Service Management Contracts in Hampshire

Service Management
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 41 47
Rank change year-on-year -17 +6 +17
Contract jobs citing Service Management 14 66 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 1.88% 4.09% 4.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.09% 4.89% 5.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 39 41
10th Percentile £525 £445 £240
25th Percentile £544 £590 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £625 £465
Median % change year-on-year -11.84% +34.41% -15.45%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £618 £738 £725
South East median daily rate £463 £575 £480
% change year-on-year -19.57% +19.79% -5.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 670 1,350 1,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 89.81% 83.64% 88.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 483 718 790
10th Percentile £325 £388 £240
25th Percentile £450 £460 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.02% +11.48% +5.00%
75th Percentile £618 £675 £623
90th Percentile £675 £739 £694
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 163 104
10th Percentile £20.12 £13.05 £18.25
25th Percentile £30.00 £25.68 £22.85
Median hourly rate £57.50 £57.35 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.26% +8.21% +113.80%
75th Percentile £71.25 £63.13 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.63
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Service Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Management in Hampshire

Service Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for Service Management in Hampshire

Service Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Management in Hampshire over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Management in Hampshire

Service Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Service Management in Hampshire

Service Management
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Basingstoke +5 7 £550 -12.00% 3
Farnborough 0 2 £551 -15.56% 5
Southampton - 2 £575 - 9
Winchester +1 1 - - 2
Gosport -2 1 - -
Service Management
South East

Service Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (7.14%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) 4G
1 3 (21.43%) 5G
1 3 (21.43%) 5G NR
1 3 (21.43%) LTE
1 3 (21.43%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (7.14%) Network Security
General
1 4 (28.57%) Telecoms
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Billing
4 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) Subject Matter Expert
2 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Analyst
2 1 (7.14%) Availability Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Billing Analyst
2 1 (7.14%) Capacity and Availability Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Capacity Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Knowledge Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Lead
2 1 (7.14%) Service Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Service Transition Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Transition Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
1 3 (21.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
1 3 (21.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) ITSM
2 5 (35.71%) ITIL
2 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
3 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (21.43%) Agile
4 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
4 3 (21.43%) DevOps
4 3 (21.43%) Fault Management
4 3 (21.43%) High Availability
4 3 (21.43%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (14.29%) Customer Service
5 2 (14.29%) Network Monitoring
5 2 (14.29%) Patch Management
5 2 (14.29%) Proactive Monitoring
5 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (7.14%) Business Continuity
6 1 (7.14%) Quality Management
6 1 (7.14%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Python
1 3 (21.43%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) DV Cleared
3 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) Degree
4 1 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Ansible
2 3 (21.43%) SCCM
2 3 (21.43%) SCOM
2 3 (21.43%) vCenter Server
3 2 (14.29%) Terraform
4 1 (7.14%) NSN NetAct
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) SolarWinds
2 2 (14.29%) Broadcom
2 2 (14.29%) Ericsson
2 2 (14.29%) McAfee
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) VMware
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco
3 1 (7.14%) Nokia
3 1 (7.14%) Qualys
3 1 (7.14%) Remedy
3 1 (7.14%) Tenable