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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 137 145
Rank change year-on-year +9 +8 -15
Contract jobs citing ITSM 370 252 300
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.09% 2.00% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.37% 2.17% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 176 167
10th Percentile £315 £255 £208
25th Percentile £413 £407 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.62% +5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £700 £621 £600
90th Percentile £765 £697 £688
England median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% - +9.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 6
10th Percentile - £19.26 £17.07
25th Percentile £18.75 £20.97 £18.13
Median hourly rate £19.50 £23.80 £19.07
Median % change year-on-year -18.07% +24.84% -7.00%
75th Percentile £24.07 £28.15 £20.00
90th Percentile £40.61 £30.76 £38.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £18.82 £14.00
% change year-on-year +33.63% +34.43% -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 15,622 11,589 15,691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.42% 92.20% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,456 7,858 11,248
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £813 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 172 322
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.16 £22.73 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.25 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.65% +20.18% -26.92%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.56 £47.34
90th Percentile £73.75 £63.75 £65.68
England median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.05
% change year-on-year +51.53% -16.77% -2.97%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -32 34 £475 -2.56% 31
West London -18 12 £400 +58.42% 2
South London -13 7 £190 -24.15% 1
East London -6 1 - - 4
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 12 (3.24%) Confluence
2 11 (2.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (2.70%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.54%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 7 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.81%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.81%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.81%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.81%) Revit
4 2 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 23 (6.22%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.54%) SAP GRC
2 2 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.27%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.27%) Remedy AR System
3 1 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 101 (27.30%) Azure
2 77 (20.81%) AWS
3 44 (11.89%) GCP
3 44 (11.89%) Microsoft 365
4 28 (7.57%) SaaS
5 24 (6.49%) Entra ID
6 21 (5.68%) OpenShift
7 16 (4.32%) PaaS
7 16 (4.32%) Power Platform
8 15 (4.05%) IaaS
9 13 (3.51%) Microsoft Copilot
10 12 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (2.97%) Datadog
12 8 (2.16%) OneDrive
13 7 (1.89%) Power Automate
14 6 (1.62%) Azure AKS
14 6 (1.62%) Copilot Studio
14 6 (1.62%) PowerApps
14 6 (1.62%) Slack
15 5 (1.35%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 30 (8.11%) Firewall
2 17 (4.59%) DNS
3 16 (4.32%) VLAN
3 16 (4.32%) VPN
4 15 (4.05%) DHCP
5 13 (3.51%) Network Security
6 11 (2.97%) Cisco ISE
7 10 (2.70%) TACACS
7 10 (2.70%) WAN
8 9 (2.43%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (2.16%) Wireless
10 7 (1.89%) SAN
11 6 (1.62%) LAN
12 4 (1.08%) IPv4
12 4 (1.08%) TCP/IP
13 3 (0.81%) SD-WAN
14 2 (0.54%) Internet
14 2 (0.54%) NaaS
14 2 (0.54%) NGFW
14 2 (0.54%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.32%) Power BI
2 7 (1.89%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.54%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.54%) Flink
4 2 (0.54%) InfluxDB
4 2 (0.54%) Metadata
4 2 (0.54%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.54%) MySQL
4 2 (0.54%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.54%) TimescaleDB
5 1 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.27%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (0.27%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 44 (11.89%) JIRA
2 15 (4.05%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.89%) Chocolatey
4 4 (1.08%) ScriptRunner
5 3 (0.81%) Git
5 3 (0.81%) TestRail
6 2 (0.54%) AdminStudio
6 2 (0.54%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.54%) InstallShield
6 2 (0.54%) MSI
6 2 (0.54%) Robot Framework
6 2 (0.54%) Selenium
7 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.27%) GitLab
7 1 (0.27%) REST Assured
General
1 149 (40.27%) Social Skills
2 78 (21.08%) Finance
3 51 (13.78%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (7.57%) Banking
4 28 (7.57%) Documentation Skills
5 22 (5.95%) Public Sector
6 20 (5.41%) Influencing Skills
7 14 (3.78%) Telecoms
8 12 (3.24%) Legal
9 5 (1.35%) Billing
9 5 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.81%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.81%) Retail
12 2 (0.54%) General Ledger
12 2 (0.54%) Military
13 1 (0.27%) Front Office
13 1 (0.27%) International Banking
13 1 (0.27%) Law
Job Titles
1 98 (26.49%) Architect
2 48 (12.97%) CyberArk Architect
3 47 (12.70%) Analyst
4 33 (8.92%) Consultant
4 33 (8.92%) ServiceNow Architect
5 28 (7.57%) Developer
6 24 (6.49%) Senior
7 18 (4.86%) Lead
7 18 (4.86%) ServiceNow Developer
8 15 (4.05%) IT Manager
8 15 (4.05%) Service Analyst
9 14 (3.78%) Service Manager
10 12 (3.24%) Business Analyst
10 12 (3.24%) ServiceNow Consultant
10 12 (3.24%) Support Engineer
11 11 (2.97%) Azure Engineer
11 11 (2.97%) Incident Manager
11 11 (2.97%) IT Support
11 11 (2.97%) Network Engineer
11 11 (2.97%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (20.27%) REST
2 64 (17.30%) SOAP
3 48 (12.97%) LDAP
4 13 (3.51%) OpenID
4 13 (3.51%) SAML
5 8 (2.16%) Web Services
6 6 (1.62%) .NET
7 5 (1.35%) CSS
7 5 (1.35%) HTML
7 5 (1.35%) Microsoft Graph
7 5 (1.35%) Middleware
8 4 (1.08%) OpenTelemetry
9 3 (0.81%) AngularJS
9 3 (0.81%) Kafka
10 2 (0.54%) ADO
10 2 (0.54%) EDI
10 2 (0.54%) JSON
10 2 (0.54%) Node.js
10 2 (0.54%) OAuth
10 2 (0.54%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 69 (18.65%) CMDB
2 43 (11.62%) Onboarding
3 41 (11.08%) Enterprise Software
4 40 (10.81%) Security Posture
5 32 (8.65%) Product Ownership
6 19 (5.14%) Cloud Native
7 10 (2.70%) Data Centre
8 8 (2.16%) AI Agents
9 7 (1.89%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (1.62%) Driving Licence
11 5 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (1.08%) Replication
12 4 (1.08%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.81%) iPhone
13 3 (0.81%) Mainframe
13 3 (0.81%) Management Information System
13 3 (0.81%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 41 (11.08%) Windows
2 13 (3.51%) Windows 10
3 12 (3.24%) Mac OS
4 9 (2.43%) Android
5 8 (2.16%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.35%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.08%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (38.11%) ITIL
2 116 (31.35%) Service Management
3 94 (25.41%) Problem-Solving
4 83 (22.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 69 (18.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 65 (17.57%) Agile
7 54 (14.59%) Continuous Improvement
8 53 (14.32%) Service Delivery
8 53 (14.32%) Technical Leadership
9 52 (14.05%) DevOps
9 52 (14.05%) Integration Patterns
10 50 (13.51%) Change Management
10 50 (13.51%) SIEM
11 42 (11.35%) Problem Management
12 40 (10.81%) Roadmaps
13 39 (10.54%) Migration
13 39 (10.54%) Workflow
14 36 (9.73%) AI
14 36 (9.73%) Incident Management
15 35 (9.46%) Privileged Access Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (13.51%) PowerShell
2 44 (11.89%) Python
3 21 (5.68%) JavaScript
4 10 (2.70%) SQL
5 6 (1.62%) Java
6 4 (1.08%) Bicep
6 4 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (0.81%) Groovy
8 2 (0.54%) ActionScript
8 2 (0.54%) ActionScript 2.0
8 2 (0.54%) C++
9 1 (0.27%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.27%) Korn
9 1 (0.27%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (0.27%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 115 (31.08%) Security Cleared
2 100 (27.03%) SC Cleared
3 21 (5.68%) DV Cleared
4 18 (4.86%) Degree
5 12 (3.24%) ITIL Certification
6 7 (1.89%) PMP
7 6 (1.62%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.35%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.81%) CISA
9 3 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.81%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 3 (0.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (0.81%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.54%) CCNP
10 2 (0.54%) CISSP
11 1 (0.27%) CCDP
11 1 (0.27%) CCIE
11 1 (0.27%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (10.54%) SLA
2 25 (6.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (5.95%) Data Quality
4 17 (4.59%) NIST
5 15 (4.05%) NCSC
6 10 (2.70%) GDPR
6 10 (2.70%) QA
7 9 (2.43%) GRC
7 9 (2.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (1.89%) PCI DSS
9 6 (1.62%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.81%) COBIT
10 3 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.54%) PMO
12 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.27%) ITGC
System Software
1 61 (16.49%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.81%) IAG
4 2 (0.54%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.27%) etcd
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (6.49%) SCCM
2 19 (5.14%) Kubernetes
3 16 (4.32%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (2.16%) FortiGate
5 7 (1.89%) Terraform
6 4 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.81%) Ansible
7 3 (0.81%) HP ALM
7 3 (0.81%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.81%) SCOM
8 2 (0.54%) Amdocs OSS
8 2 (0.54%) Grafana
9 1 (0.27%) CASB
9 1 (0.27%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.27%) Kibana
9 1 (0.27%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 200 (54.05%) ServiceNow
2 59 (15.95%) Microsoft
3 48 (12.97%) CyberArk
4 34 (9.19%) BeyondTrust
4 34 (9.19%) Centrify
5 23 (6.22%) Remedy
6 20 (5.41%) Cisco
7 19 (5.14%) Splunk
8 18 (4.86%) SAP
9 16 (4.32%) Salesforce
10 12 (3.24%) Dynatrace
11 11 (2.97%) Palo Alto
11 11 (2.97%) VMware
12 9 (2.43%) AppDynamics
12 9 (2.43%) CheckPoint
13 8 (2.16%) HP
14 7 (1.89%) BMC
14 7 (1.89%) Tenable
15 6 (1.62%) Apple
16 5 (1.35%) Dell