ITSM Contracts in the North West

IT Service Management (ITSM)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 71 111 99
Rank change year-on-year +40 -12 +10
Contract jobs citing ITSM 67 49 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.42% 1.53% 2.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.81% 1.69% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 39 60
10th Percentile £378 £350 £159
25th Percentile £427 £400 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £397
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +13.49% -11.89%
75th Percentile £549 £588 £554
90th Percentile £693 £600 £631
England median daily rate £500 £450 £485
% change year-on-year +11.11% -7.22% +2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £18.82 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - -62.36% +5.26%
England median hourly rate £14.00 £14.50 £13.66
% change year-on-year -3.45% +6.15% -26.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,385 2,894 3,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.32% 90.58% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,526 2,058 2,629
10th Percentile £306 £313 £231
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £589 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 144 166
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.28 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +9.18%
75th Percentile £45.44 £48.91 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing ITSM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for ITSM in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ITSM in the North West.

Daily rate trend for ITSM in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITSM in the North West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ITSM in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ITSM in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for ITSM in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITSM within the North West region over the 6 months to 28 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
Manchester +29 44 £433 -17.49% 20
Cumbria - 12 £515 - 1
Lancashire +5 5 £725 -14.71% 4
Cheshire 0 3 £200 -50.00% 8
Merseyside +13 1 - - 2
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Applications
1 19 (28.36%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.49%) SAP Retail
2 1 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (7.46%) Azure
1 5 (7.46%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (5.97%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (2.99%) IaaS
3 2 (2.99%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.49%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (20.90%) Cisco Nexus
1 14 (20.90%) DMZ
1 14 (20.90%) Firewall
2 13 (19.40%) Cisco IOS
2 13 (19.40%) SD-WAN
3 12 (17.91%) BGP
3 12 (17.91%) Cisco ASA
3 12 (17.91%) Cisco Firepower
3 12 (17.91%) Cisco ISE
3 12 (17.91%) EIGRP
3 12 (17.91%) HSRP
3 12 (17.91%) IPsec
3 12 (17.91%) NetScaler
3 12 (17.91%) OSPF
4 11 (16.42%) SNMP
4 11 (16.42%) Spanning Tree
4 11 (16.42%) Wi-Fi
4 11 (16.42%) Wireless
5 1 (1.49%) Broadband
5 1 (1.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.48%) RDBMS
1 3 (4.48%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.99%) Power BI
3 1 (1.49%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 6 (8.96%) JIRA
2 2 (2.99%) Hudson
General
1 19 (28.36%) Finance
2 16 (23.88%) Social Skills
3 7 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (10.45%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.99%) Banking
4 2 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (2.99%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.49%) Automotive
5 1 (1.49%) French Language
5 1 (1.49%) German Language
5 1 (1.49%) Italian Language
5 1 (1.49%) Retail
5 1 (1.49%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 26 (38.81%) Network Engineer
2 11 (16.42%) Analyst
3 10 (14.93%) Senior
4 9 (13.43%) Senior Network Engineer
5 5 (7.46%) Wireless Engineer
5 5 (7.46%) Wireless Network Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Change Analyst
6 4 (5.97%) Product Manager
6 4 (5.97%) Programme Manager
6 4 (5.97%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Technical Manager
6 4 (5.97%) Technical Product Manager
7 3 (4.48%) Architect
7 3 (4.48%) Data Architect
7 3 (4.48%) Delivery Manager
7 3 (4.48%) Developer
7 3 (4.48%) Incident Manager
7 3 (4.48%) IT Manager
7 3 (4.48%) ServiceNow Architect
7 3 (4.48%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (16.42%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 13 (19.40%) CMDB
1 13 (19.40%) Data Centre
2 7 (10.45%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.48%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.48%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.99%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.49%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.49%) Life Science
5 1 (1.49%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.49%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.48%) Windows
2 1 (1.49%) Linux
2 1 (1.49%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (47.76%) ITIL
2 25 (37.31%) Service Management
3 20 (29.85%) Change Management
4 17 (25.37%) DevOps
5 12 (17.91%) Network Management
6 10 (14.93%) Agile
6 10 (14.93%) Incident Management
7 9 (13.43%) Configuration Management
8 8 (11.94%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (10.45%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (8.96%) Asset Management
11 5 (7.46%) Architectural Design
11 5 (7.46%) Change Advisory Board
11 5 (7.46%) Cybersecurity
11 5 (7.46%) Problem Management
11 5 (7.46%) Project Management
11 5 (7.46%) Roadmaps
11 5 (7.46%) Stakeholder Management
12 4 (5.97%) Design Patterns
12 4 (5.97%) Programme Governance
Programming Languages
1 11 (16.42%) Perl
1 11 (16.42%) Python
1 11 (16.42%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 17 (25.37%) Security Cleared
2 13 (19.40%) SC Cleared
3 12 (17.91%) CCNA
3 12 (17.91%) CCNP
3 12 (17.91%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (8.96%) ITIL Certification
5 5 (7.46%) Degree
6 1 (1.49%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.49%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.48%) SLA
2 1 (1.49%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.49%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.49%) GDPR
2 1 (1.49%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (1.49%) NCSC
2 1 (1.49%) NIST
2 1 (1.49%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (17.91%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (16.42%) Ansible
Vendors
1 26 (38.81%) Cisco
2 25 (37.31%) Palo Alto
3 18 (26.87%) ServiceNow
4 13 (19.40%) F5
5 12 (17.91%) Citrix
5 12 (17.91%) SolarWinds
6 8 (11.94%) Microsoft
7 4 (5.97%) Cadence
8 2 (2.99%) Remedy
8 2 (2.99%) SAP
8 2 (2.99%) Splunk
9 1 (1.49%) Blue Coat
9 1 (1.49%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.49%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (1.49%) Dell
9 1 (1.49%) Fortinet
9 1 (1.49%) Juniper