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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 117 145
Rank change year-on-year -21 +28 +48
Contract jobs citing ITSM 278 357 346
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.97% 2.26% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.14% 2.52% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 196 239
10th Percentile £190 £250 £206
25th Percentile £313 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £532
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.02% +1.33%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £688
England median daily rate £491 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.80% -4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile £31.14 £18.95 -
25th Percentile £40.11 £19.63 £68.75
Median hourly rate £57.58 £23.25 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +147.63% -67.93% +291.89%
75th Percentile £77.54 £45.44 £76.25
90th Percentile £88.02 £78.18 -
England median hourly rate £20.63 £29.00 £14.50
% change year-on-year -28.86% +100.00% -

All Process and 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 12,965 14,161 17,700
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.02% 89.69% 89.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,536 9,145 12,688
10th Percentile £335 £350 £353
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £769 £800 £800
England median daily rate £501 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.42% -0.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 169 237
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.54
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.25 £37.00 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year -20.95% +3.85% -9.22%
75th Percentile £47.50 £53.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £69.17 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.85%

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 30 November 2025.

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 30 November 2025.

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 30 November 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
Central London -9 44 £500 +5.93% 14
South London -6 12 £463 +62.28% 1
West London -7 6 £268 -52.65% 4
East London 0 2 £675 +35.00% 1
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 22 (7.91%) SharePoint
2 17 (6.12%) Confluence
3 14 (5.04%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.72%) WebLogic
4 2 (0.72%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.72%) WildFly
5 1 (0.36%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 22 (7.91%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (3.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.44%) Autodesk Inventor
5 2 (0.72%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 48 (17.27%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.80%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.44%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (1.44%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.72%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.36%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.36%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle HRMS
5 1 (0.36%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 69 (24.82%) Azure
2 57 (20.50%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (10.79%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (6.83%) Entra ID
5 16 (5.76%) AWS
5 16 (5.76%) OneDrive
6 15 (5.40%) SaaS
7 8 (2.88%) PaaS
8 7 (2.52%) Power Platform
9 5 (1.80%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (1.80%) IaaS
10 4 (1.44%) GCP
10 4 (1.44%) Microsoft Copilot
11 3 (1.08%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (1.08%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (0.72%) Azure Functions
12 2 (0.72%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (0.72%) PowerApps
12 2 (0.72%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.47%) DNS
1 18 (6.47%) Firewall
2 17 (6.12%) VPN
3 16 (5.76%) DHCP
4 13 (4.68%) SSL
5 10 (3.60%) TCP/IP
6 7 (2.52%) Remote Desktop
6 7 (2.52%) Wireless
7 6 (2.16%) WAN
8 5 (1.80%) LAN
9 4 (1.44%) Cisco ISE
9 4 (1.44%) IPv4
9 4 (1.44%) Network Security
9 4 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (1.08%) NetScaler
10 3 (1.08%) VLAN
11 2 (0.72%) NAS
11 2 (0.72%) SAN
11 2 (0.72%) SSH
11 2 (0.72%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.16%) Power BI
2 3 (1.08%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.08%) Tableau
3 1 (0.36%) GIS
3 1 (0.36%) Metadata
3 1 (0.36%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 52 (18.71%) JIRA
2 4 (1.44%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.08%) Git
4 1 (0.36%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.36%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.36%) GitLab
4 1 (0.36%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.36%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.36%) ScriptRunner
4 1 (0.36%) Selenium
4 1 (0.36%) TestRail
4 1 (0.36%) Zephyr
General
1 112 (40.29%) Social Skills
2 63 (22.66%) Finance
3 33 (11.87%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (8.27%) Public Sector
5 16 (5.76%) Banking
6 8 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.16%) Legal
8 6 (2.16%) Retail
8 6 (2.16%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.44%) Local Government
9 4 (1.44%) Military
10 3 (1.08%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.72%) Automotive
11 2 (0.72%) Back Office
11 2 (0.72%) Billing
11 2 (0.72%) Law
12 1 (0.36%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 46 (16.55%) Analyst
2 37 (13.31%) Architect
3 34 (12.23%) Developer
4 32 (11.51%) Lead
4 32 (11.51%) Support Engineer
5 28 (10.07%) ServiceNow Developer
6 23 (8.27%) ServiceNow Architect
7 21 (7.55%) Consultant
8 18 (6.47%) IT Support
9 17 (6.12%) IT Engineer
9 17 (6.12%) Senior
10 15 (5.40%) Business Analyst
10 15 (5.40%) Service Analyst
11 14 (5.04%) IT Support Engineer
12 13 (4.68%) Support Analyst
13 10 (3.60%) Desktop Support
13 10 (3.60%) Service Manager
13 10 (3.60%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
14 9 (3.24%) Desktop Engineer
14 9 (3.24%) Desktop Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (16.91%) REST
2 46 (16.55%) SOAP
3 21 (7.55%) Web Services
4 17 (6.12%) AngularJS
4 17 (6.12%) HTML
5 13 (4.68%) jQuery
5 13 (4.68%) JSON
5 13 (4.68%) SAML
6 12 (4.32%) Apache Camel
6 12 (4.32%) HTML5
6 12 (4.32%) JDBC
6 12 (4.32%) LDAP
6 12 (4.32%) ODBC
6 12 (4.32%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (2.16%) .NET
7 6 (2.16%) RESTful
8 5 (1.80%) CSS
8 5 (1.80%) Lightning Web Components
9 2 (0.72%) EDI
9 2 (0.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 53 (19.06%) CMDB
2 14 (5.04%) Onboarding
3 10 (3.60%) Product Ownership
4 8 (2.88%) Data Centre
4 8 (2.88%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.16%) Replication
7 5 (1.80%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 5 (1.80%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.44%) Video Conferencing
9 3 (1.08%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.72%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.72%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.72%) Reference Data
10 2 (0.72%) Reinsurance
10 2 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.72%) Video\Live Streaming
10 2 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 68 (24.46%) Windows
2 30 (10.79%) Windows 10
3 11 (3.96%) Android
3 11 (3.96%) Mac OS
4 9 (3.24%) Apple iOS
5 6 (2.16%) Linux
5 6 (2.16%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.08%) Mac OS X
6 3 (1.08%) Unix
7 1 (0.36%) CentOS
7 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (39.57%) ITIL
2 103 (37.05%) Service Management
3 73 (26.26%) Agile
4 61 (21.94%) Problem-Solving
5 57 (20.50%) DevOps
6 47 (16.91%) Service Delivery
7 46 (16.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 42 (15.11%) Change Management
8 42 (15.11%) Scrum
9 39 (14.03%) Continuous Improvement
9 39 (14.03%) Stakeholder Management
10 32 (11.51%) Customer Service
11 28 (10.07%) Data Protection
12 26 (9.35%) Analytics
13 25 (8.99%) Configuration Management
14 23 (8.27%) Workflow
15 22 (7.91%) Roadmaps
16 21 (7.55%) Requirements Gathering
17 20 (7.19%) Dashboard Development
17 20 (7.19%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 49 (17.63%) JavaScript
2 27 (9.71%) PowerShell
3 13 (4.68%) Python
3 13 (4.68%) SQL
4 6 (2.16%) Kusto Query Language
5 4 (1.44%) Bash
6 2 (0.72%) ActionScript
6 2 (0.72%) ActionScript 2.0
6 2 (0.72%) Bicep
6 2 (0.72%) C#
6 2 (0.72%) Java
6 2 (0.72%) Perl
7 1 (0.36%) Groovy
7 1 (0.36%) R
7 1 (0.36%) Ruby
7 1 (0.36%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 62 (22.30%) Security Cleared
2 55 (19.78%) SC Cleared
3 27 (9.71%) Degree
4 20 (7.19%) ITIL Certification
5 7 (2.52%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.80%) A+ Certification
6 5 (1.80%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.08%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.08%) CCNP
8 3 (1.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (1.08%) PMP
9 2 (0.72%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.72%) CCIE
9 2 (0.72%) CCNA
9 2 (0.72%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.72%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.36%) CCDP
10 1 (0.36%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.68%) QA
2 11 (3.96%) GDPR
3 10 (3.60%) SLA
4 8 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.16%) COBIT
5 6 (2.16%) Data Quality
5 6 (2.16%) GRC
6 4 (1.44%) NIST
6 4 (1.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 19770
7 3 (1.08%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.72%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.36%) GxP
9 1 (0.36%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.36%) SOC 2
System Software
1 56 (20.14%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.44%) vSphere
3 3 (1.08%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.36%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (7.19%) SCCM
2 19 (6.83%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (5.40%) Single Sign-On
4 12 (4.32%) SCOM
5 8 (2.88%) HP SiteScope
6 6 (2.16%) Terraform
7 5 (1.80%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (1.44%) Ansible
9 3 (1.08%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.72%) Kubernetes
10 2 (0.72%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.36%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.36%) HP Operations Orchestration
11 1 (0.36%) Nessus
11 1 (0.36%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.36%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.36%) vRealize
11 1 (0.36%) WSUS
Vendors
1 155 (55.76%) ServiceNow
2 84 (30.22%) Microsoft
3 48 (17.27%) Remedy
4 18 (6.47%) HP
5 16 (5.76%) BMC
6 12 (4.32%) Apple
6 12 (4.32%) Ivanti
6 12 (4.32%) SAP
6 12 (4.32%) Splunk
7 10 (3.60%) Cisco
7 10 (3.60%) Citrix
8 8 (2.88%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.80%) Databricks
9 5 (1.80%) Forcepoint
9 5 (1.80%) Fortinet
9 5 (1.80%) VMware
9 5 (1.80%) Workday
10 4 (1.44%) CyberArk
10 4 (1.44%) Dell
10 4 (1.44%) Oracle