Service Management Contracts in Bedfordshire

Service Management
East of England > Bedfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire with 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 24 20
Rank change year-on-year 0 -4 -3
Contract jobs citing Service Management 14 8 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 5.45% 4.32% 7.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.25% 4.71% 7.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 13
10th Percentile £467 £231 £417
25th Percentile £511 £269 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £288 £482
Median % change year-on-year +82.61% -40.29% +4.67%
75th Percentile £750 £400 £541
90th Percentile - £430 £604
East of England median daily rate £525 £275 £450
% change year-on-year +90.91% -38.89% +71.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

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 advertised in Bedfordshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 224 170 267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 87.16% 91.89% 93.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 121 134
10th Percentile £313 £208 £263
25th Percentile £463 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £486
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -2.21% +14.29%
75th Percentile £552 £600 £538
90th Percentile £625 £625 £634
East of England median daily rate £475 £475 £465
% change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 6 19
10th Percentile £15.32 £18.50 £12.75
25th Percentile £15.39 £29.31 £42.50
Median hourly rate £21.50 £63.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.27% +15.91% +243.75%
75th Percentile £32.90 £87.50 £61.38
90th Percentile £65.75 £90.00 £68.75
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year +60.00% +61.29% -11.43%

Service Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Job postings citing Service Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Service Management in Bedfordshire

Service Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Service Management in Bedfordshire.

Daily rate trend for Service Management in Bedfordshire

Service Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Management in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Service Management in Bedfordshire

Service Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Service Management in Bedfordshire.

Hourly rate trend for Service Management in Bedfordshire

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 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
Luton -5 5 £750 +127.27% 2
Dunstable - 5 £525 -
Service Management
East of England

Service Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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 5 (35.71%) SAP S/4HANA
General
1 5 (35.71%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Consultant
2 1 (7.14%) Asset Management Consultant
2 1 (7.14%) Change Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Incident Manager
2 1 (7.14%) IT Change Manager
2 1 (7.14%) IT Consultant
2 1 (7.14%) IT Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Lead
2 1 (7.14%) Management Consultant
2 1 (7.14%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) CMDB
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) ITIL
2 6 (42.86%) IT Asset Management
2 6 (42.86%) Service Design
3 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (35.71%) Knowledge Management
3 5 (35.71%) Project Delivery
3 5 (35.71%) Project Management
4 2 (14.29%) ITSM
4 2 (14.29%) Problem Management
5 1 (7.14%) Asset Management
5 1 (7.14%) Change Advisory Board
5 1 (7.14%) Change Management
5 1 (7.14%) Fintech
5 1 (7.14%) Information Security
5 1 (7.14%) Process Improvement
5 1 (7.14%) Security Operations
5 1 (7.14%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (7.14%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) ServiceNow
2 1 (7.14%) BMC