IT Service Management (ITSM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 123 193
Rank change year-on-year -4 +70 +29
Contract jobs citing ITSM 778 1,238 1,344
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.80% 2.07% 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.08% 2.30% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 479 847 931
10th Percentile £208 £212 £179
25th Percentile £389 £383 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £490
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -8.16% +3.70%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £585
90th Percentile £700 £675 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £450 £415
% change year-on-year +10.00% +8.43% -5.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 34 37
10th Percentile - £12.52 £11.00
25th Percentile - £14.06 £12.00
Median hourly rate £14.00 £15.78 £13.66
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +15.54% -26.16%
75th Percentile £19.00 £23.41 £21.00
90th Percentile £42.50 £73.63 £35.08
UK excluding London median hourly rate £14.00 £14.50 £13.50
% change year-on-year -3.45% +7.41% -27.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

ITSM
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ITSM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ITSM in the UK

ITSM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for ITSM in the UK

ITSM
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITSM over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ITSM in the UK

ITSM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for ITSM in the UK

ITSM
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ITSM over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for ITSM in the UK

ITSM
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITSM within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +3 680 £500 +11.11% 254
UK excluding London +3 408 £495 +10.00% 176
Work from Home +43 311 £513 +13.89% 99
London -14 294 £500 +9.89% 79
North of England +65 141 £515 +8.44% 55
South West +33 86 £475 +10.47% 23
South East -56 75 £500 +11.11% 31
Yorkshire +46 73 £540 +8.00% 13
North West +33 67 £488 +8.33% 36
Midlands +8 49 £525 -4.55% 30
Scotland -31 34 £281 -36.50% 10
West Midlands +25 28 £508 +45.00% 20
East of England -29 28 £600 +62.16% 22
East Midlands +8 20 £650 +18.18% 10
North East +22 4 £590 +93.44% 6
Wales +8 2 £413 -31.25% 7

ITSM
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:

Application Platforms
1 43 (5.53%) SharePoint
2 32 (4.11%) Confluence
2 32 (4.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 28 (3.60%) SharePoint Server
4 19 (2.44%) Skype for Business
5 6 (0.77%) CMS
Applications
1 74 (9.51%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 44 (5.66%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.39%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.26%) Remedy AR System
4 2 (0.26%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.26%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.26%) SAP FSCM
4 2 (0.26%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.13%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.13%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.13%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 91 (11.70%) Azure
2 87 (11.18%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (3.86%) AWS
4 28 (3.60%) Power Platform
5 27 (3.47%) Azure Stack
6 16 (2.06%) SaaS
7 15 (1.93%) Entra ID
8 14 (1.80%) IaaS
9 11 (1.41%) OpenShift
10 10 (1.29%) GCP
11 9 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (1.03%) OneDrive
13 7 (0.90%) GitHub
13 7 (0.90%) PaaS
14 4 (0.51%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 3 (0.39%) SuccessFactors
16 2 (0.26%) AWS CloudFormation
16 2 (0.26%) Google Workspace
16 2 (0.26%) Route 53
16 2 (0.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 73 (9.38%) Firewall
2 47 (6.04%) BGP
3 37 (4.76%) VPN
4 29 (3.73%) Cisco Nexus
4 29 (3.73%) Wireless
5 23 (2.96%) DMZ
6 22 (2.83%) Skype
7 19 (2.44%) OSPF
8 18 (2.31%) IPsec
8 18 (2.31%) SD-WAN
8 18 (2.31%) WAN
9 14 (1.80%) LAN
10 13 (1.67%) Cisco IOS
11 12 (1.54%) Cisco ASA
11 12 (1.54%) Cisco Firepower
11 12 (1.54%) Cisco ISE
11 12 (1.54%) EIGRP
11 12 (1.54%) HSRP
11 12 (1.54%) NetScaler
11 12 (1.54%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (3.47%) Power BI
2 11 (1.41%) Relational Database
3 7 (0.90%) RDBMS
4 6 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (0.77%) SQL Server
5 5 (0.64%) Metadata
6 3 (0.39%) Tableau
7 2 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.26%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.26%) Pentaho
8 1 (0.13%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.13%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 51 (6.56%) JIRA
2 7 (0.90%) GitLab
2 7 (0.90%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.51%) Git
3 4 (0.51%) Visual Studio
3 4 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
4 3 (0.39%) Hudson
General
1 249 (32.01%) Social Skills
2 145 (18.64%) Finance
3 88 (11.31%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (10.41%) Public Sector
5 65 (8.35%) Banking
6 38 (4.88%) Telecoms
7 30 (3.86%) Legal
8 26 (3.34%) Presentation Skills
9 23 (2.96%) Organisational Skills
10 14 (1.80%) Retail
11 11 (1.41%) Financial Institution
11 11 (1.41%) Investment Banking
12 9 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.03%) Marketing
14 6 (0.77%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.64%) Electronics
15 5 (0.64%) French Language
15 5 (0.64%) Law
16 4 (0.51%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 168 (21.59%) Analyst
2 120 (15.42%) Architect
3 77 (9.90%) Service Analyst
4 74 (9.51%) Developer
5 67 (8.61%) ServiceNow Developer
6 64 (8.23%) ServiceNow Architect
7 57 (7.33%) Consultant
8 54 (6.94%) Service Manager
9 48 (6.17%) IT Analyst
10 46 (5.91%) Service Desk Analyst
11 45 (5.78%) Network Engineer
12 42 (5.40%) Service Architect
13 40 (5.14%) Senior
14 33 (4.24%) Banking Analyst
15 30 (3.86%) Lead
16 26 (3.34%) Data Analyst
17 25 (3.21%) Business Analyst
17 25 (3.21%) Technical Analyst
18 24 (3.08%) ServiceNow Consultant
19 23 (2.96%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (4.37%) Web Services
2 17 (2.19%) XML
3 16 (2.06%) HTML
4 15 (1.93%) CSS
5 14 (1.80%) Kafka
6 12 (1.54%) JSON
7 11 (1.41%) Jinja
7 11 (1.41%) REST
8 10 (1.29%) SOAP
9 8 (1.03%) ActiveMQ
10 7 (0.90%) AngularJS
11 5 (0.64%) .NET
12 4 (0.51%) jQuery
12 4 (0.51%) LDAP
12 4 (0.51%) Lightning Web Components
12 4 (0.51%) Middleware
12 4 (0.51%) YAML
13 3 (0.39%) Ajax
13 3 (0.39%) Node.js
13 3 (0.39%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 97 (12.47%) CMDB
2 46 (5.91%) Management Information System
3 28 (3.60%) Private Cloud
4 17 (2.19%) Product Ownership
5 15 (1.93%) iPhone
6 14 (1.80%) Data Centre
6 14 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (1.54%) Onboarding
8 10 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
8 10 (1.29%) Cloud Native
8 10 (1.29%) Hedge funds
9 7 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (0.90%) Operational Technology
