ITSM Contract Job Trends in Derbyshire

IT Service Management (ITSM)
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Derbyshire 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 18 19 30
Rank change year-on-year +1 +11 +2
Contract jobs citing ITSM 9 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in Derbyshire 4.76% 2.63% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.04% 3.23% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £263 - -
25th Percentile £328 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £543 - -
90th Percentile £607 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £400 £200 £475
% change year-on-year +100.00% -57.89% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £17.72
East Midlands median hourly rate £16.35 - £17.72
% change year-on-year - - -19.27%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 149 93 131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derbyshire 78.84% 81.58% 72.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 41 87
10th Percentile £252 £168 £160
25th Percentile £406 £200 £194
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £350 £256
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% +36.91% -43.19%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £444
90th Percentile £696 £638 £612
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +5.18% - -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 11 18
10th Percentile - - £12.13
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.87 £21.59 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.23% +23.37% +3.98%
75th Percentile £18.78 £24.18 £18.75
90th Percentile £24.29 - £26.15
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £22.05 £17.50
% change year-on-year -14.40% +25.97% +3.98%

ITSM
Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

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

ITSM job vacancy trend in Derbyshire

ITSM
Daily Rate Trend in Derbyshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Derbyshire citing ITSM

ITSM
Daily Rate Histogram in Derbyshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITSM in Derbyshire over the 6 months to 1 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ITSM in Derbyshire

ITSM
Hourly Rate Trend in Derbyshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Derbyshire citing ITSM

ITSM
Contract Job Locations in Derbyshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITSM within the Derbyshire region over the 6 months to 1 March 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
Derby - 3 £650 - 3
ITSM
East Midlands

ITSM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derbyshire 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 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (66.67%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DHCP
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
General
1 5 (55.56%) Fire and Rescue
1 5 (55.56%) Local Government
1 5 (55.56%) Police
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Help Desk Technician
1 5 (55.56%) ICT Technician
2 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Specialist
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Delivery Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Service Delivery Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Service Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Service Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Wintel Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Wintel Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Driving Licence
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Windows
2 5 (55.56%) Linux
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Continuous Improvement
1 7 (77.78%) ITIL
2 6 (66.67%) Agile
2 6 (66.67%) Service Delivery
3 5 (55.56%) Business Continuity
3 5 (55.56%) Data Protection
3 5 (55.56%) Mathematics
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (11.11%) Analytics
5 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 1 (11.11%) Customer-Centricity
5 1 (11.11%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) Performance Metrics
5 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
5 1 (11.11%) SIAM
5 1 (11.11%) Supplier Management
5 1 (11.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) NVQ Level 3
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) COBIT
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Hyper-V
1 6 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow