ITSM Contracts in Cumbria

IT Service Management (ITSM)
North West > Cumbria

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cumbria 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 28 -
Rank change year-on-year +15 - -
Contract jobs citing ITSM 27 12 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cumbria 13.85% 4.63% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.17% 4.84% -
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 0
10th Percentile £388 £458 -
25th Percentile £399 £505 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £515 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.85% - -
75th Percentile £538 £515 -
90th Percentile - £521 -
North West median daily rate £472 £488 £450
% change year-on-year -3.18% +8.33% +17.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 167 248 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 85.64% 95.75% 91.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 146 29
10th Percentile £368 £430 £350
25th Percentile £425 £489 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £522 £463
Median % change year-on-year +0.57% +12.86% -2.63%
75th Percentile £600 £666 £500
90th Percentile £638 £725 £710
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 64 8
10th Percentile £22.72 - £22.61
25th Percentile £25.26 £10.95 £44.81
Median hourly rate £31.76 £13.00 £55.38
Median % change year-on-year +144.31% -76.52% +11.80%
75th Percentile £59.24 £44.74 £66.16
90th Percentile £81.15 £51.91 £83.40
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

Job postings citing ITSM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cumbria.

Job vacancy trend for ITSM in Cumbria

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ITSM in Cumbria.

Daily rate trend for ITSM in Cumbria

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cumbria

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITSM in Cumbria over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ITSM in Cumbria

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cumbria

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ITSM in Cumbria.

Hourly rate trend for ITSM in Cumbria

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Contract Job Locations in Cumbria

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITSM within the Cumbria region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Barrow-in-Furness +3 17 £433 -16.02%
ITSM
North West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cumbria 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 10 (37.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (22.22%) SharePoint
3 4 (14.81%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 9 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.93%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (22.22%) Azure
2 6 (22.22%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 11 (40.74%) DHCP
1 11 (40.74%) DNS
2 9 (33.33%) BGP
2 9 (33.33%) EIGRP
2 9 (33.33%) HSRP
2 9 (33.33%) IPsec
2 9 (33.33%) OSPF
3 4 (14.81%) LAN
3 4 (14.81%) Skype
3 4 (14.81%) VLAN
3 4 (14.81%) VPN
3 4 (14.81%) WAN
3 4 (14.81%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (3.70%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (3.70%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (3.70%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (3.70%) Firewall
4 1 (3.70%) NetScaler
General
1 5 (18.52%) Public Sector
2 2 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Military
3 1 (3.70%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (55.56%) Network Engineer
2 7 (25.93%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 7 (25.93%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 6 (22.22%) Junior
3 6 (22.22%) Junior Network Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Deployment Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Senior
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) Deployment Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) SCCM Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) Windows Consultant
Operating Systems
1 10 (37.04%) Windows
2 6 (22.22%) VMS
2 6 (22.22%) Windows Server
3 4 (14.81%) Windows 10
3 4 (14.81%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.93%) DevOps
1 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 7 (25.93%) ITIL
2 4 (14.81%) Disk Encryption
2 4 (14.81%) Service Management
3 3 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (3.70%) Agile
4 1 (3.70%) Migration
4 1 (3.70%) Network Design
4 1 (3.70%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.81%) PowerShell
1 4 (14.81%) VB
1 4 (14.81%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 19 (70.37%) SC Cleared
1 19 (70.37%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) Degree
System Software
1 7 (25.93%) Active Directory
2 4 (14.81%) BitLocker
3 1 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (25.93%) WSUS
2 6 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (14.81%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (40.74%) Microsoft
2 9 (33.33%) Cisco
3 7 (25.93%) VMware
4 4 (14.81%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.70%) Citrix
5 1 (3.70%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.70%) SolarWinds