ITSM Contracts in London

IT Service Management (ITSM)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for ITSM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ITSM over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 149 127 228
Rank change year-on-year -22 +101 +59
Contract jobs citing ITSM 299 530 504
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.70% 2.02% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 2.22% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 364 381
10th Percentile £208 £250 £206
25th Percentile £343 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £460 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -12.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £600
90th Percentile £688 £725 £675
England median daily rate £500 £455 £485
% change year-on-year +9.89% -6.19% +2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 8
10th Percentile £17.07 £16.13 £17.90
25th Percentile £18.13 £17.10 £20.38
Median hourly rate £19.07 £20.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £20.00 £21.00 £25.40
90th Percentile £38.75 £28.00 £33.32
England median hourly rate £14.00 £14.50 £13.66
% change year-on-year -3.45% +6.15% -26.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

ITSM is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,587 23,906 35,666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.68% 90.95% 92.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,195 17,189 26,035
10th Percentile £340 £375 £389
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £680 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 314 270 421
10th Percentile £15.96 £18.45 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +6.85% +11.11%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.19 £51.00
90th Percentile £65.93 £80.23 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

ITSM
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing ITSM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for ITSM in London

ITSM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ITSM in London.

Daily rate trend for ITSM in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITSM in London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ITSM in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ITSM in London.

Hourly rate trend for ITSM in London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ITSM in London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for ITSM in London

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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 7 May 2024. 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 -4 29 £538 +19.44% 8
West London +15 9 £270 -43.16% 3
East London +3 8 £395 +23.44% 2
South London +5 3 £250 -47.37% 2
ITSM
England

