Service Management Contract Job Trends in Essex

Service Management
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring Service Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 17 30
Rank change year-on-year -1 +13 +3
Contract jobs citing Service Management 4 4 7
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 3.54% 3.17% 3.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.17% 4.08% 3.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 5
10th Percentile £208 - £279
25th Percentile £219 £713 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £725 £525
Median % change year-on-year -68.97% +38.10% +275.00%
75th Percentile - £738 £560
90th Percentile - - £569
East of England median daily rate £531 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +1.14% -4.55% +16.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 96 98 191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 84.96% 77.78% 84.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 43 125
10th Percentile £156 £176 £173
25th Percentile £225 £213 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £404 £300 £475
Median % change year-on-year +34.58% -36.84% -2.56%
75th Percentile £524 £450 £575
90th Percentile £606 £555 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 14 16
10th Percentile £16.62 £17.19 £20.50
25th Percentile - £23.44 £21.69
Median hourly rate £18.87 £29.17 £55.53
Median % change year-on-year -35.31% -47.47% +11.62%
75th Percentile £39.88 £76.44 £76.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £79.75
East of England median hourly rate £21.14 £27.67 £19.81
% change year-on-year -23.60% +39.68% -5.67%

Service Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Service Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex.

Service Management job vacancy trend in Essex

Service Management
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Service Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Service Management

Service Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Service Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Service Management

Service Management
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Service Management within the Essex region over the 6 months to 22 October 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
Chelmsford - 3 £225 - 1
Southend-on-Sea - 1 £200 -
Service Management
East of England

Service Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) LAN
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
1 1 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Service Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (25.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (25.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) ITSM
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) A+ Certification
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) VMware