ITSM Contracts in England

IT Service Management (ITSM)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for ITSM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ITSM over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 120 181
Rank change year-on-year -6 +61 +76
Contract jobs citing ITSM 661 1,031 1,094
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.82% 2.14% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.10% 2.37% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 406 709 781
10th Percentile £219 £213 £173
25th Percentile £401 £375 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £499 £460 £493
Median % change year-on-year +8.42% -6.69% +3.79%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £663
UK median daily rate £500 £455 £495
% change year-on-year +9.89% -8.08% +4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 31 33
10th Percentile - £13.00 £11.00
25th Percentile - £13.16 £12.00
Median hourly rate £14.00 £14.50 £13.66
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +6.15% -26.16%
75th Percentile £18.13 £21.75 £21.00
90th Percentile £35.00 £83.75 £32.27
UK median hourly rate £14.00 £15.78 £13.66
% change year-on-year -11.29% +15.54% -26.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

ITSM is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,440 43,538 63,814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.46% 90.17% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,583 30,556 45,375
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,239 1,538 1,750
10th Percentile £12.87 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.97 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +49.20% +6.79%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +4.82%

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 15 May 2024.

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 15 May 2024.

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 15 May 2024. 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 -19 292 £500 +5.26% 100
North of England +43 125 £513 +13.89% 65
South West +48 93 £475 -18.28% 27
South East -55 77 £491 +9.04% 40
Yorkshire +45 70 £533 +6.50% 25
North West +17 54 £475 +5.56% 28
Midlands -1 35 £525 +9.38% 41
East of England -29 29 £600 +54.34% 24
West Midlands +2 20 £513 +65.32% 30
East Midlands +1 15 £650 +18.18% 11
North East +13 3 £590 +93.44% 12
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 40 (6.05%) SharePoint
2 32 (4.84%) Confluence
3 28 (4.24%) Microsoft Exchange
3 28 (4.24%) SharePoint Server
4 15 (2.27%) Skype for Business
5 6 (0.91%) CMS
Applications
1 64 (9.68%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 38 (5.75%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.45%) SAP ERP
2 3 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.30%) Remedy AR System
3 2 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.30%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.30%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (0.30%) SAP FSCM
3 2 (0.30%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.15%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.15%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 79 (11.95%) Azure
2 71 (10.74%) Microsoft 365
3 27 (4.08%) Azure Stack
4 26 (3.93%) AWS
4 26 (3.93%) Power Platform
5 18 (2.72%) SaaS
6 15 (2.27%) IaaS
7 13 (1.97%) OpenShift
8 12 (1.82%) Entra ID
9 8 (1.21%) PaaS
10 7 (1.06%) GCP
11 5 (0.76%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (0.76%) OneDrive
12 3 (0.45%) Azure API Management
12 3 (0.45%) Azure Event Grid
12 3 (0.45%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (0.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 3 (0.45%) SuccessFactors
13 2 (0.30%) Amazon ECR
13 2 (0.30%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 66 (9.98%) Firewall
2 46 (6.96%) BGP
3 38 (5.75%) VPN
4 31 (4.69%) Cisco Nexus
5 27 (4.08%) Wireless
6 25 (3.78%) DMZ
7 18 (2.72%) IPsec
7 18 (2.72%) OSPF
7 18 (2.72%) Skype
8 17 (2.57%) SD-WAN
9 15 (2.27%) WAN
10 13 (1.97%) Cisco IOS
11 12 (1.82%) Cisco ASA
11 12 (1.82%) Cisco Firepower
11 12 (1.82%) Cisco ISE
11 12 (1.82%) EIGRP
11 12 (1.82%) HSRP
11 12 (1.82%) NetScaler
12 11 (1.66%) LAN
12 11 (1.66%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (3.78%) Power BI
2 8 (1.21%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (1.06%) Relational Database
4 6 (0.91%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.45%) Metadata
5 3 (0.45%) MySQL
5 3 (0.45%) Qlik Sense
5 3 (0.45%) Tableau
6 2 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.15%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.15%) DB2
7 1 (0.15%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 44 (6.66%) JIRA
2 3 (0.45%) Visual Studio
3 2 (0.30%) GitLab
3 2 (0.30%) Hudson
3 2 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.15%) Selenium
4 1 (0.15%) TestRail
General
1 212 (32.07%) Social Skills
2 119 (18.00%) Finance
3 68 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (8.17%) Public Sector
5 50 (7.56%) Banking
6 33 (4.99%) Telecoms
7 25 (3.78%) Legal
8 22 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
9 20 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (1.97%) Investment Banking
10 13 (1.97%) Retail
11 9 (1.36%) Financial Institution
12 8 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (0.76%) French Language
13 5 (0.76%) Marketing
14 4 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.61%) Law
14 4 (0.61%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.61%) Military
15 3 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 135 (20.42%) Analyst
2 92 (13.92%) Architect
3 71 (10.74%) Developer
4 65 (9.83%) ServiceNow Developer
5 62 (9.38%) Service Analyst
5 62 (9.38%) Service Manager
6 48 (7.26%) ServiceNow Architect
7 45 (6.81%) Network Engineer
8 40 (6.05%) Consultant
9 39 (5.90%) Senior
10 38 (5.75%) IT Analyst
11 36 (5.45%) Service Desk Analyst
12 35 (5.30%) Service Architect
13 28 (4.24%) IT Manager
14 25 (3.78%) IT Services Manager
14 25 (3.78%) Lead
15 24 (3.63%) Banking Analyst
15 24 (3.63%) Technical Analyst
16 23 (3.48%) Delivery Manager
17 22 (3.33%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (5.60%) Web Services
2 16 (2.42%) CSS
2 16 (2.42%) HTML
3 14 (2.12%) Kafka
4 12 (1.82%) AngularJS
5 11 (1.66%) Jinja
6 9 (1.36%) JSON
6 9 (1.36%) XML
7 7 (1.06%) SOAP
8 6 (0.91%) ActiveMQ
9 5 (0.76%) REST
10 4 (0.61%) .NET
10 4 (0.61%) Ajax
10 4 (0.61%) LDAP
10 4 (0.61%) Middleware
11 3 (0.45%) Lightning Web Components
11 3 (0.45%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 2 (0.30%) jQuery
13 1 (0.15%) HTML5
13 1 (0.15%) JAX-WS
Miscellaneous
1 80 (12.10%) CMDB
2 41 (6.20%) Management Information System
3 28 (4.24%) Private Cloud
4 14 (2.12%) Data Centre
4 14 (2.12%) Product Ownership
5 12 (1.82%) Cloud Native
6 11 (1.66%) iPhone
7 8 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (1.21%) Hedge funds
7 8 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (1.06%) Onboarding
9 5 (0.76%) NHS
10 4 (0.61%) Blackberry
10 4 (0.61%) Operational Technology
10 4 (0.61%) Video Conferencing
10 4 (0.61%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.45%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.45%) FMCG
11 3 (0.45%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 119 (18.00%) Windows
2 50 (7.56%) Windows 10
3 23 (3.48%) Apple iOS
4 18 (2.72%) Linux
5 16 (2.42%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.36%) Windows 7
7 8 (1.21%) Unix
8 4 (0.61%) Android
8 4 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.45%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.45%) VMS
10 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.15%) Solaris
11 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.15%) Windows XP
11 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 375 (56.73%) ITIL
2 341 (51.59%) Service Management
3 115 (17.40%) Agile
3 115 (17.40%) Change Management
4 101 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
5 97 (14.67%) Service Delivery
6 96 (14.52%) Customer Service
7 61 (9.23%) Asset Management
8 58 (8.77%) Incident Management
9 55 (8.32%) Continuous Improvement
10 54 (8.17%) DevOps
11 50 (7.56%) Configuration Management
12 48 (7.26%) Customer Requirements
13 42 (6.35%) IT Asset Management
14 41 (6.20%) Network Management
14 41 (6.20%) Problem Management
15 38 (5.75%) Project Management
16 34 (5.14%) Capacity Management
17 33 (4.99%) Stakeholder Management
18 31 (4.69%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 19 (2.87%) JavaScript
2 18 (2.72%) Python
3 13 (1.97%) Perl
4 12 (1.82%) SQL
5 11 (1.66%) PowerShell
5 11 (1.66%) Tcl
6 8 (1.21%) Swift
7 4 (0.61%) C#
7 4 (0.61%) Java
8 3 (0.45%) Apex Code
8 3 (0.45%) PHP
8 3 (0.45%) Ruby
9 2 (0.30%) SOQL
10 1 (0.15%) C
10 1 (0.15%) C++
10 1 (0.15%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.15%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 209 (31.62%) Security Cleared
2 140 (21.18%) SC Cleared
3 70 (10.59%) DV Cleared
4 61 (9.23%) Degree
5 39 (5.90%) ITIL Certification
6 31 (4.69%) Cisco Certification
7 27 (4.08%) CCNA
8 18 (2.72%) CCNP
9 15 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (1.97%) MCP
11 9 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (1.06%) PMI Certification
13 6 (0.91%) PMP
14 5 (0.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 5 (0.76%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 4 (0.61%) MCITP
15 4 (0.61%) VCAP
16 3 (0.45%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (8.77%) SLA
2 28 (4.24%) Government Security Classifications
3 8 (1.21%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.91%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.76%) QA
7 3 (0.45%) GRC
7 3 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.30%) GDPR
8 2 (0.30%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.15%) NCSC
9 1 (0.15%) NIST
9 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 62 (9.38%) Active Directory
2 19 (2.87%) Firmware
3 16 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.06%) vSphere
5 5 (0.76%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.61%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.45%) Docker
7 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.15%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.15%) NFS
Systems Management
1 28 (4.24%) SCCM
2 23 (3.48%) SCOM
3 19 (2.87%) Ansible
4 13 (1.97%) Jamf Pro
4 13 (1.97%) Kubernetes
5 8 (1.21%) Argo
5 8 (1.21%) Grafana
5 8 (1.21%) Istio
5 8 (1.21%) Kibana
5 8 (1.21%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.45%) OPNET
8 2 (0.30%) AirWatch
8 2 (0.30%) IBM BigFix
8 2 (0.30%) Nagios
8 2 (0.30%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.30%) Salt
8 2 (0.30%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 234 (35.40%) ServiceNow
2 134 (20.27%) Microsoft
3 50 (7.56%) Cisco
4 38 (5.75%) Citrix
4 38 (5.75%) Remedy
5 28 (4.24%) Atlassian
6 26 (3.93%) VMware
7 25 (3.78%) Palo Alto
8 19 (2.87%) F5
9 17 (2.57%) SAP
10 15 (2.27%) SolarWinds
11 14 (2.12%) Apple
12 12 (1.82%) Blue Coat
12 12 (1.82%) CheckPoint
12 12 (1.82%) Fortinet
12 12 (1.82%) Juniper
13 10 (1.51%) BMC
14 9 (1.36%) Dell
15 8 (1.21%) Okta
15 8 (1.21%) Splunk