ITSM Contracts in the City of London

IT Service Management (ITSM)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 92 113
Rank change year-on-year +21 +21 +9
Contract jobs citing ITSM 44 29 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.53% 1.34% 1.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% 1.48% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 18 50
10th Percentile £264 £313 £211
25th Percentile £403 £480 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £538 £488
Median % change year-on-year -8.51% +10.26% -11.36%
75th Percentile £590 £700 £669
90th Percentile £698 £775 £775
Central London median daily rate £489 £538 £463
% change year-on-year -9.12% +16.22% -15.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £17.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year - -19.05% -
Central London median hourly rate - £17.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year - -19.05% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,630 1,955 3,202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.57% 90.51% 91.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,024 1,375 2,163
10th Percentile £352 £350 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £563 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.27% -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 12 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.95 £15.33
25th Percentile £23.75 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £28.15 £25.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.85% -26.79% -13.58%
75th Percentile £43.75 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £41.65 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -13.58%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for ITSM in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ITSM in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for ITSM in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITSM in the City of London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ITSM in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ITSM in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for ITSM in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (6.82%) Confluence
1 3 (6.82%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (6.82%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 12 (27.27%) Azure
2 8 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (13.64%) Entra ID
4 4 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (9.09%) Power Platform
5 3 (6.82%) OneDrive
6 2 (4.55%) Azure AKS
6 2 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (4.55%) Power Automate
6 2 (4.55%) PowerApps
7 1 (2.27%) AWS
7 1 (2.27%) GCP
7 1 (2.27%) GitHub
7 1 (2.27%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (2.27%) SMTP
1 1 (2.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (13.64%) JIRA
2 2 (4.55%) ScriptRunner
3 1 (2.27%) JIRA Agile
3 1 (2.27%) LoadRunner
3 1 (2.27%) Zephyr
General
1 14 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 11 (25.00%) Finance
3 7 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (13.64%) Public Sector
5 5 (11.36%) Banking
6 3 (6.82%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (4.55%) Investment Banking
7 2 (4.55%) Retail
8 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.27%) Law
Job Titles
1 11 (25.00%) Developer
2 9 (20.45%) ServiceNow Developer
3 7 (15.91%) Architect
4 6 (13.64%) Analyst
4 6 (13.64%) ServiceNow Architect
5 4 (9.09%) Consultant
5 4 (9.09%) Lead
5 4 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.82%) Support Analyst
6 3 (6.82%) Test Manager
7 2 (4.55%) Business Analyst
7 2 (4.55%) Desktop Analyst
7 2 (4.55%) Desktop Manager
7 2 (4.55%) Desktop Support
7 2 (4.55%) Desktop Support Analyst
7 2 (4.55%) IT Support
7 2 (4.55%) IT Support Analyst
7 2 (4.55%) Lead Architect
7 2 (4.55%) Lead Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.55%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.91%) HTML
2 6 (13.64%) CSS
3 5 (11.36%) AngularJS
3 5 (11.36%) RESTful
3 5 (11.36%) Web Services
4 4 (9.09%) JSON
4 4 (9.09%) REST
4 4 (9.09%) SOAP
5 3 (6.82%) .NET
6 2 (4.55%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (4.55%) XML
7 1 (2.27%) Ajax
7 1 (2.27%) jQuery
7 1 (2.27%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 13 (29.55%) CMDB
2 3 (6.82%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.55%) iPad
3 2 (4.55%) iPhone
3 2 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.55%) Low-Code
3 2 (4.55%) Smartphone
4 1 (2.27%) BYOD
4 1 (2.27%) FMCG
4 1 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.27%) Hedge funds
4 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.27%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.27%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.27%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.91%) Windows
2 2 (4.55%) Apple iOS
2 2 (4.55%) Windows 10
2 2 (4.55%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.27%) Android
3 1 (2.27%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (61.36%) Service Management
2 20 (45.45%) ITIL
3 12 (27.27%) Agile
3 12 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (18.18%) Incident Management
5 7 (15.91%) Asset Management
5 7 (15.91%) DevOps
5 7 (15.91%) IT Asset Management
6 6 (13.64%) Change Management
6 6 (13.64%) Customer Service
6 6 (13.64%) Service Delivery
7 4 (9.09%) Analytics
7 4 (9.09%) CAD
7 4 (9.09%) Service Catalogue
7 4 (9.09%) Workflow
8 3 (6.82%) API Management
8 3 (6.82%) Collaborative Working
8 3 (6.82%) Mentoring
8 3 (6.82%) Microservices
8 3 (6.82%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 14 (31.82%) JavaScript
2 3 (6.82%) PowerShell
3 2 (4.55%) Bicep
3 2 (4.55%) Groovy
3 2 (4.55%) Java
3 2 (4.55%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (4.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (15.91%) SC Cleared
1 7 (15.91%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (6.82%) Degree
3 2 (4.55%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.09%) SLA
2 2 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.55%) NIST
3 1 (2.27%) QA
System Software
1 6 (13.64%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (6.82%) Kubernetes
1 3 (6.82%) Prometheus
1 3 (6.82%) SCCM
2 2 (4.55%) Grafana
2 2 (4.55%) HP ALM
2 2 (4.55%) Terraform
3 1 (2.27%) Ansible
3 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.27%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 26 (59.09%) ServiceNow
2 9 (20.45%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.82%) Remedy
4 2 (4.55%) Apple
4 2 (4.55%) Atlassian
4 2 (4.55%) HP
4 2 (4.55%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.27%) Avaya
5 1 (2.27%) BMC
5 1 (2.27%) IBM
5 1 (2.27%) Splunk