Service Management Contracts in Gloucestershire

Service Management
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Service Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Service Management over the 6 months leading up to 6 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 37 55
Rank change year-on-year +13 +18 -5
Contract jobs citing Service Management 15 20 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 5.95% 4.45% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.73% 5.24% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 3
10th Percentile £582 £524 £554
25th Percentile £608 £525 £568
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year +11.82% -6.78% +62.76%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £651
90th Percentile £760 £655 £688
South West median daily rate £563 £500 £563
% change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% +2.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 223 382 400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 88.49% 85.08% 92.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 221 250
10th Percentile £221 £363 £313
25th Percentile £361 £463 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £543
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +1.38% +5.85%
75th Percentile £641 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £725 £726
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.46% +9.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 38 44
10th Percentile £26.12 £15.05 £35.00
25th Percentile £31.50 £22.75 £50.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £40.00 £75.50
Median % change year-on-year +68.75% -47.02% +133.02%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £83.31
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £33.00 £55.00 £59.80
% change year-on-year -40.00% -8.03% +23.35%

Service Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Management in Gloucestershire

Service Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Service Management in Gloucestershire.

Daily rate trend for Service Management in Gloucestershire

Service Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Management in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 6 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Management in Gloucestershire

Service Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Service Management in Gloucestershire.

Hourly rate trend for Service Management in Gloucestershire

Service Management
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 6 June 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
Cheltenham +8 6 £615 +11.82% 23
Gloucester - 4 £615 - 28
Service Management
South West

Service Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 1 (6.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (6.67%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 12 (80.00%) AWS
1 12 (80.00%) Azure
1 12 (80.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (86.67%) DNS
2 12 (80.00%) DHCP
2 12 (80.00%) HTTP
2 12 (80.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (6.67%) Firewall
3 1 (6.67%) LAN
3 1 (6.67%) VoIP
3 1 (6.67%) WAN
3 1 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (13.33%) Finance
1 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (6.67%) IT Manager
4 1 (6.67%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) PC Support
4 1 (6.67%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Service Delivery Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Service Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 13 (86.67%) Windows
2 12 (80.00%) Linux
2 12 (80.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 12 (80.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.67%) Android
3 1 (6.67%) Mac OS
3 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Containerisation
2 5 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 4 (26.67%) DevOps
3 4 (26.67%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (13.33%) ITIL
5 2 (13.33%) Service Delivery
6 1 (6.67%) Agile
6 1 (6.67%) Contract Negotiation
6 1 (6.67%) Data Migration
6 1 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (6.67%) ITSM
6 1 (6.67%) Migration
6 1 (6.67%) Problem Management
6 1 (6.67%) Programme Management
6 1 (6.67%) Project Management
6 1 (6.67%) Scrum
6 1 (6.67%) Service Design
6 1 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (6.67%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (80.00%) Bash
1 12 (80.00%) Java
1 12 (80.00%) PowerShell
1 12 (80.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 10 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (80.00%) Docker
1 12 (80.00%) Hyper-V
1 12 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (80.00%) Ansible
1 12 (80.00%) Kubernetes
1 12 (80.00%) Puppet
1 12 (80.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (80.00%) Red Hat
1 12 (80.00%) VMware
2 1 (6.67%) Remedy
2 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow