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 29 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 65 75
Rank change year-on-year +8 +10 -12
Contract jobs citing Service Management 34 54 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.97% 2.73% 2.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.19% 3.15% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 50 23
10th Percentile £254 £375 £550
25th Percentile £300 £566 £560
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £604 £625
Median % change year-on-year -25.64% -3.44% +13.64%
75th Percentile £475 £608 £752
90th Percentile £500 £611 £863
South East median daily rate £375 £600 £475
% change year-on-year -37.50% +26.32% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.38 - £53.50
Median hourly rate £20.75 - £55.00
75th Percentile £21.13 - £56.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £24.38 £27.50 £38.75
% change year-on-year -11.36% -29.03% +93.75%

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 1,067 1,716 1,628
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.27% 86.84% 89.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 642 854 1,011
10th Percentile £325 £268 £340
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -2.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £638
90th Percentile £688 £688 £713
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 113 52
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.70 £17.60
25th Percentile £30.70 £41.25 £22.66
Median hourly rate £56.25 £60.46 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% +4.56% +175.32%
75th Percentile £79.30 £71.75 £74.06
90th Percentile £88.87 £87.46 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £24.66 £47.64 £50.00
% change year-on-year -48.24% -4.72% +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 29 June 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 29 June 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 +4 12 £375 -38.02% 24
Maidenhead - 5 £450 -
Wokingham - 4 £383 - 1
Slough -10 1 £448 +11.88% 15
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 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (2.94%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 4 (11.76%) SaaS
2 2 (5.88%) Azure
3 1 (2.94%) AWS
3 1 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (2.94%) Azure Storage
3 1 (2.94%) Entra ID
3 1 (2.94%) GCP
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (23.53%) Firewall
2 4 (11.76%) HTTP
3 2 (5.88%) LAN
3 2 (5.88%) WAN
4 1 (2.94%) 5G
4 1 (2.94%) DHCP
4 1 (2.94%) Diameter Protocol
4 1 (2.94%) DNS
4 1 (2.94%) MPLS
4 1 (2.94%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (2.94%) SNMP
4 1 (2.94%) VoIP
4 1 (2.94%) VoLTE
4 1 (2.94%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.94%) RDBMS
1 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
1 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.94%) JIRA
1 1 (2.94%) Subversion
1 1 (2.94%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 14 (41.18%) Telecoms
2 3 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (8.82%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.88%) Billing
3 2 (5.88%) Finance
4 1 (2.94%) Marketing
4 1 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (20.59%) Lead
1 7 (20.59%) Test Engineer
2 5 (14.71%) Analyst
2 5 (14.71%) Architect
2 5 (14.71%) Network Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) ServiceNow Architect
4 3 (8.82%) Telecoms Architect
5 2 (5.88%) Business Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Cisco Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) OSS Project Manager
5 2 (5.88%) Project Manager
5 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Service Manager
5 2 (5.88%) Service Transition Leader
5 2 (5.88%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
6 1 (2.94%) Data Centre Manager
6 1 (2.94%) Incident Manager
6 1 (2.94%) Marketing Manager
6 1 (2.94%) Quality Analyst
6 1 (2.94%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (20.59%) RFC 2544
1 7 (20.59%) Web Services
2 4 (11.76%) Ajax
2 4 (11.76%) CSS
2 4 (11.76%) HTML
2 4 (11.76%) REST
2 4 (11.76%) SOAP
2 4 (11.76%) XML
3 1 (2.94%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.94%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 9 (26.47%) Data Centre
2 6 (17.65%) Fibre Optics
3 5 (14.71%) CMDB
4 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.94%) PKI
5 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.94%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.82%) Windows
2 1 (2.94%) Android
2 1 (2.94%) Linux
2 1 (2.94%) Unix
2 1 (2.94%) Windows 10
2 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (55.88%) ITIL
2 14 (41.18%) Agile
3 10 (29.41%) ITSM
4 9 (26.47%) Defect Management
4 9 (26.47%) Test Scripting
5 7 (20.59%) Change Management
5 7 (20.59%) Scrum
6 6 (17.65%) Case Management
6 6 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (14.71%) Configuration Management
7 5 (14.71%) Incident Management
7 5 (14.71%) Service Delivery
8 4 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (11.76%) IT Asset Management
8 4 (11.76%) Network Design
8 4 (11.76%) Problem Management
9 3 (8.82%) DevOps
9 3 (8.82%) Project Delivery
9 3 (8.82%) SDLC
9 3 (8.82%) SWOT Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.94%) Bicep
1 1 (2.94%) C#
1 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
1 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
1 1 (2.94%) SQL
1 1 (2.94%) VB
1 1 (2.94%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 8 (23.53%) SC Cleared
1 8 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.82%) CCNP
2 3 (8.82%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (5.88%) CCNA
3 2 (5.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 2 (5.88%) PMI Certification
3 2 (5.88%) PMP
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.94%) Degree
4 1 (2.94%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.94%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (5.88%) Amdocs OSS
2 1 (2.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.94%) SCCM
2 1 (2.94%) SCOM
2 1 (2.94%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (29.41%) ServiceNow
2 7 (20.59%) Cisco
3 5 (14.71%) Remedy
4 4 (11.76%) BMC
5 3 (8.82%) Microsoft
6 2 (5.88%) Cramer
6 2 (5.88%) Infoblox
7 1 (2.94%) BT
7 1 (2.94%) Oracle
7 1 (2.94%) Salesforce
7 1 (2.94%) Snow