ITSM Contract Job Trends in England

IT Service Management (ITSM)
UK > England

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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 112 138
Rank change year-on-year +21 +26 -10
Contract jobs citing ITSM 1,343 686 590
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.94% 2.47% 1.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.46% 2.72% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 862 430 377
10th Percentile £200 £195 £213
25th Percentile £363 £278 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £452 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.62% -9.60% +1.01%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £575
90th Percentile £662 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £455 £500
% change year-on-year +10.01% -9.10% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 50 11
10th Percentile £16.35 £15.50 £15.22
25th Percentile £19.13 £16.95 £15.51
Median hourly rate £27.50 £18.82 £18.13
Median % change year-on-year +46.12% +3.81% +25.03%
75th Percentile £53.75 £33.75 £38.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.29 £68.00
UK median hourly rate £25.88 £18.82 £18.13
% change year-on-year +37.49% +3.81% +6.24%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 38,847 25,245 28,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.01% 90.81% 85.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,107 16,076 18,544
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.40% -4.53%
75th Percentile £626 £627 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,555 1,444 1,611
10th Percentile £14.28 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.87 £18.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.83%
75th Percentile £68.55 £50.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.97
% change year-on-year +67.00% -38.61% -1.28%

ITSM
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

ITSM job vacancy trend in England

ITSM
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ITSM

ITSM
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for ITSM in England

ITSM
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ITSM

ITSM
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

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

Hourly rate histogram for ITSM in England

ITSM
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 17 August 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
London +42 515 £515 +8.42% 115
South East +56 363 £525 +16.67% 99
North of England -23 201 £455 -4.32% 75
North West -18 111 £467 -3.41% 39
Midlands -23 91 £413 +17.86% 41
South West -21 85 £525 +61.54% 34
Yorkshire -17 77 £494 +27.48% 19
West Midlands -13 75 £425 -8.11% 31
East of England -23 61 £510 +13.33% 22
East Midlands -29 15 £340 -2.86% 10
North East -31 12 £281 +155.68% 18
ITSM
UK

