Service Management Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Service Management
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 41 37
Rank change year-on-year +10 -4 +13
Contract jobs citing Service Management 14 14 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 5.07% 2.81% 3.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.74% 3.39% 3.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 15
10th Percentile - £498 £180
25th Percentile £195 £605 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £369 £700 £190
Median % change year-on-year -47.32% +268.42% +1.33%
75th Percentile £575 £731 £213
90th Percentile - - £215
East of England median daily rate £550 £525 £275
% change year-on-year +4.76% +90.91% -38.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £15.40
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £17.72
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £21.28 - £19.51
% change year-on-year - - +6.90%

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 244 413 521
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 88.41% 82.93% 88.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 148 281
10th Percentile £296 £200 £200
25th Percentile £402 £350 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -
75th Percentile £550 £561 £538
90th Percentile £650 £683 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - +1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 197 149
10th Percentile £14.86 - £13.41
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.23 £15.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.20% +3.45% +6.15%
75th Percentile £18.85 £21.46 £20.56
90th Percentile £22.93 £50.75 £22.12
East of England median hourly rate £41.25 £40.00 £24.62
% change year-on-year +3.13% +62.47% +58.84%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for Service Management in Cambridgeshire

Service Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Management in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Management in Cambridgeshire

Service Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Service Management in Cambridgeshire

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 2 May 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 - 7 £550 - 4
Peterborough +18 6 £200 -48.39% 8
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 6 (42.86%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) GitHub
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) DNS
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
1 1 (7.14%) SNA
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Git
General
1 10 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 7 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (14.29%) Service Management Specialist
2 1 (7.14%) Administrator
2 1 (7.14%) Coordinator
2 1 (7.14%) Head of Service Management
2 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) IT Administrator
2 1 (7.14%) Lead
2 1 (7.14%) Procurement Administrator
2 1 (7.14%) Release Coordinator
2 1 (7.14%) Release Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Senior
2 1 (7.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) CMDB
2 3 (21.43%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (7.14%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) ITSM
2 7 (50.00%) Time Management
3 6 (42.86%) Asset Management
3 6 (42.86%) Configuration Management
3 6 (42.86%) Data Entry
3 6 (42.86%) Inventory Management
3 6 (42.86%) IT Asset Management
4 4 (28.57%) Incident Management
4 4 (28.57%) ITIL
4 4 (28.57%) Major Incident Management
5 3 (21.43%) Change Management
5 3 (21.43%) Trend Analysis
6 2 (14.29%) Agile
6 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 1 (7.14%) IT Strategy
7 1 (7.14%) Network Architecture
7 1 (7.14%) Project Delivery
7 1 (7.14%) SDLC
7 1 (7.14%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 8 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 8 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 6 (42.86%) BPSS Clearance
2 6 (42.86%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) VMware NSX
2 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) vRealize
1 2 (14.29%) VxRail
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) Avamar
2 1 (7.14%) Progress Chef
2 1 (7.14%) Puppet
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) ServiceNow
2 2 (14.29%) Dell
2 2 (14.29%) LogRhythm
2 2 (14.29%) SolarWinds
2 2 (14.29%) VMware
3 1 (7.14%) Ariba
3 1 (7.14%) Atlassian
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) SAP