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

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 160 149
Rank change year-on-year +28 -11 -15
Contract jobs citing ITSM 400 207 296
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.15% 1.69% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.43% 1.84% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 141 171
10th Percentile £340 £250 £208
25th Percentile £450 £363 £339
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £700 £600 £595
90th Percentile £755 £700 £688
England median daily rate £523 £456 £500
% change year-on-year +14.58% -8.80% +5.26%
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 £32.50 £18.82 £17.00
% change year-on-year +72.69% +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 16,491 11,277 15,581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.67% 92.29% 88.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,998 7,532 11,159
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £435 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £682 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 198 318
10th Percentile £18.48 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.22 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.70 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +14.70% +15.73% -27.95%
75th Percentile £58.96 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £79.25 £63.75 £68.23
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.60 £37.50
% change year-on-year +66.08% -23.73% +3.81%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -17 40 £525 +5.53% 27
West London -18 13 £400 +60.00% 3
South London -7 6 £190 -20.08%
East London -6 2 £550 -12.70% 2
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 (2.75%) Confluence
2 8 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.50%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 9 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.25%) AutoCAD
2 5 (1.25%) Revit
3 3 (0.75%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.75%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 21 (5.25%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.50%) 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
1 102 (25.50%) Azure
2 82 (20.50%) AWS
3 44 (11.00%) GCP
4 41 (10.25%) Microsoft 365
5 26 (6.50%) SaaS
6 23 (5.75%) Entra ID
7 21 (5.25%) OpenShift
8 18 (4.50%) Power Platform
9 13 (3.25%) Microsoft Copilot
9 13 (3.25%) PaaS
10 12 (3.00%) IaaS
11 11 (2.75%) Datadog
12 7 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (1.75%) OneDrive
13 6 (1.50%) Azure AKS
13 6 (1.50%) Copilot Studio
13 6 (1.50%) Power Automate
13 6 (1.50%) PowerApps
13 6 (1.50%) Slack
14 4 (1.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.50%) Firewall
2 16 (4.00%) VLAN
3 15 (3.75%) VPN
4 13 (3.25%) DNS
5 12 (3.00%) Network Security
6 10 (2.50%) DHCP
6 10 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
7 9 (2.25%) Cisco ISE
7 9 (2.25%) TACACS
7 9 (2.25%) WAN
8 7 (1.75%) SAN
8 7 (1.75%) TCP/IP
9 4 (1.00%) LAN
9 4 (1.00%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.75%) SNMP
10 3 (0.75%) Wireless
11 2 (0.50%) BGP
11 2 (0.50%) Internet
11 2 (0.50%) NGFW
11 2 (0.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.50%) Power BI
2 8 (2.00%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.50%) Flink
4 2 (0.50%) InfluxDB
4 2 (0.50%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.50%) MySQL
4 2 (0.50%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.50%) 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 (14.25%) JIRA
2 13 (3.25%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.75%) Chocolatey
4 4 (1.00%) ScriptRunner
5 3 (0.75%) Git
6 2 (0.50%) AdminStudio
6 2 (0.50%) InstallShield
6 2 (0.50%) MSI
6 2 (0.50%) Robot Framework
6 2 (0.50%) TestRail
7 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.25%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.25%) Selenium
General
1 159 (39.75%) Social Skills
2 73 (18.25%) Finance
3 63 (15.75%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
5 24 (6.00%) Telecoms
6 22 (5.50%) Banking
7 19 (4.75%) Public Sector
8 18 (4.50%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (3.00%) Legal
10 7 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.25%) Billing
12 5 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.00%) Retail
14 3 (0.75%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.50%) General Ledger
15 2 (0.50%) Military
16 1 (0.25%) International Banking
16 1 (0.25%) Manufacturing
16 1 (0.25%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 105 (26.25%) Architect
2 50 (12.50%) Analyst
3 48 (12.00%) CyberArk Architect
4 40 (10.00%) ServiceNow Architect
5 38 (9.50%) Consultant
6 28 (7.00%) Developer
6 28 (7.00%) Senior
7 23 (5.75%) IT Manager
8 18 (4.50%) ServiceNow Developer
9 16 (4.00%) Lead
9 16 (4.00%) Service Manager
10 15 (3.75%) Business Analyst
11 12 (3.00%) Service Analyst
12 11 (2.75%) Network Engineer
12 11 (2.75%) ServiceNow Consultant