10 6 (0.77%) Data Structures
10 6 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (0.77%) NHS
11 5 (0.64%) Blackberry
11 5 (0.64%) Driving Licence
11 5 (0.64%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.51%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 134 (17.22%) Windows
2 60 (7.71%) Windows 10
3 30 (3.86%) Apple iOS
4 21 (2.70%) Linux
5 19 (2.44%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.41%) Unix
6 11 (1.41%) Windows 7
7 7 (0.90%) Android
8 3 (0.39%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.39%) VMS
8 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.13%) Solaris
10 1 (0.13%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 442 (56.81%) ITIL
2 403 (51.80%) Service Management
3 149 (19.15%) Change Management
4 139 (17.87%) Agile
5 130 (16.71%) Problem-Solving
6 102 (13.11%) Service Delivery
7 100 (12.85%) Customer Service
8 74 (9.51%) Incident Management
9 70 (9.00%) Asset Management
10 69 (8.87%) Continuous Improvement
11 65 (8.35%) Configuration Management
12 62 (7.97%) DevOps
13 58 (7.46%) Customer Requirements
14 53 (6.81%) Problem Management
15 50 (6.43%) Project Management
15 50 (6.43%) Roadmaps
16 47 (6.04%) IT Asset Management
17 44 (5.66%) Stakeholder Management
18 41 (5.27%) Network Management
19 33 (4.24%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (2.83%) JavaScript
2 21 (2.70%) Python
3 16 (2.06%) PowerShell
4 15 (1.93%) SQL
5 13 (1.67%) Perl
6 11 (1.41%) Tcl
7 8 (1.03%) Swift
8 5 (0.64%) Ruby
9 4 (0.51%) Apex Code
9 4 (0.51%) SOQL
10 3 (0.39%) Bash
10 3 (0.39%) C#
10 3 (0.39%) Go
10 3 (0.39%) Java
11 2 (0.26%) PHP
12 1 (0.13%) C
12 1 (0.13%) C++
12 1 (0.13%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.13%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 230 (29.56%) Security Cleared
2 153 (19.67%) SC Cleared
3 74 (9.51%) DV Cleared
4 68 (8.74%) Degree
5 43 (5.53%) ITIL Certification
6 31 (3.98%) Cisco Certification
7 27 (3.47%) CCNA
8 18 (2.31%) CCNP
9 17 (2.19%) MCP
10 16 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
11 15 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (1.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 7 (0.90%) PMI Certification
15 6 (0.77%) PMP
16 5 (0.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 4 (0.51%) MCITP
17 4 (0.51%) PRINCE2 Certification
17 4 (0.51%) VCAP
18 2 (0.26%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (8.87%) SLA
2 28 (3.60%) Government Security Classifications
3 16 (2.06%) QA
4 10 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.77%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.64%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.39%) GRC
8 3 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 3 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.26%) GDPR
9 2 (0.26%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.26%) PMO
10 1 (0.13%) COBIT
10 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 9000
10 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.13%) NCSC
10 1 (0.13%) NIST
10 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 76 (9.77%) Active Directory
2 19 (2.44%) Firmware
3 15 (1.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.54%) VMware NSX
5 10 (1.29%) vSphere
6 4 (0.51%) BitLocker
6 4 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.39%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (0.39%) vCloud
7 3 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.26%) Docker
8 2 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.13%) NFS
9 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 32 (4.11%) SCCM
2 28 (3.60%) Ansible
3 25 (3.21%) SCOM
4 16 (2.06%) Jamf Pro
5 11 (1.41%) Terraform
6 10 (1.29%) Kubernetes
6 10 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (1.16%) Progress Chef
7 9 (1.16%) Puppet
8 8 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.77%) Argo
9 6 (0.77%) Grafana
9 6 (0.77%) Istio
9 6 (0.77%) Kibana
9 6 (0.77%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.51%) vRealize
10 4 (0.51%) VxRail
11 3 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.39%) Autotask
11 3 (0.39%) OPNET
Vendors
1 289 (37.15%) ServiceNow
2 147 (18.89%) Microsoft
3 51 (6.56%) Cisco
4 44 (5.66%) Citrix
4 44 (5.66%) Remedy
5 30 (3.86%) VMware
6 28 (3.60%) Atlassian
7 27 (3.47%) Palo Alto
8 22 (2.83%) SAP
9 21 (2.70%) SolarWinds
10 19 (2.44%) F5
11 18 (2.31%) Apple
12 16 (2.06%) BMC
13 13 (1.67%) Splunk
14 12 (1.54%) Dell
15 11 (1.41%) Fortinet
16 10 (1.29%) Blue Coat
16 10 (1.29%) CheckPoint
16 10 (1.29%) Juniper
17 8 (1.03%) IBM