Service Management Contracts in Edinburgh

Service Management
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Service Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Service Management 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 42 46 80
Rank change year-on-year +4 +34 +12
Contract jobs citing Service Management 25 26 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 4.00% 3.19% 2.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.21% 3.61% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 18 22
10th Percentile £165 £245 £164
25th Percentile £195 £282 £198
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £625 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% +47.06% -8.11%
75th Percentile £675 £697 £459
90th Percentile £686 £770 £499
Scotland median daily rate £528 £563 £450
% change year-on-year -6.05% +25.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Service Management 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%

Service Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Management in Edinburgh

Service Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Service Management in Edinburgh

Service Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate histogram for Service Management in Edinburgh

Service Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for Service Management in Edinburgh

Service Management
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 (16.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 7 (28.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (12.00%) Azure
3 2 (8.00%) IaaS
3 2 (8.00%) PaaS
3 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (8.00%) SaaS
4 1 (4.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) Firewall
2 2 (8.00%) Internet
3 1 (4.00%) Intranet
3 1 (4.00%) LAN
3 1 (4.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) Oracle Exadata
1 1 (4.00%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
General
1 10 (40.00%) Finance
2 9 (36.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (32.00%) Public Sector
4 7 (28.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (12.00%) Banking
6 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (4.00%) Publishing
6 1 (4.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Service Manager
2 5 (20.00%) Architect
2 5 (20.00%) IT Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Deployment Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Architect
4 3 (12.00%) Lead
5 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Programme Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Security Specialist
5 2 (8.00%) Senior
5 2 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
6 1 (4.00%) Database Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) IT Manager
6 1 (4.00%) IT Services Manager
6 1 (4.00%) IT Support
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Database Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior IT Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Service Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Service Design Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Data Centre
1 4 (16.00%) Replication
2 3 (12.00%) Mainframe
2 3 (12.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.00%) CMDB
3 2 (8.00%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (8.00%) PKI
3 2 (8.00%) Security Posture
4 1 (4.00%) Clustering
4 1 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (44.00%) Windows
2 7 (28.00%) Linux
3 5 (20.00%) Solaris
4 4 (16.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (12.00%) HPUX
5 3 (12.00%) Windows Server
6 2 (8.00%) Ubuntu
7 1 (4.00%) AIX
7 1 (4.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (60.00%) ITIL
2 12 (48.00%) Agile
2 12 (48.00%) ITSM
3 6 (24.00%) Project Delivery
3 6 (24.00%) Risk Management
4 4 (16.00%) Asset Management
4 4 (16.00%) Commercial Awareness
4 4 (16.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (16.00%) High Availability
4 4 (16.00%) Logistics
4 4 (16.00%) Waterfall
5 3 (12.00%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (12.00%) Data Modelling
5 3 (12.00%) DevOps
5 3 (12.00%) DevSecOps
5 3 (12.00%) Inventory Management
5 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (12.00%) Programme Management
5 3 (12.00%) Software Engineering
5 3 (12.00%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Degree
2 1 (4.00%) CRISC
2 1 (4.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (4.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (8.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 6 (24.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 6 (24.00%) SCCM
2 1 (4.00%) Data Guard
2 1 (4.00%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.00%) HP
3 3 (12.00%) IBM
3 3 (12.00%) ServiceNow
3 3 (12.00%) Sun
3 3 (12.00%) Unisys
4 2 (8.00%) Oracle
5 1 (4.00%) Adobe
5 1 (4.00%) Autodesk
5 1 (4.00%) Avaya
5 1 (4.00%) Cisco
5 1 (4.00%) Dell
5 1 (4.00%) Dynatrace
5 1 (4.00%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (4.00%) Fortinet
5 1 (4.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.00%) Symantec