Service Management Contracts in Berkshire

Service Management
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Service Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Service Management 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 69 62 72
Rank change year-on-year -7 +10 +5
Contract jobs citing Service Management 26 63 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.21% 3.18% 2.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.37% 3.58% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 60 22
10th Percentile £365 £463 £460
25th Percentile £425 £541 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +0.88% +8.57%
75th Percentile £500 £608 £684
90th Percentile £595 - £753
South East median daily rate £463 £575 £480
% change year-on-year -19.57% +19.79% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £23.35
25th Percentile - - £28.38
Median hourly rate - - £37.50
75th Percentile - - £47.38
90th Percentile - - £52.85
South East median hourly rate £28.00 - £22.25
% change year-on-year - - +11.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 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%

Service Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Management in Berkshire

Service Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Service Management in Berkshire

Service Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Service Management in Berkshire

Service Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Service Management in Berkshire

Service Management
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 Service Management 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
Reading -8 8 £450 -21.74% 15
Maidenhead - 5 £450 - 2
Wokingham - 4 £383 -
Slough -7 2 £436 +16.33% 6
Service Management
South East

Service Management
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 1 (3.85%) Confluence
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (3.85%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 3 (11.54%) SaaS
2 2 (7.69%) Azure
3 1 (3.85%) AWS
3 1 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (3.85%) Azure Storage
3 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.85%) GCP
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) HTTP
2 2 (7.69%) Firewall
3 1 (3.85%) 5G
3 1 (3.85%) DHCP
3 1 (3.85%) Diameter Protocol
3 1 (3.85%) DNS
3 1 (3.85%) MPLS
3 1 (3.85%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (3.85%) VoIP
3 1 (3.85%) VoLTE
3 1 (3.85%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) RDBMS
1 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
1 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.85%) Subversion
2 1 (3.85%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (3.85%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (38.46%) Telecoms
2 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Billing
5 1 (3.85%) Finance
5 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Lead
2 4 (15.38%) Analyst
2 4 (15.38%) Architect
3 3 (11.54%) ServiceNow Architect
3 3 (11.54%) Telecoms Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Business Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (7.69%) OSS Project Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Project Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Service Delivery Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Service Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Service Transition Leader
4 2 (7.69%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Active Directory Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Active Directory Support
5 1 (3.85%) Active Directory Support Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Developer
5 1 (3.85%) IT Support
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (23.08%) Web Services
2 4 (15.38%) Ajax
2 4 (15.38%) CSS
2 4 (15.38%) HTML
2 4 (15.38%) REST
2 4 (15.38%) SOAP
2 4 (15.38%) XML
3 1 (3.85%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.85%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) CMDB
2 2 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.85%) PKI
3 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Windows
2 1 (3.85%) Android
2 1 (3.85%) Linux
2 1 (3.85%) Unix
2 1 (3.85%) Windows 10
2 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
2 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (69.23%) ITIL
2 11 (42.31%) Agile
2 11 (42.31%) ITSM
3 7 (26.92%) Change Management
3 7 (26.92%) Service Delivery
4 6 (23.08%) Scrum
4 6 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (19.23%) Configuration Management
5 5 (19.23%) Incident Management
5 5 (19.23%) Problem Management
6 4 (15.38%) IT Asset Management
6 4 (15.38%) PRINCE2
6 4 (15.38%) Statistics
6 4 (15.38%) SWOT Analysis
7 3 (11.54%) Defect Management
7 3 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (11.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (11.54%) Test Management
7 3 (11.54%) Test Scripting
7 3 (11.54%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.85%) Bicep
1 1 (3.85%) C#
1 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
1 1 (3.85%) Shell Script
1 1 (3.85%) SQL
1 1 (3.85%) VB
1 1 (3.85%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 3 (11.54%) PMI Certification
1 3 (11.54%) PMP
1 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.85%) CCNP
3 1 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.85%) Degree
3 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (15.38%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) COBIT
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.85%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Amdocs OSS
2 1 (3.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.85%) Opsgenie
2 1 (3.85%) SCCM
2 1 (3.85%) SCOM
2 1 (3.85%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) ServiceNow
2 5 (19.23%) Remedy
3 3 (11.54%) BMC
3 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
4 2 (7.69%) Cramer
4 2 (7.69%) Infoblox
5 1 (3.85%) Atlassian
5 1 (3.85%) BT
5 1 (3.85%) Cisco
5 1 (3.85%) Oracle
5 1 (3.85%) PagerDuty
5 1 (3.85%) Snow