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 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 164 156
Rank change year-on-year +54 -8 -11
Contract jobs citing ITSM 526 229 275
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.61% 1.70% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.94% 1.84% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 149 161
10th Percentile £208 £200 £256
25th Percentile £400 £313 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.42% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £603 £588
90th Percentile £675 £708 £675
England median daily rate £506 £450 £499
% change year-on-year +12.39% -9.77% -0.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 1 8
10th Percentile £18.75 - £17.49
25th Percentile £19.13 - £18.13
Median hourly rate £21.00 £25.15 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.50% +28.97% -1.40%
75th Percentile £22.50 - £60.13
90th Percentile £25.00 - £77.60
England median hourly rate £26.00 £19.70 £18.13
% change year-on-year +32.01% +8.63% +6.24%

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 17,907 12,452 14,448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.46% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,698 8,284 9,876
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 255 193
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.00 £17.30
25th Percentile £19.94 £24.89 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -12.33% -8.75%
75th Percentile £56.63 £49.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.75
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.63%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 +9 67 £545 +9.00% 27
West London +4 27 £400 +60.00% 10
East London +4 4 £215 -61.78% 1
South London -18 4 - - 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 32 (6.08%) SharePoint
2 20 (3.80%) Confluence
3 18 (3.42%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.19%) IIS
4 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 10 (1.90%) AutoCAD
2 9 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.52%) Revit
4 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.57%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.57%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 29 (5.51%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.38%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.19%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.19%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.19%) iTrent
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 128 (24.33%) Azure
2 82 (15.59%) Microsoft 365
3 66 (12.55%) AWS
4 56 (10.65%) Entra ID
5 46 (8.75%) SaaS
6 27 (5.13%) OneDrive
7 22 (4.18%) Power Platform
8 20 (3.80%) GitHub
9 17 (3.23%) GCP
10 13 (2.47%) Datadog
10 13 (2.47%) PaaS
11 12 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (2.09%) OpenShift
13 10 (1.90%) IaaS
14 6 (1.14%) Azure Monitor
15 5 (0.95%) Azure AKS
15 5 (0.95%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (0.95%) Microsoft Copilot
16 4 (0.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 4 (0.76%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 37 (7.03%) DNS
2 31 (5.89%) VPN
3 30 (5.70%) Firewall
4 28 (5.32%) TCP/IP
5 21 (3.99%) DHCP
6 18 (3.42%) VLAN
7 17 (3.23%) Network Security
7 17 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (2.09%) WebEx
9 9 (1.71%) Cisco ISE
9 9 (1.71%) TACACS
10 7 (1.33%) SAN
11 6 (1.14%) Wireless
12 5 (0.95%) Internet
12 5 (0.95%) WAN
13 4 (0.76%) HTTP
14 3 (0.57%) LAN
15 2 (0.38%) Intranet
15 2 (0.38%) SNMP
15 2 (0.38%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (3.42%) SQL Server
2 16 (3.04%) Power BI
3 8 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (0.95%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 5 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.38%) Redis
7 1 (0.19%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.19%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.19%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.19%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.19%) Flink
7 1 (0.19%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.19%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.19%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (0.19%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 86 (16.35%) JIRA
2 10 (1.90%) Git
3 6 (1.14%) Chocolatey
4 5 (0.95%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.76%) MSI
5 4 (0.76%) ScriptRunner
6 3 (0.57%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.57%) GitLab
7 2 (0.38%) AdminStudio
7 2 (0.38%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.38%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.38%) InstallShield
8 1 (0.19%) Robot Framework
General
1 232 (44.11%) Social Skills
2 104 (19.77%) Analytical Skills
3 96 (18.25%) Finance
4 37 (7.03%) Public Sector
5 32 (6.08%) Telecoms
6 28 (5.32%) Banking
7 18 (3.42%) Legal
8 17 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
9 15 (2.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (1.14%) Law
13 5 (0.95%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.95%) Military
13 5 (0.95%) Retail
14 4 (0.76%) Front Office
14 4 (0.76%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.57%) Italian Language
16 2 (0.38%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 76 (14.45%) Architect
2 59 (11.22%) Analyst
3 57 (10.84%) Developer
4 55 (10.46%) ServiceNow Developer
5 41 (7.79%) Senior
5 41 (7.79%) Support Engineer
6 40 (7.60%) Consultant
7 36 (6.84%) ServiceNow Architect
8 35 (6.65%) IT Support
9 32 (6.08%) Lead
10 30 (5.70%) IT Engineer
10 30 (5.70%) Service Manager
11 26 (4.94%) IT Manager
12 25 (4.75%) Designer
13 23 (4.37%) Desktop Support
13 23 (4.37%) IT Support Engineer
14 22 (4.18%) Applications Support
15 21 (3.99%) Business Analyst
15 21 (3.99%) Support Analyst
16 20 (3.80%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (16.92%) REST
2 50 (9.51%) SOAP
3 21 (3.99%) Terraform
4 20 (3.80%) Web Services
5 10 (1.90%) SailPoint
6 9 (1.71%) XML
7 8 (1.52%) HTML
7 8 (1.52%) JSON
8 7 (1.33%) CSS
9 5 (0.95%) .NET
10 4 (0.76%) Ajax
10 4 (0.76%) LDAP
10 4 (0.76%) RESTful
11 3 (0.57%) JDBC
11 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Graph
11 3 (0.57%) OpenTelemetry
11 3 (0.57%) Software Packaging
12 2 (0.38%) EDI
12 2 (0.38%) Kafka
12 2 (0.38%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 112 (21.29%) CMDB
2 79 (15.02%) Onboarding
3 29 (5.51%) Product Ownership
4 24 (4.56%) Enterprise Software
5 21 (3.99%) Management Information System
6 14 (2.66%) Cloud Native
6 14 (2.66%) Data Centre
6 14 (2.66%) Video Conferencing
7 12 (2.28%) Virtual Team
8 11 (2.09%) AI Agents
8 11 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (1.71%) Web Conferencing
10 8 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.52%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.33%) iPhone
12 6 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
12 6 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (0.95%) Operational Technology
13 5 (0.95%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 108 (20.53%) Windows
2 26 (4.94%) Windows 10
3 21 (3.99%) Apple iOS
3 21 (3.99%) Mac OS
4 12 (2.28%) Android
5 11 (2.09%) Linux
5 11 (2.09%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.38%) VMS
7 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (45.25%) Service Management
2 237 (45.06%) ITIL
3 143 (27.19%) Stakeholder Management
4 118 (22.43%) Problem-Solving
5 97 (18.44%) Agile
6 93 (17.68%) Continuous Improvement
7 91 (17.30%) Service Delivery
8 72 (13.69%) Customer Service
9 69 (13.12%) Roadmaps
10 67 (12.74%) Change Management
11 60 (11.41%) AI
12 56 (10.65%) DevOps
12 56 (10.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 53 (10.08%) Incident Management
14 48 (9.13%) Migration
15 47 (8.94%) Workflow
16 42 (7.98%) Decision-Making
17 41 (7.79%) Observability
18 40 (7.60%) Problem Management
19 38 (7.22%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 48 (9.13%) PowerShell
2 35 (6.65%) JavaScript
3 34 (6.46%) Python
4 28 (5.32%) SQL
5 9 (1.71%) Bash
6 8 (1.52%) Java
7 3 (0.57%) BeanShell
7 3 (0.57%) Bicep
7 3 (0.57%) Groovy
7 3 (0.57%) PL/SQL
7 3 (0.57%) VBScript
8 2 (0.38%) ActionScript
8 2 (0.38%) ActionScript 2.0
8 2 (0.38%) Delphi
8 2 (0.38%) Korn
9 1 (0.19%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.19%) C++
9 1 (0.19%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.19%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.19%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 127 (24.14%) Security Cleared
2 100 (19.01%) SC Cleared
3 30 (5.70%) Degree
4 26 (4.94%) ITIL Certification
5 22 (4.18%) A+ Certification
6 14 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (2.47%) DV Cleared
7 13 (2.47%) PMP
8 12 (2.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 11 (2.09%) Azure Certification
10 10 (1.90%) PMI Certification
11 9 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (1.14%) Network+ Certification
13 5 (0.95%) CISM
13 5 (0.95%) CISSP
14 3 (0.57%) CEH
14 3 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
15 2 (0.38%) AWS Certification
15 2 (0.38%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (10.46%) SLA
2 20 (3.80%) QA
3 17 (3.23%) Data Quality
4 15 (2.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (2.09%) GRC
5 11 (2.09%) NIST
6 6 (1.14%) GDPR
7 5 (0.95%) COBIT
7 5 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.95%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 3 (0.57%) PMO
10 1 (0.19%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 19770
10 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 74 (14.07%) Active Directory
2 20 (3.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.85%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (1.71%) IAG
5 4 (0.76%) Docker
5 4 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.38%) Firmware
6 2 (0.38%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.38%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.19%) etcd
7 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 43 (8.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 24 (4.56%) SCCM
3 10 (1.90%) Grafana
3 10 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (1.71%) Kubernetes
5 8 (1.52%) FortiGate
6 7 (1.33%) Ansible
6 7 (1.33%) Control-M
7 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Clustering
7 4 (0.76%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.76%) WSUS
8 3 (0.57%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.38%) Kibana
9 2 (0.38%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.19%) Amdocs OSS
10 1 (0.19%) CASB
10 1 (0.19%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.19%) SCOM
10 1 (0.19%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 302 (57.41%) ServiceNow
2 149 (28.33%) Microsoft
3 29 (5.51%) Remedy
4 28 (5.32%) BMC
5 25 (4.75%) VMware
6 21 (3.99%) Salesforce
6 21 (3.99%) Splunk
7 20 (3.80%) Dynatrace
8 17 (3.23%) Cisco
9 15 (2.85%) SAP
10 14 (2.66%) Okta
11 13 (2.47%) Apple
12 12 (2.28%) Adobe
13 10 (1.90%) Autodesk
13 10 (1.90%) CyberArk
13 10 (1.90%) MuleSoft
13 10 (1.90%) Palo Alto
14 9 (1.71%) CheckPoint
15 8 (1.52%) Citrix
15 8 (1.52%) Google