Service Management Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Service Management
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Service Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 24 25
Rank change year-on-year -10 +1 +15
Contract jobs citing Service Management 3 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 1.50% 1.20% 1.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.66% 1.32% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £600 £250
Median % change year-on-year - +140.00% -47.37%
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £200 £600 £630
% change year-on-year -66.67% -4.76% +200.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 181 152 152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 90.50% 91.57% 85.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 82 79
10th Percentile £354 £300 £197
25th Percentile £406 £343 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £487 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.60% -2.70% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £579 £560
90th Percentile £684 £649 £615
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £498 £500
% change year-on-year -4.52% -0.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 17
10th Percentile £23.00 £17.56 -
25th Percentile £23.16 £19.14 £17.72
Median hourly rate £33.75 £23.21 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +45.44% +16.03% -38.46%
75th Percentile £53.08 £49.20 £77.50
90th Percentile £72.75 £66.25 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
% change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%

Service Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Service Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Service Management job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Service Management
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Service Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Service Management

Service Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Service Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Service Management

Service Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Configuration Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) ITSM Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) CMDB
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) ITSM
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Project Management
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Reverse Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Service Design
3 1 (33.33%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow