Service Management Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Service Management
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Service Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 41 37
Rank change year-on-year -1 -4 +24
Contract jobs citing Service Management 6 4 14
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.65% 1.01% 2.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 1.22% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 9
10th Percentile - £326 £236
25th Percentile £525 £366 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £438 £500
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% -12.50% +138.10%
75th Percentile £575 £516 £650
90th Percentile - £559 £790
East of England median daily rate £531 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +1.14% -4.55% +16.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 332 328 464
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 91.21% 82.62% 90.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 116 180
10th Percentile £260 £268 £224
25th Percentile £400 £340 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +1.05% -
75th Percentile £625 £575 £560
90th Percentile £700 £638 £614
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 99 195
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +11.93% -6.45%
75th Percentile £21.88 £17.42 £20.00
90th Percentile £43.75 £49.50 £22.00
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £27.59 £19.81
% change year-on-year -23.87% +39.25% -5.67%

Service Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Service Management job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Service Management
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Service Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Service Management
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 24 October 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
Cambridge -5 5 - - 4
Service Management
East of England

Service Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (16.67%) Datadog
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Administrator
1 1 (16.67%) Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management Specialist
1 1 (16.67%) Configuration Specialist
1 1 (16.67%) IT Administrator
1 1 (16.67%) ITSM Specialist
1 1 (16.67%) Junior
1 1 (16.67%) Junior IT Administrator
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Procurement Administrator
1 1 (16.67%) Programme Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) CMDB
1 1 (16.67%) Life Science
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) ITSM
2 3 (50.00%) Project Management
3 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (33.33%) SDLC
4 1 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (16.67%) AIOps
4 1 (16.67%) Data Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (16.67%) Kalman Filter
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Observability
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (16.67%) Programme Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (16.67%) Service Design
4 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) APMG
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
1 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) Ariba
2 1 (16.67%) Dynatrace
2 1 (16.67%) IFS
2 1 (16.67%) SAP
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk