Service Management Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Service Management
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Service Management skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Service Management 17 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 6.03% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.25% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 17 0 0
10th Percentile £355 - -
25th Percentile £384 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £511 - -
90th Percentile £524 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £469 - £538
% change year-on-year - - +49.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 272 154 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 96.45% 93.90% 96.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 129 38
10th Percentile £308 £347 £493
25th Percentile £358 £382 £529
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £422 £445 £586
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% -24.06% +18.98%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £595
90th Percentile £537 £651 £608
Cheshire median daily rate £446 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -6.21% -5.00% +11.11%

Service Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Management in Knutsford

Service Management
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

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

Service Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Management in Knutsford over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Management in Knutsford

Service Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Knutsford 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 3 (17.65%) Confluence
2 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (29.41%) MS Visio
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (17.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) SSH
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) JIRA
General
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 7 (41.18%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (35.29%) Finance
4 3 (17.65%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (17.65%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (17.65%) Publishing
5 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Analyst
1 9 (52.94%) Business Analyst
2 6 (35.29%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
3 5 (29.41%) Senior
4 4 (23.53%) Senior Analyst
4 4 (23.53%) Senior Business Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Service Manager
5 2 (11.76%) Service Transition Manager
5 2 (11.76%) ServiceNow Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Transition Manager
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Voice Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Service Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Tester
6 1 (5.88%) Voice Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) CSS
1 3 (17.65%) HTML
1 3 (17.65%) Web Services
2 2 (11.76%) AngularJS
2 2 (11.76%) LDAP
2 2 (11.76%) REST
2 2 (11.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (52.94%) Management Information System
2 4 (23.53%) CMDB
3 3 (17.65%) Virtual Team
4 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.88%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Unix
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) ITSM
2 14 (82.35%) Agile
3 11 (64.71%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (58.82%) ITIL
5 8 (47.06%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (41.18%) Computer Science
6 7 (41.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (41.18%) Service Catalogue
6 7 (41.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 7 (41.18%) User Acceptance Testing
7 5 (29.41%) Business Analysis
7 5 (29.41%) IT Asset Management
7 5 (29.41%) Scrum
8 4 (23.53%) Analytics
8 4 (23.53%) Decision-Making
8 4 (23.53%) Focus Group
8 4 (23.53%) Project Delivery
8 4 (23.53%) Release Management
8 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Identification
8 4 (23.53%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) Java
1 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
2 2 (11.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (58.82%) Degree
2 4 (23.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (17.65%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (11.76%) CBAP
5 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) COBIT
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (5.88%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 15 (88.24%) ServiceNow
2 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco
3 1 (5.88%) IBM
3 1 (5.88%) Ribbon