Service Management Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Service Management
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Service Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 74 95
Rank change year-on-year -39 +21 +14
Contract jobs citing Service Management 19 47 32
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.83% 2.70% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 2.89% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 31 22
10th Percentile £200 £305 £313
25th Percentile £311 £381 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £488 £463
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% +5.41% -7.50%
75th Percentile £636 £594 £609
90th Percentile £719 £701 £650
Central London median daily rate £475 £491 £463
% change year-on-year -3.31% +6.22% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.25 - -
Median hourly rate £27.50 - -
75th Percentile £27.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +185.71%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,940 1,624 1,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 84.72% 93.44% 90.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,314 1,023 1,381
10th Percentile £360 £350 £356
25th Percentile £450 £458 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £568
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -0.44% -5.42%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £551 £550
% change year-on-year -0.18% +0.18% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 13 11
10th Percentile £17.99 £22.00 £19.92
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.75 £20.22
Median hourly rate £29.78 £28.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.80% +12.60% -28.57%
75th Percentile £49.78 £43.75 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £60.75 £41.84
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -8.65% +4.53% -20.54%

Service Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Service Management job vacancy trend in the City of London

Service Management
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Service Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Service Management

Service Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Management in the City of London over the 6 months to 14 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Service Management in the City of London

Service Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Service Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Service Management

Service Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.53%) Confluence
2 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (5.26%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.53%) Google Ads
2 1 (5.26%) AWS
2 1 (5.26%) Azure
2 1 (5.26%) GCP
2 1 (5.26%) OCI
2 1 (5.26%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) VPN
2 1 (5.26%) Firewall
2 1 (5.26%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) JIRA
General
1 3 (15.79%) Finance
1 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Banking
2 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.26%) Financial Institution
3 1 (5.26%) International Banking
3 1 (5.26%) Legal
3 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Architect
2 3 (15.79%) Integration Architect
2 3 (15.79%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Desktop Support
3 2 (10.53%) Desktop Support Technician
3 2 (10.53%) Desktop Technician
3 2 (10.53%) Support Technician
4 1 (5.26%) Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Technical Architect
4 1 (5.26%) IT Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Lead
4 1 (5.26%) OAT Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Principal Enterprise Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Principal Technical Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Product Owner
4 1 (5.26%) Service Design Manager
4 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.26%) CMDB
2 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) ITIL
2 4 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (21.05%) ERP
2 4 (21.05%) Incident Management
2 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (15.79%) Change Management
3 3 (15.79%) Configuration Management
3 3 (15.79%) Project Management
3 3 (15.79%) Runbook
4 2 (10.53%) Asset Management
4 2 (10.53%) BCP
4 2 (10.53%) Business Continuity
4 2 (10.53%) Business Continuity Planning
4 2 (10.53%) Capacity Management
4 2 (10.53%) Change Control
4 2 (10.53%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (10.53%) Problem Management
4 2 (10.53%) Product Discovery
4 2 (10.53%) Roadmaps
4 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) COBIT
1 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.26%) GDPR
1 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.26%) NIST
1 1 (5.26%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) ServiceNow
2 2 (10.53%) Atlassian
3 1 (5.26%) BMC
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco
3 1 (5.26%) ForeScout
3 1 (5.26%) Fortinet
3 1 (5.26%) Infoblox
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle
3 1 (5.26%) Remedy
3 1 (5.26%) Splunk
3 1 (5.26%) VMware
3 1 (5.26%) Zerto
3 1 (5.26%) Zscaler