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

6 months to
28 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 136 128
Rank change year-on-year +27 -8 +37
Contract jobs citing ITSM 682 612 934
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.48% 1.78% 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.74% 2.08% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 426 399 661
10th Percentile £195 £213 £213
25th Percentile £263 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +2.56% -4.18%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £594
90th Percentile £688 £660 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 10 31
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.63 £13.16
Median hourly rate £18.82 £18.13 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% +25.03% +6.15%
75th Percentile £33.75 £48.00 £21.31
90th Percentile £70.16 £71.20 £83.75
UK median hourly rate £18.82 £18.57 £14.50
% change year-on-year +1.37% +28.03% +6.15%

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 24,901 29,458 41,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.72% 85.80% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,953 19,295 28,719
10th Percentile £300 £313 £325
25th Percentile £405 £416 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £756 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £547
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.02% -0.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,365 1,832 1,440
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.69 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.64 £18.74
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.63% -5.12% +63.46%
75th Percentile £51.65 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -5.88% +60.38%

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 28 July 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 28 July 2025.

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 28 July 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 -1 237 £495 -1.00% 174
North of England +18 152 £465 -9.73% 72
North West +42 93 £475 -4.33% 41
South East +5 77 £450 -6.64% 94
East of England +58 68 £400 +6.67% 34
Midlands +37 67 £350 -22.22% 40
South West +23 63 £278 -42.23% 32
Yorkshire -15 58 £413 -21.43% 23
West Midlands +25 42 £463 -2.63% 24
East Midlands +13 25 £350 +40.00% 16
North East -3 1 £110 -81.36% 9
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 47 (6.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (3.81%) SharePoint
3 24 (3.52%) Confluence
4 11 (1.61%) WebSphere
5 7 (1.03%) Apache
5 7 (1.03%) IIS
5 7 (1.03%) Skype for Business
6 5 (0.73%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.44%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.15%) CMS
8 1 (0.15%) JBoss
8 1 (0.15%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 80 (11.73%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (4.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (3.08%) MS Visio
4 16 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.15%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.15%) Camtasia
6 1 (0.15%) Final Cut Pro
6 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 46 (6.74%) Remedy ITSM
2 7 (1.03%) Maximo
3 6 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.59%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.44%) Oracle EBS R12
5 3 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.44%) Oracle iProcurement
5 3 (0.44%) SAP LE
5 3 (0.44%) SAP WM
6 2 (0.29%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.29%) iTrent
6 2 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.29%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.15%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 123 (18.04%) Microsoft 365
2 82 (12.02%) Azure
3 49 (7.18%) Entra ID
4 37 (5.43%) AWS
5 28 (4.11%) Google Workspace
6 24 (3.52%) Power Platform
7 21 (3.08%) SaaS
8 19 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (2.20%) GCP
10 9 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
10 9 (1.32%) Lucidchart
11 8 (1.17%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (1.17%) Azure Sentinel
11 8 (1.17%) Power Automate
11 8 (1.17%) PowerApps
12 7 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (0.88%) GitHub
14 5 (0.73%) Azure AKS
14 5 (0.73%) OneDrive
14 5 (0.73%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 48 (7.04%) DNS
2 45 (6.60%) VPN
3 27 (3.96%) DHCP
4 26 (3.81%) Firewall
5 22 (3.23%) TCP/IP
6 14 (2.05%) SSL
6 14 (2.05%) Wi-Fi
7 13 (1.91%) LAN
7 13 (1.91%) Network Security
8 12 (1.76%) VoIP
8 12 (1.76%) WAN
9 10 (1.47%) SAN
10 9 (1.32%) Wireless
11 8 (1.17%) iSCSI
11 8 (1.17%) Remote Desktop
11 8 (1.17%) VLAN
12 7 (1.03%) Skype
13 6 (0.88%) BGP
13 6 (0.88%) Intrusion Detection
13 6 (0.88%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (1.91%) Power BI
2 11 (1.61%) SQL Server
3 9 (1.32%) Metadata
4 8 (1.17%) DB2
5 7 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (0.59%) MySQL
7 2 (0.29%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (0.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 2 (0.29%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.29%) Tableau
8 1 (0.15%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.15%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.15%) IMS/DB
8 1 (0.15%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.15%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.15%) Pentaho
8 1 (0.15%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.15%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 90 (13.20%) JIRA
2 13 (1.91%) GitLab
3 11 (1.61%) TeamCity
4 6 (0.88%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.73%) Git
6 3 (0.44%) MSI
6 3 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (0.44%) Postman
7 2 (0.29%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.29%) Maven
8 1 (0.15%) MLflow
8 1 (0.15%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.15%) Toad
8 1 (0.15%) Zephyr
General
1 301 (44.13%) Social Skills
2 124 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 86 (12.61%) Finance
4 60 (8.80%) Public Sector
5 39 (5.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (4.99%) Retail
7 25 (3.67%) Legal
8 23 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
9 19 (2.79%) Telecoms
10 17 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
11 16 (2.35%) Banking
11 16 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
12 15 (2.20%) Military
13 9 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.03%) Local Government
15 6 (0.88%) Manufacturing
15 6 (0.88%) Marketing
16 4 (0.59%) French Language
16 4 (0.59%) Publishing
17 3 (0.44%) Billing
Job Titles
1 113 (16.57%) Analyst
2 71 (10.41%) Support Engineer
3 65 (9.53%) Architect
4 51 (7.48%) IT Support
5 46 (6.74%) Consultant
5 46 (6.74%) Desktop Support
6 44 (6.45%) Senior
7 43 (6.30%) Developer
8 42 (6.16%) Service Manager
9 37 (5.43%) 1st Line Support
10 36 (5.28%) ServiceNow Developer
11 34 (4.99%) Support Analyst
12 32 (4.69%) IT Manager
13 31 (4.55%) Lead
14 28 (4.11%) ServiceNow Architect
15 26 (3.81%) Business Analyst
15 26 (3.81%) Service Analyst
16 25 (3.67%) IT Engineer
17 24 (3.52%) 2nd Line Support
18 23 (3.37%) Desktop Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (6.74%) HTML
2 41 (6.01%) SOAP
2 41 (6.01%) Web Services
3 35 (5.13%) REST
4 29 (4.25%) CSS
5 28 (4.11%) AngularJS
6 20 (2.93%) jQuery
6 20 (2.93%) JSON
7 17 (2.49%) .NET
7 17 (2.49%) LDAP
8 16 (2.35%) XML
9 15 (2.20%) JDBC
10 13 (1.91%) Apache Camel
10 13 (1.91%) HTML5
10 13 (1.91%) ODBC
10 13 (1.91%) RabbitMQ
10 13 (1.91%) RESTful
10 13 (1.91%) SAML
11 6 (0.88%) Lightning Web Components
11 6 (0.88%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 63 (9.24%) CMDB
2 47 (6.89%) iPhone
3 32 (4.69%) Management Information System
4 28 (4.11%) iPad
5 24 (3.52%) Smartphone
6 21 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
7 20 (2.93%) Onboarding
8 15 (2.20%) Data Centre
9 12 (1.76%) Product Ownership
10 9 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.17%) Cloud Native
11 8 (1.17%) Driving Licence
11 8 (1.17%) Video Conferencing
11 8 (1.17%) Virtual Team
12 7 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.03%) Replication
13 6 (0.88%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 5 (0.73%) Enterprise Storage
14 5 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
14 5 (0.73%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 145 (21.26%) Windows
2 37 (5.43%) Apple iOS
3 35 (5.13%) Mac OS
3 35 (5.13%) Windows 10
4 26 (3.81%) Windows Server
5 20 (2.93%) Linux
6 12 (1.76%) Android
7 11 (1.61%) VMS
8 6 (0.88%) CentOS
8 6 (0.88%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.73%) Windows 7
10 4 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.59%) Unix
11 2 (0.29%) AIX
11 2 (0.29%) HPUX
11 2 (0.29%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.29%) Solaris
12 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 337 (49.41%) Service Management
2 313 (45.89%) ITIL
3 192 (28.15%) Problem-Solving
4 152 (22.29%) Customer Service
5 118 (17.30%) Agile
6 91 (13.34%) Service Delivery
7 83 (12.17%) DevOps
7 83 (12.17%) Stakeholder Management
8 73 (10.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 71 (10.41%) Change Management
10 65 (9.53%) Incident Management
11 52 (7.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 48 (7.04%) Migration
13 46 (6.74%) Service Design
14 45 (6.60%) Project Management
15 44 (6.45%) Asset Management
16 43 (6.30%) CI/CD
17 41 (6.01%) Roadmaps
18 40 (5.87%) IT Asset Management
19 39 (5.72%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 67 (9.82%) JavaScript
2 37 (5.43%) Python
3 34 (4.99%) SQL
4 31 (4.55%) PowerShell
5 23 (3.37%) Java
6 12 (1.76%) Kusto Query Language
7 10 (1.47%) Shell Script
8 8 (1.17%) Bash
9 7 (1.03%) Bicep
9 7 (1.03%) C#
10 5 (0.73%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.59%) VB
11 4 (0.59%) VBScript
12 3 (0.44%) C
12 3 (0.44%) C++
12 3 (0.44%) PHP
13 1 (0.15%) Groovy
13 1 (0.15%) REXX
13 1 (0.15%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 166 (24.34%) Security Cleared
2 137 (20.09%) SC Cleared
3 82 (12.02%) Degree
4 25 (3.67%) ITIL Certification
5 22 (3.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 22 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 20 (2.93%) DV Cleared
7 16 (2.35%) A+ Certification
8 13 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (0.88%) CCNP
11 6 (0.88%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (0.73%) CCIE
12 5 (0.73%) CISSP
12 5 (0.73%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.59%) CISM
13 4 (0.59%) JNCIE
13 4 (0.59%) MCP
13 4 (0.59%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (7.62%) SLA
2 31 (4.55%) QA
3 30 (4.40%) GDPR
4 19 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (2.35%) GRC
5 16 (2.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 10 (1.47%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.32%) COBIT
8 6 (0.88%) GxP
9 5 (0.73%) Data Quality
9 5 (0.73%) NIST
10 4 (0.59%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 2 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.29%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.29%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 19770
12 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.15%) Basel III
12 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 122 (17.89%) Active Directory
2 16 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.47%) Hyper-V
4 9 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.73%) vSphere
7 4 (0.59%) BitLocker
7 4 (0.59%) Docker
8 3 (0.44%) KVM
8 3 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.29%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.15%) Firmware
10 1 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 36 (5.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 24 (3.52%) Single Sign-On
3 23 (3.37%) SCCM
4 21 (3.08%) Ansible
5 19 (2.79%) Jamf Pro
6 14 (2.05%) Kubernetes
7 11 (1.61%) Grafana
8 10 (1.47%) Prometheus
9 9 (1.32%) Puppet
9 9 (1.32%) SCOM
9 9 (1.32%) Terraform
10 7 (1.03%) WSUS
11 5 (0.73%) HP ALM
11 5 (0.73%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.73%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.59%) Salt
12 4 (0.59%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 3 (0.44%) Automic
14 2 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.29%) vRealize
Vendors
1 357 (52.35%) ServiceNow
2 215 (31.52%) Microsoft
3 46 (6.74%) Remedy
4 33 (4.84%) Google
5 30 (4.40%) VMware
6 28 (4.11%) BMC
7 27 (3.96%) MobileIron
8 26 (3.81%) Nexthink
9 25 (3.67%) Apple
10 21 (3.08%) Cisco
10 21 (3.08%) HP
10 21 (3.08%) SAP
11 18 (2.64%) Citrix
12 15 (2.20%) IBM
13 13 (1.91%) Ivanti
14 12 (1.76%) SolarWinds
15 10 (1.47%) Oracle
16 9 (1.32%) Fortinet
17 7 (1.03%) Palo Alto
17 7 (1.03%) Salesforce