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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 155 157
Rank change year-on-year +35 +2 -21
Contract jobs citing ITSM 467 237 271
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.34% 1.75% 1.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.63% 1.89% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 157 165
10th Percentile £291 £200 £253
25th Percentile £405 £308 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% -1.00% +0.76%
75th Percentile £603 £608 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
England median daily rate £510 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +13.33% -10.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 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 £24.75 - £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 17,727 12,515 14,665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.25% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,711 8,371 10,405
10th Percentile £363 £326 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £653 £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 283 241 219
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.19
25th Percentile £20.26 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.03% -12.41% -17.47%
75th Percentile £57.25 £49.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.38
England median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +86.48% -37.63% -5.12%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +7 58 £520 +4.00% 27
West London -2 26 £400 +60.00% 5
South London -16 4 - - 1
East London +3 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 (4.07%) SharePoint
2 18 (3.85%) Confluence
3 7 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.43%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 10 (2.14%) AutoCAD
2 8 (1.71%) Revit
3 6 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.64%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.64%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 25 (5.35%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.43%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.21%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 110 (23.55%) Azure
2 60 (12.85%) AWS
3 56 (11.99%) Microsoft 365
4 43 (9.21%) SaaS
5 38 (8.14%) Entra ID
6 19 (4.07%) GitHub
7 18 (3.85%) Datadog
8 15 (3.21%) GCP
8 15 (3.21%) PaaS
8 15 (3.21%) Power Platform
9 13 (2.78%) OneDrive
10 12 (2.57%) IaaS
11 11 (2.36%) OpenShift
12 8 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (1.50%) Microsoft Copilot
14 6 (1.28%) Azure AKS
14 6 (1.28%) Azure Monitor
15 4 (0.86%) Azure AI
15 4 (0.86%) Copilot Studio
15 4 (0.86%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 28 (6.00%) Firewall
2 27 (5.78%) DNS
3 24 (5.14%) VPN
4 20 (4.28%) DHCP
4 20 (4.28%) TCP/IP
4 20 (4.28%) VLAN
5 15 (3.21%) Wi-Fi
6 14 (3.00%) Network Security
7 10 (2.14%) Cisco ISE
7 10 (2.14%) TACACS
8 9 (1.93%) SAN
8 9 (1.93%) WebEx
9 6 (1.28%) WAN
10 5 (1.07%) Wireless
11 3 (0.64%) HTTP
11 3 (0.64%) Internet
11 3 (0.64%) LAN
11 3 (0.64%) SNMP
12 2 (0.43%) Intranet
12 2 (0.43%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.00%) Power BI
2 13 (2.78%) SQL Server
3 9 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.43%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.43%) Flink
4 2 (0.43%) InfluxDB
4 2 (0.43%) Metadata
4 2 (0.43%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.43%) MySQL
4 2 (0.43%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.43%) Redis
4 2 (0.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (0.43%) TimescaleDB
5 1 (0.21%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (0.21%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 84 (17.99%) JIRA
2 10 (2.14%) Git
3 9 (1.93%) Chocolatey
4 4 (0.86%) ScriptRunner
5 2 (0.43%) AdminStudio
5 2 (0.43%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.43%) Claude Code
5 2 (0.43%) InstallShield
5 2 (0.43%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.43%) MSI
5 2 (0.43%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.21%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.21%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.21%) GitLab
6 1 (0.21%) Selenium
6 1 (0.21%) TestRail
General
1 199 (42.61%) Social Skills
2 100 (21.41%) Analytical Skills
3 79 (16.92%) Finance
4 29 (6.21%) Telecoms
5 25 (5.35%) Public Sector
6 24 (5.14%) Banking
7 16 (3.43%) Legal
8 14 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.07%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.86%) Law
12 4 (0.86%) Retail
13 3 (0.64%) Billing
13 3 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.64%) Military
14 2 (0.43%) General Ledger
14 2 (0.43%) Local Government
15 1 (0.21%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 67 (14.35%) Architect
2 52 (11.13%) Analyst
3 50 (10.71%) Developer
4 42 (8.99%) ServiceNow Developer
5 41 (8.78%) Senior
6 40 (8.57%) Consultant
6 40 (8.57%) ServiceNow Architect
7 29 (6.21%) Lead
8 27 (5.78%) IT Manager
9 25 (5.35%) Service Manager
10 24 (5.14%) IT Support
11 21 (4.50%) Support Engineer
12 18 (3.85%) Applications Support
