Service Management Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Service Management
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Service Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 26 28
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 -9
Contract jobs citing Service Management 3 3 12
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 1.40% 1.82% 4.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 2.10% 5.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 8
10th Percentile - - £413
25th Percentile - £613 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £625 £506
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +23.46% -22.12%
75th Percentile - £638 £555
90th Percentile - - £593
East of England median daily rate £452 £531 £600
% change year-on-year -14.80% -11.58% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £17.30 £67.50 -
% change year-on-year -74.37% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

Service Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 188 143 223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 87.44% 86.67% 89.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 72 155
10th Percentile £313 £213 £350
25th Percentile £413 £441 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +3.96%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £550
90th Percentile £638 £700 £600
East of England median daily rate £486 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 18 4
10th Percentile £25.15 £24.98 £51.63
25th Percentile £37.50 £30.20 £52.19
Median hourly rate £71.00 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.24% -4.55% -3.51%
75th Percentile £90.75 £59.69 £58.88
90th Percentile £91.50 £71.60 £61.35
East of England median hourly rate £20.75 £30.00 £21.46
% change year-on-year -30.83% +39.79% -2.45%

Service Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Service Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Service Management job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

Service Management
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Service Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Service Management

Service Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Service Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Service Management

Service Management
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Service Management within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 21 December 2025. 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
Bedford - 3 £475 - 1
Service Management
East of England

Service Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support
1 1 (33.33%) Incident Manager
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Operational Technology
1 1 (33.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) ITSM
1 2 (66.67%) Network Segmentation
1 2 (66.67%) Zero Trust
2 1 (33.33%) Conflict Management
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Lean Six Sigma
2 1 (33.33%) Server Management
2 1 (33.33%) Six Sigma
2 1 (33.33%) Trend Analysis
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) CCNA
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) MCSE
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Barracuda Networks
2 2 (66.67%) Palo Alto
2 2 (66.67%) ServiceNow
2 2 (66.67%) VMware