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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 160 152
Rank change year-on-year +33 -8 -19
Contract jobs citing ITSM 396 206 289
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.15% 1.71% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.43% 1.85% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 140 166
10th Percentile £340 £250 £208
25th Percentile £450 £400 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £516 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% +3.25% +5.26%
75th Percentile £700 £619 £584
90th Percentile £765 £700 £688
England median daily rate £520 £475 £499
% change year-on-year +9.47% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 7
10th Percentile - £19.26 £17.28
25th Percentile £18.75 £20.97 £18.13
Median hourly rate £19.50 £23.80 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.07% +19.00% +1.13%
75th Percentile £24.07 £28.15 £38.75
90th Percentile £40.61 £30.76 £61.70
England median hourly rate £27.94 £18.82 £17.00
% change year-on-year +48.46% +10.71% +17.24%

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 16,309 11,148 15,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.69% 92.30% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,878 7,454 11,015
10th Percentile £358 £350 £338
25th Percentile £435 £430 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -1.55% -0.36% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 194 318
10th Percentile £18.14 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.16 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £36.75 £32.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.95% +15.18% -28.59%
75th Percentile £58.98 £49.69 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.73 £63.18 £68.23
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.53 £37.50
% change year-on-year +64.77% -23.93% +0.54%

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 4 June 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 4 June 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 4 June 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 -11 40 £525 +5.00% 25
West London -21 13 £400 +60.00% 4
South London -9 6 £190 -20.08% 1
East London -6 2 £550 -12.70% 4
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 11 (2.78%) Confluence
2 8 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.02%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.51%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 9 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.26%) AutoCAD
2 5 (1.26%) Revit
3 3 (0.76%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.76%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 22 (5.56%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.25%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.25%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.25%) Remedy AR System
3 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 101 (25.51%) Azure
2 81 (20.45%) AWS
3 44 (11.11%) GCP
4 41 (10.35%) Microsoft 365
5 26 (6.57%) SaaS
6 23 (5.81%) Entra ID
7 21 (5.30%) OpenShift
8 18 (4.55%) Power Platform
9 13 (3.28%) Microsoft Copilot
9 13 (3.28%) PaaS
10 12 (3.03%) IaaS
11 11 (2.78%) Datadog
12 7 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (1.77%) OneDrive
13 6 (1.52%) Azure AKS
13 6 (1.52%) Copilot Studio
13 6 (1.52%) Power Automate
13 6 (1.52%) PowerApps
13 6 (1.52%) Slack
14 4 (1.01%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (5.30%) Firewall
2 16 (4.04%) VLAN
3 14 (3.54%) VPN
4 12 (3.03%) DNS
4 12 (3.03%) Network Security
5 10 (2.53%) DHCP
5 10 (2.53%) Wi-Fi
6 9 (2.27%) Cisco ISE
6 9 (2.27%) TACACS
6 9 (2.27%) WAN
7 7 (1.77%) SAN
8 6 (1.52%) TCP/IP
9 4 (1.01%) LAN
9 4 (1.01%) SD-WAN
9 4 (1.01%) Wireless
10 3 (0.76%) SNMP
11 2 (0.51%) 5G
11 2 (0.51%) BGP
11 2 (0.51%) Internet
11 2 (0.51%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.55%) Power BI
2 8 (2.02%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.51%) Flink
4 2 (0.51%) InfluxDB
4 2 (0.51%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.51%) MySQL
4 2 (0.51%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.51%) TimescaleDB
5 1 (0.25%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.25%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.25%) Metadata
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (0.25%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 57 (14.39%) JIRA
2 13 (3.28%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.77%) Chocolatey
4 4 (1.01%) ScriptRunner
5 3 (0.76%) Git
6 2 (0.51%) AdminStudio
6 2 (0.51%) InstallShield
6 2 (0.51%) MSI
6 2 (0.51%) Robot Framework
6 2 (0.51%) TestRail
7 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.25%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.25%) Selenium
General
1 157 (39.65%) Social Skills
2 73 (18.43%) Finance
3 63 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
4 24 (6.06%) Telecoms
5 23 (5.81%) Banking
6 19 (4.80%) Public Sector
7 18 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (3.03%) Legal
9 7 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.26%) Billing
11 5 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.01%) Retail
13 3 (0.76%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.51%) General Ledger
14 2 (0.51%) Military
15 1 (0.25%) International Banking
15 1 (0.25%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.25%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 105 (26.52%) Architect
2 50 (12.63%) Analyst
