Service Management Contracts in Lancashire

Service Management
North West > Lancashire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire with a requirement for Service Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Service Management over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 28 39
Rank change year-on-year +1 +11 -15
Contract jobs citing Service Management 5 6 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 2.56% 2.48% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.25% 2.84% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 2
10th Percentile £640 £399 £416
25th Percentile £682 £689 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £850 £438
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% +94.29% -18.60%
75th Percentile £743 - £447
90th Percentile £747 - £449
North West median daily rate £493 £445 £463
% change year-on-year +10.79% -3.78% -2.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £25.81 -
North West median hourly rate £17.72 £65.00 £12.50
% change year-on-year -72.74% +420.00% -31.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lancashire

Service Management 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 Lancashire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 154 211 239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 78.97% 87.19% 91.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 118 156
10th Percentile £313 £339 £230
25th Percentile £413 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £533 £477
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% +11.52% +19.37%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £578
90th Percentile £747 £700 £706
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 42 47
10th Percentile - £22.31 £14.46
25th Percentile £16.06 £28.85 £16.93
Median hourly rate £19.18 £42.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -54.87% +7.59% -3.66%
75th Percentile £46.03 £49.52 £44.03
90th Percentile £48.00 £53.43 £60.34
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.49
% change year-on-year -40.00% +70.82% +10.76%

Service Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

Job postings citing Service Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Lancashire.

Job vacancy trend for Service Management in Lancashire

Service Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Service Management in Lancashire.

Daily rate trend for Service Management in Lancashire

Service Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Service Management in Lancashire.

Hourly rate trend for Service Management in Lancashire

Service Management
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Service Management within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 29 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
Preston +5 2 £745 -12.35% 2
Blackpool +11 1 £710 - 2
Service Management
North West

Service Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Programme Manager
2 3 (60.00%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) IT Manager
3 1 (20.00%) IT Programme Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
3 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) CMDB
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) ITSM
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Performance Management
2 4 (80.00%) Programme Governance
2 4 (80.00%) Project Management
2 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (80.00%) Waterfall
3 3 (60.00%) PRINCE2
3 3 (60.00%) Programme Management
3 3 (60.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (20.00%) Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Management
4 1 (20.00%) Service Catalogue
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Cadence
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow