ITSM Contracts in England

IT Service Management (ITSM)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 108 124 126
Rank change year-on-year +16 +2 +67
Contract jobs citing ITSM 608 686 1,062
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.50% 1.84% 2.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.74% 2.13% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 427 727
10th Percentile £212 £213 £213
25th Percentile £316 £401 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.60% +11.11% -7.22%
75th Percentile £600 £576 £588
90th Percentile £688 £692 £688
UK median daily rate £497 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -0.60% +11.11% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 15 32
10th Percentile - - £12.33
25th Percentile £16.95 - £13.79
Median hourly rate £18.82 £14.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.43% -3.45% +6.15%
75th Percentile £29.00 £19.00 £21.46
90th Percentile £30.68 £42.50 £78.88
UK median hourly rate £18.82 £14.00 £15.78
% change year-on-year +34.43% -11.29% +15.54%

All Process and 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 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

ITSM
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for ITSM in England

ITSM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for ITSM in England

ITSM
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for ITSM in England

ITSM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for ITSM in England

ITSM
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ITSM in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for ITSM in England

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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 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +5 250 £525 +5.00% 248
North of England +13 136 £450 -12.64% 142
North West +26 85 £472 -3.18% 77
South East +36 66 £500 +1.66% 161
South West +18 58 £500 +5.26% 55
Midlands +23 51 £550 +4.76% 126
West Midlands +33 48 £551 +8.47% 75
Yorkshire -11 47 £450 -16.67% 50
East of England +39 36 £375 -38.02% 85
North East -1 3 £188 -68.22% 17
East Midlands -6 3 £275 -57.69% 48
ITSM
UK

ITSM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 45 (7.40%) Microsoft Exchange
1 45 (7.40%) SharePoint
2 11 (1.81%) Skype for Business
3 10 (1.64%) Confluence
4 5 (0.82%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (0.49%) CMS
6 2 (0.33%) JBoss
6 2 (0.33%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.33%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 82 (13.49%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (2.47%) MS Visio
4 8 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.33%) 1Password
5 2 (0.33%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.16%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.16%) Camtasia
6 1 (0.16%) Final Cut Pro
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 30 (4.93%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.49%) SAP LE
2 3 (0.49%) SAP WM
3 2 (0.33%) iTrent
3 2 (0.33%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 2 (0.33%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.16%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.16%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle iProcurement
Cloud Services
1 118 (19.41%) Microsoft 365
2 87 (14.31%) Azure
3 56 (9.21%) Entra ID
4 24 (3.95%) AWS
5 20 (3.29%) SaaS
6 18 (2.96%) Power Platform
7 16 (2.63%) GCP
7 16 (2.63%) GitHub
7 16 (2.63%) Google Workspace
8 13 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (1.81%) OneDrive
10 10 (1.64%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (1.32%) Lucidchart
12 7 (1.15%) Slack
13 6 (0.99%) Azure AKS
13 6 (0.99%) Azure Sentinel
13 6 (0.99%) OCI
14 5 (0.82%) Asana
14 5 (0.82%) SuccessFactors
15 3 (0.49%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 45 (7.40%) VPN
2 39 (6.41%) DNS
3 24 (3.95%) DHCP
4 19 (3.13%) Firewall
4 19 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
5 18 (2.96%) TCP/IP
6 16 (2.63%) Skype
7 13 (2.14%) SMTP
8 12 (1.97%) Network Security
9 11 (1.81%) BGP
9 11 (1.81%) OSPF
10 10 (1.64%) Remote Desktop
11 9 (1.48%) EIGRP
11 9 (1.48%) HSRP
11 9 (1.48%) IPsec
12 6 (0.99%) HTTP
12 6 (0.99%) SAN
12 6 (0.99%) VLAN
12 6 (0.99%) WAN
13 5 (0.82%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.81%) Power BI
2 9 (1.48%) Metadata
3 8 (1.32%) SQL Server
4 5 (0.82%) Oracle Database
5 3 (0.49%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.49%) MySQL
6 2 (0.33%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (0.33%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.33%) DB2
6 2 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (0.33%) IMS/DB
6 2 (0.33%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 2 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.16%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.16%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Discoverer
7 1 (0.16%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.16%) Yellowfin
Development Applications
1 42 (6.91%) JIRA
2 10 (1.64%) Jenkins
3 6 (0.99%) GitLab
4 4 (0.66%) Git
4 4 (0.66%) TeamCity
5 3 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (0.49%) ScriptRunner
6 2 (0.33%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.33%) Maven
6 2 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.33%) Selenium
7 1 (0.16%) JIRA Agile
7 1 (0.16%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.16%) MLflow
7 1 (0.16%) Postman
7 1 (0.16%) Toad
7 1 (0.16%) Zephyr
General
1 260 (42.76%) Social Skills
2 103 (16.94%) Analytical Skills
3 79 (12.99%) Finance
4 56 (9.21%) Public Sector
5 34 (5.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (4.11%) Legal
7 24 (3.95%) Organisational Skills
7 24 (3.95%) Retail
8 20 (3.29%) Banking
9 15 (2.47%) Telecoms
10 13 (2.14%) Law
10 13 (2.14%) Military
11 11 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.15%) Manufacturing
13 6 (0.99%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.66%) French Language
15 3 (0.49%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.49%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 73 (12.01%) Analyst
2 68 (11.18%) Architect
3 48 (7.89%) Developer
4 42 (6.91%) Senior
4 42 (6.91%) ServiceNow Developer
5 39 (6.41%) Consultant
5 39 (6.41%) ServiceNow Architect
5 39 (6.41%) Support Engineer
6 38 (6.25%) Lead
7 34 (5.59%) Service Manager
8 30 (4.93%) IT Support
9 27 (4.44%) Service Analyst
10 25 (4.11%) 1st Line Support
11 24 (3.95%) Solutions Architect
12 23 (3.78%) Service Desk Analyst
13 22 (3.62%) Business Analyst
13 22 (3.62%) Desktop Support
14 21 (3.45%) 2nd Line Support
14 21 (3.45%) IT Manager
14 21 (3.45%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (6.25%) HTML
2 34 (5.59%) REST
3 32 (5.26%) CSS
4 31 (5.10%) Web Services
5 28 (4.61%) AngularJS
6 24 (3.95%) SOAP
7 15 (2.47%) XML
8 13 (2.14%) Ajax
9 12 (1.97%) RESTful
10 10 (1.64%) JSON
10 10 (1.64%) LDAP
11 8 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
12 7 (1.15%) .NET
12 7 (1.15%) jQuery
13 5 (0.82%) OpenTelemetry
13 5 (0.82%) SailPoint
14 4 (0.66%) Node.js
15 3 (0.49%) DCOM
15 3 (0.49%) JDBC
15 3 (0.49%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 81 (13.32%) CMDB
2 29 (4.77%) Onboarding
3 28 (4.61%) Management Information System
3 28 (4.61%) Self-Motivation
4 26 (4.28%) iPhone
5 21 (3.45%) Smartphone
6 16 (2.63%) Video Conferencing
7 13 (2.14%) iPad
7 13 (2.14%) Replication
8 12 (1.97%) Data Centre
9 9 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (1.48%) Driving Licence
9 9 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (0.99%) Cloud Native
11 6 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (0.82%) Security Posture
13 4 (0.66%) AI Agents
13 4 (0.66%) Algorithms
13 4 (0.66%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 139 (22.86%) Windows
2 39 (6.41%) Windows 10
3 29 (4.77%) Windows Server
4 20 (3.29%) Apple iOS
5 18 (2.96%) Linux
5 18 (2.96%) Mac OS
6 16 (2.63%) VMS
7 7 (1.15%) Android
8 5 (0.82%) Unix
8 5 (0.82%) Windows 7
9 3 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.33%) AIX
10 2 (0.33%) HPUX
10 2 (0.33%) Solaris
11 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 300 (49.34%) Service Management
2 286 (47.04%) ITIL
3 168 (27.63%) Problem-Solving
4 96 (15.79%) Agile
5 93 (15.30%) Customer Service
6 81 (13.32%) Service Delivery
7 69 (11.35%) Incident Management
8 66 (10.86%) Continuous Improvement
9 65 (10.69%) Change Management
10 60 (9.87%) Asset Management
11 51 (8.39%) Project Management
12 50 (8.22%) Stakeholder Management
13 48 (7.89%) Configuration Management
13 48 (7.89%) IT Asset Management
14 47 (7.73%) DevOps
15 46 (7.57%) Migration
16 42 (6.91%) Collaborative Working
17 41 (6.74%) Problem Management
18 38 (6.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 35 (5.76%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 52 (8.55%) JavaScript
2 37 (6.09%) PowerShell
3 30 (4.93%) SQL
4 23 (3.78%) Python
5 17 (2.80%) Java
6 6 (0.99%) Bash
6 6 (0.99%) Kusto Query Language
7 5 (0.82%) Bicep
8 4 (0.66%) PL/SQL
8 4 (0.66%) VB
8 4 (0.66%) VBScript
9 3 (0.49%) Groovy
10 2 (0.33%) C
10 2 (0.33%) C#
10 2 (0.33%) Perl
10 2 (0.33%) REXX
10 2 (0.33%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.16%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 159 (26.15%) Security Cleared
2 142 (23.36%) SC Cleared
3 64 (10.53%) Degree
4 25 (4.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 20 (3.29%) ITIL Certification
6 11 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.64%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.48%) A+ Certification
9 5 (0.82%) PMI Certification
9 5 (0.82%) PMP
10 4 (0.66%) MCP
11 3 (0.49%) CISSP
11 3 (0.49%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.33%) CCIE
12 2 (0.33%) CCNP
12 2 (0.33%) CISA
12 2 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (6.58%) SLA
2 19 (3.13%) QA
3 12 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.82%) GRC
4 5 (0.82%) NIST
5 4 (0.66%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 3 (0.49%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.49%) COBIT
6 3 (0.49%) GDPR
7 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.16%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.16%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.16%) ISO 31000
7 1 (0.16%) PMO
7 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 134 (22.04%) Active Directory
2 33 (5.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.48%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.82%) Docker
6 4 (0.66%) BitLocker
6 4 (0.66%) vSphere
7 3 (0.49%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.49%) KVM
7 3 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.49%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.33%) Firmware
8 2 (0.33%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 36 (5.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 35 (5.76%) Ansible
3 25 (4.11%) Terraform
4 20 (3.29%) SCCM
5 15 (2.47%) Jamf Pro
5 15 (2.47%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (2.30%) WSUS
7 13 (2.14%) Kubernetes
8 8 (1.32%) Prometheus
9 7 (1.15%) Grafana
10 5 (0.82%) HP ALM
10 5 (0.82%) Puppet
11 4 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.66%) SCOM
12 3 (0.49%) Automic
12 3 (0.49%) Opsgenie
12 3 (0.49%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.33%) Tivoli
13 2 (0.33%) vRealize
13 2 (0.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 277 (45.56%) ServiceNow
2 153 (25.16%) Microsoft
3 44 (7.24%) VMware
4 32 (5.26%) Cisco
5 30 (4.93%) Remedy
6 21 (3.45%) Google
6 21 (3.45%) Oracle
7 20 (3.29%) BMC
8 17 (2.80%) Apple
8 17 (2.80%) SAP
9 16 (2.63%) Citrix
10 11 (1.81%) MobileIron
10 11 (1.81%) Nexthink
11 9 (1.48%) Atlassian
11 9 (1.48%) Broadcom
11 9 (1.48%) HP
11 9 (1.48%) IBM
11 9 (1.48%) SolarWinds
12 8 (1.32%) Palo Alto
13 7 (1.15%) Meraki