12 11 (2.75%) Technical Architect
13 10 (2.50%) Designer
13 10 (2.50%) IT Support
13 10 (2.50%) ITSM Consultant
13 10 (2.50%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (21.25%) REST
2 70 (17.50%) SOAP
3 49 (12.25%) LDAP
4 13 (3.25%) OpenID
4 13 (3.25%) SAML
5 11 (2.75%) Web Services
6 7 (1.75%) HTML
7 6 (1.50%) .NET
7 6 (1.50%) CSS
8 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Graph
8 5 (1.25%) Middleware
9 4 (1.00%) OpenTelemetry
10 3 (0.75%) AngularJS
10 3 (0.75%) Kafka
11 2 (0.50%) 802.1X
11 2 (0.50%) GraphQL
11 2 (0.50%) Node.js
11 2 (0.50%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (0.50%) RESTful
11 2 (0.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 83 (20.75%) CMDB
2 53 (13.25%) Onboarding
3 41 (10.25%) Enterprise Software
4 40 (10.00%) Security Posture
5 27 (6.75%) Product Ownership
6 19 (4.75%) Cloud Native
7 10 (2.50%) Data Centre
8 8 (2.00%) AI Agents
9 7 (1.75%) Cyber Threat
9 7 (1.75%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (0.75%) Mainframe
12 3 (0.75%) Replication
13 2 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 2 (0.50%) N-Tier
13 2 (0.50%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 41 (10.25%) Windows
2 10 (2.50%) Mac OS
3 6 (1.50%) Windows 10
4 5 (1.25%) Android
4 5 (1.25%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.25%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.25%) Linux
7 1 (0.25%) VMS
7 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (42.50%) ITIL
2 140 (35.00%) Service Management
3 102 (25.50%) Problem-Solving
4 95 (23.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 70 (17.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 62 (15.50%) Agile
7 61 (15.25%) Service Delivery
8 56 (14.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 52 (13.00%) Integration Patterns
9 52 (13.00%) SIEM
10 51 (12.75%) Technical Leadership
11 50 (12.50%) Change Management
12 49 (12.25%) Roadmaps
13 47 (11.75%) DevOps
14 42 (10.50%) Migration
14 42 (10.50%) Problem Management
14 42 (10.50%) Workflow
15 39 (9.75%) Incident Management
16 37 (9.25%) AI
17 36 (9.00%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 48 (12.00%) PowerShell
1 48 (12.00%) Python
2 28 (7.00%) JavaScript
3 15 (3.75%) SQL
4 7 (1.75%) Java
5 3 (0.75%) Groovy
5 3 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (0.75%) PL/SQL
6 2 (0.50%) ActionScript
6 2 (0.50%) ActionScript 2.0
6 2 (0.50%) Bicep
6 2 (0.50%) C++
7 1 (0.25%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.25%) Bash
7 1 (0.25%) Korn
7 1 (0.25%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.25%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 111 (27.75%) Security Cleared
2 95 (23.75%) SC Cleared
3 20 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
4 17 (4.25%) DV Cleared
5 13 (3.25%) Degree
6 8 (2.00%) PMP
7 6 (1.50%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.25%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.75%) CISA
9 3 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.75%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 3 (0.75%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.50%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.50%) CCNA
10 2 (0.50%) CISSP
11 1 (0.25%) CCNP
11 1 (0.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.25%) MBA
11 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (10.75%) SLA
2 27 (6.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (5.00%) Data Quality
4 17 (4.25%) NIST
5 15 (3.75%) NCSC
6 8 (2.00%) QA
7 7 (1.75%) COBIT
7 7 (1.75%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (1.50%) GDPR
8 6 (1.50%) GRC
9 4 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.50%) PMO
12 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.25%) ITGC
System Software
1 59 (14.75%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.50%) Virtual Desktop
2 6 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.75%) IAG
4 2 (0.50%) Firmware
4 2 (0.50%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.50%) 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 21 (5.25%) Kubernetes
2 16 (4.00%) SCCM
3 14 (3.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (1.75%) FortiGate
5 6 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (1.25%) Terraform
7 3 (0.75%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.50%) Amdocs OSS
8 2 (0.50%) Ansible
8 2 (0.50%) Grafana
8 2 (0.50%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.50%) Kibana
9 1 (0.25%) CASB
9 1 (0.25%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.25%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 214 (53.50%) ServiceNow
2 66 (16.50%) Microsoft
3 49 (12.25%) CyberArk
4 34 (8.50%) BeyondTrust
4 34 (8.50%) Centrify
5 21 (5.25%) Remedy
6 18 (4.50%) Splunk
7 17 (4.25%) Salesforce
8 15 (3.75%) Cisco
9 14 (3.50%) SAP
10 13 (3.25%) VMware
11 12 (3.00%) Dynatrace
12 10 (2.50%) BMC
12 10 (2.50%) Palo Alto
13 9 (2.25%) AppDynamics
14 8 (2.00%) CheckPoint
15 7 (1.75%) Tenable
16 6 (1.50%) Adobe
16 6 (1.50%) Atlassian
16 6 (1.50%) Fortinet