Service Management Contracts in Reading

Service Management
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 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 38 62 56
Rank change year-on-year +24 -6 -9
Contract jobs citing Service Management 57 25 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 4.81% 2.40% 2.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.34% 2.67% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 18 20
10th Percentile £513 £550 -
25th Percentile - £553 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £570 £513
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% +11.22% +34.56%
75th Percentile £608 £679 £606
90th Percentile - £751 £678
Berkshire median daily rate £575 £570 £525
% change year-on-year +0.88% +8.57% +43.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
Berkshire median hourly rate - £37.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,068 936 1,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.20% 89.91% 90.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 620 816
10th Percentile £213 £363 £253
25th Percentile £413 £455 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £660 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £509 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.05% +5.00% +8.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 23 8
10th Percentile £27.58 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £53.74 £53.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £62.07 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% +132.14% -35.63%
75th Percentile £82.55 £74.40 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £57.82 £21.05
% change year-on-year +6.54% +174.67% -2.09%

Service Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Management in Reading

Service Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Service Management in Reading

Service Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Management in Reading over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Service Management in Reading

Service Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Service Management in Reading

Service Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 15 (26.32%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 19 (33.33%) Azure
2 17 (29.82%) Azure Monitor
2 17 (29.82%) Entra ID
3 16 (28.07%) Azure Storage
3 16 (28.07%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.75%) Azure API Management
4 1 (1.75%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.75%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (1.75%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (1.75%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (1.75%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (1.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (29.82%) DNS
1 17 (29.82%) Firewall
2 16 (28.07%) DHCP
3 2 (3.51%) Radio Access Network
Development Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Axure RP
1 1 (1.75%) Git
1 1 (1.75%) JIRA
General
1 40 (70.18%) Social Skills
2 2 (3.51%) Telecoms
3 1 (1.75%) Finance
3 1 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (36.84%) Build Engineer
1 21 (36.84%) Windows Build Engineer
1 21 (36.84%) Windows Engineer
2 15 (26.32%) Active Directory Support
2 15 (26.32%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (24.56%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (24.56%) Support Specialist
4 7 (12.28%) Service Manager
5 5 (8.77%) Analyst
6 4 (7.02%) Service Design Manager
6 4 (7.02%) Service Transition Manager
6 4 (7.02%) Transition Manager
7 3 (5.26%) Data Analyst
8 2 (3.51%) Business Analyst
8 2 (3.51%) Business Change Manager
8 2 (3.51%) Business Manager
8 2 (3.51%) Change Manager
8 2 (3.51%) IT Manager
8 2 (3.51%) IT Services Manager
8 2 (3.51%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (28.07%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.75%) Middleware
2 1 (1.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (29.82%) Self-Motivation
2 16 (28.07%) PKI
3 1 (1.75%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 38 (66.67%) Windows
2 36 (63.16%) Windows Server
2 36 (63.16%) Windows Server 2016
2 36 (63.16%) Windows Server 2019
3 21 (36.84%) Windows 10
3 21 (36.84%) Windows NT
3 21 (36.84%) Windows Server 2012
4 15 (26.32%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (82.46%) ITIL
2 38 (66.67%) Release Management
3 22 (38.60%) Deployment Automation
4 21 (36.84%) Customer Service
4 21 (36.84%) User Acceptance Testing
5 18 (31.58%) Identity Management
6 17 (29.82%) Agile
6 17 (29.82%) Analytics
6 17 (29.82%) Log Analytics
7 16 (28.07%) DevOps
7 16 (28.07%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (28.07%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 16 (28.07%) Privileged Identity Management
7 16 (28.07%) RBAC
8 15 (26.32%) CI/CD
9 6 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (10.53%) Service Design
10 5 (8.77%) User Experience
10 5 (8.77%) UX Design
11 4 (7.02%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (29.82%) PowerShell
2 16 (28.07%) Bicep
2 16 (28.07%) C#
2 16 (28.07%) VB
2 16 (28.07%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 37 (64.91%) DV Cleared
1 37 (64.91%) Security Cleared
2 16 (28.07%) Degree
2 16 (28.07%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 16 (28.07%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (38.60%) QA
2 5 (8.77%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 3 (5.26%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.75%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 21 (36.84%) Firmware
3 16 (28.07%) Virtual Desktop
3 16 (28.07%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (66.67%) SCCM
2 37 (64.91%) WSUS
3 21 (36.84%) Sysprep
4 17 (29.82%) Kubernetes
4 17 (29.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (28.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 16 (28.07%) SCOM
6 1 (1.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 38 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.02%) Databricks
3 1 (1.75%) BMC
3 1 (1.75%) Remedy
3 1 (1.75%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.75%) ServiceNow