ITSM Contracts in Edinburgh

IT Service Management (ITSM)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 48 60 91
Rank change year-on-year +12 +31 +21
Contract jobs citing ITSM 19 12 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.04% 1.47% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.20% 1.67% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 9 19
10th Percentile £171 £225 £150
25th Percentile £260 £253 £164
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £282 £425
Median % change year-on-year +73.05% -33.65% -4.49%
75th Percentile £580 £450 £453
90th Percentile £675 £620 £461
Scotland median daily rate £503 £281 £443
% change year-on-year +79.00% -36.50% +42.28%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for ITSM in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for ITSM in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate histogram for ITSM in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for ITSM in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) iTrent
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (10.53%) Azure
2 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
2 2 (10.53%) OCI
3 1 (5.26%) IaaS
3 1 (5.26%) PaaS
3 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Internet
2 1 (5.26%) Firewall
2 1 (5.26%) Intranet
2 1 (5.26%) LAN
2 1 (5.26%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle Reports
General
1 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 7 (36.84%) Finance
2 7 (36.84%) Public Sector
3 6 (31.58%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Publishing
4 1 (5.26%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Architect
1 5 (26.32%) IT Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Deployment Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Developer
2 4 (21.05%) ServiceNow Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Data Architect
5 1 (5.26%) IT Support
5 1 (5.26%) Lead
5 1 (5.26%) Network Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Oracle Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Service Design Architect
5 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) CSS
1 4 (21.05%) HTML
1 4 (21.05%) JSON
1 4 (21.05%) XML
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (10.53%) WebCenter
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) CMDB
2 4 (21.05%) Data Centre
3 3 (15.79%) Mainframe
3 3 (15.79%) Replication
4 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
5 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
5 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (42.11%) Windows
2 6 (31.58%) Linux
3 4 (21.05%) Solaris
4 3 (15.79%) HPUX
4 3 (15.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (10.53%) Ubuntu
6 1 (5.26%) Unix
6 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Agile
1 12 (63.16%) Service Management
2 8 (42.11%) ITIL
3 6 (31.58%) Asset Management
3 6 (31.58%) Service Delivery
4 4 (21.05%) Knowledge Management
4 4 (21.05%) Logistics
5 3 (15.79%) Analytical Thinking
5 3 (15.79%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (15.79%) Coaching
5 3 (15.79%) DevOps
5 3 (15.79%) DevSecOps
5 3 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (15.79%) High Availability
5 3 (15.79%) Inventory Management
5 3 (15.79%) Release Management
5 3 (15.79%) Roadmaps
5 3 (15.79%) Software Engineering
5 3 (15.79%) Systems Thinking
6 2 (10.53%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.26%) ProC
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) CRISC
1 1 (5.26%) Degree
1 1 (5.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) Disclosure Scotland
1 3 (15.79%) GRC
2 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (21.05%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (42.11%) ServiceNow
2 5 (26.32%) HP
2 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
3 3 (15.79%) IBM
3 3 (15.79%) Oracle
3 3 (15.79%) Sun
3 3 (15.79%) Unisys
4 1 (5.26%) Adobe
4 1 (5.26%) Autodesk
4 1 (5.26%) Avaya
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco
4 1 (5.26%) Extreme Networks
4 1 (5.26%) Fortinet
4 1 (5.26%) Symantec