Service Management Contract Job Trends in the City of Westminster

Service Management
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of Westminster requiring Service Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 10 14
Rank change year-on-year +4 +4 -
Contract jobs citing Service Management 6 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in the City of Westminster 13.64% 8.62% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.22% 8.93% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 £538 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £515
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +6.80% -
75th Percentile £488 £563 £523
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £500 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £26.11 - -
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +203.80%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of Westminster

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 Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37 56 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 84.09% 96.55% 80.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 28 27
10th Percentile £350 £398 £380
25th Percentile £450 £461 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £750
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -28.33% +17.65%
75th Percentile £594 £617 £938
90th Percentile £625 £803 £1,088
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -6.09% +2.22% -3.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £21.04 - £28.80
25th Percentile £24.30 - £33.00
Median hourly rate £26.11 - £40.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -20.54%

Service Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

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

Service Management job vacancy trend in the City of Westminster

Service Management
Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

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

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

Service Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

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

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

Service Management
Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

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 City of Westminster region over the 6 months to 1 February 2026. 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
Westminster +6 6 £475 -13.64% 1
Service Management
Central London

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

Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 3 (50.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Analyst
1 6 (100.00%) Service Analyst
2 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Service Desk Analyst
2 3 (50.00%) Service Desk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (50.00%) Analytics
2 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (50.00%) ITIL
2 3 (50.00%) ITSM
2 3 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
2 3 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 3 (50.00%) Service Catalogue
2 3 (50.00%) Service Design
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) SLA
2 3 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 3 (50.00%) Workday