ITSM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 82 (6.11%) SharePoint
2 46 (3.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 40 (2.98%) Confluence
4 17 (1.27%) Skype for Business
5 6 (0.45%) Mattermost
6 3 (0.22%) IIS
7 2 (0.15%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.15%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.074%) Mendix
8 1 (0.074%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.074%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 52 (3.87%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.74%) AutoCAD
5 8 (0.60%) Revit
6 7 (0.52%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.37%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.074%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.074%) LaTeX
9 1 (0.074%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 121 (9.01%) Remedy ITSM
2 9 (0.67%) Remedy AR System
3 5 (0.37%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.22%) Primavera
5 2 (0.15%) assyst
5 2 (0.15%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.074%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.074%) iTrent
6 1 (0.074%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.074%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 286 (21.30%) Azure
2 222 (16.53%) Microsoft 365
3 134 (9.98%) Entra ID
4 133 (9.90%) AWS
5 92 (6.85%) SaaS
6 68 (5.06%) Power Platform
7 56 (4.17%) OneDrive
8 41 (3.05%) GCP
9 33 (2.46%) GitHub
10 24 (1.79%) Datadog
11 23 (1.71%) PaaS
12 22 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
13 21 (1.56%) OpenShift
14 20 (1.49%) Azure Monitor
15 17 (1.27%) IaaS
16 14 (1.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 14 (1.04%) Microsoft Copilot
17 12 (0.89%) Azure Sentinel
18 9 (0.67%) Azure AKS
19 8 (0.60%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 118 (8.79%) DNS
2 84 (6.25%) DHCP
3 75 (5.58%) VPN
4 67 (4.99%) Firewall
5 54 (4.02%) TCP/IP
6 47 (3.50%) VLAN
7 35 (2.61%) Wi-Fi
7 35 (2.61%) Wireless
8 30 (2.23%) Network Security
9 29 (2.16%) SAN
10 25 (1.86%) WAN
11 23 (1.71%) LAN
12 20 (1.49%) Cisco IOS
13 18 (1.34%) Cisco ISE
13 18 (1.34%) Skype
14 17 (1.27%) NAS
15 14 (1.04%) NX-OS
15 14 (1.04%) Structured Cabling
16 12 (0.89%) BGP
17 11 (0.82%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (4.54%) SQL Server
2 53 (3.95%) Power BI
3 10 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (0.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 7 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (0.22%) MySQL
6 3 (0.22%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.15%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.15%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.15%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.15%) Flink
7 2 (0.15%) InfluxDB
7 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 2 (0.15%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.15%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.15%) Redis
7 2 (0.15%) TimescaleDB
8 1 (0.074%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 149 (11.09%) JIRA
2 26 (1.94%) Git
3 12 (0.89%) Bitbucket
3 12 (0.89%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.74%) GitLab
5 8 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 8 (0.60%) Chocolatey
6 5 (0.37%) MSI
6 5 (0.37%) ScriptRunner
6 5 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.15%) AdminStudio
7 2 (0.15%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.15%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.15%) InstallShield
7 2 (0.15%) Robot Framework
General
1 562 (41.85%) Social Skills
2 260 (19.36%) Analytical Skills
3 176 (13.10%) Finance
4 128 (9.53%) Public Sector
5 62 (4.62%) Documentation Skills
6 48 (3.57%) Telecoms
7 39 (2.90%) Legal
8 36 (2.68%) Banking
9 35 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
10 30 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 28 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
12 24 (1.79%) Military
13 20 (1.49%) Manufacturing
14 19 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
15 11 (0.82%) Law
16 9 (0.67%) Financial Institution
17 7 (0.52%) Aerospace
17 7 (0.52%) Billing
18 6 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
18 6 (0.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 194 (14.45%) Analyst
2 137 (10.20%) Architect
3 103 (7.67%) Senior
4 102 (7.59%) Support Engineer
5 99 (7.37%) Lead
6 92 (6.85%) IT Support
7 88 (6.55%) Consultant
8 87 (6.48%) Developer
9 74 (5.51%) ServiceNow Developer
10 72 (5.36%) Service Manager
11 65 (4.84%) IT Engineer
12 64 (4.77%) Service Analyst
13 62 (4.62%) IT Manager
13 62 (4.62%) ServiceNow Architect
14 54 (4.02%) IT Support Engineer
15 41 (3.05%) Support Analyst
16 37 (2.76%) Business Analyst
17 35 (2.61%) Designer
18 32 (2.38%) Desktop Support
19 30 (2.23%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (12.43%) REST
2 91 (6.78%) SOAP
3 43 (3.20%) Web Services
4 32 (2.38%) SailPoint
5 26 (1.94%) OAuth
6 19 (1.41%) OpenTelemetry
7 16 (1.19%) LDAP
8 14 (1.04%) OAuth2
8 14 (1.04%) SAML
9 13 (0.97%) .NET
10 12 (0.89%) OpenID
11 11 (0.82%) HTML
11 11 (0.82%) XML
12 9 (0.67%) JSON
12 9 (0.67%) Middleware
13 8 (0.60%) CSS
13 8 (0.60%) Elastic Stack
13 8 (0.60%) Kafka
