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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 43 38
Rank change year-on-year +7 -5 +22
Contract jobs citing Service Management 9 4 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 2.58% 0.93% 2.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.94% 1.15% 2.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 9
10th Percentile - £196 -
25th Percentile £195 £235 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £300 £425
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% -29.41% +112.50%
75th Percentile £390 £455 £560
90th Percentile £501 £548 £790
East of England median daily rate £550 £525 £450
% change year-on-year +4.76% +16.67% -

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 306 348 480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 87.68% 80.93% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 116 194
10th Percentile £250 £225 £225
25th Percentile £400 £340 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £552 £550
90th Percentile £700 £638 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £442 £500
% change year-on-year +13.12% -11.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 136 192
10th Percentile £14.26 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.84 £15.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +11.93% -
75th Percentile £19.63 £16.85 £20.56
90th Percentile £43.75 £42.88 £28.08
East of England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £19.81
% change year-on-year -37.13% +101.92% -2.17%

Service Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Management 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
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Management in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Management in Cambridgeshire

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 17 September 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 - 6 - - 2
Peterborough +2 2 £200 -33.33% 4
Service Management
East of England

Service Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (11.11%) Datadog
2 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Telecoms
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Administrator
1 2 (22.22%) IT Administrator
1 2 (22.22%) Procurement Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management Specialist
2 1 (11.11%) Configuration Specialist
2 1 (11.11%) ITSM Specialist
2 1 (11.11%) Junior
2 1 (11.11%) Junior IT Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) Power BI Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Programme Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) CMDB
2 2 (22.22%) Life Science
3 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) ITSM
2 3 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 3 (33.33%) Project Management
3 2 (22.22%) Asset Management
3 2 (22.22%) Data Analysis
3 2 (22.22%) Data Entry
3 2 (22.22%) Inventory Management
3 2 (22.22%) IT Asset Management
3 2 (22.22%) ITIL
3 2 (22.22%) Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (22.22%) SDLC
3 2 (22.22%) Time Management
4 1 (11.11%) AIOps
4 1 (11.11%) Data Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (11.11%) Observability
4 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
4 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
4 1 (11.11%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) APMG
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Grafana
1 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 2 (22.22%) Ariba
2 2 (22.22%) SAP
3 1 (11.11%) Dynatrace
3 1 (11.11%) IFS
3 1 (11.11%) Splunk