ITSM Contracts in Central London

IT Service Management (ITSM)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring ITSM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ITSM over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 105 100
Rank change year-on-year +30 -5 +31
Contract jobs citing ITSM 50 28 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.51% 1.16% 1.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% 1.28% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 17 56
10th Percentile £248 £313 £206
25th Percentile £325 £475 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +22.22% -18.18%
75th Percentile £598 £714 £608
90th Percentile £700 £775 £755
London median daily rate £525 £500 £460
% change year-on-year +5.00% +8.70% -12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £17.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year - -19.05% -
London median hourly rate £23.80 £19.07 £20.50
% change year-on-year +24.84% -7.00% -2.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,850 2,190 3,501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.96% 90.61% 91.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,198 1,562 2,371
10th Percentile £354 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.32% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £820
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 24 30
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.01 £15.23
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.38 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £29.11 £57.50
90th Percentile £50.75 £41.29 £88.30
London median hourly rate £33.00 £28.50 £39.00
% change year-on-year +15.79% -26.92% +6.12%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing ITSM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for ITSM in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ITSM in Central London.

Daily rate trend for ITSM in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITSM in Central London over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ITSM in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ITSM in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for ITSM in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITSM within the Central London region over the 6 months to 5 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
City of London +22 46 £488 -11.27% 15
West End of London - 1 - -
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London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.00%) Confluence
1 3 (6.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (8.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 13 (26.00%) Azure
2 8 (16.00%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (12.00%) Entra ID
4 5 (10.00%) Power Platform
5 4 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (8.00%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (6.00%) OneDrive
7 2 (4.00%) AWS
7 2 (4.00%) Azure AKS
7 2 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (4.00%) Google Workspace
7 2 (4.00%) Power Automate
7 2 (4.00%) PowerApps
8 1 (2.00%) GCP
8 1 (2.00%) GitHub
8 1 (2.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.00%) DHCP
1 2 (4.00%) DNS
1 2 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.00%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (2.00%) SMTP
2 1 (2.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.00%) Power BI
2 1 (2.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 6 (12.00%) JIRA
2 2 (4.00%) ScriptRunner
3 1 (2.00%) JIRA Agile
3 1 (2.00%) LoadRunner
3 1 (2.00%) Zephyr
General
1 16 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (22.00%) Finance
3 8 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (12.00%) Public Sector
5 5 (10.00%) Banking
6 3 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (6.00%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (4.00%) Investment Banking
7 2 (4.00%) Retail
8 1 (2.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 11 (22.00%) Developer
2 9 (18.00%) ServiceNow Developer
3 8 (16.00%) Analyst
3 8 (16.00%) Architect
4 7 (14.00%) ServiceNow Architect
5 5 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (8.00%) Consultant
6 4 (8.00%) Lead
6 4 (8.00%) Support Analyst
7 3 (6.00%) Desktop Analyst
7 3 (6.00%) Desktop Support
7 3 (6.00%) Desktop Support Analyst
7 3 (6.00%) Test Manager
8 2 (4.00%) Desktop Manager
8 2 (4.00%) IT Analyst
8 2 (4.00%) IT Support
8 2 (4.00%) IT Support Analyst
8 2 (4.00%) Lead Architect
8 2 (4.00%) Microsoft 365 Manager
8 2 (4.00%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.00%) HTML
2 6 (12.00%) CSS
3 5 (10.00%) AngularJS
3 5 (10.00%) REST
3 5 (10.00%) RESTful
3 5 (10.00%) Web Services
4 4 (8.00%) JSON
4 4 (8.00%) SOAP
5 3 (6.00%) .NET
6 2 (4.00%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (4.00%) XML
7 1 (2.00%) Ajax
7 1 (2.00%) jQuery
7 1 (2.00%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 14 (28.00%) CMDB
2 4 (8.00%) Smartphone
3 3 (6.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.00%) iPad
4 2 (4.00%) iPhone
4 2 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.00%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.00%) BYOD
5 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.00%) FMCG
5 1 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.00%) Hedge funds
5 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.00%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 9 (18.00%) Windows
2 4 (8.00%) Apple iOS
3 3 (6.00%) Android
3 3 (6.00%) Mac OS
4 2 (4.00%) Windows 10
4 2 (4.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (64.00%) Service Management
2 22 (44.00%) ITIL
3 14 (28.00%) Agile
4 13 (26.00%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (20.00%) Incident Management
6 9 (18.00%) Customer Service
7 8 (16.00%) DevOps
8 7 (14.00%) Asset Management
8 7 (14.00%) Change Management
8 7 (14.00%) IT Asset Management
8 7 (14.00%) Service Delivery
8 7 (14.00%) Workflow
9 4 (8.00%) Analytics
9 4 (8.00%) CAD
9 4 (8.00%) Service Catalogue
9 4 (8.00%) Stakeholder Management
10 3 (6.00%) Business Continuity
10 3 (6.00%) Computer Science
10 3 (6.00%) Mentoring
10 3 (6.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 14 (28.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (6.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (4.00%) Bicep
3 2 (4.00%) Groovy
3 2 (4.00%) Java
3 2 (4.00%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (4.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (22.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.00%) Degree
4 3 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.00%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (4.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.00%) SLA
2 2 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.00%) NIST
3 1 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 9 (18.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (10.00%) SCCM
2 3 (6.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (4.00%) Grafana
3 2 (4.00%) HP ALM
3 2 (4.00%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (4.00%) Terraform
4 1 (2.00%) Ansible
4 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.00%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 30 (60.00%) ServiceNow
2 11 (22.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.00%) Remedy
4 2 (4.00%) Apple
4 2 (4.00%) Atlassian
4 2 (4.00%) BeyondTrust
4 2 (4.00%) BMC
4 2 (4.00%) Google
4 2 (4.00%) HP
4 2 (4.00%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.00%) Avaya
5 1 (2.00%) IBM
5 1 (2.00%) Splunk