Service Management Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Service Management
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Service Management skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 45 37
Rank change year-on-year -12 -8 -1
Contract jobs citing Service Management 23 22 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 3.11% 3.27% 4.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.41% 3.69% 4.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 19 24
10th Percentile £359 £175 £354
25th Percentile £448 £326 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.10% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £525 £581 £530
90th Percentile £550 £601 £546
Scotland median daily rate £463 £513 £480
% change year-on-year -9.80% +6.82% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57.50 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile £62.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £17.87 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 675 597 741
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 91.22% 88.84% 91.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 410 421 500
10th Percentile £300 £268 £349
25th Percentile £377 £356 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £444 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.25% -11.20% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £588
90th Percentile £614 £650 £700
Scotland median daily rate £472 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +4.78% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 13 21
10th Percentile £14.40 £15.56 £12.00
25th Percentile £16.84 £18.50 £12.13
Median hourly rate £17.72 £19.59 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.53% +35.10% -61.26%
75th Percentile £25.95 £25.17 £17.72
90th Percentile £54.37 £40.90 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £19.97 £19.59 £18.93
% change year-on-year +1.94% +3.49% -4.63%

Service Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Service Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Service Management in Glasgow

Service Management
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

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

Service Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Management in Glasgow over the 6 months to 30 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Management in Glasgow

Service Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

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

Service Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (17.39%) AWS
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
2 1 (4.35%) Azure
2 1 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (4.35%) GitHub
2 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (4.35%) IaaS
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (4.35%) PaaS
2 1 (4.35%) SaaS
2 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) Relational Database
2 3 (13.04%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (13.04%) MariaDB
2 3 (13.04%) MySQL
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (4.35%) RDBMS
4 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.35%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 7 (30.43%) Jenkins
1 7 (30.43%) webpack
2 1 (4.35%) Cucumber
2 1 (4.35%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) Selenium
2 1 (4.35%) WebDriver
General
1 7 (30.43%) Banking
1 7 (30.43%) Finance
1 7 (30.43%) Public Sector
2 5 (21.74%) Investment Banking
2 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Military
3 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Analyst
1 9 (39.13%) Developer
2 7 (30.43%) Data Analyst
2 7 (30.43%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (8.70%) Service Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Asset Management Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Communications Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Configuration Management Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Data Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Developer in Test
4 1 (4.35%) Head of IT
4 1 (4.35%) Head of IT Services
4 1 (4.35%) Python Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Senior
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Service Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Service Transition Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Transition Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (34.78%) RESTful
2 7 (30.43%) CSS
2 7 (30.43%) CSS3
2 7 (30.43%) HTML
2 7 (30.43%) HTML5
2 7 (30.43%) Node.js
2 7 (30.43%) React
2 7 (30.43%) Redux
3 2 (8.70%) AngularJS
3 2 (8.70%) Vue
4 1 (4.35%) FastAPI
4 1 (4.35%) Gherkin
4 1 (4.35%) Middleware
4 1 (4.35%) pytest
4 1 (4.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) CMDB
2 6 (26.09%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (21.74%) Virtual Team
4 3 (13.04%) Product Ownership
5 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
5 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (4.35%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Mac OS
2 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (56.52%) ITIL
2 11 (47.83%) Agile
2 11 (47.83%) ITSM
3 10 (43.48%) CI/CD
4 9 (39.13%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (34.78%) Microservices
6 7 (30.43%) Clean Code
6 7 (30.43%) Configuration Management
6 7 (30.43%) Continuous Delivery
6 7 (30.43%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (30.43%) Design Patterns
6 7 (30.43%) Front End Development
6 7 (30.43%) SOLID
6 7 (30.43%) Visualisation
7 6 (26.09%) Analytics
7 6 (26.09%) Business Analysis
7 6 (26.09%) Data Architecture
7 6 (26.09%) Data Management
7 6 (26.09%) Data Visualisation
7 6 (26.09%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) JavaScript
2 7 (30.43%) TypeScript
3 6 (26.09%) SQL
4 3 (13.04%) Java
4 3 (13.04%) Python
5 2 (8.70%) Bash
5 2 (8.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
2 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) Degree
3 1 (4.35%) HNC
3 1 (4.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (8.70%) Accessibility
2 2 (8.70%) WCAG
3 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
1 2 (8.70%) Terraform
2 1 (4.35%) Podman
2 1 (4.35%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) ServiceNow
2 3 (13.04%) Oracle
3 1 (4.35%) Databricks
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.35%) Netskope
3 1 (4.35%) Proofpoint
3 1 (4.35%) Remedy
3 1 (4.35%) Splunk
3 1 (4.35%) Symantec