ITSM Contracts with Work from Home Options

IT Service Management (ITSM)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 104 145 212
Rank change year-on-year +41 +67 -38
Contract jobs citing ITSM 298 427 564
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.98% 1.70% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.25% 1.90% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 306 421
10th Percentile £319 £205 £250
25th Percentile £425 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -12.20% +7.89%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £495
% change year-on-year +11.11% -9.09% +4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 9
10th Percentile - - £11.70
25th Percentile - - £12.00
Median hourly rate - £14.00 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% -13.51%
75th Percentile - - £17.50
90th Percentile - - £22.60
UK median hourly rate £14.00 £14.50 £13.66
% change year-on-year -3.45% +6.15% -26.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,268 22,513 39,948
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.01% 89.73% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,896 15,904 28,997
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 519 530
10th Percentile £15.03 £18.63 £13.73
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.06
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.63
90th Percentile £75.20 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

ITSM
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing ITSM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

ITSM trend for jobs with a WFH option

ITSM
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing ITSM.

ITSM daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

ITSM
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing ITSM over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

ITSM daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

ITSM
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing ITSM.

ITSM hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

ITSM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (6.71%) Confluence
1 20 (6.71%) SharePoint
2 17 (5.70%) SharePoint Server
3 5 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.67%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 18 (6.04%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.34%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.34%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.34%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 38 (12.75%) Azure
2 17 (5.70%) Azure Stack
2 17 (5.70%) Power Platform
3 12 (4.03%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (3.36%) IaaS
5 8 (2.68%) AWS
6 5 (1.68%) GitHub
6 5 (1.68%) SaaS
6 5 (1.68%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 4 (1.34%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.01%) OneDrive
8 3 (1.01%) PaaS
9 2 (0.67%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (0.67%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (0.67%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (0.67%) GCP
9 2 (0.67%) Route 53
9 2 (0.67%) Serverless
9 2 (0.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 29 (9.73%) Firewall
2 24 (8.05%) BGP
3 7 (2.35%) IPsec
3 7 (2.35%) OSPF
4 6 (2.01%) Cisco ASA
4 6 (2.01%) Cisco Firepower
4 6 (2.01%) Cisco ISE
4 6 (2.01%) EIGRP
4 6 (2.01%) HSRP
4 6 (2.01%) NetScaler
5 5 (1.68%) SNMP
5 5 (1.68%) Spanning Tree
5 5 (1.68%) VPN
5 5 (1.68%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (1.34%) Network Security
7 3 (1.01%) SMS
8 2 (0.67%) DHCP
8 2 (0.67%) DNS
8 2 (0.67%) SNA
8 2 (0.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.70%) Power BI
2 3 (1.01%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.67%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.34%) MariaDB
4 1 (0.34%) Pentaho
4 1 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 33 (11.07%) JIRA
2 6 (2.01%) GitLab
2 6 (2.01%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.68%) Git
4 4 (1.34%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio
General
1 104 (34.90%) Social Skills
2 61 (20.47%) Finance
3 42 (14.09%) Banking
4 37 (12.42%) Public Sector
5 36 (12.08%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.02%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (2.68%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.34%) Retail
11 3 (1.01%) Publishing
12 2 (0.67%) French Language
12 2 (0.67%) Legal
12 2 (0.67%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.67%) Marketing
12 2 (0.67%) Spanish Language
13 1 (0.34%) Automotive
13 1 (0.34%) Electronics
13 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.34%) Law
Job Titles
1 59 (19.80%) Analyst
2 40 (13.42%) Consultant
3 38 (12.75%) Developer
4 35 (11.74%) Architect
5 34 (11.41%) IT Analyst
6 32 (10.74%) ServiceNow Developer
7 28 (9.40%) Banking Analyst
8 23 (7.72%) Data Analyst
9 20 (6.71%) Service Analyst
10 17 (5.70%) Microsoft Engineer
10 17 (5.70%) Service Manager
10 17 (5.70%) ServiceNow Consultant
11 15 (5.03%) Business Analyst
11 15 (5.03%) Service Architect
12 14 (4.70%) ServiceNow Architect
13 13 (4.36%) Business IT Analyst
13 13 (4.36%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 13 (4.36%) Management Consultant
14 12 (4.03%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
15 11 (3.69%) ITSM Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (9.40%) Web Services
2 15 (5.03%) XML
3 11 (3.69%) JSON
4 9 (3.02%) HTML
5 8 (2.68%) CSS
6 7 (2.35%) REST
6 7 (2.35%) SOAP
7 5 (1.68%) AngularJS
7 5 (1.68%) Jinja
7 5 (1.68%) Lightning Web Components
8 4 (1.34%) Ajax
8 4 (1.34%) jQuery
8 4 (1.34%) YAML
9 3 (1.01%) Kafka
9 3 (1.01%) Node.js
9 3 (1.01%) RESTful
10 2 (0.67%) ActiveMQ
11 1 (0.34%) .NET
11 1 (0.34%) DCOM
11 1 (0.34%) EJB
Miscellaneous
1 38 (12.75%) CMDB
2 17 (5.70%) Private Cloud
3 13 (4.36%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.01%) Product Ownership
5 5 (1.68%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.34%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.34%) Operational Technology
7 2 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.67%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (0.67%) NHS
7 2 (0.67%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.34%) Blackberry
8 1 (0.34%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.34%) Life Science
8 1 (0.34%) Media Streaming
8 1 (0.34%) PKI
8 1 (0.34%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.34%) Smartcard
8 1 (0.34%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 35 (11.74%) Windows
2 9 (3.02%) Linux
3 8 (2.68%) Windows 10
4 6 (2.01%) Unix
5 5 (1.68%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.34%) Android
7 3 (1.01%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (61.74%) ITIL
2 179 (60.07%) Service Management
3 69 (23.15%) Change Management
4 56 (18.79%) Agile
5 41 (13.76%) Service Delivery
6 40 (13.42%) Asset Management
6 40 (13.42%) Problem-Solving
7 34 (11.41%) Configuration Management
8 29 (9.73%) Customer Service
9 27 (9.06%) Incident Management
9 27 (9.06%) IT Asset Management
10 26 (8.72%) DevOps
11 24 (8.05%) Network Management
12 23 (7.72%) Capacity Management
13 22 (7.38%) Continuous Improvement
14 21 (7.05%) Operations Management
15 19 (6.38%) Project Management
15 19 (6.38%) Security Monitoring
16 18 (6.04%) Problem Management
17 16 (5.37%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 16 (5.37%) JavaScript
2 11 (3.69%) Python
3 5 (1.68%) Apex Code
3 5 (1.68%) Perl
3 5 (1.68%) PowerShell
3 5 (1.68%) SQL
3 5 (1.68%) Tcl
4 4 (1.34%) Go
4 4 (1.34%) Ruby
4 4 (1.34%) SOQL
5 1 (0.34%) Bash
5 1 (0.34%) C#
5 1 (0.34%) Java
5 1 (0.34%) PHP
Qualifications
1 95 (31.88%) Security Cleared
2 65 (21.81%) SC Cleared
3 31 (10.40%) DV Cleared
4 23 (7.72%) ITIL Certification
5 13 (4.36%) Degree
6 8 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.35%) CCNP
7 7 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (2.01%) CCNA
8 6 (2.01%) PMI Certification
8 6 (2.01%) PMP
9 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.34%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.34%) CISM
10 1 (0.34%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.34%) GCIH
10 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.34%) MCP
10 1 (0.34%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.72%) SLA
2 17 (5.70%) Government Security Classifications
3 7 (2.35%) QA
4 3 (1.01%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.01%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.67%) PMO
6 1 (0.34%) GRC
6 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 11 (3.69%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.35%) Firmware
3 5 (1.68%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.01%) BitLocker
4 3 (1.01%) vCloud
4 3 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.01%) vSphere
5 1 (0.34%) Docker
5 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (5.70%) SCOM
2 15 (5.03%) Ansible
3 7 (2.35%) Progress Chef
3 7 (2.35%) Puppet
4 6 (2.01%) Terraform
5 4 (1.34%) SCCM
6 3 (1.01%) Autotask
7 2 (0.67%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.67%) Kubernetes
7 2 (0.67%) Salt
7 2 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.67%) vRealize
7 2 (0.67%) VxRail
8 1 (0.34%) Argo
8 1 (0.34%) Grafana
8 1 (0.34%) Istio
8 1 (0.34%) Kibana
8 1 (0.34%) Nessus
8 1 (0.34%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.34%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 101 (33.89%) ServiceNow
2 36 (12.08%) Microsoft
3 18 (6.04%) Remedy
4 17 (5.70%) Atlassian
5 15 (5.03%) VMware
6 9 (3.02%) SolarWinds
7 8 (2.68%) Cisco
7 8 (2.68%) Citrix
8 6 (2.01%) Palo Alto
8 6 (2.01%) Qualys
8 6 (2.01%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.01%) SAP
9 5 (1.68%) BMC
9 5 (1.68%) Splunk
10 4 (1.34%) Dell
10 4 (1.34%) Freshdesk
11 3 (1.01%) Arista
11 3 (1.01%) TOWER Software
12 2 (0.67%) IBM
12 2 (0.67%) Mitel