ITSM Contract Job Trends in Derby

IT Service Management (ITSM)
Derbyshire > Derby

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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 - 28
Rank change year-on-year - - +4
Contract jobs citing ITSM 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Derby 1.88% - 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% - 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
Derbyshire median daily rate £435 - £500
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £17.72
Derbyshire median hourly rate - - £17.72
% change year-on-year - - -19.27%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Derby

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 Derby.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 126 72 105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derby 78.75% 80.90% 70.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 34 73
10th Percentile £355 £173 £167
25th Percentile £413 £200 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £338 £300
Median % change year-on-year +40.74% +12.50% -35.14%
75th Percentile £581 £488 £450
90th Percentile £700 £626 £645
Derbyshire median daily rate £475 £350 £256
% change year-on-year +35.71% +36.91% -43.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 10 10
10th Percentile - £17.00 £16.15
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.82 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.87 £22.30 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.85% +27.40% +3.98%
75th Percentile £18.78 £24.18 £18.75
90th Percentile £24.29 £24.23 £18.88
Derbyshire median hourly rate £17.87 £21.59 £17.50
% change year-on-year -17.23% +23.37% +3.98%

ITSM
Job Vacancy Trend in Derby

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ITSM relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Derby.

ITSM job vacancy trend in Derby

ITSM
Daily Rate Trend in Derby

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Derby citing ITSM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Derby citing ITSM

ITSM
Hourly Rate Trend in Derby

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Derby citing ITSM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Derby citing ITSM

ITSM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derby 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Delivery Manager
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Delivery Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Service Delivery Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Service Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Service Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Wintel Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Wintel Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Customer-Centricity
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Management
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) SIAM
2 1 (33.33%) Supplier Management
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) COBIT
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
1 1 (33.33%) VMware