Service Management Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Service Management
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring Service Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 16 29
Rank change year-on-year -2 +13 -4
Contract jobs citing Service Management 18 11 11
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 8.87% 7.48% 4.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.53% 9.02% 5.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 11
10th Percentile £165 £267 £611
25th Percentile £190 £278 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £285 £645
Median % change year-on-year +92.98% -55.81% +66.45%
75th Percentile - £370 £650
90th Percentile - £524 -
North West median daily rate £500 £400 £540
% change year-on-year +25.00% -25.93% +27.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £59.86 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £74.26 £30.40 -
Median % change year-on-year +144.28% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £39.23 £24.18 £17.72
% change year-on-year +62.24% +36.46% -72.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 171 122 203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 84.24% 82.99% 91.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 59 118
10th Percentile £165 £272 £393
25th Percentile £356 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £518 £623
Median % change year-on-year -12.08% -16.87% +18.57%
75th Percentile £555 £556 £717
90th Percentile £679 £624 £720
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 18 51
10th Percentile £25.15 £25.80 £20.58
25th Percentile £41.94 £32.89 £45.88
Median hourly rate £45.46 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -1.56% - +15.39%
75th Percentile £63.20 £54.69 £50.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £66.28 £61.99
North West median hourly rate £32.50 £30.95 £36.73
% change year-on-year +5.01% -15.72% +42.29%

Service Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Service Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire.

Service Management job vacancy trend in Lancashire

Service Management
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

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

Service Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Lancashire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Management in Lancashire over the 6 months to 22 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Management in Lancashire

Service Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

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

Service Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in Lancashire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Service Management in Lancashire over the 6 months to 22 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Service Management in Lancashire

Service Management
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire region over the 6 months to 22 December 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
Preston +2 6 £550 -
Lytham St Annes - 4 £170 -
Chorley - 1 £575 - 1
Service Management
North West

Service Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 11 (61.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (27.78%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.56%) Confluence
3 1 (5.56%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) Entra ID
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.56%) Azure
2 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (38.89%) WebEx
2 5 (27.78%) BGP
2 5 (27.78%) Firewall
2 5 (27.78%) Software-Defined Networking
2 5 (27.78%) VLAN
3 3 (16.67%) Network Security
4 2 (11.11%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 9 (50.00%) Legal
2 8 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Finance
5 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Administrator
2 3 (16.67%) IT Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) IT Support
3 2 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Network Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Lead
4 1 (5.56%) Management Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Project Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Service Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (38.89%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 3 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 2 (11.11%) Fat Client
3 2 (11.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 2 (11.11%) Thin Client
4 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.56%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (50.00%) Windows
2 8 (44.44%) Linux
2 8 (44.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (44.44%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (55.56%) ITSM
3 9 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 9 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
3 9 (50.00%) Product Requirements
3 9 (50.00%) User Stories
4 8 (44.44%) Change Control
5 7 (38.89%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (38.89%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 7 (38.89%) Identity Access Management
6 6 (33.33%) Knowledge Management
7 5 (27.78%) Containerisation
8 4 (22.22%) Business Continuity
8 4 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (22.22%) Mobile Device Management
8 4 (22.22%) Performance Monitoring
8 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
9 3 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
9 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 10 (55.56%) Bash
3 7 (38.89%) Perl
3 7 (38.89%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (88.89%) Security Cleared
2 15 (83.33%) SC Cleared
3 5 (27.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (22.22%) CCDP
4 4 (22.22%) CCNA
4 4 (22.22%) CCNP
4 4 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (5.56%) CISM
5 1 (5.56%) CISSP
5 1 (5.56%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (5.56%) Degree
5 1 (5.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.56%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (38.89%) Active Directory
2 3 (16.67%) Docker
3 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (22.22%) SCCM
2 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 2 (11.11%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 13 (72.22%) Microsoft
2 9 (50.00%) Cisco
3 8 (44.44%) Red Hat
4 7 (38.89%) Citrix
5 5 (27.78%) VMware
6 2 (11.11%) Palo Alto
7 1 (5.56%) BMC
7 1 (5.56%) Remedy
7 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow