ITSM Contracts in Berkshire

IT Service Management (ITSM)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring ITSM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ITSM over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 86 77
Rank change year-on-year +18 -9 +17
Contract jobs citing ITSM 27 36 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.30% 1.82% 1.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.46% 2.04% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 25 17
10th Percentile £369 £455 £324
25th Percentile £413 £482 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £580
90th Percentile £524 £580 -
South East median daily rate £500 £491 £450
% change year-on-year +1.90% +9.04% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

ITSM 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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,098 1,761 1,629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.37% 88.89% 90.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 642 921 1,045
10th Percentile £313 £213 £340
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £614 £608 £625
90th Percentile £675 £675 £704
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 100 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.05 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.30 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year +0.32% +6.02% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.89 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for ITSM in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for ITSM in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITSM in Berkshire over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ITSM in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for ITSM in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITSM within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Wokingham -13 10 £450 -8.50% 1
Reading +41 7 £450 -25.00% 13
Slough - 3 £425 - 5
Maidenhead - 1 - - 4
ITSM
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (7.41%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (22.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (11.11%) SaaS
3 2 (7.41%) Azure
3 2 (7.41%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) HTTP
2 1 (3.70%) PuTTY
2 1 (3.70%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (3.70%) WinSCP
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.70%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.70%) Git
2 1 (3.70%) JIRA
2 1 (3.70%) Maven
2 1 (3.70%) Postman
2 1 (3.70%) TeamCity
2 1 (3.70%) Toad
General
1 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Telecoms
3 4 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Billing
4 1 (3.70%) Finance
4 1 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (18.52%) Architect
1 5 (18.52%) Lead
2 4 (14.81%) ServiceNow Architect
3 3 (11.11%) Incident Manager
3 3 (11.11%) Senior
3 3 (11.11%) Telecoms Architect
4 2 (7.41%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (7.41%) Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (7.41%) Major Incident Manager
4 2 (7.41%) Service Delivery Manager
4 2 (7.41%) Service Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Administrator
5 1 (3.70%) Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) Functional Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) IT Manager
5 1 (3.70%) IT Support Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Network Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Support Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (22.22%) SOAP
1 6 (22.22%) Web Services
2 4 (14.81%) Ajax
2 4 (14.81%) CSS
2 4 (14.81%) HTML
2 4 (14.81%) REST
2 4 (14.81%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (29.63%) CMDB
2 2 (7.41%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Android
1 1 (3.70%) Unix
1 1 (3.70%) Windows
1 1 (3.70%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (70.37%) ITIL
2 11 (40.74%) Service Management
3 10 (37.04%) IT Asset Management
4 9 (33.33%) Problem Management
5 7 (25.93%) Agile
5 7 (25.93%) Configuration Management
5 7 (25.93%) Incident Management
6 6 (22.22%) Scrum
7 5 (18.52%) Change Management
7 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (14.81%) Analytics
8 4 (14.81%) Data Integration
8 4 (14.81%) Log Analytics
8 4 (14.81%) Roadmaps
9 3 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
9 3 (11.11%) Service Delivery
9 3 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
10 2 (7.41%) Migration
10 2 (7.41%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.11%) SQL
2 2 (7.41%) PowerShell
2 2 (7.41%) Python
3 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (3.70%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (3.70%) PMI Certification
4 1 (3.70%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) SLA
2 1 (3.70%) COBIT
2 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) SCCM
1 2 (7.41%) WSUS
2 1 (3.70%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 13 (48.15%) ServiceNow
2 6 (22.22%) Remedy
3 5 (18.52%) BMC
4 3 (11.11%) Snow
5 1 (3.70%) Atlassian
5 1 (3.70%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (3.70%) CyberArk
5 1 (3.70%) Dynatrace
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.70%) PagerDuty
5 1 (3.70%) Splunk