ITSM Contract Job Trends in London

IT Service Management (ITSM)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring ITSM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 153 155
Rank change year-on-year +34 +2 -15
Contract jobs citing ITSM 502 237 265
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.48% 1.73% 1.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.78% 1.88% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 158 162
10th Percentile £231 £200 £258
25th Percentile £400 £309 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £599 £588
90th Percentile £663 £700 £686
England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 0 7
10th Percentile - - £17.28
25th Percentile £18.75 - £18.13
Median hourly rate £21.00 - £19.00
75th Percentile £22.50 - £62.75
90th Percentile £24.25 - £80.80
England median hourly rate £28.00 £18.82 £18.13
% change year-on-year +48.78% +3.81% +25.03%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

ITSM 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 18,064 12,618 14,394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.16% 92.32% 88.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,886 8,438 10,119
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £662 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 298 251 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.05
25th Percentile £19.59 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -16.31% -15.06%
75th Percentile £56.25 £48.75 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.00 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% +1.00%

ITSM
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ITSM relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

ITSM job vacancy trend in London

ITSM
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing ITSM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing ITSM

ITSM
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITSM in London over the 6 months to 9 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ITSM in London

ITSM
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing ITSM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing ITSM

ITSM
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ITSM in London over the 6 months to 9 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for ITSM in London

ITSM
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITSM within the London region over the 6 months to 9 August 2026. 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
Central London +2 63 £525 +5.00% 41
West London +2 26 £400 +60.00% 6
South London -13 4 - -
East London +1 3 £348 -44.84% 2
ITSM
England

ITSM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 26 (5.18%) SharePoint
2 17 (3.39%) Confluence
3 12 (2.39%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.40%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.20%) IIS
5 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 10 (1.99%) AutoCAD
2 8 (1.59%) Revit
3 7 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.60%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.60%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 28 (5.58%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.40%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.20%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.20%) iTrent
3 1 (0.20%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 121 (24.10%) Azure
2 71 (14.14%) Microsoft 365
3 63 (12.55%) AWS
4 48 (9.56%) Entra ID
5 44 (8.76%) SaaS
6 20 (3.98%) OneDrive
7 19 (3.78%) GitHub
8 17 (3.39%) Datadog
8 17 (3.39%) GCP
8 17 (3.39%) Power Platform
9 14 (2.79%) PaaS
10 13 (2.59%) OpenShift
11 11 (2.19%) IaaS
12 10 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (1.20%) Azure AKS
13 6 (1.20%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (1.20%) Microsoft Copilot
14 4 (0.80%) Azure AI
14 4 (0.80%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (0.80%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 36 (7.17%) DNS
2 31 (6.18%) Firewall
3 27 (5.38%) VPN
4 25 (4.98%) TCP/IP
5 22 (4.38%) DHCP
6 19 (3.78%) VLAN
7 17 (3.39%) Wi-Fi
8 16 (3.19%) Network Security
9 11 (2.19%) WebEx
10 10 (1.99%) Cisco ISE
10 10 (1.99%) TACACS
11 8 (1.59%) SAN
12 7 (1.39%) Wireless
13 6 (1.20%) WAN
14 5 (1.00%) Internet
15 4 (0.80%) HTTP
16 3 (0.60%) LAN
16 3 (0.60%) SNMP
17 2 (0.40%) Intranet
17 2 (0.40%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.19%) SQL Server
2 14 (2.79%) Power BI
3 9 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.80%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.40%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.40%) Flink
6 2 (0.40%) InfluxDB
6 2 (0.40%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.40%) MySQL
6 2 (0.40%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.40%) Redis
6 2 (0.40%) TimescaleDB
7 1 (0.20%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.20%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.20%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.20%) Metadata
7 1 (0.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 85 (16.93%) JIRA
2 11 (2.19%) Git
3 8 (1.59%) Chocolatey
4 4 (0.80%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.80%) MSI
4 4 (0.80%) ScriptRunner
5 3 (0.60%) GitLab
6 2 (0.40%) AdminStudio
6 2 (0.40%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.40%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.40%) InstallShield
6 2 (0.40%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.20%) Artifactory
General
1 222 (44.22%) Social Skills
2 106 (21.12%) Analytical Skills
3 89 (17.73%) Finance
4 32 (6.37%) Public Sector
4 32 (6.37%) Telecoms
5 25 (4.98%) Banking
6 17 (3.39%) Legal
7 14 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.20%) Law
12 5 (1.00%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.80%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.80%) Military
13 4 (0.80%) Retail
14 3 (0.60%) Billing
14 3 (0.60%) Italian Language
15 2 (0.40%) German Language
Job Titles
1 66 (13.15%) Architect
2 56 (11.16%) Analyst
3 55 (10.96%) Developer
4 49 (9.76%) ServiceNow Developer
5 41 (8.17%) Consultant
5 41 (8.17%) Senior
6 37 (7.37%) ServiceNow Architect
7 32 (6.37%) IT Support
8 31 (6.18%) Lead
8 31 (6.18%) Support Engineer
9 26 (5.18%) IT Manager
9 26 (5.18%) Service Manager
10 25 (4.98%) IT Engineer
11 20 (3.98%) Designer
12 19 (3.78%) Applications Support
12 19 (3.78%) Business Analyst
13 18 (3.59%) Support Analyst
14 17 (3.39%) Desktop Support
14 17 (3.39%) IT Support Engineer
15 16 (3.19%) ITSM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (16.93%) REST
2 47 (9.36%) SOAP
3 20 (3.98%) Web Services
4 8 (1.59%) HTML
4 8 (1.59%) XML
5 7 (1.39%) .NET
5 7 (1.39%) CSS
5 7 (1.39%) JSON
6 6 (1.20%) OpenTelemetry
6 6 (1.20%) SailPoint
7 4 (0.80%) Ajax
7 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Graph
8 3 (0.60%) Kafka
8 3 (0.60%) RESTful
9 2 (0.40%) ADO
9 2 (0.40%) EDI
9 2 (0.40%) Middleware
9 2 (0.40%) Node.js
9 2 (0.40%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (0.40%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 116 (23.11%) CMDB
2 71 (14.14%) Onboarding
3 26 (5.18%) Product Ownership
4 20 (3.98%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (2.99%) Cloud Native
6 13 (2.59%) AI Agents
6 13 (2.59%) Data Centre
6 13 (2.59%) Management Information System
6 13 (2.59%) Video Conferencing
7 12 (2.39%) Virtual Team
8 11 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (1.79%) Web Conferencing
10 8 (1.59%) Cyber Threat
10 8 (1.59%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.39%) iPhone
12 5 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (1.00%) Operational Technology
12 5 (1.00%) Replication
13 4 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 94 (18.73%) Windows
2 19 (3.78%) Mac OS
2 19 (3.78%) Windows 10
3 16 (3.19%) Apple iOS
4 10 (1.99%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.79%) Android
6 8 (1.59%) Linux
7 3 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.40%) VMS
8 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (44.62%) ITIL
2 215 (42.83%) Service Management
3 132 (26.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 113 (22.51%) Problem-Solving
5 91 (18.13%) Agile
6 90 (17.93%) Continuous Improvement
7 83 (16.53%) Service Delivery
8 70 (13.94%) Change Management
9 65 (12.95%) Customer Service
10 63 (12.55%) Roadmaps
11 57 (11.35%) AI
11 57 (11.35%) Incident Management
12 55 (10.96%) DevOps
12 55 (10.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 50 (9.96%) Problem Management
14 49 (9.76%) Workflow
15 47 (9.36%) Migration
16 45 (8.96%) Observability
17 41 (8.17%) Data Modelling
18 39 (7.77%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 40 (7.97%) PowerShell
2 35 (6.97%) JavaScript
3 33 (6.57%) Python
4 26 (5.18%) SQL
5 7 (1.39%) Bash
5 7 (1.39%) Java
6 3 (0.60%) Bicep
6 3 (0.60%) Groovy
6 3 (0.60%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.40%) ActionScript
7 2 (0.40%) ActionScript 2.0
7 2 (0.40%) C++
7 2 (0.40%) Delphi
7 2 (0.40%) Korn
7 2 (0.40%) VBScript
8 1 (0.20%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.20%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.20%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (0.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 128 (25.50%) Security Cleared
2 98 (19.52%) SC Cleared
3 25 (4.98%) Degree
4 24 (4.78%) ITIL Certification
5 21 (4.18%) A+ Certification
6 19 (3.78%) DV Cleared
7 13 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (2.59%) PMP
8 11 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (1.99%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.99%) PMI Certification
10 9 (1.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 9 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.20%) Network+ Certification
12 5 (1.00%) CISM
12 5 (1.00%) CISSP
13 3 (0.60%) CEH
13 3 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.40%) AWS Certification
14 2 (0.40%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (9.76%) SLA
2 17 (3.39%) QA
3 16 (3.19%) Data Quality
4 15 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (2.79%) GRC
6 8 (1.59%) NIST
7 7 (1.39%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.00%) COBIT
8 5 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.80%) GDPR
10 3 (0.60%) PMO
10 3 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 62 (12.35%) Active Directory
2 17 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (2.39%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (1.79%) IAG
5 4 (0.80%) Docker
5 4 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.40%) Firmware
6 2 (0.40%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.20%) etcd
7 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (8.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 23 (4.58%) SCCM
2 23 (4.58%) Terraform
3 11 (2.19%) Kubernetes
4 10 (1.99%) Grafana
4 10 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (1.59%) FortiGate
6 7 (1.39%) Ansible
6 7 (1.39%) Control-M
7 5 (1.00%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (0.60%) WSUS
9 2 (0.40%) Amdocs OSS
9 2 (0.40%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.40%) Kibana
10 1 (0.20%) CASB
10 1 (0.20%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.20%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 291 (57.97%) ServiceNow
2 128 (25.50%) Microsoft
3 28 (5.58%) Remedy
4 24 (4.78%) VMware
5 23 (4.58%) Dynatrace
6 22 (4.38%) BMC
7 21 (4.18%) Splunk
8 20 (3.98%) Salesforce
9 17 (3.39%) Cisco
10 13 (2.59%) SAP
11 11 (2.19%) Apple
11 11 (2.19%) Palo Alto
12 10 (1.99%) AppDynamics
12 10 (1.99%) MuleSoft
12 10 (1.99%) Okta
13 9 (1.79%) Adobe
13 9 (1.79%) Autodesk
13 9 (1.79%) CheckPoint
14 8 (1.59%) Nexthink
14 8 (1.59%) Tenable