ITSM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (3.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (3.34%) Skype for Business
3 5 (1.67%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.34%) CMS
5 2 (0.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 31 (10.37%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (4.01%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.00%) SAP ERP
2 3 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.67%) Remedy AR System
3 2 (0.67%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.67%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.67%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (0.67%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 34 (11.37%) Microsoft 365
2 23 (7.69%) Azure
3 13 (4.35%) AWS
4 7 (2.34%) GCP
5 6 (2.01%) IaaS
6 4 (1.34%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.00%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.00%) GitHub
8 2 (0.67%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (0.67%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (0.67%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (0.67%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (0.67%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (0.67%) Google Workspace
8 2 (0.67%) Route 53
8 2 (0.67%) SaaS
8 2 (0.67%) Serverless
8 2 (0.67%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (0.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (7.02%) VPN
2 14 (4.68%) Wireless
3 11 (3.68%) Firewall
3 11 (3.68%) Skype
3 11 (3.68%) WAN
4 7 (2.34%) Cisco Nexus
4 7 (2.34%) LAN
5 6 (2.01%) BGP
5 6 (2.01%) IPsec
5 6 (2.01%) MPLS
5 6 (2.01%) OSPF
5 6 (2.01%) VXLAN
6 4 (1.34%) Cisco Wireless
6 4 (1.34%) DWDM
6 4 (1.34%) IP Telephony
6 4 (1.34%) SD-WAN
6 4 (1.34%) VoIP
7 3 (1.00%) DHCP
7 3 (1.00%) DNS
7 3 (1.00%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.01%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.00%) Power BI
2 3 (1.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.67%) Pentaho
3 2 (0.67%) Tableau
4 1 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.33%) DB2
4 1 (0.33%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 5 (1.67%) JIRA
2 3 (1.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.67%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.33%) Git
General
1 86 (28.76%) Social Skills
2 72 (24.08%) Finance
3 33 (11.04%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (9.36%) Banking
5 19 (6.35%) Public Sector
5 19 (6.35%) Telecoms
6 12 (4.01%) Legal
7 8 (2.68%) Financial Institution
7 8 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.01%) Retail
9 4 (1.34%) French Language
9 4 (1.34%) Marketing
10 2 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.67%) Electronics
10 2 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.67%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.67%) Military
11 1 (0.33%) Front Office
11 1 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 63 (21.07%) Analyst
2 60 (20.07%) Architect
3 36 (12.04%) ServiceNow Architect
4 34 (11.37%) Service Analyst
5 29 (9.70%) Developer
6 26 (8.70%) IT Analyst
6 26 (8.70%) ServiceNow Developer
7 23 (7.69%) Consultant
8 21 (7.02%) Service Desk Analyst
9 19 (6.35%) Senior
10 18 (6.02%) Service Architect
11 17 (5.69%) Service Manager
12 16 (5.35%) Banking Analyst
12 16 (5.35%) Business Analyst
13 15 (5.02%) ITSM Developer
13 15 (5.02%) Lead
14 12 (4.01%) Data Analyst
15 11 (3.68%) Business IT Analyst
16 10 (3.34%) Desktop Support
16 10 (3.34%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.01%) Web Services
2 5 (1.67%) JSON
2 5 (1.67%) SOAP
2 5 (1.67%) XML
3 4 (1.34%) AngularJS
3 4 (1.34%) CSS
3 4 (1.34%) HTML
4 3 (1.00%) REST
5 2 (0.67%) Ajax
5 2 (0.67%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 1 (0.33%) .NET
6 1 (0.33%) DCOM
6 1 (0.33%) DHTML
6 1 (0.33%) JAX-WS
6 1 (0.33%) LDAP
6 1 (0.33%) Middleware
6 1 (0.33%) SAML
6 1 (0.33%) WSDL
6 1 (0.33%) XHTML
6 1 (0.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 48 (16.05%) CMDB
2 12 (4.01%) Management Information System
3 7 (2.34%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (2.34%) Hedge funds
3 7 (2.34%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.01%) iPhone
5 4 (1.34%) Blackberry
6 3 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.00%) NHS
6 3 (1.00%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.67%) Driving Licence
7 2 (0.67%) FMCG
7 2 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.67%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (0.67%) Smartphone
8 1 (0.33%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.33%) Media Streaming
8 1 (0.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 49 (16.39%) Windows
2 31 (10.37%) Windows 10
3 12 (4.01%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.34%) Apple iOS
5 9 (3.01%) Linux
6 8 (2.68%) Unix
7 7 (2.34%) Windows 7
8 3 (1.00%) Mac OS
8 3 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.00%) VMS
9 2 (0.67%) Android
9 2 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (54.18%) ITIL
2 124 (41.47%) Service Management
3 54 (18.06%) Change Management
4 48 (16.05%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (14.05%) Customer Service
6 38 (12.71%) Incident Management
7 34 (11.37%) Agile
8 32 (10.70%) Customer Requirements
9 30 (10.03%) Service Delivery
10 24 (8.03%) Configuration Management
11 23 (7.69%) Problem Management
12 21 (7.02%) Asset Management
13 20 (6.69%) Project Management
14 14 (4.68%) Service Design
15 13 (4.35%) Continuous Improvement
15 13 (4.35%) DevOps
15 13 (4.35%) Roadmaps
16 12 (4.01%) Stakeholder Management
17 9 (3.01%) Computer Science
17 9 (3.01%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (2.68%) SQL
2 7 (2.34%) PowerShell
3 5 (1.67%) JavaScript
4 2 (0.67%) Bash
5 1 (0.33%) Apex Code
5 1 (0.33%) C
5 1 (0.33%) C#
5 1 (0.33%) C++
5 1 (0.33%) Perl
5 1 (0.33%) Python
5 1 (0.33%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 43 (14.38%) Security Cleared
2 30 (10.03%) SC Cleared
3 29 (9.70%) Degree
4 23 (7.69%) ITIL Certification
5 19 (6.35%) DV Cleared
6 10 (3.34%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (2.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (2.01%) CCNA
8 6 (2.01%) CCNP
8 6 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 4 (1.34%) MCITP
10 2 (0.67%) A+ Certification
10 2 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.67%) CCIE
10 2 (0.67%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.67%) PMP
10 2 (0.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.33%) MCP
11 1 (0.33%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (12.04%) SLA
2 4 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.00%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.67%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.67%) GRC
4 2 (0.67%) QA
5 1 (0.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 30 (10.03%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.34%) Firmware
3 5 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.34%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.00%) vSphere
6 1 (0.33%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (4.35%) SCCM
2 8 (2.68%) Jamf Pro
3 6 (2.01%) SCOM
4 5 (1.67%) Ansible
4 5 (1.67%) Progress Chef
4 5 (1.67%) Puppet
5 4 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.00%) Terraform
6 3 (1.00%) vRealize
6 3 (1.00%) VxRail
7 2 (0.67%) AirWatch
7 2 (0.67%) Nagios
7 2 (0.67%) Salt
7 2 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.67%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.33%) OPNET
Vendors
1 120 (40.13%) ServiceNow
2 59 (19.73%) Microsoft
3 14 (4.68%) VMware
4 12 (4.01%) Cisco
4 12 (4.01%) Citrix
4 12 (4.01%) Remedy
5 11 (3.68%) Apple
5 11 (3.68%) SAP
6 9 (3.01%) Splunk
7 7 (2.34%) Dell
8 6 (2.01%) F5
8 6 (2.01%) Infoblox
8 6 (2.01%) Qualys
9 5 (1.67%) BMC
9 5 (1.67%) HP
10 4 (1.34%) Avaya
10 4 (1.34%) Becrypt
10 4 (1.34%) Freshdesk
10 4 (1.34%) SolarWinds
11 3 (1.00%) LogRhythm