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

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 42 42
Rank change year-on-year -10 0 +17
Contract jobs citing Service Management 20 69 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 2.21% 3.99% 4.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.59% 4.88% 5.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 42 53
10th Percentile £356 £234 £240
25th Percentile £519 £535 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £613 £425
Median % change year-on-year -12.24% +44.12% -22.73%
75th Percentile £556 £638 £563
90th Percentile £566 £675 £646
South East median daily rate £415 £575 £460
% change year-on-year -27.83% +25.00% -13.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £27.50 -
South East median hourly rate £83.32 £27.50 £38.75
% change year-on-year +202.96% -29.03% +93.75%

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 771 1,414 1,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 85.10% 81.83% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 527 825 684
10th Percentile £325 £371 £256
25th Percentile £457 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £588 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.23% +11.90% +2.44%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £613
90th Percentile £660 £738 £685
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 150 108
10th Percentile £18.87 £13.93 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £26.44 £21.24
Median hourly rate £45.00 £57.35 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.53% +4.27% +73.23%
75th Percentile £61.25 £71.04 £66.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.75 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £23.25 £54.88 £50.00
% change year-on-year -57.63% +9.75% +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 18 July 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 18 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
Portsmouth +14 8 £538 +9.14% 2
Basingstoke -5 4 £550 -12.00% 8
Farnborough +11 3 £280 -57.09% 2
Southampton +2 2 £575 +178.79% 2
Winchester +8 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 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (5.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Firewall
1 1 (5.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Billing
3 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Architect
1 8 (40.00%) Service Architect
2 3 (15.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (10.00%) Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Applications Support
4 1 (5.00%) Applications Support Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Availability Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Billing Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Capacity and Availability Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Capacity Manager
4 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Support Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (5.00%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Windows
1 3 (15.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) ITIL
2 10 (50.00%) Project Delivery
3 8 (40.00%) IT4IT
3 8 (40.00%) Service Design
4 5 (25.00%) ITSM
5 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (15.00%) Planning and Forecasting
7 2 (10.00%) Business Analysis
7 2 (10.00%) Customer Service
7 2 (10.00%) Patch Management
7 2 (10.00%) Proactive Monitoring
7 2 (10.00%) Risk Management
7 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 1 (5.00%) Capacity Management
8 1 (5.00%) Capacity Planning
8 1 (5.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 1 (5.00%) Performance Monitoring
8 1 (5.00%) Test Scripting
8 1 (5.00%) Trend Analysis
8 1 (5.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (85.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (30.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) SCCM
1 4 (20.00%) SCOM
2 3 (15.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) SolarWinds
2 2 (10.00%) Cisco
2 2 (10.00%) McAfee
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) Qualys
3 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.00%) Tenable