13 17 (3.64%) Business Analyst
13 17 (3.64%) Designer
13 17 (3.64%) IT Engineer
14 16 (3.43%) ITSM Consultant
15 15 (3.21%) Support Analyst
16 14 (3.00%) Project Manager
16 14 (3.00%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (16.92%) REST
2 48 (10.28%) SOAP
3 19 (4.07%) Web Services
4 7 (1.50%) .NET
4 7 (1.50%) XML
5 6 (1.28%) HTML
5 6 (1.28%) SailPoint
6 5 (1.07%) CSS
6 5 (1.07%) JSON
7 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Graph
7 4 (0.86%) Middleware
7 4 (0.86%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (0.64%) Ajax
8 3 (0.64%) Kafka
8 3 (0.64%) RESTful
9 2 (0.43%) ADO
9 2 (0.43%) EDI
9 2 (0.43%) LDAP
9 2 (0.43%) Node.js
9 2 (0.43%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 117 (25.05%) CMDB
2 60 (12.85%) Onboarding
3 26 (5.57%) Product Ownership
4 17 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (2.78%) Cloud Native
5 13 (2.78%) Virtual Team
6 12 (2.57%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (2.36%) AI Agents
7 11 (2.36%) Data Centre
8 10 (2.14%) Video Conferencing
9 9 (1.93%) Cyber Threat
9 9 (1.93%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.71%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.50%) iPhone
11 7 (1.50%) Web Conferencing
12 6 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
13 5 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (1.07%) Replication
14 4 (0.86%) Data Structures
14 4 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 71 (15.20%) Windows
2 17 (3.64%) Mac OS
3 12 (2.57%) Apple iOS
3 12 (2.57%) Windows 10
4 9 (1.93%) Android
5 5 (1.07%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.86%) Linux
7 3 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.21%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (44.11%) ITIL
2 194 (41.54%) Service Management
3 116 (24.84%) Stakeholder Management
4 107 (22.91%) Problem-Solving
5 89 (19.06%) Agile
6 79 (16.92%) Continuous Improvement
7 74 (15.85%) Service Delivery
8 63 (13.49%) Change Management
9 61 (13.06%) Roadmaps
10 57 (12.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 56 (11.99%) Customer Service
12 54 (11.56%) Incident Management
13 53 (11.35%) AI
13 53 (11.35%) Workflow
14 50 (10.71%) DevOps
15 47 (10.06%) Problem Management
16 45 (9.64%) Data Modelling
17 43 (9.21%) Migration
18 42 (8.99%) Observability
19 38 (8.14%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (7.92%) JavaScript
2 29 (6.21%) PowerShell
3 28 (6.00%) Python
4 21 (4.50%) SQL
5 7 (1.50%) Java
6 4 (0.86%) Bash
7 3 (0.64%) Groovy
7 3 (0.64%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.43%) ActionScript
8 2 (0.43%) ActionScript 2.0
8 2 (0.43%) Bicep
8 2 (0.43%) C++
8 2 (0.43%) Delphi
8 2 (0.43%) Korn
9 1 (0.21%) Apex Code
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
Qualifications
1 117 (25.05%) Security Cleared
2 90 (19.27%) SC Cleared
3 23 (4.93%) ITIL Certification
4 22 (4.71%) Degree
5 19 (4.07%) DV Cleared
6 18 (3.85%) A+ Certification
7 12 (2.57%) PMP
8 11 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.93%) Azure Certification
9 9 (1.93%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.93%) PMI Certification
10 8 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.28%) Network+ Certification
12 5 (1.07%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.64%) CISM
13 3 (0.64%) CISSP
13 3 (0.64%) Master's Degree
14 2 (0.43%) AWS Certification
14 2 (0.43%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (9.64%) SLA
2 17 (3.64%) Data Quality
3 15 (3.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (3.00%) GRC
5 12 (2.57%) QA
6 6 (1.28%) NIST
6 6 (1.28%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.07%) COBIT
7 5 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.86%) GDPR
9 3 (0.64%) PMO
9 3 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 46 (9.85%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.93%) IAG
4 7 (1.50%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.43%) Docker
6 2 (0.43%) Firmware
6 2 (0.43%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.21%) etcd
7 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 35 (7.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (4.28%) SCCM
2 20 (4.28%) Terraform
3 10 (2.14%) Grafana
4 9 (1.93%) Kubernetes
4 9 (1.93%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (1.71%) FortiGate
6 7 (1.50%) Control-M
7 5 (1.07%) Ansible
7 5 (1.07%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.43%) Amdocs OSS
8 2 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.43%) Kibana
9 1 (0.21%) CASB
9 1 (0.21%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.21%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.21%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.21%) WSUS
Vendors
1 276 (59.10%) ServiceNow
2 101 (21.63%) Microsoft
3 25 (5.35%) Remedy
4 22 (4.71%) Dynatrace
5 21 (4.50%) Salesforce
5 21 (4.50%) Splunk
6 20 (4.28%) VMware
7 16 (3.43%) BMC
7 16 (3.43%) Cisco
8 15 (3.21%) SAP
9 11 (2.36%) AppDynamics
9 11 (2.36%) Palo Alto
10 10 (2.14%) MuleSoft
11 9 (1.93%) CheckPoint
11 9 (1.93%) Tenable
12 8 (1.71%) Adobe
12 8 (1.71%) Apple
12 8 (1.71%) Autodesk
12 8 (1.71%) DocuSign
12 8 (1.71%) Nexthink