Service Management Contracts with Work from Home Options

Service Management
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 Service Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Service Management over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 70 87 120
Rank change year-on-year +17 +33 +1
Contract jobs citing Service Management 444 649 951
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.94% 2.58% 2.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.34% 2.88% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 460 704
10th Percentile £325 £250 £313
25th Percentile £450 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £620
90th Percentile £688 £743 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 31
10th Percentile - £17.65 £11.36
25th Percentile £19.00 £29.35 £11.75
Median hourly rate £20.74 £55.00 £16.25
Median % change year-on-year -62.29% +238.46% -12.16%
75th Percentile £26.50 £58.19 £20.22
90th Percentile £26.80 £74.38 £30.25
UK median hourly rate £17.72 £55.00 £18.56
% change year-on-year -67.78% +196.38% -20.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Service Management 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 13,282 22,550 40,272
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.98% 89.75% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,890 15,929 29,247
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 574 522 532
10th Percentile £15.05 £18.63 £13.75
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £69.31 £55.38
90th Percentile £75.18 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Service Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Service Management trend for jobs with a WFH option

Service Management
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 Service Management.

Service Management daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Service Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Service Management over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Service Management daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Service Management
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 Service Management.

Service Management hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Service Management
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 37 (8.33%) Confluence
2 24 (5.41%) SharePoint
3 18 (4.05%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (3.83%) SharePoint Server
5 6 (1.35%) IBM HTTP Server
5 6 (1.35%) WebSphere
5 6 (1.35%) WebSphere Application Server
5 6 (1.35%) WebSphere Portal
6 2 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.45%) CMS
Applications
1 15 (3.38%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (2.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.23%) Gliffy
4 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (3.38%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.45%) Shopify
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.23%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.23%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (0.23%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.23%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.23%) SAP Retail
4 1 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 75 (16.89%) Azure
2 29 (6.53%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (5.63%) AWS
3 25 (5.63%) Power Platform
4 21 (4.73%) Entra ID
5 18 (4.05%) Azure Monitor
6 17 (3.83%) Azure Stack
7 16 (3.60%) Azure Storage
8 14 (3.15%) IaaS
9 12 (2.70%) SaaS
10 8 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (1.58%) GCP
11 7 (1.58%) PaaS
12 5 (1.13%) Google Sheets
12 5 (1.13%) Power Automate
13 4 (0.90%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (0.90%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (0.90%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (0.90%) Serverless
13 4 (0.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 39 (8.78%) Firewall
2 20 (4.50%) DNS
3 19 (4.28%) DHCP
4 18 (4.05%) BGP
5 7 (1.58%) LAN
6 6 (1.35%) HTTP
6 6 (1.35%) Network Security
6 6 (1.35%) WAN
7 5 (1.13%) Wireless
8 4 (0.90%) Cisco ASA
8 4 (0.90%) VPN
9 3 (0.68%) Cisco ISE
9 3 (0.68%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.45%) SNA
11 1 (0.23%) 4G
11 1 (0.23%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 1 (0.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 1 (0.23%) IP Telephony
11 1 (0.23%) OSPF
11 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (4.95%) Power BI
2 9 (2.03%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (1.13%) GIS
3 5 (1.13%) MySQL
4 3 (0.68%) MariaDB
5 2 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.45%) Data Mining
5 2 (0.45%) Pentaho
6 1 (0.23%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 46 (10.36%) JIRA
2 7 (1.58%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.90%) IBM UrbanCode
4 3 (0.68%) Git
5 2 (0.45%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.45%) Maven
5 2 (0.45%) Selenium
5 2 (0.45%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.23%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.23%) webpack
General
1 169 (38.06%) Social Skills
2 104 (23.42%) Finance
3 76 (17.12%) Public Sector
4 66 (14.86%) Banking
5 59 (13.29%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (3.38%) Marketing
6 15 (3.38%) Telecoms
7 14 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (2.25%) Retail
