ITSM Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

IT Service Management (ITSM)
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring ITSM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 31 28
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +14
Contract jobs citing ITSM 5 1 9
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 2.39% 0.43% 3.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.78% 0.59% 4.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile £200 - £293
25th Percentile - £161 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £230 £163 £400
Median % change year-on-year +41.54% -59.38% -20.00%
75th Percentile £325 £164 £438
90th Percentile £333 - -
South Wales median daily rate £230 £163 £350
% change year-on-year +41.54% -53.57% -40.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

ITSM 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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 180 170 215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 86.12% 73.59% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 112 168
10th Percentile £226 £140 £178
25th Percentile £300 £209 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.71% - -10.53%
75th Percentile £503 £550 £541
90th Percentile £675 £643 £625
South Wales median daily rate £413 £406 £450
% change year-on-year +1.54% -9.72% -13.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 5
10th Percentile - - £18.70
25th Percentile £13.08 £15.48 £21.25
Median hourly rate £14.54 £20.08 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.59% -22.77% +44.44%
75th Percentile £18.36 £25.60 £26.50
90th Percentile £22.82 £25.79 £36.10
South Wales median hourly rate £17.50 £25.18 £29.83
% change year-on-year -30.50% -15.60% +49.16%

ITSM
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ITSM relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

ITSM job vacancy trend in Cardiff

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Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing ITSM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing ITSM

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITSM in Cardiff over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ITSM in Cardiff

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Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing ITSM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing ITSM

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) LAN
1 2 (40.00%) VoIP
1 2 (40.00%) WAN
1 2 (40.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Legal
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Deployment Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 1st Line Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 1st Line Support
2 1 (20.00%) 1st Line Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
2 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Technical Support
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support
2 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (40.00%) Android
3 2 (40.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Service Management
2 3 (60.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Change Control
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) ServiceNow
2 3 (60.00%) Remedy
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft