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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 155 167
Rank change year-on-year +37 +12 -25
Contract jobs citing ITSM 464 233 268
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.34% 1.72% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.63% 1.86% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 152 163
10th Percentile £299 £201 £256
25th Percentile £411 £311 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% -3.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £613 £626 £581
90th Percentile £700 £701 £688
England median daily rate £510 £450 £495
% change year-on-year +13.33% -9.09% +4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 1 6
10th Percentile - - £17.07
25th Percentile £18.75 - £18.13
Median hourly rate £21.00 £18.13 £18.57
Median % change year-on-year +15.83% -2.34% +8.79%
75th Percentile £22.50 - £48.00
90th Percentile £24.75 - £62.75
England median hourly rate £32.50 £18.82 £18.13
% change year-on-year +72.69% +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 17,625 12,495 14,990
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.94% 92.13% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,646 8,354 10,656
10th Percentile £363 £330 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 277 234 247
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.66 £21.05
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.90 £33.55
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -7.89% -21.98%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.25
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.98%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 -2 55 £520 +0.73% 32
West London +4 25 £400 +60.00% 9
East London +2 4 £348 -44.84% 1
South London -15 4 - - 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 17 (3.66%) SharePoint
2 16 (3.45%) Confluence
3 7 (1.51%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.43%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 10 (2.16%) AutoCAD
2 8 (1.72%) Revit
3 6 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.65%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.65%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 23 (4.96%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.22%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.22%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.22%) Remedy AR System
3 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 110 (23.71%) Azure
2 61 (13.15%) AWS
3 55 (11.85%) Microsoft 365
4 44 (9.48%) SaaS
5 35 (7.54%) Entra ID
6 18 (3.88%) Datadog
7 17 (3.66%) GitHub
8 16 (3.45%) PaaS
9 15 (3.23%) GCP
9 15 (3.23%) OpenShift
9 15 (3.23%) Power Platform
10 13 (2.80%) IaaS
11 12 (2.59%) OneDrive
12 8 (1.72%) Microsoft Copilot
13 7 (1.51%) Azure AKS
13 7 (1.51%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (1.29%) Azure Monitor
15 5 (1.08%) Copilot Studio
15 5 (1.08%) Power Automate
15 5 (1.08%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 28 (6.03%) Firewall
2 27 (5.82%) DNS
3 24 (5.17%) VPN
4 20 (4.31%) DHCP
4 20 (4.31%) TCP/IP
4 20 (4.31%) VLAN
5 15 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
6 14 (3.02%) Network Security
7 10 (2.16%) Cisco ISE
7 10 (2.16%) TACACS
8 9 (1.94%) SAN
8 9 (1.94%) WebEx
9 7 (1.51%) WAN
10 5 (1.08%) Wireless
11 3 (0.65%) HTTP
11 3 (0.65%) Internet
11 3 (0.65%) LAN
11 3 (0.65%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.65%) SNMP
12 2 (0.43%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.02%) Power BI
2 12 (2.59%) SQL Server
3 9 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.43%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.43%) Flink
4 2 (0.43%) InfluxDB
4 2 (0.43%) Metadata
4 2 (0.43%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.43%) MySQL
4 2 (0.43%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.43%) Redis
4 2 (0.43%) TimescaleDB
5 1 (0.22%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.22%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (0.22%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 81 (17.46%) JIRA
2 10 (2.16%) Git
3 9 (1.94%) Chocolatey
4 7 (1.51%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.86%) ScriptRunner
6 2 (0.43%) AdminStudio
6 2 (0.43%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.43%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.43%) InstallShield
6 2 (0.43%) MSI
6 2 (0.43%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.22%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.22%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.22%) GitLab
7 1 (0.22%) Selenium
7 1 (0.22%) TestRail
General
1 197 (42.46%) Social Skills
2 99 (21.34%) Analytical Skills
3 83 (17.89%) Finance
4 30 (6.47%) Telecoms
5 25 (5.39%) Banking
6 24 (5.17%) Public Sector
7 16 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (3.45%) Legal
8 13 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.08%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.86%) Retail
14 3 (0.65%) Billing
14 3 (0.65%) Law
14 3 (0.65%) Military
15 2 (0.43%) General Ledger
16 1 (0.22%) Manufacturing
16 1 (0.22%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 73 (15.73%) Architect
2 52 (11.21%) Analyst
3 47 (10.13%) Developer
4 42 (9.05%) ServiceNow Architect
5 41 (8.84%) Senior
6 39 (8.41%) Consultant
7 38 (8.19%) ServiceNow Developer
8 29 (6.25%) Lead
9 28 (6.03%) IT Manager
10 24 (5.17%) Service Manager
11 22 (4.74%) IT Support
12 21 (4.53%) Support Engineer
13 17 (3.66%) Business Analyst
13 17 (3.66%) Designer
14 16 (3.45%) Applications Support
14 16 (3.45%) IT Engineer
15 15 (3.23%) ITSM Consultant
16 14 (3.02%) Project Manager
16 14 (3.02%) Support Analyst
17 13 (2.80%) Applications Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (16.59%) REST
2 49 (10.56%) SOAP
3 19 (4.09%) Web Services
4 7 (1.51%) .NET
4 7 (1.51%) LDAP
4 7 (1.51%) XML
5 6 (1.29%) HTML
5 6 (1.29%) SailPoint
6 5 (1.08%) CSS
6 5 (1.08%) JSON
6 5 (1.08%) Middleware
6 5 (1.08%) OpenID
6 5 (1.08%) SAML
7 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Graph
7 4 (0.86%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (0.65%) Ajax
8 3 (0.65%) Kafka
8 3 (0.65%) RESTful
9 2 (0.43%) Node.js
9 2 (0.43%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 116 (25.00%) CMDB
2 62 (13.36%) Onboarding
3 26 (5.60%) Product Ownership
4 17 (3.66%) Cloud Native
4 17 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (2.80%) Virtual Team
6 12 (2.59%) AI Agents
6 12 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
7 10 (2.16%) Data Centre
7 10 (2.16%) Video Conferencing
8 9 (1.94%) Cyber Threat
8 9 (1.94%) Management Information System
9 8 (1.72%) Security Posture
10 7 (1.51%) iPhone
10 7 (1.51%) Web Conferencing
11 6 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (0.86%) Data Structures
13 4 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
13 4 (0.86%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 67 (14.44%) Windows
2 17 (3.66%) Mac OS
3 11 (2.37%) Apple iOS
3 11 (2.37%) Windows 10
4 9 (1.94%) Android
5 5 (1.08%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.86%) Linux
7 3 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (43.97%) ITIL
2 190 (40.95%) Service Management
3 117 (25.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 106 (22.84%) Problem-Solving
5 91 (19.61%) Agile
6 80 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
7 74 (15.95%) Service Delivery
8 62 (13.36%) Change Management
9 61 (13.15%) Roadmaps
10 58 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 55 (11.85%) Customer Service
12 54 (11.64%) Incident Management
13 53 (11.42%) AI
13 53 (11.42%) DevOps
14 52 (11.21%) Workflow
15 48 (10.34%) Problem Management
16 44 (9.48%) Data Modelling
17 43 (9.27%) Migration
18 40 (8.62%) Observability
19 37 (7.97%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 38 (8.19%) JavaScript
2 28 (6.03%) Python
3 27 (5.82%) PowerShell
4 18 (3.88%) SQL
5 7 (1.51%) Java
6 4 (0.86%) Bash
7 3 (0.65%) Groovy
7 3 (0.65%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.43%) ActionScript
8 2 (0.43%) ActionScript 2.0
8 2 (0.43%) Bicep
8 2 (0.43%) C++
8 2 (0.43%) Delphi
8 2 (0.43%) Korn
8 2 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.22%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.22%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.22%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 115 (24.78%) Security Cleared
2 88 (18.97%) SC Cleared
3 23 (4.96%) ITIL Certification
4 21 (4.53%) Degree
5 19 (4.09%) DV Cleared
6 17 (3.66%) A+ Certification
7 13 (2.80%) PMP
8 12 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (2.16%) PMI Certification
10 9 (1.94%) Azure Certification
10 9 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (1.29%) Network+ Certification
13 5 (1.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 4 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.86%) CISSP
15 3 (0.65%) CISM
15 3 (0.65%) Master's Degree
16 2 (0.43%) AWS Certification
16 2 (0.43%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (9.91%) SLA
2 21 (4.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (4.09%) Data Quality
4 14 (3.02%) GRC
5 11 (2.37%) NIST
6 10 (2.16%) QA
7 7 (1.51%) NCSC
8 6 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (1.29%) PCI DSS
9 5 (1.08%) COBIT
9 5 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (0.86%) GDPR
11 3 (0.65%) PMO
11 3 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 41 (8.84%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.94%) IAG
2 9 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.51%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.43%) Docker
5 2 (0.43%) Firmware
5 2 (0.43%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.22%) etcd
6 1 (0.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 31 (6.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (4.09%) SCCM
3 18 (3.88%) Terraform
4 15 (3.23%) Kubernetes
5 10 (2.16%) Grafana
5 10 (2.16%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (1.72%) FortiGate
7 6 (1.29%) Control-M
8 5 (1.08%) Ansible
8 5 (1.08%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.43%) Amdocs OSS
9 2 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.43%) Kibana
10 1 (0.22%) CASB
10 1 (0.22%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.22%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.22%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 274 (59.05%) ServiceNow
2 98 (21.12%) Microsoft
3 24 (5.17%) Splunk
4 23 (4.96%) Remedy
5 22 (4.74%) Dynatrace
6 21 (4.53%) Salesforce
7 18 (3.88%) VMware
8 16 (3.45%) Cisco
8 16 (3.45%) SAP
9 13 (2.80%) BMC
10 11 (2.37%) AppDynamics
10 11 (2.37%) CyberArk
10 11 (2.37%) Palo Alto
11 10 (2.16%) MuleSoft
12 9 (1.94%) CheckPoint
12 9 (1.94%) Tenable
13 8 (1.72%) Adobe
13 8 (1.72%) Apple
13 8 (1.72%) Autodesk
13 8 (1.72%) Nexthink