ITSM Contracts in the East of England

IT Service Management (ITSM)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 22 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 71 54
Rank change year-on-year +41 -17 +1
DemandTrendContract jobs citing ITSM 67 27 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 5.29% 1.71% 3.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.93% 2.07% 3.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 7 41
10th Percentile £195 £176 £180
25th Percentile £225 £240 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £425 £470
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% -9.57% +4.44%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £650
90th Percentile £600 £670 £800
England median daily rate £450 £500 £481
% change year-on-year -10.00% +3.95% -4.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 15
10th Percentile £16.81 £15.51 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.52 £13.08
Median hourly rate £18.82 £16.75 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.39% +24.04% -1.17%
75th Percentile £21.61 £19.29 £14.75
90th Percentile £21.98 £20.42 -
England median hourly rate £18.82 £18.13 £14.50
% change year-on-year +3.81% +25.03% +6.15%

All Process and 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,130 1,307 1,665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.26% 82.88% 87.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 507 499 937
10th Percentile £200 £200 £225
25th Percentile £364 £306 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £650 £638 £702
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 453 343
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £31.57 £42.50 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -25.73% +114.54% -2.17%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.71 £70.00 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £41.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% +2.41% +53.76%

ITSM
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing ITSM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for ITSM 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 22 August 2025.

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
DemandTrendContract 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 22 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire +26 31 £550 +22.22% 24
Cambridgeshire +28 28 £425 +41.67% 11
Essex +6 5 £225 -68.97% 2
Bedfordshire -8 1 £600 - 3
Norfolk - 1 £500 -
Suffolk - 1 £225 - 3
ITSM
England

ITSM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 8 (11.94%) WebSphere
2 5 (7.46%) Apache
2 5 (7.46%) IIS
2 5 (7.46%) OpenStack
3 3 (4.48%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (7.46%) Maximo
2 3 (4.48%) SAP LE
2 3 (4.48%) SAP WM
3 1 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.49%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 10 (14.93%) Google Workspace
2 9 (13.43%) AWS
3 8 (11.94%) Cloud Computing
4 7 (10.45%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (5.97%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (5.97%) Datadog
6 3 (4.48%) Azure
6 3 (4.48%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.99%) SaaS
8 1 (1.49%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.49%) GCP
8 1 (1.49%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 11 (16.42%) DNS
2 5 (7.46%) iSCSI
2 5 (7.46%) SAN
3 2 (2.99%) Firewall
4 1 (1.49%) LAN
4 1 (1.49%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (1.49%) SNA
4 1 (1.49%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.49%) VPN
4 1 (1.49%) WAN
4 1 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.46%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (7.46%) DB2
1 5 (7.46%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.48%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (20.90%) JIRA
2 8 (11.94%) GitLab
2 8 (11.94%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.49%) Git
3 1 (1.49%) Jenkins
General
1 27 (40.30%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.43%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (5.97%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (4.48%) Finance
4 3 (4.48%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.99%) Legal
6 1 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (22.39%) Analyst
2 12 (17.91%) Consultant
3 9 (13.43%) Administrator
4 7 (10.45%) Service Analyst
5 6 (8.96%) Developer
5 6 (8.96%) Systems Administrator
6 5 (7.46%) IT Analyst
6 5 (7.46%) IT Support
6 5 (7.46%) Junior
6 5 (7.46%) Junior IT Support
6 5 (7.46%) Linux Administrator
6 5 (7.46%) Maximo Consultant
6 5 (7.46%) ServiceNow Consultant
6 5 (7.46%) ServiceNow Developer
7 4 (5.97%) 1st Line Support
7 4 (5.97%) Programme Manager
8 3 (4.48%) Junior Analyst
8 3 (4.48%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 3 (4.48%) Support Analyst
8 3 (4.48%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.96%) SOAP
2 5 (7.46%) Web Services
2 5 (7.46%) XML
3 4 (5.97%) .NET
3 4 (5.97%) HTML
3 4 (5.97%) Node.js
4 3 (4.48%) Middleware
4 3 (4.48%) SAP PI
5 1 (1.49%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.49%) CSS
5 1 (1.49%) React
5 1 (1.49%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.93%) iPad
1 10 (14.93%) iPhone
2 7 (10.45%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (7.46%) Data Centre
3 5 (7.46%) Enterprise Storage
3 5 (7.46%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (5.97%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.48%) CMDB
6 1 (1.49%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.49%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 21 (31.34%) Windows
2 10 (14.93%) Apple iOS
3 6 (8.96%) Windows Server
4 5 (7.46%) CentOS
4 5 (7.46%) Linux
4 5 (7.46%) Ubuntu
5 4 (5.97%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.49%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (41.79%) Service Management
2 17 (25.37%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (20.90%) Customer Service
4 12 (17.91%) CI/CD
5 11 (16.42%) DevOps
6 10 (14.93%) Requirements Gathering
7 9 (13.43%) Agile
7 9 (13.43%) Containerisation
7 9 (13.43%) System Testing
8 8 (11.94%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (8.96%) Customer Requirements
9 6 (8.96%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (8.96%) Risk Management
9 6 (8.96%) Service Design
9 6 (8.96%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (8.96%) Workflow
10 5 (7.46%) Change Management
10 5 (7.46%) Data Science
10 5 (7.46%) Proactive Maintenance
10 5 (7.46%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 16 (23.88%) Python
2 9 (13.43%) Shell Script
3 8 (11.94%) JavaScript
3 8 (11.94%) SQL
4 3 (4.48%) C
4 3 (4.48%) C++
4 3 (4.48%) Java
4 3 (4.48%) PHP
5 1 (1.49%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (25.37%) Security Cleared
2 15 (22.39%) SC Cleared
3 9 (13.43%) Degree
4 4 (5.97%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (4.48%) A+ Certification
5 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.99%) APMG
6 2 (2.99%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.49%) CISA
7 1 (1.49%) CISM
7 1 (1.49%) CISSP
7 1 (1.49%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.49%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.43%) PCI DSS
2 8 (11.94%) QA
3 4 (5.97%) SLA
4 1 (1.49%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.49%) GDPR
4 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.49%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (17.91%) Active Directory
2 6 (8.96%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.99%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (14.93%) Ansible
2 5 (7.46%) Progress Chef
2 5 (7.46%) Puppet
2 5 (7.46%) Terraform
3 4 (5.97%) Grafana
3 4 (5.97%) Salt
4 2 (2.99%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.99%) vRealize
4 2 (2.99%) VxRail
5 1 (1.49%) Avamar
5 1 (1.49%) SCOM
Vendors
1 39 (58.21%) ServiceNow
2 18 (26.87%) Microsoft
3 10 (14.93%) Google
3 10 (14.93%) MobileIron
3 10 (14.93%) Nexthink
4 8 (11.94%) VMware
5 5 (7.46%) Dynatrace
5 5 (7.46%) IBM
5 5 (7.46%) SAP
6 4 (5.97%) Splunk
7 3 (4.48%) Dell
8 2 (2.99%) LogRhythm
8 2 (2.99%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.49%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.49%) BeyondTrust
9 1 (1.49%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.49%) HP
9 1 (1.49%) Oracle
9 1 (1.49%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.49%) Snow