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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 160 154
Rank change year-on-year +41 -6 -12
Contract jobs citing ITSM 480 242 275
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.39% 1.78% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.69% 1.93% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 162 168
10th Percentile £297 £200 £254
25th Percentile £400 £309 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £599 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
England median daily rate £509 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +13.00% -10.00% +1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 1 7
10th Percentile - - £17.28
25th Percentile £18.75 - £18.13
Median hourly rate £21.00 £18.13 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.83% -4.58% +11.34%
75th Percentile £22.50 - £62.75
90th Percentile £24.25 - £80.80
England median hourly rate £32.50 £18.82 £18.13
% change year-on-year +72.69% +3.81% +25.03%

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 17,865 12,538 14,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.00% 92.17% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,797 8,407 10,335
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -0.94% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 245 209
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.94 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.33% -11.76% -18.07%
75th Percentile £56.63 £49.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.38
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -39.40% -2.35%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 +1 60 £520 +4.00% 32
West London +2 26 £400 +60.00% 4
South London -15 4 - - 1
East London +2 3 £348 -44.84% 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 19 (3.96%) SharePoint
2 18 (3.75%) Confluence
3 7 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.42%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 10 (2.08%) AutoCAD
2 8 (1.67%) Revit
3 7 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.63%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.63%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 25 (5.21%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.42%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.21%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.21%) iTrent
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 114 (23.75%) Azure
2 62 (12.92%) AWS
3 59 (12.29%) Microsoft 365
4 44 (9.17%) SaaS
5 40 (8.33%) Entra ID
6 19 (3.96%) Datadog
6 19 (3.96%) GitHub
7 17 (3.54%) GCP
8 16 (3.33%) PaaS
9 15 (3.13%) Power Platform
10 13 (2.71%) IaaS
10 13 (2.71%) OneDrive
10 13 (2.71%) OpenShift
11 11 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (1.46%) Microsoft Copilot
13 6 (1.25%) Azure AKS
13 6 (1.25%) Azure Monitor
14 4 (0.83%) Azure AI
14 4 (0.83%) Copilot Studio
14 4 (0.83%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 31 (6.46%) Firewall
2 30 (6.25%) DNS
3 25 (5.21%) VPN
4 21 (4.38%) DHCP
4 21 (4.38%) VLAN
5 20 (4.17%) TCP/IP
6 16 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
7 15 (3.13%) Network Security
8 11 (2.29%) WebEx
9 10 (2.08%) Cisco ISE
9 10 (2.08%) SAN
9 10 (2.08%) TACACS
10 6 (1.25%) WAN
10 6 (1.25%) Wireless
11 4 (0.83%) HTTP
11 4 (0.83%) Internet
12 3 (0.63%) LAN
12 3 (0.63%) SNMP
13 2 (0.42%) Intranet
13 2 (0.42%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.92%) Power BI
1 14 (2.92%) SQL Server
2 9 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.42%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (0.42%) Flink
3 2 (0.42%) InfluxDB
3 2 (0.42%) Metadata
3 2 (0.42%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.42%) MySQL
3 2 (0.42%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.42%) Redis
3 2 (0.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (0.42%) TimescaleDB
4 1 (0.21%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (0.21%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 84 (17.50%) JIRA
2 10 (2.08%) Chocolatey
2 10 (2.08%) Git
3 4 (0.83%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.83%) ScriptRunner
4 3 (0.63%) GitLab
5 2 (0.42%) AdminStudio
5 2 (0.42%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.42%) Claude Code
5 2 (0.42%) InstallShield
5 2 (0.42%) MSI
5 2 (0.42%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.21%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.21%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.21%) Selenium
6 1 (0.21%) TestRail
General
1 206 (42.92%) Social Skills
2 103 (21.46%) Analytical Skills
3 82 (17.08%) Finance
4 30 (6.25%) Telecoms
5 27 (5.63%) Public Sector
6 25 (5.21%) Banking
7 16 (3.33%) Legal
8 14 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.04%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.83%) Law
13 4 (0.83%) Retail
14 3 (0.63%) Billing
14 3 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.63%) Military
15 2 (0.42%) General Ledger
15 2 (0.42%) Italian Language
15 2 (0.42%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 66 (13.75%) Architect
2 54 (11.25%) Analyst
3 53 (11.04%) Developer
4 45 (9.38%) ServiceNow Developer
5 44 (9.17%) Senior
6 39 (8.13%) Consultant
7 38 (7.92%) ServiceNow Architect
8 29 (6.04%) Lead
9 27 (5.63%) IT Manager
10 26 (5.42%) Service Manager
11 24 (5.00%) IT Support
12 21 (4.38%) Support Engineer
13 19 (3.96%) Designer
14 18 (3.75%) Applications Support
14 18 (3.75%) IT Engineer
15 17 (3.54%) Business Analyst
16 16 (3.33%) ITSM Consultant
16 16 (3.33%) Support Analyst
17 14 (2.92%) Project Manager
17 14 (2.92%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (16.67%) REST
2 47 (9.79%) SOAP
3 20 (4.17%) Web Services
4 8 (1.67%) XML
5 7 (1.46%) .NET
5 7 (1.46%) HTML
6 6 (1.25%) CSS
6 6 (1.25%) OpenTelemetry
6 6 (1.25%) SailPoint
7 5 (1.04%) JSON
8 4 (0.83%) Ajax
8 4 (0.83%) Microsoft Graph
9 3 (0.63%) Kafka
9 3 (0.63%) Middleware
9 3 (0.63%) RESTful
10 2 (0.42%) 802.1X
10 2 (0.42%) gRPC
10 2 (0.42%) Node.js
10 2 (0.42%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (0.42%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 116 (24.17%) CMDB
2 64 (13.33%) Onboarding
3 26 (5.42%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.75%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (2.92%) AI Agents
5 14 (2.92%) Cloud Native
6 13 (2.71%) Virtual Team
7 12 (2.50%) Video Conferencing
8 11 (2.29%) Data Centre
8 11 (2.29%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (2.29%) Management Information System
9 10 (2.08%) Cyber Threat
10 9 (1.88%) Web Conferencing
11 8 (1.67%) Security Posture
12 7 (1.46%) iPhone
13 6 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
14 5 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
14 5 (1.04%) Replication
15 4 (0.83%) Data Structures
15 4 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 78 (16.25%) Windows
2 15 (3.13%) Mac OS
3 14 (2.92%) Windows 10
4 10 (2.08%) Apple iOS
5 8 (1.67%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.46%) Android
7 6 (1.25%) Linux
8 3 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.21%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (44.17%) ITIL
2 198 (41.25%) Service Management
3 122 (25.42%) Stakeholder Management
4 108 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
5 90 (18.75%) Agile
6 82 (17.08%) Continuous Improvement
7 78 (16.25%) Service Delivery
8 65 (13.54%) Change Management
9 60 (12.50%) Roadmaps
10 57 (11.88%) AI
10 57 (11.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 56 (11.67%) Customer Service
12 55 (11.46%) Incident Management
13 54 (11.25%) DevOps
14 53 (11.04%) Workflow
15 50 (10.42%) Problem Management
16 44 (9.17%) Data Modelling
16 44 (9.17%) Observability
17 43 (8.96%) Migration
18 39 (8.13%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (7.50%) JavaScript
2 32 (6.67%) PowerShell
3 31 (6.46%) Python
4 23 (4.79%) SQL
5 7 (1.46%) Java
6 6 (1.25%) Bash
7 3 (0.63%) Groovy
7 3 (0.63%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.42%) ActionScript
8 2 (0.42%) ActionScript 2.0
8 2 (0.42%) Bicep
8 2 (0.42%) C++
8 2 (0.42%) Delphi
9 1 (0.21%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.21%) Korn
9 1 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.21%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (0.21%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.21%) SOQL
9 1 (0.21%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 121 (25.21%) Security Cleared
2 92 (19.17%) SC Cleared
3 24 (5.00%) Degree
3 24 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
4 20 (4.17%) A+ Certification
5 19 (3.96%) DV Cleared
6 13 (2.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (2.50%) PMP
8 10 (2.08%) Azure Certification
8 10 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.88%) PMI Certification
10 6 (1.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 6 (1.25%) Network+ Certification
11 4 (0.83%) CISM
11 4 (0.83%) CISSP
12 3 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.63%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.42%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.42%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (10.00%) SLA
2 17 (3.54%) Data Quality
3 15 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (2.92%) GRC
4 14 (2.92%) QA
5 6 (1.25%) NIST
5 6 (1.25%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.04%) COBIT
6 5 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (0.83%) GDPR
8 3 (0.63%) PMO
8 3 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 49 (10.21%) Active Directory
2 12 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.08%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (1.88%) IAG
5 4 (0.83%) Docker
6 3 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.42%) Firmware
7 2 (0.42%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.21%) etcd
8 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 37 (7.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (4.58%) SCCM
2 22 (4.58%) Terraform
3 11 (2.29%) Kubernetes
4 10 (2.08%) Grafana
5 9 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (1.67%) FortiGate
7 7 (1.46%) Ansible
7 7 (1.46%) Control-M
8 5 (1.04%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.42%) Amdocs OSS
9 2 (0.42%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.42%) Kibana
10 1 (0.21%) CASB
10 1 (0.21%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.21%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.21%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.21%) WSUS
Vendors
1 281 (58.54%) ServiceNow
2 112 (23.33%) Microsoft
3 25 (5.21%) Dynatrace
3 25 (5.21%) Remedy
4 21 (4.38%) Salesforce
4 21 (4.38%) Splunk
4 21 (4.38%) VMware
5 17 (3.54%) BMC
6 16 (3.33%) Cisco
6 16 (3.33%) SAP
7 12 (2.50%) AppDynamics
8 11 (2.29%) Palo Alto
9 10 (2.08%) MuleSoft
9 10 (2.08%) Tenable
10 9 (1.88%) CheckPoint
10 9 (1.88%) Okta
11 8 (1.67%) Adobe
11 8 (1.67%) Apple
11 8 (1.67%) Autodesk
11 8 (1.67%) DocuSign