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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 37 42
Rank change year-on-year +13 +5 -3
Contract jobs citing Service Management 18 8 4
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 4.89% 2.25% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.71% 2.56% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 3
10th Percentile £431 £228 £196
25th Percentile £466 £278 £235
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £375 £300
Median % change year-on-year +36.67% +25.00% -29.41%
75th Percentile £603 £483 £455
90th Percentile £625 £538 £548
East of England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.00 - -
Median hourly rate £16.00 - -
75th Percentile £17.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £26.37 £22.56 -
% change year-on-year +16.89% - -

All Process & 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 315 313 353
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 85.60% 88.17% 81.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 108 118
10th Percentile £175 £250 £225
25th Percentile £372 £405 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £463
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +12.43% +2.78%
75th Percentile £579 £625 £559
90th Percentile £626 £700 £638
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £446
% change year-on-year - +12.11% -10.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 96 137
10th Percentile £13.45 £14.03 £14.16
25th Percentile - £14.84 £15.00
Median hourly rate £14.22 £16.00 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -11.13% -1.42% +11.93%
75th Percentile £23.75 £20.38 £16.85
90th Percentile £45.75 £43.75 £41.70
East of England median hourly rate £50.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +98.81% -37.13% +101.92%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Management in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 18 September 2026.

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 18 September 2026. 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 9 £525 - 9
Peterborough +10 1 - - 1
Ely - 1 £500 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (16.67%) OpenStack
2 2 (11.11%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) Azure
2 4 (22.22%) AWS
3 3 (16.67%) GCP
4 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.56%) Azure AI
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (5.56%) GitHub
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (5.56%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 6 (33.33%) VPN
2 5 (27.78%) Wireless
3 2 (11.11%) VLAN
3 2 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (5.56%) BGP
4 1 (5.56%) DHCP
4 1 (5.56%) DNS
4 1 (5.56%) LAN
4 1 (5.56%) MPLS
4 1 (5.56%) Network Security
4 1 (5.56%) OSPF
4 1 (5.56%) SD-WAN
4 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
4 1 (5.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) MSI
General
1 10 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 8 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Aerospace
4 1 (5.56%) Finance
4 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (16.67%) Administrator
1 3 (16.67%) Help Desk Administrator
1 3 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
1 3 (16.67%) Senior
1 3 (16.67%) Storage Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Business Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) IT Manager
3 1 (5.56%) IT Support
3 1 (5.56%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Network Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Senior Support Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Service Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (5.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Onboarding
2 4 (22.22%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.56%) AI Agents
3 1 (5.56%) CMDB
3 1 (5.56%) PKI
3 1 (5.56%) Smartcard
3 1 (5.56%) Taxonomies
3 1 (5.56%) Video\Live Streaming
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
1 3 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Customer Service
1 10 (55.56%) ITSM
2 8 (44.44%) ITIL
3 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (33.33%) Incident Management
5 5 (27.78%) AI
5 5 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (22.22%) Computer Science
6 4 (22.22%) Incident Response
6 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (22.22%) Inventory Management
7 3 (16.67%) Anomaly Detection
7 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
7 3 (16.67%) Machine Learning
7 3 (16.67%) Observability
7 3 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (16.67%) Project Delivery
7 3 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) Python
2 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Degree
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (22.22%) A+ Certification
2 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.56%) CBAP
3 1 (5.56%) CCIE
3 1 (5.56%) CCNP
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (5.56%) JNCIP
3 1 (5.56%) JNCIS
3 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Ansible
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.56%) Grafana
Vendors
1 10 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) NetApp
2 3 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 2 (11.11%) Juniper
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco
4 1 (5.56%) Dynatrace
4 1 (5.56%) Infoblox
4 1 (5.56%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (5.56%) OpenAI
4 1 (5.56%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.56%) SolarWinds