ITSM Consultant Contracts

IT Service Management Consultant
UK

The median IT Service Management Consultant daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 575 704 839
Rank change year-on-year +129 +135 -170
Contract jobs requiring an ITSM Consultant 7 8 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.013% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% 0.014% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 13
10th Percentile - £328 £396
25th Percentile £400 £402 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £444 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.68% -19.32% +42.86%
75th Percentile £650 £488 £588
90th Percentile £680 £494 £608
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £331 £563
% change year-on-year +96.23% -41.11% +46.10%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,476 56,906 85,219
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,420 39,710 59,771
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,641 1,614 2,118
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.92 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

ITSM Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured ITSM Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ITSM Consultant in the UK

ITSM Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ITSM Consultant.

Daily rate trend for ITSM Consultant in the UK

ITSM Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITSM Consultant over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ITSM Consultant in the UK

ITSM Consultant
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITSM Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 24 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
Work from Home +125 4 £500 - 1
England +121 3 - - 1
London +103 3 - - 1
UK excluding London +56 1 £650 +96.23%
Scotland +31 1 £650 +147.62%

ITSM Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, ITSM Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring ITSM Consultant in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) ITSM
2 4 (57.14%) ITIL
3 3 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (42.86%) Degree
3 3 (42.86%) Power BI
3 3 (42.86%) Power Platform
4 2 (28.57%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (28.57%) PMO
4 2 (28.57%) Workshop Facilitation
4 2 (28.57%) Change Management
4 2 (28.57%) CMDB
4 2 (28.57%) Problem Management
4 2 (28.57%) Build Automation
5 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (14.29%) Analytics
5 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
5 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (14.29%) Workflow
5 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
5 1 (14.29%) Supplier Management
5 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
5 1 (14.29%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (14.29%) Remedy AR System
5 1 (14.29%) Release Management
5 1 (14.29%) SCCM
5 1 (14.29%) FMCG
5 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
5 1 (14.29%) REST
5 1 (14.29%) High Availability
5 1 (14.29%) Microsoft

ITSM Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Remedy AR System
1 1 (14.29%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) CMDB
2 1 (14.29%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) ITSM
2 4 (57.14%) ITIL
3 3 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (28.57%) Build Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Change Management
4 2 (28.57%) Problem Management
4 2 (28.57%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (28.57%) Workshop Facilitation
5 1 (14.29%) Analytics
5 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
5 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
5 1 (14.29%) High Availability
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) Project Management
5 1 (14.29%) Release Management
5 1 (14.29%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
5 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
5 1 (14.29%) Service Management
5 1 (14.29%) Supplier Management
5 1 (14.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) PMI Certification
2 1 (14.29%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) BMC
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Remedy
1 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow