Service Management Contracts in Berkshire

Service Management
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 78 78
Rank change year-on-year +21 0 -3
Contract jobs citing Service Management 64 37 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 3.25% 2.04% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.66% 2.25% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 22 25
10th Percentile £463 £460 £381
25th Percentile £550 £550 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £570 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% +8.57% +43.66%
75th Percentile £608 £684 £600
90th Percentile - £753 £675
South East median daily rate £575 £475 £505
% change year-on-year +21.05% -5.94% +12.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £37.50 -
South East median hourly rate - £22.25 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +11.25% -16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,751 1,647 2,164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 88.88% 90.69% 90.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 910 1,060 1,377
10th Percentile £213 £345 £270
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% +5.00% +8.40%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £676 £707 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.89% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 48 43
10th Percentile £20.17 £19.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.75 £25.72 £17.25
Median hourly rate £61.60 £57.82 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% +174.67% -2.09%
75th Percentile £72.18 £73.69 £33.75
90th Percentile £87.41 £79.51 £68.10
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -15.89%

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 28 April 2024.

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 28 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
Reading +24 57 £575 +0.88% 7
Slough +14 3 £375 -16.67% 2
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 15 (23.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Remedy AR System
2 1 (1.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 19 (29.69%) Azure
2 17 (26.56%) Azure Monitor
2 17 (26.56%) Entra ID
3 16 (25.00%) Azure Storage
3 16 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.56%) Azure API Management
4 1 (1.56%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.56%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (1.56%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (1.56%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (1.56%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (1.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (26.56%) DNS
1 17 (26.56%) Firewall
2 16 (25.00%) DHCP
3 2 (3.13%) Radio Access Network
Development Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Axure RP
1 1 (1.56%) Git
1 1 (1.56%) JIRA
General
1 40 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (3.13%) Telecoms
3 1 (1.56%) Finance
3 1 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (32.81%) Build Engineer
1 21 (32.81%) Windows Build Engineer
1 21 (32.81%) Windows Engineer
2 15 (23.44%) Active Directory Support
2 15 (23.44%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (21.88%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (21.88%) Support Specialist
4 7 (10.94%) Service Manager
5 5 (7.81%) Analyst
6 4 (6.25%) Architect
6 4 (6.25%) Service Architect
6 4 (6.25%) Service Design Manager
6 4 (6.25%) Service Transition Manager
6 4 (6.25%) Transition Manager
7 3 (4.69%) Data Analyst
7 3 (4.69%) Developer
7 3 (4.69%) Remedy Developer
8 2 (3.13%) Business Analyst
8 2 (3.13%) IT Manager
8 2 (3.13%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (25.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.56%) Middleware
2 1 (1.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (26.56%) Self-Motivation
2 16 (25.00%) PKI
3 1 (1.56%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 38 (59.38%) Windows
2 36 (56.25%) Windows Server
2 36 (56.25%) Windows Server 2016
2 36 (56.25%) Windows Server 2019
3 21 (32.81%) Windows 10
3 21 (32.81%) Windows NT
3 21 (32.81%) Windows Server 2012
4 15 (23.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (73.44%) ITIL
2 38 (59.38%) Release Management
3 22 (34.38%) Deployment Automation
4 21 (32.81%) Customer Service
4 21 (32.81%) User Acceptance Testing
5 18 (28.13%) Identity Management
6 17 (26.56%) Agile
6 17 (26.56%) Analytics
6 17 (26.56%) Log Analytics
7 16 (25.00%) DevOps
7 16 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (25.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 16 (25.00%) Privileged Identity Management
7 16 (25.00%) RBAC
8 15 (23.44%) CI/CD
9 10 (15.63%) Service Design
10 6 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (7.81%) User Experience
11 5 (7.81%) UX Design
12 4 (6.25%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 17 (26.56%) PowerShell
2 16 (25.00%) Bicep
2 16 (25.00%) C#
2 16 (25.00%) VB
2 16 (25.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 41 (64.06%) DV Cleared
1 41 (64.06%) Security Cleared
2 16 (25.00%) Degree
2 16 (25.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 16 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.56%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (34.38%) QA
2 5 (7.81%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 3 (4.69%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.56%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (59.38%) Active Directory
2 21 (32.81%) Firmware
3 16 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 16 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (59.38%) SCCM
2 37 (57.81%) WSUS
3 21 (32.81%) Sysprep
4 17 (26.56%) Kubernetes
4 17 (26.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (25.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 16 (25.00%) SCOM
6 1 (1.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 38 (59.38%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.25%) Databricks
2 4 (6.25%) Remedy
3 1 (1.56%) BMC
3 1 (1.56%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.56%) ServiceNow