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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 128 139
Rank change year-on-year -3 +11 -10
Contract jobs citing ITSM 360 288 303
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.08% 2.27% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.33% 2.48% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 192 172
10th Percentile £308 £256 £206
25th Percentile £413 £413 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £720 £600 £590
90th Percentile £767 £699 £688
England median daily rate £514 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.80% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 2
10th Percentile - £19.26 -
25th Percentile £18.75 £20.97 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £23.80 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.07% +19.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £24.07 £28.15 -
90th Percentile £40.61 £30.76 -
England median hourly rate £19.50 £18.82 £14.00
% change year-on-year +3.61% +34.43% -3.45%

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 15,430 11,609 15,858
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.20% 91.65% 88.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,356 7,870 11,343
10th Percentile £352 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £443 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £675
90th Percentile £760 £801 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 168 332
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.12 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.36 £24.54 £19.83
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.06
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.43% -22.92%
75th Percentile £56.13 £50.86 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £65.00 £66.98
England median hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £34.00
% change year-on-year +23.08% -4.41% -9.33%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 -32 38 £475 -0.42% 12
South London -21 8 £364 +45.21% 1
West London -28 8 £400 -21.18% 3
East London -4 2 £675 +19.47% 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 12 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (3.06%) Confluence
2 11 (3.06%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.56%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 10 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.56%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.56%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.28%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.28%) Revit
Business Applications
1 25 (6.94%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.56%) SAP GRC
2 2 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.28%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.28%) Remedy AR System
3 1 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 99 (27.50%) Azure
2 71 (19.72%) AWS
3 49 (13.61%) Microsoft 365
4 44 (12.22%) GCP
5 26 (7.22%) SaaS
6 25 (6.94%) Entra ID
7 21 (5.83%) OpenShift
8 15 (4.17%) PaaS
8 15 (4.17%) Power Platform
9 14 (3.89%) IaaS
9 14 (3.89%) Microsoft Copilot
10 11 (3.06%) Datadog
11 10 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (2.78%) OneDrive
12 7 (1.94%) Power Automate
13 6 (1.67%) Azure AKS
13 6 (1.67%) Copilot Studio
13 6 (1.67%) PowerApps
13 6 (1.67%) Slack
14 5 (1.39%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 29 (8.06%) Firewall
2 19 (5.28%) DNS
3 17 (4.72%) DHCP
3 17 (4.72%) VPN
4 13 (3.61%) VLAN
5 9 (2.50%) WAN
5 9 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (2.50%) Wireless
6 8 (2.22%) Cisco ISE
6 8 (2.22%) Network Security
7 7 (1.94%) SAN
8 6 (1.67%) TACACS
9 5 (1.39%) IPv4
9 5 (1.39%) TCP/IP
10 4 (1.11%) LAN
10 4 (1.11%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.56%) Cisco Wireless
11 2 (0.56%) NaaS
11 2 (0.56%) NGFW
11 2 (0.56%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.17%) Power BI
2 7 (1.94%) SQL Server
3 3 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.56%) Flink
4 2 (0.56%) InfluxDB
4 2 (0.56%) Metadata
4 2 (0.56%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.56%) MySQL
4 2 (0.56%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.56%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.56%) Tableau
4 2 (0.56%) TimescaleDB
5 1 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.28%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 38 (10.56%) JIRA
2 15 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.94%) Chocolatey
4 4 (1.11%) ScriptRunner
5 3 (0.83%) Git
5 3 (0.83%) TestRail
6 2 (0.56%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.56%) Robot Framework
6 2 (0.56%) Selenium
7 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.28%) GitLab
7 1 (0.28%) REST Assured
General
1 149 (41.39%) Social Skills
2 80 (22.22%) Finance
3 49 (13.61%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (8.06%) Banking
5 28 (7.78%) Documentation Skills
6 22 (6.11%) Public Sector
7 20 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
8 14 (3.89%) Telecoms
9 9 (2.50%) Legal
10 5 (1.39%) Billing
10 5 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.83%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.56%) General Ledger
13 2 (0.56%) Law
13 2 (0.56%) Military
13 2 (0.56%) Retail
14 1 (0.28%) International Banking
14 1 (0.28%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 95 (26.39%) Architect
2 48 (13.33%) CyberArk Architect
3 42 (11.67%) Analyst
4 35 (9.72%) Consultant
5 32 (8.89%) Developer
