Service Management Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Service Management
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Service Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 54 40
Rank change year-on-year +16 -14 -13
Contract jobs citing Service Management 34 5 13
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 5.02% 0.93% 3.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.56% 1.08% 3.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 1 7
10th Percentile £227 - £399
25th Percentile £380 - £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £356 £550
Median % change year-on-year +28.09% -35.27% +52.78%
75th Percentile £500 - £570
90th Percentile £631 - £581
North West median daily rate £459 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +2.06% -14.29% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
Median hourly rate £12.82 £23.14 -
Median % change year-on-year -44.59% - -
North West median hourly rate £29.60 £22.09 -
% change year-on-year +34.00% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 611 461 345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 90.25% 85.85% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 278 199
10th Percentile £304 £337 £265
25th Percentile £358 £390 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £495 £495
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £519 £575 £586
90th Percentile £688 £650 £613
North West median daily rate £452 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -7.38% -2.50% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 18 29
10th Percentile - £16.00 £15.80
25th Percentile £12.82 £21.83 £17.50
Median hourly rate £17.75 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -49.29% +27.27% +52.48%
75th Percentile £34.00 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £47.50 £35.75
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.84% +21.43% +50.21%

Service Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Service Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Service Management in Cheshire

Service Management
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Service Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Management in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Management in Cheshire

Service Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Service Management
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 October 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
Knutsford -2 17 £453 +27.25% 2
Warrington -7 5 - - 2
Macclesfield +2 3 £700 -
Wilmslow - 2 £200 -
Neston - 1 - -
Chester - 1 £150 - 1
Service Management
North West

Service Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 6 (17.65%) Confluence
2 4 (11.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (32.35%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (11.76%) MS Visio
3 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (14.71%) assyst
1 5 (14.71%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (20.59%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (11.76%) SaaS
3 1 (2.94%) Azure
3 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) SSH
Development Applications
1 7 (20.59%) JIRA
General
1 20 (58.82%) Social Skills
2 9 (26.47%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (20.59%) Finance
4 4 (11.76%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (11.76%) Publishing
5 3 (8.82%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.94%) Legal
6 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (32.35%) Analyst
2 7 (20.59%) Business Analyst
3 5 (14.71%) 1st Line Support
3 5 (14.71%) IT Support
3 5 (14.71%) Programme Manager
4 4 (11.76%) Service Manager
4 4 (11.76%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
5 3 (8.82%) SAP Manager
5 3 (8.82%) SAP Programme Manager
5 3 (8.82%) Senior
5 3 (8.82%) Service Transition Manager
5 3 (8.82%) Transition Manager
6 2 (5.88%) 2nd Line Support
6 2 (5.88%) Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Business Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Service Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) ServiceNow Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Tester
7 1 (2.94%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.76%) CSS
1 4 (11.76%) HTML
1 4 (11.76%) Web Services
2 3 (8.82%) AngularJS
2 3 (8.82%) LDAP
2 3 (8.82%) REST
2 3 (8.82%) SOAP
3 1 (2.94%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 9 (26.47%) Management Information System
2 4 (11.76%) Tandem
2 4 (11.76%) Virtual Team
3 2 (5.88%) CMDB
4 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.59%) Windows
2 4 (11.76%) Unix
3 2 (5.88%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (67.65%) ITSM
2 22 (64.71%) ITIL
3 18 (52.94%) Stakeholder Management
4 15 (44.12%) Agile
5 12 (35.29%) Computer Science
6 9 (26.47%) Change Management
6 9 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (26.47%) Service Design
7 8 (23.53%) Project Delivery
7 8 (23.53%) Release Management
8 7 (20.59%) Project Management
8 7 (20.59%) Risk Management
8 7 (20.59%) Service Catalogue
9 6 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (17.65%) Customer Service
9 6 (17.65%) IT Asset Management
9 6 (17.65%) Scrum
10 5 (14.71%) Analytics
10 5 (14.71%) DevOps
10 5 (14.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.76%) Java
1 4 (11.76%) JavaScript
2 2 (5.88%) Python
2 2 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (41.18%) Degree
2 8 (23.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (14.71%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (5.88%) CBAP
4 2 (5.88%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.71%) GxP
1 5 (14.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (5.88%) COBIT
Systems Management
1 3 (8.82%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.94%) Ansible
2 1 (2.94%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (58.82%) ServiceNow
2 14 (41.18%) Microsoft
3 5 (14.71%) SAP
4 4 (11.76%) IBM
5 2 (5.88%) Dell
5 2 (5.88%) Gemalto
5 2 (5.88%) Thales
6 1 (2.94%) Ariba
6 1 (2.94%) Cisco
6 1 (2.94%) InterSystems
6 1 (2.94%) Ribbon