3 48 (12.12%) CyberArk Architect
4 40 (10.10%) ServiceNow Architect
5 34 (8.59%) Consultant
6 28 (7.07%) Developer
7 27 (6.82%) Senior
8 23 (5.81%) IT Manager
9 18 (4.55%) ServiceNow Developer
10 16 (4.04%) Lead
10 16 (4.04%) Service Manager
11 15 (3.79%) Business Analyst
12 12 (3.03%) Service Analyst
13 11 (2.78%) IT Support
13 11 (2.78%) Network Engineer
13 11 (2.78%) ServiceNow Consultant
13 11 (2.78%) Technical Architect
14 10 (2.53%) Designer
14 10 (2.53%) ITSM Consultant
14 10 (2.53%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (21.46%) REST
2 70 (17.68%) SOAP
3 49 (12.37%) LDAP
4 13 (3.28%) OpenID
4 13 (3.28%) SAML
5 11 (2.78%) Web Services
6 7 (1.77%) HTML
7 6 (1.52%) .NET
7 6 (1.52%) CSS
8 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Graph
8 5 (1.26%) Middleware
9 4 (1.01%) OpenTelemetry
10 3 (0.76%) AngularJS
10 3 (0.76%) Kafka
11 2 (0.51%) JSON
11 2 (0.51%) Node.js
11 2 (0.51%) OAuth
11 2 (0.51%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (0.51%) RESTful
11 2 (0.51%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 83 (20.96%) CMDB
2 52 (13.13%) Onboarding
3 41 (10.35%) Enterprise Software
4 40 (10.10%) Security Posture
5 27 (6.82%) Product Ownership
6 19 (4.80%) Cloud Native
7 10 (2.53%) Data Centre
8 8 (2.02%) AI Agents
9 7 (1.77%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (1.52%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
13 3 (0.76%) Mainframe
13 3 (0.76%) Replication
14 2 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
14 2 (0.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 2 (0.51%) Mobile App
14 2 (0.51%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 40 (10.10%) Windows
2 11 (2.78%) Mac OS
3 7 (1.77%) Windows 10
4 6 (1.52%) Android
5 5 (1.26%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.26%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.01%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.25%) VMS
8 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (41.92%) ITIL
2 135 (34.09%) Service Management
3 101 (25.51%) Problem-Solving
4 91 (22.98%) Stakeholder Management
5 70 (17.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 61 (15.40%) Agile
6 61 (15.40%) Service Delivery
7 55 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
8 52 (13.13%) Integration Patterns
9 51 (12.88%) SIEM
9 51 (12.88%) Technical Leadership
10 48 (12.12%) Change Management
11 46 (11.62%) DevOps
11 46 (11.62%) Roadmaps
12 42 (10.61%) Migration
12 42 (10.61%) Problem Management
12 42 (10.61%) Workflow
13 39 (9.85%) Incident Management
14 37 (9.34%) AI
15 36 (9.09%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (11.87%) Python
2 46 (11.62%) PowerShell
3 28 (7.07%) JavaScript
4 15 (3.79%) SQL
5 7 (1.77%) Java
6 3 (0.76%) Groovy
6 3 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (0.76%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.51%) ActionScript
7 2 (0.51%) ActionScript 2.0
7 2 (0.51%) Bicep
7 2 (0.51%) C++
8 1 (0.25%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.25%) Bash
8 1 (0.25%) Korn
8 1 (0.25%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (0.25%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 111 (28.03%) Security Cleared
2 95 (23.99%) SC Cleared
3 20 (5.05%) ITIL Certification
4 18 (4.55%) DV Cleared
5 13 (3.28%) Degree
6 8 (2.02%) PMP
7 6 (1.52%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.01%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.76%) CISA
10 3 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.76%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 3 (0.76%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.51%) CCNA
11 2 (0.51%) CISSP
12 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.25%) CCNP
12 1 (0.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.25%) MBA
12 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (10.61%) SLA
2 27 (6.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (5.05%) Data Quality
4 17 (4.29%) NIST
5 15 (3.79%) NCSC
6 8 (2.02%) QA
7 7 (1.77%) COBIT
7 7 (1.77%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (1.52%) GDPR
8 6 (1.52%) GRC
9 4 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.51%) PMO
12 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.25%) ITGC
System Software
1 58 (14.65%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
2 6 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.76%) IAG
4 2 (0.51%) Firmware
4 2 (0.51%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.25%) Docker
5 1 (0.25%) etcd
5 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 20 (5.05%) Kubernetes
2 16 (4.04%) SCCM
3 14 (3.54%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (1.77%) FortiGate
5 6 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (1.26%) Terraform
7 3 (0.76%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.51%) Amdocs OSS
8 2 (0.51%) Ansible
8 2 (0.51%) Grafana
8 2 (0.51%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.51%) Kibana
9 1 (0.25%) CASB
9 1 (0.25%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.25%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 215 (54.29%) ServiceNow
2 64 (16.16%) Microsoft
3 49 (12.37%) CyberArk
4 34 (8.59%) BeyondTrust
4 34 (8.59%) Centrify
5 22 (5.56%) Remedy
6 18 (4.55%) Splunk
7 17 (4.29%) Salesforce
8 16 (4.04%) Cisco
9 14 (3.54%) SAP
10 13 (3.28%) VMware
11 12 (3.03%) Dynatrace
12 10 (2.53%) BMC
12 10 (2.53%) Palo Alto
13 9 (2.27%) AppDynamics
14 8 (2.02%) CheckPoint
15 7 (1.77%) Tenable
16 6 (1.52%) Adobe
16 6 (1.52%) Atlassian
16 6 (1.52%) Fortinet