6 31 (8.61%) ServiceNow Architect
7 21 (5.83%) Senior
8 20 (5.56%) ServiceNow Developer
9 19 (5.28%) Lead
10 15 (4.17%) IT Engineer
11 13 (3.61%) IT Support
11 13 (3.61%) Service Analyst
11 13 (3.61%) ServiceNow Consultant
11 13 (3.61%) Support Engineer
12 12 (3.33%) IT Manager
12 12 (3.33%) Service Manager
13 11 (3.06%) Azure Engineer
13 11 (3.06%) Technical Architect
14 9 (2.50%) Business Analyst
14 9 (2.50%) ServiceNow Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (21.11%) REST
2 66 (18.33%) SOAP
3 48 (13.33%) LDAP
4 13 (3.61%) OpenID
4 13 (3.61%) SAML
5 8 (2.22%) Web Services
6 6 (1.67%) CSS
6 6 (1.67%) HTML
7 4 (1.11%) .NET
7 4 (1.11%) Middleware
7 4 (1.11%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (0.83%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.83%) Kafka
8 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Graph
8 3 (0.83%) SailPoint
9 2 (0.56%) 802.1X
9 2 (0.56%) Node.js
9 2 (0.56%) OAuth
9 2 (0.56%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (0.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 71 (19.72%) CMDB
2 39 (10.83%) Onboarding
2 39 (10.83%) Security Posture
3 38 (10.56%) Enterprise Software
4 30 (8.33%) Product Ownership
5 19 (5.28%) Cloud Native
6 12 (3.33%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.22%) AI Agents
7 8 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.94%) Cyber Threat
9 6 (1.67%) Driving Licence
10 5 (1.39%) Replication
11 4 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.11%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.83%) iPhone
12 3 (0.83%) Mainframe
12 3 (0.83%) Mobile App
12 3 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 53 (14.72%) Windows
2 19 (5.28%) Windows 10
3 14 (3.89%) Mac OS
4 11 (3.06%) Android
5 7 (1.94%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.94%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.83%) Unix
7 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.28%) Linux
8 1 (0.28%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (36.67%) ITIL
2 110 (30.56%) Service Management
3 93 (25.83%) Problem-Solving
4 79 (21.94%) Stakeholder Management
5 71 (19.72%) Agile
6 65 (18.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 54 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
8 52 (14.44%) Continuous Improvement
8 52 (14.44%) Integration Patterns
9 51 (14.17%) Change Management
9 51 (14.17%) Service Delivery
10 50 (13.89%) DevOps
11 49 (13.61%) SIEM
12 43 (11.94%) Migration
13 39 (10.83%) Problem Management
14 36 (10.00%) Privileged Access Management
14 36 (10.00%) Workflow
15 35 (9.72%) Task Automation
16 34 (9.44%) Presales
16 34 (9.44%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 50 (13.89%) PowerShell
2 45 (12.50%) Python
3 23 (6.39%) JavaScript
4 10 (2.78%) SQL
5 5 (1.39%) Java
6 4 (1.11%) Bicep
6 4 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (0.83%) Groovy
8 2 (0.56%) C++
9 1 (0.28%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.28%) Korn
9 1 (0.28%) Perl
9 1 (0.28%) R
9 1 (0.28%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (0.28%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 109 (30.28%) Security Cleared
2 96 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 20 (5.56%) Degree
4 19 (5.28%) DV Cleared
5 11 (3.06%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (1.67%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.67%) PMP
7 4 (1.11%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.83%) CISA
8 3 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.83%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 3 (0.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (0.56%) A+ Certification
9 2 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.56%) CCNA
9 2 (0.56%) CCNP
9 2 (0.56%) CISSP
9 2 (0.56%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.28%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (10.00%) SLA
2 24 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (6.39%) Data Quality
4 17 (4.72%) NIST
5 15 (4.17%) NCSC
6 11 (3.06%) GRC
6 11 (3.06%) QA
7 9 (2.50%) GDPR
8 8 (2.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (1.94%) PCI DSS
10 4 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.83%) COBIT
12 2 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 1 (0.28%) ITGC
13 1 (0.28%) PMO
System Software
1 68 (18.89%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.83%) IAG
4 2 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.28%) etcd
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.28%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (7.22%) SCCM
2 20 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 19 (5.28%) Kubernetes
4 8 (2.22%) Terraform
5 6 (1.67%) FortiGate
6 5 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.11%) SCOM
8 3 (0.83%) Ansible
8 3 (0.83%) HP ALM
8 3 (0.83%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.83%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.56%) Amdocs OSS
9 2 (0.56%) Grafana
10 1 (0.28%) CASB
10 1 (0.28%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.28%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 199 (55.28%) ServiceNow
2 59 (16.39%) Microsoft
3 51 (14.17%) CyberArk
4 34 (9.44%) BeyondTrust
4 34 (9.44%) Centrify
5 25 (6.94%) Remedy
6 19 (5.28%) Splunk
7 16 (4.44%) Cisco
7 16 (4.44%) SAP
8 13 (3.61%) Dynatrace
9 12 (3.33%) Salesforce
9 12 (3.33%) VMware
10 9 (2.50%) AppDynamics
10 9 (2.50%) Apple
11 8 (2.22%) HP
12 7 (1.94%) BMC
12 7 (1.94%) Palo Alto
12 7 (1.94%) Tenable
13 5 (1.39%) CheckPoint
13 5 (1.39%) Zscaler