Service Management Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

Service Management
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Service Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 15 23
Rank change year-on-year -15 +8 +4
Contract jobs citing Service Management 1 3 19
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 0.65% 4.84% 7.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 5.56% 9.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 8
10th Percentile - - £523
25th Percentile - £608 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £615 £550
Median % change year-on-year -34.96% +11.82% -6.78%
75th Percentile - £623 £575
90th Percentile - - £590
Gloucestershire median daily rate £325 £615 £550
% change year-on-year -47.15% +11.82% -6.78%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 132 54 211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 85.16% 87.10% 84.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 31 107
10th Percentile £380 £513 £379
25th Percentile £463 £545 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £615 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +6.96% -4.17%
75th Percentile £625 £679 £669
90th Percentile £700 £748 £725
Gloucestershire median daily rate £525 £510 £550
% change year-on-year +2.94% -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 12
10th Percentile - - £70.05
25th Percentile £12.43 - £70.50
Median hourly rate £12.56 - £71.75
Median % change year-on-year - - +19.58%
75th Percentile £60.74 - £73.75
90th Percentile £76.75 - -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £37.50 £67.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -44.44% +68.75% -45.21%

Service Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Service Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham.

Service Management job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

Service Management
Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Service Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Service Management

Service Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheltenham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Service Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Service Management

Service Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) WLAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) NOC Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Infoblox
1 1 (100.00%) NetScout