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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 165 156
Rank change year-on-year +48 -9 -13
Contract jobs citing ITSM 524 228 270
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.58% 1.69% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.90% 1.83% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 306 145 155
10th Percentile £200 £199 £253
25th Percentile £400 £320 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -5.00% -0.99%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £710 £651
England median daily rate £505 £463 £488
% change year-on-year +9.19% -5.13% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 1 8
10th Percentile £18.75 - £17.49
25th Percentile £19.50 - £18.13
Median hourly rate £21.00 £25.15 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.50% +28.97% -13.29%
75th Percentile £23.00 - £60.13
90th Percentile £25.22 - £77.60
England median hourly rate £27.50 £22.56 £18.13
% change year-on-year +21.90% +24.43% +9.66%

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 18,084 12,490 14,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.97% 92.58% 89.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,813 8,262 9,757
10th Percentile £359 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 302 257 180
10th Percentile £16.71 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.25 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.16% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.38 £48.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £86.15 £63.75 £72.19
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +0.58%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 12 September 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 +13 73 £539 +7.75% 38
West London 0 27 £400 +60.00% 9
East London +4 4 £215 -65.87% 3
South London -15 4 - - 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 34 (6.49%) SharePoint
2 19 (3.63%) Confluence
3 18 (3.44%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.19%) IIS
4 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 10 (1.91%) AutoCAD
2 9 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.53%) Revit
4 5 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.57%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.38%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 30 (5.73%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.38%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.19%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.19%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.19%) iTrent
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.19%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 125 (23.85%) Azure
2 85 (16.22%) Microsoft 365
3 66 (12.60%) AWS
4 57 (10.88%) Entra ID
5 47 (8.97%) SaaS
6 29 (5.53%) OneDrive
7 22 (4.20%) Power Platform
8 18 (3.44%) GitHub
9 17 (3.24%) GCP
10 13 (2.48%) Datadog
11 11 (2.10%) OpenShift
12 10 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (1.91%) PaaS
13 7 (1.34%) IaaS
14 5 (0.95%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (0.95%) Microsoft Copilot
15 4 (0.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 4 (0.76%) Azure AI
15 4 (0.76%) PowerApps
15 4 (0.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 35 (6.68%) DNS
2 31 (5.92%) VPN
3 29 (5.53%) TCP/IP
4 27 (5.15%) Firewall
5 21 (4.01%) DHCP
6 18 (3.44%) VLAN
6 18 (3.44%) Wi-Fi
7 16 (3.05%) Network Security
8 11 (2.10%) WebEx
9 9 (1.72%) Cisco ISE
9 9 (1.72%) TACACS
10 7 (1.34%) Wireless
11 6 (1.15%) SAN
12 5 (0.95%) WAN
13 4 (0.76%) HTTP
13 4 (0.76%) Internet
14 3 (0.57%) LAN
15 2 (0.38%) Intranet
15 2 (0.38%) SNMP
15 2 (0.38%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.24%) SQL Server
2 16 (3.05%) Power BI
3 8 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (0.95%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 5 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.57%) Metadata
6 2 (0.38%) Redis
7 1 (0.19%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.19%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.19%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.19%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.19%) Flink
7 1 (0.19%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.19%) MySQL
7 1 (0.19%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (0.19%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 82 (15.65%) JIRA
2 10 (1.91%) Git
3 5 (0.95%) Chocolatey
3 5 (0.95%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.76%) MSI
5 3 (0.57%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.57%) GitLab
5 3 (0.57%) ScriptRunner
6 2 (0.38%) AdminStudio
6 2 (0.38%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.38%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.38%) InstallShield
7 1 (0.19%) Robot Framework
General
1 237 (45.23%) Social Skills
2 104 (19.85%) Analytical Skills
3 96 (18.32%) Finance
4 38 (7.25%) Public Sector
5 29 (5.53%) Telecoms
6 28 (5.34%) Banking
7 17 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
8 16 (3.05%) Legal
9 15 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.15%) Law
14 5 (0.95%) Military
14 5 (0.95%) Retail
15 4 (0.76%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.76%) Front Office
15 4 (0.76%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.57%) Italian Language
17 2 (0.38%) German Language
Job Titles
1 78 (14.89%) Architect
2 58 (11.07%) Analyst
3 57 (10.88%) Developer
4 55 (10.50%) ServiceNow Developer
5 43 (8.21%) Support Engineer
6 39 (7.44%) Consultant
7 38 (7.25%) IT Support
8 37 (7.06%) Senior
9 34 (6.49%) ServiceNow Architect
10 32 (6.11%) Lead
11 31 (5.92%) IT Engineer
12 29 (5.53%) Service Manager
13 25 (4.77%) IT Support Engineer
14 24 (4.58%) Desktop Support
14 24 (4.58%) IT Manager
15 22 (4.20%) Applications Support
15 22 (4.20%) Designer
15 22 (4.20%) Solutions Architect
16 21 (4.01%) Support Analyst
17 20 (3.82%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (15.65%) REST
2 44 (8.40%) SOAP
3 21 (4.01%) Terraform
4 14 (2.67%) Web Services
5 11 (2.10%) SailPoint
6 9 (1.72%) XML
7 8 (1.53%) HTML
7 8 (1.53%) JSON
8 7 (1.34%) CSS
9 5 (0.95%) .NET
9 5 (0.95%) LDAP
10 4 (0.76%) Ajax
10 4 (0.76%) JDBC
10 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Graph
10 4 (0.76%) RESTful
11 3 (0.57%) Middleware
11 3 (0.57%) OAuth
11 3 (0.57%) OpenTelemetry
11 3 (0.57%) Software Packaging
12 2 (0.38%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 108 (20.61%) CMDB
2 85 (16.22%) Onboarding
3 27 (5.15%) Enterprise Software
4 23 (4.39%) Management Information System
5 21 (4.01%) Product Ownership
6 15 (2.86%) Video Conferencing
7 14 (2.67%) Cloud Native
7 14 (2.67%) Data Centre
8 11 (2.10%) AI Agents
8 11 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (2.10%) Virtual Team
9 9 (1.72%) Web Conferencing
10 7 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.34%) iPhone
11 6 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.95%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (0.95%) Operational Technology
12 5 (0.95%) Replication
12 5 (0.95%) Security Posture
13 4 (0.76%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 111 (21.18%) Windows
2 27 (5.15%) Windows 10
3 23 (4.39%) Apple iOS
3 23 (4.39%) Mac OS
4 13 (2.48%) Android
5 12 (2.29%) Linux
6 10 (1.91%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.38%) VMS
7 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (46.76%) Service Management
2 229 (43.70%) ITIL
3 146 (27.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 121 (23.09%) Problem-Solving
5 95 (18.13%) Continuous Improvement
6 92 (17.56%) Agile
7 91 (17.37%) Service Delivery
8 75 (14.31%) Customer Service
9 67 (12.79%) Change Management
9 67 (12.79%) Roadmaps
10 59 (11.26%) AI
11 55 (10.50%) Incident Management
11 55 (10.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 53 (10.11%) DevOps
13 47 (8.97%) Migration
14 42 (8.02%) Decision-Making
14 42 (8.02%) Observability
14 42 (8.02%) Workflow
15 40 (7.63%) Data Modelling
16 39 (7.44%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (9.54%) PowerShell
2 34 (6.49%) JavaScript
2 34 (6.49%) Python
3 28 (5.34%) SQL
4 9 (1.72%) Bash
4 9 (1.72%) Java
5 4 (0.76%) BeanShell
6 3 (0.57%) Groovy
6 3 (0.57%) PL/SQL
6 3 (0.57%) VBScript
7 2 (0.38%) ActionScript
7 2 (0.38%) ActionScript 2.0
7 2 (0.38%) Delphi
7 2 (0.38%) Korn
8 1 (0.19%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.19%) Bicep
8 1 (0.19%) C++
8 1 (0.19%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (0.19%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.19%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 119 (22.71%) Security Cleared
2 92 (17.56%) SC Cleared
3 35 (6.68%) Degree
4 29 (5.53%) ITIL Certification
5 24 (4.58%) A+ Certification
6 16 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (2.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 14 (2.67%) PMP
8 12 (2.29%) PMI Certification
9 10 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (1.53%) Azure Certification
10 8 (1.53%) DV Cleared
11 6 (1.15%) Network+ Certification
12 5 (0.95%) CISM
12 5 (0.95%) CISSP
13 3 (0.57%) CEH
13 3 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.38%) CCNP
14 2 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (10.69%) SLA
2 19 (3.63%) QA
3 18 (3.44%) Data Quality
4 15 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (2.10%) NIST
6 9 (1.72%) GRC
7 7 (1.34%) GDPR
8 5 (0.95%) COBIT
8 5 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.76%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 2 (0.38%) PMO
12 1 (0.19%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 19770
12 1 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 78 (14.89%) Active Directory
2 20 (3.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.86%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (1.72%) IAG
5 4 (0.76%) Docker
5 4 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.38%) Firmware
6 2 (0.38%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.38%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.19%) etcd
7 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 45 (8.59%) Microsoft Intune
2 26 (4.96%) SCCM
3 11 (2.10%) Grafana
3 11 (2.10%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (1.72%) Kubernetes
5 8 (1.53%) FortiGate
6 7 (1.34%) Ansible
6 7 (1.34%) Control-M
7 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Clustering
7 4 (0.76%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.76%) WSUS
8 3 (0.57%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.38%) Kibana
9 2 (0.38%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.19%) Amdocs OSS
10 1 (0.19%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.19%) SCOM
10 1 (0.19%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 299 (57.06%) ServiceNow
2 149 (28.44%) Microsoft
3 30 (5.73%) Remedy
4 28 (5.34%) BMC
5 24 (4.58%) VMware
6 22 (4.20%) Salesforce
7 21 (4.01%) Splunk
8 20 (3.82%) Dynatrace
9 17 (3.24%) SAP
10 16 (3.05%) Cisco
11 15 (2.86%) Okta
12 13 (2.48%) Apple
13 12 (2.29%) Adobe
14 11 (2.10%) CyberArk
15 10 (1.91%) Autodesk
15 10 (1.91%) MuleSoft
15 10 (1.91%) Palo Alto
16 9 (1.72%) CheckPoint
17 8 (1.53%) Citrix
17 8 (1.53%) Conga