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 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 156 151
Rank change year-on-year +43 -5 -16
Contract jobs citing ITSM 516 236 273
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.56% 1.75% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.87% 1.89% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 157 164
10th Percentile £218 £200 £252
25th Percentile £400 £313 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.42% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £608 £588
90th Percentile £663 £700 £684
England median daily rate £500 £454 £500
% change year-on-year +10.13% -9.20% +0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 0 7
10th Percentile - - £17.28
25th Percentile £18.75 - £18.13
Median hourly rate £21.00 - £19.00
75th Percentile £22.50 - £62.75
90th Percentile £24.50 - £80.80
England median hourly rate £27.50 £18.82 £18.13
% change year-on-year +46.12% +3.81% +25.03%

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 18,004 12,485 14,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 92.37% 88.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,831 8,318 10,069
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £661 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 253 197
10th Percentile £17.10 £16.50 £16.99
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -13.04%
75th Percentile £57.13 £48.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.50
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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 15 August 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 +5 68 £531 +6.25% 37
West London +4 27 £400 +60.00% 4
South London -6 4 - - 1
East London +1 3 £348 -38.22% 1
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 29 (5.62%) SharePoint
2 18 (3.49%) Confluence
3 13 (2.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.39%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.19%) IIS
5 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 10 (1.94%) AutoCAD
2 8 (1.55%) Revit
3 7 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.78%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.58%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 29 (5.62%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.39%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.19%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.19%) iTrent
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 129 (25.00%) Azure
2 79 (15.31%) Microsoft 365
3 69 (13.37%) AWS
4 52 (10.08%) Entra ID
5 48 (9.30%) SaaS
6 24 (4.65%) OneDrive
7 20 (3.88%) Power Platform
8 19 (3.68%) GCP
8 19 (3.68%) GitHub
9 18 (3.49%) Datadog
10 16 (3.10%) PaaS
11 13 (2.52%) IaaS
11 13 (2.52%) OpenShift
12 11 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (1.16%) Azure AKS
13 6 (1.16%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (1.16%) Microsoft Copilot
14 4 (0.78%) Azure AI
14 4 (0.78%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (0.78%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 40 (7.75%) DNS
2 33 (6.40%) Firewall
3 32 (6.20%) VPN
4 27 (5.23%) TCP/IP
5 24 (4.65%) DHCP
6 22 (4.26%) VLAN
7 20 (3.88%) Wi-Fi
8 16 (3.10%) Network Security
9 11 (2.13%) WebEx
10 10 (1.94%) Cisco ISE
10 10 (1.94%) SAN
10 10 (1.94%) TACACS
11 7 (1.36%) Wireless
12 6 (1.16%) WAN
13 5 (0.97%) Internet
14 4 (0.78%) HTTP
15 3 (0.58%) LAN
15 3 (0.58%) SNMP
16 2 (0.39%) Intranet
16 2 (0.39%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.88%) SQL Server
2 16 (3.10%) Power BI
3 9 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (0.97%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 5 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.39%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.39%) Flink
6 2 (0.39%) InfluxDB
6 2 (0.39%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.39%) MySQL
6 2 (0.39%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.39%) Redis
6 2 (0.39%) TimescaleDB
7 1 (0.19%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.19%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.19%) Metadata
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.19%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 85 (16.47%) JIRA
2 12 (2.33%) Git
3 9 (1.74%) Chocolatey
4 5 (0.97%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.78%) MSI
5 4 (0.78%) ScriptRunner
6 3 (0.58%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.58%) GitLab
7 2 (0.39%) AdminStudio
7 2 (0.39%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.39%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.39%) InstallShield
7 2 (0.39%) Robot Framework
General
1 224 (43.41%) Social Skills
2 106 (20.54%) Analytical Skills
3 92 (17.83%) Finance
4 33 (6.40%) Telecoms
5 32 (6.20%) Public Sector
6 26 (5.04%) Banking
7 18 (3.49%) Legal
8 16 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
9 15 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.16%) Law
13 5 (0.97%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.78%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.78%) Military
14 4 (0.78%) Retail
15 3 (0.58%) Billing
15 3 (0.58%) Italian Language
16 2 (0.39%) German Language
Job Titles
1 70 (13.57%) Architect
2 57 (11.05%) Developer
3 56 (10.85%) Analyst
4 51 (9.88%) ServiceNow Developer
5 43 (8.33%) Consultant
5 43 (8.33%) Senior
6 37 (7.17%) Support Engineer
7 36 (6.98%) ServiceNow Architect
8 34 (6.59%) IT Support
9 30 (5.81%) Lead
10 29 (5.62%) IT Engineer
11 27 (5.23%) Service Manager
12 25 (4.84%) IT Manager
13 22 (4.26%) Designer
14 21 (4.07%) Desktop Support
15 20 (3.88%) Applications Support
15 20 (3.88%) IT Support Engineer
16 19 (3.68%) Business Analyst
17 18 (3.49%) Solutions Architect
17 18 (3.49%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (17.25%) REST
2 48 (9.30%) SOAP
3 20 (3.88%) Web Services
4 8 (1.55%) HTML
4 8 (1.55%) XML
5 7 (1.36%) .NET
5 7 (1.36%) CSS
5 7 (1.36%) JSON
5 7 (1.36%) SailPoint
6 6 (1.16%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (0.78%) Ajax
7 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Graph
8 3 (0.58%) Kafka
8 3 (0.58%) RESTful
9 2 (0.39%) ADO
9 2 (0.39%) EDI
9 2 (0.39%) LDAP
9 2 (0.39%) Node.js
9 2 (0.39%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (0.39%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 117 (22.67%) CMDB
2 77 (14.92%) Onboarding
3 26 (5.04%) Product Ownership
4 21 (4.07%) Enterprise Software
5 17 (3.29%) Cloud Native
6 15 (2.91%) Management Information System
7 14 (2.71%) Data Centre
7 14 (2.71%) Video Conferencing
8 13 (2.52%) AI Agents
9 11 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (2.13%) Virtual Team
10 9 (1.74%) Cyber Threat
10 9 (1.74%) Web Conferencing
11 8 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (1.55%) Security Posture
12 7 (1.36%) iPhone
13 5 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (0.97%) Operational Technology
13 5 (0.97%) Replication
14 4 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 105 (20.35%) Windows
2 21 (4.07%) Windows 10
3 20 (3.88%) Mac OS
4 18 (3.49%) Apple iOS
5 11 (2.13%) Windows Server
6 10 (1.94%) Android
6 10 (1.94%) Linux
7 3 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.39%) VMS
8 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (44.96%) ITIL
2 224 (43.41%) Service Management
3 136 (26.36%) Stakeholder Management
4 116 (22.48%) Problem-Solving
5 93 (18.02%) Agile
6 89 (17.25%) Continuous Improvement
7 86 (16.67%) Service Delivery
8 71 (13.76%) Change Management
9 68 (13.18%) Customer Service
10 67 (12.98%) Roadmaps
11 59 (11.43%) DevOps
12 57 (11.05%) AI
13 56 (10.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 55 (10.66%) Incident Management
15 50 (9.69%) Migration
16 49 (9.50%) Workflow
17 44 (8.53%) Observability
17 44 (8.53%) Problem Management
18 40 (7.75%) Data Modelling
19 39 (7.56%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (8.72%) PowerShell
2 35 (6.78%) JavaScript
2 35 (6.78%) Python
3 26 (5.04%) SQL
4 9 (1.74%) Java
5 8 (1.55%) Bash
6 3 (0.58%) Bicep
6 3 (0.58%) Groovy
6 3 (0.58%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.39%) ActionScript
7 2 (0.39%) ActionScript 2.0
7 2 (0.39%) C++
7 2 (0.39%) Delphi
7 2 (0.39%) Korn
7 2 (0.39%) VBScript
8 1 (0.19%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.19%) BeanShell
8 1 (0.19%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.19%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (0.19%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 126 (24.42%) Security Cleared
2 97 (18.80%) SC Cleared
3 30 (5.81%) Degree
4 24 (4.65%) ITIL Certification
5 22 (4.26%) A+ Certification
6 15 (2.91%) DV Cleared
7 13 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (2.52%) PMP
8 12 (2.33%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 10 (1.94%) PMI Certification
10 9 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.16%) Network+ Certification
12 5 (0.97%) CISM
12 5 (0.97%) CISSP
13 3 (0.58%) CEH
13 3 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.39%) AWS Certification
14 2 (0.39%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (10.08%) SLA
2 19 (3.68%) QA
3 18 (3.49%) Data Quality
4 16 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (2.33%) GRC
6 9 (1.74%) NIST
7 7 (1.36%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.97%) COBIT
8 5 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.97%) GDPR
9 4 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.58%) PMO
11 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 19770
11 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 69 (13.37%) Active Directory
2 21 (4.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.71%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (1.74%) IAG
5 4 (0.78%) Docker
5 4 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.39%) Firmware
6 2 (0.39%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.19%) etcd
7 1 (0.19%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 45 (8.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (4.84%) SCCM
3 23 (4.46%) Terraform
4 11 (2.13%) Grafana
4 11 (2.13%) Kubernetes
5 10 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (1.55%) FortiGate
7 7 (1.36%) Ansible
7 7 (1.36%) Control-M
8 5 (0.97%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Clustering
10 3 (0.58%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.58%) WSUS
11 2 (0.39%) Amdocs OSS
11 2 (0.39%) Kibana
12 1 (0.19%) CASB
12 1 (0.19%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.19%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 296 (57.36%) ServiceNow
2 141 (27.33%) Microsoft
3 29 (5.62%) Remedy
3 29 (5.62%) VMware
4 26 (5.04%) BMC
5 25 (4.84%) Dynatrace
6 22 (4.26%) Splunk
7 21 (4.07%) Salesforce
8 19 (3.68%) Cisco
9 15 (2.91%) SAP
10 11 (2.13%) Adobe
10 11 (2.13%) AppDynamics
10 11 (2.13%) Apple
10 11 (2.13%) Okta
10 11 (2.13%) Palo Alto
11 10 (1.94%) Autodesk
11 10 (1.94%) MuleSoft
12 9 (1.74%) CheckPoint
12 9 (1.74%) Tenable
13 8 (1.55%) Nexthink