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 25 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 59 59
Rank change year-on-year +23 0 +25
Contract jobs citing Service Management 26 17 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 4.11% 1.96% 4.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.33% 2.30% 4.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 12 37
10th Percentile £122 £463 £171
25th Percentile £163 £594 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £663 £450
Median % change year-on-year -32.08% +47.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £728 £530
90th Percentile £675 £861 £613
Scotland median daily rate £496 £600 £473
% change year-on-year -17.33% +26.98% +1.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £15.58 - -
25th Percentile £15.94 - -
Median hourly rate £16.55 - -
75th Percentile £17.58 - -
90th Percentile £17.75 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £16.55 - -

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 601 739 1,064
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.09% 85.33% 92.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 411 725
10th Percentile £250 £213 £213
25th Percentile £406 £363 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -0.84%
75th Percentile £533 £550 £538
90th Percentile £599 £650 £600
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.22% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 25 5
10th Percentile £16.85 £13.23 £16.40
25th Percentile - £15.10 £21.26
Median hourly rate £17.30 £18.38 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.85% -56.76% +89.31%
75th Percentile £37.09 £24.18 £53.75
90th Percentile £63.00 £56.50 £59.00
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £20.29 £18.33
% change year-on-year -1.40% +10.70% -51.04%

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 25 July 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (7.69%) IaaS
2 2 (7.69%) PaaS
2 2 (7.69%) SaaS
3 1 (3.85%) Azure
3 1 (3.85%) OCI
3 1 (3.85%) OneDrive
3 1 (3.85%) Power Automate
3 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.85%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) Firewall
1 2 (7.69%) Internet
1 2 (7.69%) LAN
1 2 (7.69%) WLAN
2 1 (3.85%) DHCP
2 1 (3.85%) DNS
2 1 (3.85%) Intranet
2 1 (3.85%) IP Telephony
2 1 (3.85%) VLAN
2 1 (3.85%) VPN
2 1 (3.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle Exadata
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
General
1 13 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (38.46%) Finance
3 9 (34.62%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (26.92%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.85%) Banking
5 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Legal
5 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.85%) Publishing
5 1 (3.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (19.23%) Architect
1 5 (19.23%) IT Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Deployment Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Service Manager
3 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Administrator
4 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
4 2 (7.69%) IT Administrator
4 2 (7.69%) Programme Manager
4 2 (7.69%) ServiceNow Administrator
4 2 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Windows Administrator
5 1 (3.85%) Data Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Desktop Support
5 1 (3.85%) Lead
5 1 (3.85%) Network Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Senior
5 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Technical Support
5 1 (3.85%) Technical Support Executive
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Data Centre
1 4 (15.38%) Replication
2 3 (11.54%) Mainframe
3 2 (7.69%) CMDB
3 2 (7.69%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.85%) Clustering
4 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.85%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.85%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 11 (42.31%) Windows
2 7 (26.92%) Linux
3 5 (19.23%) Solaris
4 4 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (11.54%) HPUX
6 2 (7.69%) Ubuntu
7 1 (3.85%) AIX
7 1 (3.85%) Unix
7 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (69.23%) ITSM
2 15 (57.69%) ITIL
3 7 (26.92%) Agile
4 6 (23.08%) Customer Service
5 5 (19.23%) Break/Fix
5 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (15.38%) Asset Management
6 4 (15.38%) Commercial Awareness
6 4 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (15.38%) High Availability
6 4 (15.38%) Logistics
6 4 (15.38%) Project Delivery
7 3 (11.54%) Business Strategy
7 3 (11.54%) Capacity Planning
7 3 (11.54%) DevSecOps
7 3 (11.54%) Inventory Management
7 3 (11.54%) Service Delivery
7 3 (11.54%) Software Engineering
7 3 (11.54%) Systems Thinking
7 3 (11.54%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (3.85%) CRISC
2 1 (3.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (7.69%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.85%) COBIT
2 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (15.38%) SCCM
2 1 (3.85%) Data Guard
2 1 (3.85%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) ServiceNow
2 7 (26.92%) Microsoft
3 5 (19.23%) HP
4 4 (15.38%) Sun
5 3 (11.54%) IBM
5 3 (11.54%) Oracle
5 3 (11.54%) Unisys
6 2 (7.69%) Cisco
7 1 (3.85%) Adobe
7 1 (3.85%) Autodesk
7 1 (3.85%) Avaya
7 1 (3.85%) Dell
7 1 (3.85%) Dynatrace
7 1 (3.85%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (3.85%) Fortinet
7 1 (3.85%) Red Hat
7 1 (3.85%) SAP
7 1 (3.85%) Symantec