Service Management Contracts in Cambridge

Service Management
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridge 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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 - 15
Rank change year-on-year - - +19
Contract jobs citing Service Management 8 0 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 5.76% - 6.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.56% - 7.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 13
10th Percentile £521 - -
25th Percentile £523 - £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £190
Median % change year-on-year - - -65.45%
75th Percentile £575 - £195
90th Percentile - - £508
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £369 £700 £190
% change year-on-year -47.32% +268.42% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate - - £17.50
% change year-on-year - - +34.62%

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 122 207 226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 87.77% 92.83% 86.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 106 154
10th Percentile £296 £235 £190
25th Percentile £405 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £420 £450
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -6.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £591 £550 £531
90th Percentile £688 £650 £599
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £440 £450
% change year-on-year +7.95% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 32 15
10th Percentile £16.40 £17.30 £16.63
25th Percentile £18.10 £25.00 £17.14
Median hourly rate £39.50 £52.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -24.76% +196.28% -68.91%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.38 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.50 £74.63 £59.00
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.23 £16.23 £14.50
% change year-on-year - +11.93% -

Service Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Management in Cambridge

Service Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Daily rate trend for Service Management in Cambridge

Service Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Hourly rate trend for Service Management in Cambridge

Service Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) Datadog
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) SNA
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Administrator
1 2 (25.00%) IT Administrator
1 2 (25.00%) Procurement Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Coordinator
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Junior
2 1 (12.50%) Junior IT Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Programme Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Release Coordinator
2 1 (12.50%) Release Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Service Management Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Life Science
1 2 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) ITSM
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Change Management
3 2 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) Major Incident Management
3 2 (25.00%) Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (25.00%) Trend Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) AIOps
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (12.50%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (12.50%) Observability
4 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
4 1 (12.50%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) APMG
2 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) vRealize
1 2 (25.00%) VxRail
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Avamar
2 1 (12.50%) Grafana
2 1 (12.50%) Progress Chef
2 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
2 1 (12.50%) Puppet
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) ServiceNow
2 2 (25.00%) Ariba
2 2 (25.00%) Dell
2 2 (25.00%) LogRhythm
2 2 (25.00%) SAP
2 2 (25.00%) SolarWinds
2 2 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) Atlassian
3 1 (12.50%) Dynatrace
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Splunk