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.88%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.88%) Puppet
9 5 (0.74%) Terraform
10 4 (0.59%) vRealize
10 4 (0.59%) VxRail
11 3 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.44%) OPNET
12 2 (0.29%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 247 (36.32%) ServiceNow
2 134 (19.71%) Microsoft
3 50 (7.35%) Cisco
4 41 (6.03%) Citrix
4 41 (6.03%) Remedy
5 28 (4.12%) Atlassian
6 27 (3.97%) VMware
7 26 (3.82%) Palo Alto
8 19 (2.79%) F5
8 19 (2.79%) SAP
8 19 (2.79%) SolarWinds
9 14 (2.06%) Apple
10 12 (1.76%) BMC
10 12 (1.76%) Splunk
11 11 (1.62%) Dell
12 10 (1.47%) Blue Coat
12 10 (1.47%) CheckPoint
12 10 (1.47%) Fortinet
12 10 (1.47%) Juniper
13 8 (1.18%) Okta