Service Management Contracts in Reading

Service Management
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Service Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Service Management over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 60 62
Rank change year-on-year +9 +2 -7
Contract jobs citing Service Management 46 23 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 3.82% 2.21% 2.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.38% 2.51% 3.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 16 22
10th Percentile - £550 £381
25th Percentile £575 £560 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £570 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +11.22% +34.56%
75th Percentile £608 £691 £594
90th Percentile - £752 £675
Berkshire median daily rate £588 £625 £525
% change year-on-year -6.00% +19.05% +47.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
Berkshire median hourly rate - £55.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Service Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,050 918 1,235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 87.28% 88.02% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 538 593 795
10th Percentile £213 £363 £247
25th Percentile £413 £456 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +10.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £655
Berkshire median daily rate £509 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.05% +5.00% +6.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 22 9
10th Percentile £15.40 £45.25 £13.15
25th Percentile £51.86 £55.91 £21.25
Median hourly rate £60.83 £68.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.54% +126.67% -21.05%
75th Percentile £75.83 £75.56 £34.89
90th Percentile £87.51 £79.19 £38.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £60.53 £60.88 £21.00
% change year-on-year -0.57% +189.88% -2.33%

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 11 June 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 20 (43.48%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 23 (50.00%) Azure
2 21 (45.65%) Azure Monitor
2 21 (45.65%) Entra ID
2 21 (45.65%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (43.48%) Azure Storage
4 2 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (4.35%) SaaS
5 1 (2.17%) Azure API Management
5 1 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.17%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (2.17%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (2.17%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (2.17%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (2.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (45.65%) DNS
1 21 (45.65%) Firewall
2 20 (43.48%) DHCP
3 2 (4.35%) Radio Access Network
Development Applications
1 2 (4.35%) JIRA
2 1 (2.17%) Git
General
1 37 (80.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (4.35%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.17%) Finance
Job Titles
1 20 (43.48%) Active Directory Support
2 16 (34.78%) Build Engineer
2 16 (34.78%) Windows Build Engineer
2 16 (34.78%) Windows Engineer
3 14 (30.43%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (30.43%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (30.43%) Support Specialist
4 7 (15.22%) Azure Engineer
4 7 (15.22%) Support Engineer
5 6 (13.04%) Active Directory Engineer
5 6 (13.04%) Active Directory Support Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) Business Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) Consultant
6 2 (4.35%) Lead
6 2 (4.35%) OSS Business Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) Salesforce Consultant
6 2 (4.35%) Transformation Analyst
7 1 (2.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (45.65%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.17%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (2.17%) Middleware
2 1 (2.17%) Visualforce
2 1 (2.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (43.48%) PKI
1 20 (43.48%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 37 (80.43%) Windows
2 36 (78.26%) Windows Server
2 36 (78.26%) Windows Server 2016
2 36 (78.26%) Windows Server 2019
3 20 (43.48%) Linux
4 16 (34.78%) Windows 10
4 16 (34.78%) Windows NT
4 16 (34.78%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (86.96%) ITIL
2 37 (80.43%) Release Management
3 22 (47.83%) Agile
3 22 (47.83%) DevOps
3 22 (47.83%) Identity Management
4 21 (45.65%) Analytics
4 21 (45.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (45.65%) Log Analytics
5 20 (43.48%) CI/CD
5 20 (43.48%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 20 (43.48%) Privileged Identity Management
5 20 (43.48%) RBAC
6 17 (36.96%) Deployment Automation
7 16 (34.78%) Customer Service
7 16 (34.78%) User Acceptance Testing
8 4 (8.70%) ITSM
8 4 (8.70%) Project Management
9 2 (4.35%) Disaster Recovery
9 2 (4.35%) Resource Management
9 2 (4.35%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 21 (45.65%) Bicep
1 21 (45.65%) PowerShell
2 20 (43.48%) C#
2 20 (43.48%) VB
2 20 (43.48%) VBScript
3 1 (2.17%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 36 (78.26%) DV Cleared
1 36 (78.26%) Security Cleared
2 21 (45.65%) Degree
3 20 (43.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 20 (43.48%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (36.96%) QA
2 1 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (2.17%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (80.43%) Active Directory
2 20 (43.48%) Virtual Desktop
2 20 (43.48%) Virtual Machines
3 16 (34.78%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 37 (80.43%) SCCM
2 36 (78.26%) WSUS
3 21 (45.65%) Kubernetes
3 21 (45.65%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (43.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 20 (43.48%) SCOM
5 16 (34.78%) Sysprep
6 1 (2.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 37 (80.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.35%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.17%) BMC
3 1 (2.17%) Databricks
3 1 (2.17%) Remedy
3 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow