ITSM Contract Job Trends in the East of England

IT Service Management (ITSM)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring ITSM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 32 90
Rank change year-on-year -25 +58 -37
Contract jobs citing ITSM 55 61 24
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.48% 5.89% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.14% 6.55% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 38 12
10th Percentile £188 £195 £192
25th Percentile £197 £225 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £388 £700
Median % change year-on-year +25.81% -44.64% +55.56%
75th Percentile £644 £575 £731
90th Percentile £731 - -
England median daily rate £515 £456 £499
% change year-on-year +13.06% -8.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 5
10th Percentile £16.40 £16.67 -
25th Percentile £17.69 £16.95 -
Median hourly rate £17.98 £18.82 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.46% +34.43% +6.38%
75th Percentile £21.65 £21.92 -
90th Percentile £67.70 £22.05 -
England median hourly rate £27.00 £18.82 £16.09
% change year-on-year +43.46% +17.00% +11.90%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,752 931 1,658
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 79.03% 89.95% 83.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 889 470 665
10th Percentile £193 £225 £206
25th Percentile £395 £379 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £440
Median % change year-on-year - +13.77% -8.44%
75th Percentile £590 £588 £575
90th Percentile £682 £675 £652
England median daily rate £518 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.48% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 409 190 625
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.12 £16.95 £15.62
Median hourly rate £31.18 £35.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.18% -11.25% +90.48%
75th Percentile £68.75 £72.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £74.50
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.45 £37.75
% change year-on-year +71.22% -27.28% +7.09%

ITSM
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

ITSM job vacancy trend in the East of England

ITSM
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing ITSM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing ITSM

ITSM
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITSM in the East of England over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ITSM in the East of England

ITSM
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing ITSM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing ITSM

ITSM
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ITSM in the East of England over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for ITSM in the East of England

ITSM
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITSM within the East of England region over the 6 months to 17 June 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
Hertfordshire -13 29 £550 - 18
Bedfordshire - 10 £348 - 3
Cambridgeshire -11 6 £513 +15.69% 8
Norfolk - 5 £200 - 4
Suffolk -10 3 £724 +221.56% 3
Essex -14 2 - - 7
ITSM
England

ITSM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (1.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (18.18%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.82%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 12 (21.82%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (10.91%) Azure
3 5 (9.09%) AWS
4 4 (7.27%) OneDrive
5 3 (5.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (5.45%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.82%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.82%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.91%) VPN
2 4 (7.27%) Firewall
2 4 (7.27%) Network Security
2 4 (7.27%) SNMP
3 2 (3.64%) Wireless
4 1 (1.82%) Intranet
4 1 (1.82%) VLAN
4 1 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 5 (9.09%) JIRA
2 3 (5.45%) Git
3 1 (1.82%) MSI
General
1 23 (41.82%) Social Skills
2 10 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (10.91%) Finance
4 3 (5.45%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (5.45%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.64%) Legal
5 2 (3.64%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.64%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.82%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (16.36%) Consultant
2 8 (14.55%) IT Support
3 7 (12.73%) Analyst
4 6 (10.91%) Service Analyst
4 6 (10.91%) Service Desk Analyst
4 6 (10.91%) Support Engineer
5 5 (9.09%) IT Engineer
5 5 (9.09%) IT Support Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Administrator
6 4 (7.27%) ServiceNow Consultant
7 3 (5.45%) 3rd Line Support
7 3 (5.45%) ITSM Consultant
8 2 (3.64%) 1st Line Support
8 2 (3.64%) Deployment Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Enterprise Consultant
8 2 (3.64%) Project Manager
8 2 (3.64%) Remedy Consultant
8 2 (3.64%) SAP Administrator
8 2 (3.64%) Service Desk Team Leader
8 2 (3.64%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.27%) eBPF
1 4 (7.27%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.00%) CMDB
2 7 (12.73%) Onboarding
3 4 (7.27%) Cloud Native
3 4 (7.27%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (5.45%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.82%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.82%) PKI
5 1 (1.82%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.82%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.82%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 17 (30.91%) Windows
2 7 (12.73%) Windows 10
3 4 (7.27%) Linux
3 4 (7.27%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.82%) Android
4 1 (1.82%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (47.27%) ITIL
2 13 (23.64%) Service Management
3 11 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 8 (14.55%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (12.73%) Customer Service
5 7 (12.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 6 (10.91%) Change Management
6 6 (10.91%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (10.91%) Logistics
6 6 (10.91%) Migration
7 5 (9.09%) Knowledge Transfer
7 5 (9.09%) Network Segmentation
7 5 (9.09%) Portfolio Management
7 5 (9.09%) Roadmaps
7 5 (9.09%) Service Delivery
8 4 (7.27%) Anomaly Detection
8 4 (7.27%) DevOps
8 4 (7.27%) Performance Optimisation
8 4 (7.27%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.27%) Bash
1 4 (7.27%) Python
2 1 (1.82%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (43.64%) Security Cleared
2 23 (41.82%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.09%) Degree
4 4 (7.27%) ITIL Certification
4 4 (7.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 2 (3.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (3.64%) PMI Certification
5 2 (3.64%) PMP
6 1 (1.82%) A+ Certification
6 1 (1.82%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.82%) CCNA
6 1 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.82%) MCSE
6 1 (1.82%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.73%) SLA
2 5 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (3.64%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.82%) QA
System Software
1 5 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (10.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (7.27%) Ansible
2 4 (7.27%) Grafana
2 4 (7.27%) Prometheus
2 4 (7.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 31 (56.36%) ServiceNow
2 11 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 10 (18.18%) Remedy
4 8 (14.55%) SAP
5 7 (12.73%) BMC
6 4 (7.27%) Barracuda Networks
6 4 (7.27%) Cisco
6 4 (7.27%) Cribl.io
6 4 (7.27%) Dynatrace
6 4 (7.27%) Palo Alto
6 4 (7.27%) Splunk
6 4 (7.27%) VMware
7 3 (5.45%) Freshdesk
8 2 (3.64%) Dell
8 2 (3.64%) HP
9 1 (1.82%) Juniper