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 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 110 128
Rank change year-on-year -27 +18 +52
Contract jobs citing ITSM 290 351 357
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.01% 2.36% 1.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.20% 2.62% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 192 237
10th Percentile £196 £256 £205
25th Percentile £358 £409 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £516
Median % change year-on-year - -3.10% +3.20%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £625
90th Percentile £750 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 3
10th Percentile £22.55 £19.10 -
25th Percentile - £20.00 -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.80 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.67% +19.00% -
75th Percentile £76.67 £27.25 £48.13
90th Percentile £87.67 £70.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £20.79 £29.00 £14.50
% change year-on-year -28.31% +100.00% -3.33%

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 13,190 13,384 16,568
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.29% 90.13% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,688 8,584 11,883
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £681
90th Percentile £756 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 164 245
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.03 £17.85
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.80 £20.02
Median hourly rate £31.49 £36.65 £32.69
Median % change year-on-year -14.08% +12.11% -14.80%
75th Percentile £53.44 £55.38 £58.75
90th Percentile £67.70 £80.75 £74.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.64%

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 27 December 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 27 December 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 27 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
Central London -22 43 £500 +4.82% 68
South London -2 13 £475 +72.73% 5
West London -16 4 £405 -28.32% 1
East London -1 2 £675 +22.73% 3
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 (7.59%) SharePoint
2 13 (4.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (4.14%) Confluence
4 2 (0.69%) WebLogic
4 2 (0.69%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.69%) WildFly
5 1 (0.34%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 20 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (4.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.38%) Autodesk Inventor
5 2 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 43 (14.83%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.69%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.34%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.34%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle HRMS
4 1 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.34%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 86 (29.66%) Azure
2 53 (18.28%) Microsoft 365
3 43 (14.83%) AWS
4 29 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (9.66%) GCP
6 18 (6.21%) Entra ID
6 18 (6.21%) OneDrive
7 11 (3.79%) SaaS
8 6 (2.07%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (2.07%) Microsoft Copilot
8 6 (2.07%) OpenShift
8 6 (2.07%) Power Platform
9 5 (1.72%) IaaS
9 5 (1.72%) PaaS
10 3 (1.03%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (1.03%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (1.03%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (0.69%) Azure Functions
11 2 (0.69%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (0.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.17%) Firewall
1 15 (5.17%) VPN
2 13 (4.48%) DNS
3 12 (4.14%) DHCP
4 9 (3.10%) SSL
5 8 (2.76%) Wireless
6 6 (2.07%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.72%) IPv4
8 4 (1.38%) Cisco ISE
8 4 (1.38%) Network Security
8 4 (1.38%) WAN
9 3 (1.03%) LAN
9 3 (1.03%) NetScaler
9 3 (1.03%) VLAN
9 3 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.69%) Cisco Wireless
10 2 (0.69%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (0.69%) SSH
10 2 (0.69%) TACACS
11 1 (0.34%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.72%) Power BI
2 4 (1.38%) Tableau
3 3 (1.03%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.34%) GIS
4 1 (0.34%) Metadata
4 1 (0.34%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 46 (15.86%) JIRA
2 5 (1.72%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.03%) Git
4 1 (0.34%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.34%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.34%) GitLab
4 1 (0.34%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.34%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.34%) Selenium
4 1 (0.34%) TestRail
General
1 130 (44.83%) Social Skills
2 63 (21.72%) Finance
3 36 (12.41%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (7.59%) Public Sector
5 18 (6.21%) Banking
6 11 (3.79%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.07%) Legal
8 6 (2.07%) Retail
8 6 (2.07%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.03%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.03%) Military
11 2 (0.69%) Automotive
11 2 (0.69%) Back Office
11 2 (0.69%) Billing
11 2 (0.69%) Law
12 1 (0.34%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.34%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 56 (19.31%) Architect
2 50 (17.24%) Analyst
3 34 (11.72%) Developer
4 30 (10.34%) ServiceNow Developer
5 29 (10.00%) Lead
6 25 (8.62%) CyberArk Architect
7 21 (7.24%) Consultant
7 21 (7.24%) Support Engineer
8 19 (6.55%) ServiceNow Architect
9 15 (5.17%) Business Analyst
9 15 (5.17%) Service Analyst
10 14 (4.83%) Senior
10 14 (4.83%) Support Analyst
11 13 (4.48%) IT Engineer
12 12 (4.14%) IT Support
13 10 (3.45%) IT Support Engineer
13 10 (3.45%) Service Manager
13 10 (3.45%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
14 9 (3.10%) Operations Analyst
14 9 (3.10%) Operations Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (23.79%) REST
2 68 (23.45%) SOAP
3 33 (11.38%) LDAP
4 16 (5.52%) HTML
5 15 (5.17%) AngularJS
6 14 (4.83%) Web Services
7 10 (3.45%) SAML
8 9 (3.10%) JSON
9 8 (2.76%) Apache Camel
9 8 (2.76%) CSS
9 8 (2.76%) HTML5
9 8 (2.76%) JDBC
9 8 (2.76%) jQuery
9 8 (2.76%) ODBC
9 8 (2.76%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (0.69%) .NET
10 2 (0.69%) EDI
10 2 (0.69%) Lightning Web Components
10 2 (0.69%) RESTful
10 2 (0.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 54 (18.62%) CMDB
2 27 (9.31%) Enterprise Software
3 24 (8.28%) Security Posture
4 17 (5.86%) Onboarding
5 11 (3.79%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (2.41%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.07%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.07%) Driving Licence
8 5 (1.72%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 5 (1.72%) Replication
9 4 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.03%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.03%) Video Conferencing
11 2 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.69%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.69%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.69%) Reinsurance
11 2 (0.69%) Smartphone
11 2 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 58 (20.00%) Windows
2 28 (9.66%) Windows 10
3 12 (4.14%) Mac OS
4 10 (3.45%) Android
5 6 (2.07%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.72%) Windows Server
7 4 (1.38%) Linux
8 3 (1.03%) Mac OS X
8 3 (1.03%) Unix
9 1 (0.34%) CentOS
9 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (37.59%) ITIL
2 97 (33.45%) Service Management
3 77 (26.55%) Problem-Solving
4 70 (24.14%) Agile
5 64 (22.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 52 (17.93%) DevOps
7 48 (16.55%) Service Delivery
8 46 (15.86%) Stakeholder Management
9 40 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
10 39 (13.45%) Change Management
10 39 (13.45%) Scrum
11 35 (12.07%) Integration Patterns
12 32 (11.03%) SIEM
12 32 (11.03%) Technical Leadership
13 29 (10.00%) Analytics
14 27 (9.31%) Data Protection
14 27 (9.31%) Task Automation
14 27 (9.31%) Workflow
15 26 (8.97%) Presales
16 25 (8.62%) Privileged Access Management
Programming Languages
1 51 (17.59%) PowerShell
2 44 (15.17%) JavaScript
3 34 (11.72%) Python
4 11 (3.79%) SQL
5 7 (2.41%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (1.03%) Bash
6 3 (1.03%) Bicep
7 2 (0.69%) ActionScript
7 2 (0.69%) ActionScript 2.0
7 2 (0.69%) Perl
8 1 (0.34%) C#
8 1 (0.34%) Java
8 1 (0.34%) R
8 1 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 82 (28.28%) Security Cleared
2 74 (25.52%) SC Cleared
3 23 (7.93%) Degree
4 19 (6.55%) ITIL Certification
5 8 (2.76%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.72%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (1.38%) A+ Certification
7 4 (1.38%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (0.69%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.69%) CCNP
9 2 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.69%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.69%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.69%) PMP
10 1 (0.34%) CCDP
10 1 (0.34%) CCNA
10 1 (0.34%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.52%) SLA
2 12 (4.14%) QA
3 11 (3.79%) Data Quality
4 9 (3.10%) GDPR
4 9 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.41%) GRC
6 6 (2.07%) NIST
7 4 (1.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (1.03%) COBIT
8 3 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.03%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.69%) NCSC
10 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.34%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 19770
10 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.34%) ITGC
10 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 72 (24.83%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.69%) vSphere
4 1 (0.34%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 21 (7.24%) SCCM
2 16 (5.52%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (4.14%) SCOM
4 11 (3.79%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (2.76%) HP SiteScope
6 7 (2.41%) Terraform
7 5 (1.72%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (1.38%) Ansible
9 3 (1.03%) FortiGate
9 3 (1.03%) Kubernetes
10 2 (0.69%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.34%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.34%) HP Operations Orchestration
11 1 (0.34%) Nessus
11 1 (0.34%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.34%) vRealize
11 1 (0.34%) WSUS
Vendors
1 154 (53.10%) ServiceNow
2 72 (24.83%) Microsoft
3 43 (14.83%) Remedy
4 28 (9.66%) CyberArk
5 24 (8.28%) BeyondTrust
5 24 (8.28%) Centrify
6 15 (5.17%) HP
7 14 (4.83%) BMC
8 13 (4.48%) Splunk
9 11 (3.79%) Apple
9 11 (3.79%) Citrix
9 11 (3.79%) SAP
10 10 (3.45%) Cisco
11 8 (2.76%) Ivanti
12 6 (2.07%) Salesforce
13 5 (1.72%) Dell
13 5 (1.72%) Forcepoint
13 5 (1.72%) Fortinet
14 4 (1.38%) Oracle
14 4 (1.38%) Zscaler