ITSM Contracts in the Thames Valley

IT Service Management (ITSM)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 47 89
Rank change year-on-year -47 +42 +12
Contract jobs citing ITSM 47 125 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.76% 4.31% 2.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.02% 4.70% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 83 50
10th Percentile £416 £329 £212
25th Percentile £463 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +1.05% -0.52%
75th Percentile £538 £580 £575
90th Percentile £590 £650 £650
South East median daily rate £492 £455 £450
% change year-on-year +8.09% +1.11% -4.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,322 2,661 3,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.03% 91.82% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,312 1,850 2,115
10th Percentile £213 £322 £225
25th Percentile £370 £413 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £600 £604 £580
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.86% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 64 86
10th Percentile £14.25 £18.50 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £22.88 £12.10
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £24.69
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £66.88
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £49.00 £21.95
% change year-on-year -3.06% +123.23% -20.18%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing ITSM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for ITSM in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ITSM in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for ITSM in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITSM in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ITSM in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ITSM in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for ITSM in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITSM within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
Berkshire -6 38 £500 -9.09% 12
Buckinghamshire -28 8 £450 -6.25% 5
Oxfordshire +4 1 - - 3
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (4.26%) Confluence
1 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 12 (25.53%) OpenShift
2 4 (8.51%) Azure
2 4 (8.51%) SaaS
3 3 (6.38%) AWS
3 3 (6.38%) Azure API Management
3 3 (6.38%) Azure Event Grid
3 3 (6.38%) Azure Logic Apps
3 3 (6.38%) Entra ID
3 3 (6.38%) IaaS
3 3 (6.38%) PaaS
4 2 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.13%) GitHub
5 1 (2.13%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 14 (29.79%) VPN
2 10 (21.28%) Firewall
3 9 (19.15%) Cisco Nexus
3 9 (19.15%) DMZ
4 4 (8.51%) VSAN
5 3 (6.38%) Network Security
6 2 (4.26%) WebEx
7 1 (2.13%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.89%) Elasticsearch
1 7 (14.89%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.13%) Power BI
2 1 (2.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (6.38%) JIRA
1 3 (6.38%) Visual Studio
2 1 (2.13%) GitLab
2 1 (2.13%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (19.15%) Banking
1 9 (19.15%) Investment Banking
2 4 (8.51%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.38%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (25.53%) Site Engineer
1 12 (25.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 9 (19.15%) Blue Coat Engineer
2 9 (19.15%) Cisco Engineer
2 9 (19.15%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 9 (19.15%) Juniper Engineer
2 9 (19.15%) Network Engineer
3 8 (17.02%) Developer
3 8 (17.02%) ServiceNow Developer
4 5 (10.64%) Lead
5 3 (6.38%) Security Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Virtualisation Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Analyst
6 2 (4.26%) Consultant
6 2 (4.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Service Desk Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.89%) Kafka
2 4 (8.51%) Web Services
3 3 (6.38%) .NET
4 1 (2.13%) CSS
4 1 (2.13%) HTML
4 1 (2.13%) Middleware
4 1 (2.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (23.40%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.38%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.26%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.26%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.26%) Windows
1 2 (4.26%) Windows 10
2 1 (2.13%) Linux
2 1 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (31.91%) Agile
2 14 (29.79%) DevOps
3 12 (25.53%) High Availability
3 12 (25.53%) Microservices
3 12 (25.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 11 (23.40%) GitOps
5 10 (21.28%) Task Automation
6 9 (19.15%) Architectural Patterns
6 9 (19.15%) Change Control
6 9 (19.15%) Containerisation
6 9 (19.15%) Design Patterns
6 9 (19.15%) ITIL
7 8 (17.02%) Change Management
7 8 (17.02%) Service Management
7 8 (17.02%) Software Engineering
8 7 (14.89%) Collaborative Working
8 7 (14.89%) Incident Response
8 7 (14.89%) Performance Tuning
9 5 (10.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 5 (10.64%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.51%) Java
1 4 (8.51%) Python
2 3 (6.38%) C#
2 3 (6.38%) PHP
2 3 (6.38%) Ruby
3 1 (2.13%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (59.57%) Security Cleared
2 26 (55.32%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.51%) VCAP
3 4 (8.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (6.38%) Azure Certification
4 3 (6.38%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.13%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 1 (2.13%) QA
1 1 (2.13%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (14.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (10.64%) Active Directory
2 5 (10.64%) VMware NSX
3 4 (8.51%) vSphere
4 3 (6.38%) Docker
4 3 (6.38%) Hyper-V
4 3 (6.38%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.13%) NFS
Systems Management
1 12 (25.53%) Kubernetes
2 7 (14.89%) Argo
2 7 (14.89%) Grafana
2 7 (14.89%) Istio
2 7 (14.89%) Kibana
2 7 (14.89%) Prometheus
3 3 (6.38%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.13%) Ansible
4 1 (2.13%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.13%) Puppet
4 1 (2.13%) Terraform
4 1 (2.13%) vRealize
4 1 (2.13%) VxRail
Vendors
1 12 (25.53%) ServiceNow
2 9 (19.15%) Blue Coat
2 9 (19.15%) CheckPoint
2 9 (19.15%) Cisco
2 9 (19.15%) Fortinet
2 9 (19.15%) Juniper
3 8 (17.02%) Microsoft
3 8 (17.02%) VMware
4 2 (4.26%) Bloomberg
4 2 (4.26%) Citrix
4 2 (4.26%) Reuters
5 1 (2.13%) Dell
5 1 (2.13%) LogRhythm
5 1 (2.13%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.13%) SolarWinds