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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 108 142
Rank change year-on-year -22 +34 +7
Contract jobs citing ITSM 331 331 318
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.13% 2.45% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 2.70% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 197 189
10th Percentile £277 £255 £206
25th Percentile £400 £425 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £720 £619 £600
90th Percentile £800 £700 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +6.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 3
10th Percentile £18.75 £19.83 -
25th Percentile £19.27 £22.38 -
Median hourly rate £23.71 £25.15 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.74% +25.75% -
75th Percentile £63.79 £28.56 £48.13
90th Percentile £85.84 £30.93 £65.00
England median hourly rate £20.74 £30.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year -30.87% +114.29% -3.45%

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 14,060 12,254 16,339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.32% 90.76% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,407 7,894 11,682
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.82%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 155 348
10th Percentile £17.85 £21.10 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £26.13 £19.34
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +25.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.38 £55.25 £51.94
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.61 £72.50
England median hourly rate £27.21 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.26% - -

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 22 February 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 22 February 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 22 February 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 -26 40 £475 -0.99% 21
South London -17 9 £364 -44.04%
West London -25 4 £405 -20.20% 2
East London +4 2 £675 +35.00%
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 (5.74%) SharePoint
2 12 (3.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.51%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (3.32%) Microsoft Excel
1 11 (3.32%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.21%) Autodesk Inventor
2 4 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 32 (9.67%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.60%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.30%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 102 (30.82%) Azure
2 61 (18.43%) AWS
3 51 (15.41%) Microsoft 365
4 40 (12.08%) GCP
5 26 (7.85%) Entra ID
6 22 (6.65%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (5.44%) OpenShift
8 17 (5.14%) SaaS
9 16 (4.83%) OneDrive
10 13 (3.93%) Microsoft Copilot
11 11 (3.32%) Power Platform
12 10 (3.02%) IaaS
13 9 (2.72%) PaaS
14 6 (1.81%) Azure Sentinel
14 6 (1.81%) Power Automate
14 6 (1.81%) PowerApps
15 5 (1.51%) Copilot Studio
16 4 (1.21%) Slack
17 3 (0.91%) Amazon EKS
17 3 (0.91%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 21 (6.34%) Firewall
2 18 (5.44%) VPN
3 17 (5.14%) DNS
4 16 (4.83%) DHCP
5 8 (2.42%) TCP/IP
6 7 (2.11%) VLAN
6 7 (2.11%) WAN
6 7 (2.11%) Wireless
7 6 (1.81%) Network Security
7 6 (1.81%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (1.51%) Cisco ISE
8 5 (1.51%) IPv4
9 4 (1.21%) LAN
10 3 (0.91%) SAN
10 3 (0.91%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.91%) TACACS
11 2 (0.60%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (0.60%) SSH
12 1 (0.30%) Cisco Wireless
12 1 (0.30%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.32%) Power BI
2 4 (1.21%) SQL Server
3 3 (0.91%) Tableau
4 2 (0.60%) Metadata
4 2 (0.60%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 33 (9.97%) JIRA
2 17 (5.14%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.91%) Chocolatey
3 3 (0.91%) TestRail
4 2 (0.60%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.60%) Git
4 2 (0.60%) Selenium
5 1 (0.30%) GitLab
5 1 (0.30%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.30%) REST Assured
General
1 155 (46.83%) Social Skills
2 77 (23.26%) Finance
3 41 (12.39%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (8.16%) Banking
5 26 (7.85%) Documentation Skills
6 24 (7.25%) Influencing Skills
7 19 (5.74%) Public Sector
8 10 (3.02%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.11%) Legal
10 6 (1.81%) Retail
11 4 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.91%) Billing
12 3 (0.91%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.91%) Military
13 2 (0.60%) Automotive
13 2 (0.60%) Law
13 2 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.30%) Front Office
14 1 (0.30%) International Banking
14 1 (0.30%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 80 (24.17%) Architect
2 51 (15.41%) Analyst
3 47 (14.20%) CyberArk Architect
4 31 (9.37%) Developer
5 27 (8.16%) Consultant
6 26 (7.85%) Lead
7 24 (7.25%) ServiceNow Developer
8 21 (6.34%) ServiceNow Architect
9 18 (5.44%) Support Engineer
10 17 (5.14%) IT Engineer
11 16 (4.83%) Senior
11 16 (4.83%) Service Analyst
12 15 (4.53%) Business Analyst
13 14 (4.23%) IT Support
14 12 (3.63%) Service Manager
14 12 (3.63%) ServiceNow Consultant
15 11 (3.32%) IT Support Engineer
15 11 (3.32%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
15 11 (3.32%) Technical Architect
16 9 (2.72%) ServiceNow Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (21.75%) REST
2 70 (21.15%) SOAP
3 48 (14.50%) LDAP
4 14 (4.23%) SAML
5 13 (3.93%) OpenID
6 8 (2.42%) CSS
6 8 (2.42%) HTML
7 6 (1.81%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.21%) Middleware
8 4 (1.21%) Web Services
9 3 (0.91%) OAuth
9 3 (0.91%) XML
10 2 (0.60%) .NET
10 2 (0.60%) Bootstrap
10 2 (0.60%) EDI
10 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Graph
10 2 (0.60%) SailPoint
11 1 (0.30%) .NET Framework
11 1 (0.30%) ARM Templates
11 1 (0.30%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 54 (16.31%) CMDB
2 37 (11.18%) Enterprise Software
3 34 (10.27%) Security Posture
4 29 (8.76%) Onboarding
5 18 (5.44%) Product Ownership
6 15 (4.53%) Cloud Native
7 8 (2.42%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.81%) Driving Licence
8 6 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.51%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.51%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.51%) Replication
10 3 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.91%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (0.91%) Mainframe
10 3 (0.91%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.60%) iPhone
11 2 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 55 (16.62%) Windows
2 24 (7.25%) Windows 10
3 13 (3.93%) Mac OS
4 12 (3.63%) Android
5 8 (2.42%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.81%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.91%) Linux
7 3 (0.91%) Unix
8 1 (0.30%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (35.65%) ITIL
2 116 (35.05%) Service Management
3 92 (27.79%) Problem-Solving
4 79 (23.87%) Stakeholder Management
5 70 (21.15%) Agile
6 68 (20.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 55 (16.62%) Service Delivery
8 53 (16.01%) DevOps
9 51 (15.41%) Change Management
9 51 (15.41%) Continuous Improvement
10 50 (15.11%) SIEM
11 48 (14.50%) Technical Leadership
12 40 (12.08%) Integration Patterns
13 36 (10.88%) Presales
13 36 (10.88%) Problem Management
13 36 (10.88%) Task Automation
14 35 (10.57%) Privileged Access Management
15 32 (9.67%) Customer Service
16 31 (9.37%) Scrum
17 28 (8.46%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 57 (17.22%) PowerShell
2 43 (12.99%) Python
3 32 (9.67%) JavaScript
4 10 (3.02%) SQL
5 4 (1.21%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (0.91%) Bicep
7 2 (0.60%) ActionScript
7 2 (0.60%) ActionScript 2.0
7 2 (0.60%) Bash
7 2 (0.60%) Java
8 1 (0.30%) C#
8 1 (0.30%) Korn
8 1 (0.30%) Perl
8 1 (0.30%) R
8 1 (0.30%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 97 (29.31%) Security Cleared
2 85 (25.68%) SC Cleared
3 24 (7.25%) Degree
4 18 (5.44%) ITIL Certification
5 12 (3.63%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.21%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 4 (1.21%) PMI Certification
6 4 (1.21%) PMP
7 3 (0.91%) A+ Certification
7 3 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.91%) CISA
7 3 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (0.91%) CISSP
7 3 (0.91%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 2 (0.60%) CCNA
8 2 (0.60%) CCNP
8 2 (0.60%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.60%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (8.16%) SLA
2 26 (7.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (5.44%) Data Quality
4 17 (5.14%) NIST
5 15 (4.53%) NCSC
6 13 (3.93%) QA
7 12 (3.63%) GDPR
8 9 (2.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (2.42%) GRC
10 6 (1.81%) PCI DSS
11 5 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (1.21%) COBIT
13 3 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
14 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.30%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 1 (0.30%) ITGC
14 1 (0.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 77 (23.26%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.60%) vSphere
4 1 (0.30%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (7.25%) SCCM
2 19 (5.74%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (4.83%) Kubernetes
4 9 (2.72%) SCOM
5 7 (2.11%) Terraform
6 6 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (1.51%) HP SiteScope
7 5 (1.51%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (1.21%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.91%) Ansible
9 3 (0.91%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.60%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.30%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.30%) vRealize
11 1 (0.30%) WSUS
Vendors
1 176 (53.17%) ServiceNow
2 68 (20.54%) Microsoft
3 50 (15.11%) CyberArk
4 34 (10.27%) BeyondTrust
4 34 (10.27%) Centrify
5 32 (9.67%) Remedy
6 22 (6.65%) Splunk
7 15 (4.53%) SAP
8 11 (3.32%) Cisco
9 10 (3.02%) Apple
10 9 (2.72%) HP
11 7 (2.11%) BMC
11 7 (2.11%) VMware
12 6 (1.81%) Dynatrace
13 5 (1.51%) Dell
13 5 (1.51%) Salesforce
13 5 (1.51%) Zscaler
14 4 (1.21%) AppDynamics
14 4 (1.21%) Palo Alto
14 4 (1.21%) Tenable