10 8 (1.80%) Back Office
11 7 (1.58%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.13%) Electronics
13 4 (0.90%) Law
13 4 (0.90%) Legal
13 4 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (0.90%) Publishing
14 3 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 90 (20.27%) Analyst
2 60 (13.51%) Service Manager
3 42 (9.46%) Architect
4 38 (8.56%) Banking Analyst
5 36 (8.11%) Consultant
6 32 (7.21%) Service Analyst
7 31 (6.98%) Lead
8 30 (6.76%) IT Analyst
9 29 (6.53%) Business Analyst
10 26 (5.86%) Senior
11 25 (5.63%) Data Analyst
12 23 (5.18%) Developer
13 21 (4.73%) Service Transition Manager
13 21 (4.73%) Transition Manager
14 20 (4.50%) Banking Business Analyst
14 20 (4.50%) Service Architect
15 18 (4.05%) Microsoft Engineer
16 17 (3.83%) ServiceNow Developer
17 16 (3.60%) Active Directory Support
17 16 (3.60%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (6.08%) Web Services
2 17 (3.83%) ARM Templates
3 8 (1.80%) J2EE
3 8 (1.80%) Middleware
3 8 (1.80%) REST
4 6 (1.35%) CSS
5 4 (0.90%) HTML
6 3 (0.68%) .NET
6 3 (0.68%) AngularJS
6 3 (0.68%) React Native
6 3 (0.68%) SOAP
7 2 (0.45%) Gherkin
7 2 (0.45%) jQuery
7 2 (0.45%) Sass
7 2 (0.45%) Spring
7 2 (0.45%) Spring MVC
7 2 (0.45%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 2 (0.45%) VML
7 2 (0.45%) XML
7 2 (0.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (9.01%) Management Information System
2 30 (6.76%) CMDB
3 21 (4.73%) Self-Motivation
4 17 (3.83%) PKI
4 17 (3.83%) Private Cloud
5 14 (3.15%) Virtual Team
6 9 (2.03%) Data Centre
7 6 (1.35%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.13%) Clustering
8 5 (1.13%) LIMS
8 5 (1.13%) Operational Technology
9 4 (0.90%) Product Ownership
10 3 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.45%) BYOD
11 2 (0.45%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.45%) Public Cloud
12 1 (0.23%) Cloud Native
12 1 (0.23%) FMCG
12 1 (0.23%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 52 (11.71%) Windows
2 26 (5.86%) Linux
3 23 (5.18%) Windows Server
4 17 (3.83%) Windows Server 2016
5 16 (3.60%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (2.03%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.45%) Unix
8 1 (0.23%) Android
8 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (54.73%) ITIL
2 183 (41.22%) ITSM
3 89 (20.05%) Change Management
4 83 (18.69%) Agile
5 70 (15.77%) Problem-Solving
6 67 (15.09%) Service Delivery
7 49 (11.04%) DevOps
8 48 (10.81%) Asset Management
9 47 (10.59%) Configuration Management
10 46 (10.36%) Customer Service
10 46 (10.36%) Service Design
11 41 (9.23%) Continuous Improvement
12 40 (9.01%) Stakeholder Management
13 38 (8.56%) Analytics
13 38 (8.56%) Problem Management
14 37 (8.33%) Incident Management
15 33 (7.43%) Business Analysis
15 33 (7.43%) Project Management
16 30 (6.76%) Capacity Management
17 28 (6.31%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 25 (5.63%) PowerShell
2 21 (4.73%) SQL
3 19 (4.28%) C#
4 17 (3.83%) Bicep
5 16 (3.60%) VB
5 16 (3.60%) VBScript
6 10 (2.25%) Java
7 9 (2.03%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.90%) Python
9 2 (0.45%) Bash
10 1 (0.23%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 173 (38.96%) Security Cleared
2 141 (31.76%) SC Cleared
3 49 (11.04%) DV Cleared
4 28 (6.31%) Degree
5 19 (4.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 17 (3.83%) ITIL Certification
7 13 (2.93%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (1.35%) MCSE
11 5 (1.13%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.90%) CCNP
13 3 (0.68%) CCSA
13 3 (0.68%) JNCIA
14 2 (0.45%) CCNA
14 2 (0.45%) HNC
14 2 (0.45%) ISEB
14 2 (0.45%) NVQ Level 3
14 2 (0.45%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.41%) SLA
2 18 (4.05%) Government Security Classifications
3 13 (2.93%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 11 (2.48%) QA
5 7 (1.58%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.90%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.90%) COBIT
7 4 (0.90%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.45%) NCSC
9 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.23%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.23%) PMO
9 1 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (5.63%) Active Directory
2 19 (4.28%) Virtual Desktop
3 17 (3.83%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.68%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.23%) Docker
5 1 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 33 (7.43%) SCOM
2 20 (4.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 18 (4.05%) Kubernetes
4 17 (3.83%) SCCM
5 16 (3.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 16 (3.60%) WSUS
6 8 (1.80%) Terraform
7 3 (0.68%) Ansible
8 2 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.45%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.45%) Puppet
8 2 (0.45%) vRealize
8 2 (0.45%) VxRail
9 1 (0.23%) Check_MK
9 1 (0.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 81 (18.24%) Microsoft
2 80 (18.02%) ServiceNow
3 21 (4.73%) Atlassian
4 16 (3.60%) Remedy
5 14 (3.15%) SAP
6 9 (2.03%) Cisco
7 8 (1.80%) Google
8 6 (1.35%) Dell
8 6 (1.35%) IBM
8 6 (1.35%) Oracle
9 5 (1.13%) InterSystems
9 5 (1.13%) Juniper
10 4 (0.90%) Freshdesk
10 4 (0.90%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.68%) Blue Coat
11 3 (0.68%) Databricks
11 3 (0.68%) Palo Alto
11 3 (0.68%) SolarWinds
11 3 (0.68%) Splunk
11 3 (0.68%) VMware