13 8 (0.60%) Node.js
14 7 (0.52%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 227 (16.90%) CMDB
2 193 (14.37%) Onboarding
3 60 (4.47%) Data Centre
4 59 (4.39%) Product Ownership
5 51 (3.80%) Management Information System
6 47 (3.50%) Enterprise Software
7 38 (2.83%) Cloud Native
8 32 (2.38%) PKI
9 26 (1.94%) Operational Technology
10 24 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
11 20 (1.49%) AI Agents
11 20 (1.49%) Clustering
11 20 (1.49%) Virtual Team
12 18 (1.34%) Security Posture
13 16 (1.19%) Video Conferencing
14 15 (1.12%) Cyber Threat
14 15 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
14 15 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
15 14 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
15 14 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 356 (26.51%) Windows
2 83 (6.18%) Windows Server
3 78 (5.81%) Windows 10
4 64 (4.77%) Linux
5 53 (3.95%) Mac OS
6 48 (3.57%) Apple iOS
7 32 (2.38%) Android
8 25 (1.86%) Unix
9 16 (1.19%) Windows 7
10 10 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
11 6 (0.45%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.37%) CentOS
13 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
14 3 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 3 (0.22%) VMS
15 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 596 (44.38%) ITIL
2 591 (44.01%) Service Management
3 323 (24.05%) Problem-Solving
4 296 (22.04%) Stakeholder Management
5 257 (19.14%) Continuous Improvement
5 257 (19.14%) Service Delivery
6 230 (17.13%) Agile
7 189 (14.07%) Customer Service
8 186 (13.85%) Change Management
9 154 (11.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 140 (10.42%) AI
11 133 (9.90%) DevOps
12 129 (9.61%) Incident Management
13 119 (8.86%) Roadmaps
14 116 (8.64%) Migration
15 102 (7.59%) Problem Management
16 96 (7.15%) Runbook
17 92 (6.85%) Cybersecurity
17 92 (6.85%) Workflow
18 89 (6.63%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 170 (12.66%) PowerShell
2 107 (7.97%) Python
3 72 (5.36%) JavaScript
4 61 (4.54%) SQL
5 29 (2.16%) Bash
6 19 (1.41%) VBScript
7 16 (1.19%) Java
8 15 (1.12%) VB
9 5 (0.37%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.30%) Search Processing Language
11 3 (0.22%) Bicep
11 3 (0.22%) C#
11 3 (0.22%) Groovy
11 3 (0.22%) Perl
11 3 (0.22%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.15%) ActionScript
12 2 (0.15%) ActionScript 2.0
12 2 (0.15%) C++
12 2 (0.15%) Delphi
12 2 (0.15%) Korn
Qualifications
1 519 (38.64%) Security Cleared
2 355 (26.43%) SC Cleared
3 141 (10.50%) Degree
4 123 (9.16%) DV Cleared
5 62 (4.62%) ITIL Certification
6 40 (2.98%) Microsoft Certification
7 37 (2.76%) PMP
8 36 (2.68%) Cisco Certification
9 32 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
9 32 (2.38%) PMI Certification
10 31 (2.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 30 (2.23%) A+ Certification
12 27 (2.01%) Network+ Certification
13 23 (1.71%) CCNP
14 21 (1.56%) CCNA
14 21 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
15 19 (1.41%) CISSP
16 17 (1.27%) Azure Certification
17 14 (1.04%) CISM
17 14 (1.04%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (8.19%) SLA
2 83 (6.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 67 (4.99%) Data Quality
3 67 (4.99%) NIST
4 44 (3.28%) QA
5 22 (1.64%) GRC
6 20 (1.49%) NCSC
7 17 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
8 14 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 10 (0.74%) COBIT
9 10 (0.74%) PCI DSS
9 10 (0.74%) PMO
10 9 (0.67%) Accessibility
10 9 (0.67%) GDPR
10 9 (0.67%) ISO 9001
11 8 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 7 (0.52%) Government Security Classifications
13 5 (0.37%) ISO 31000
14 4 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.15%) GxP
System Software
1 237 (17.65%) Active Directory
2 76 (5.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
3 24 (1.79%) VMware ESXi
4 17 (1.27%) BitLocker
5 15 (1.12%) IAG
6 13 (0.97%) vCloud
7 12 (0.89%) Docker
7 12 (0.89%) VMware NSX
8 10 (0.74%) Hyper-V
9 9 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
10 8 (0.60%) Firmware
11 6 (0.45%) vSphere
12 5 (0.37%) etcd
13 2 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 96 (7.15%) Microsoft Intune
2 79 (5.88%) SCCM
3 39 (2.90%) Terraform
4 38 (2.83%) SCOM
5 35 (2.61%) vCenter Server
6 34 (2.53%) Ansible
6 34 (2.53%) Kubernetes
7 20 (1.49%) Grafana
7 20 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
8 16 (1.19%) Prometheus
9 15 (1.12%) Jamf Pro
10 13 (0.97%) Avamar
11 11 (0.82%) FortiGate
12 7 (0.52%) Control-M
13 6 (0.45%) WSUS
14 5 (0.37%) Fluentd
15 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Clustering
16 3 (0.22%) Cisco Prime
16 3 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
17 2 (0.15%) vMotion
Vendors
1 691 (51.45%) ServiceNow
2 400 (29.78%) Microsoft
3 121 (9.01%) Remedy
4 98 (7.30%) VMware
5 80 (5.96%) BMC
6 64 (4.77%) Cisco
7 52 (3.87%) Splunk
8 43 (3.20%) CyberArk
9 40 (2.98%) Dynatrace
10 29 (2.16%) BeyondTrust
10 29 (2.16%) SAP
11 27 (2.01%) Oracle
12 24 (1.79%) Salesforce
13 23 (1.71%) Atlassian
14 21 (1.56%) Apple
14 21 (1.56%) SolarWinds
15 20 (1.49%) Dell
16 19 (1.41%) Citrix
17 18 (1.34%) Palo Alto
18 16 (1.19%) Tanium