ITSM Contracts in London

IT Service Management (ITSM)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring ITSM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ITSM over the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 160 136
Rank change year-on-year -7 -24 +65
Contract jobs citing ITSM 240 270 468
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.75% 1.66% 1.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.90% 1.87% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 165 333
10th Percentile £200 £264 £213
25th Percentile £308 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -7.83%
75th Percentile £596 £588 £590
90th Percentile £700 £683 £720
England median daily rate £450 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -10.00% +1.01% -1.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 3
10th Percentile - £17.28 -
25th Percentile - £18.13 £16.13
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.07
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +11.34% -18.74%
75th Percentile - £62.75 £20.24
90th Percentile - £80.80 £21.59
England median hourly rate £18.82 £18.13 £14.50
% change year-on-year +3.81% +25.03% +6.15%

All Process and 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 12,649 14,450 21,904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.17% 88.82% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,469 10,228 15,919
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 197 229
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.18 £18.63
25th Percentile £24.54 £22.00 £24.25
Median hourly rate £29.50 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.71% -13.58% +14.08%
75th Percentile £49.69 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.25 £71.88 £80.45
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +63.46%

ITSM
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing ITSM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for ITSM in London

ITSM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ITSM in London.

Daily rate trend for ITSM in London

ITSM
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITSM in London over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ITSM in London

ITSM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ITSM in London.

Hourly rate trend 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 2 August 2025. 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 +7 44 £500 +0.50% 20
West London +1 8 £250 +100.00% 1
South London +1 4 £225 -15.89% 4
East London +6 3 £630 +43.18% 5
ITSM
England

ITSM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (7.50%) Confluence
2 12 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (3.33%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.25%) Skype for Business
4 3 (1.25%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.83%) WebLogic
5 2 (0.83%) WildFly
6 1 (0.42%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.42%) CMS
6 1 (0.42%) JBoss
6 1 (0.42%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 18 (7.50%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (3.75%) MS Visio
3 6 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.42%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.42%) Camtasia
5 1 (0.42%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.42%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 27 (11.25%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.67%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (1.67%) Workday HCM
3 2 (0.83%) Cloudability
3 2 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.83%) iTrent
3 2 (0.83%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle HRMS
4 1 (0.42%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 48 (20.00%) Azure
1 48 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 17 (7.08%) Power Platform
3 16 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (5.42%) AWS
5 10 (4.17%) Entra ID
6 8 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (2.92%) Azure Sentinel
7 7 (2.92%) Lucidchart
7 7 (2.92%) Power Automate
7 7 (2.92%) PowerApps
8 6 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (2.50%) SaaS
9 5 (2.08%) Azure AKS
10 4 (1.67%) GCP
10 4 (1.67%) GitHub
10 4 (1.67%) PaaS
11 3 (1.25%) OneDrive
12 2 (0.83%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (0.83%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.83%) VPN
2 12 (5.00%) DNS
2 12 (5.00%) SSL
3 10 (4.17%) TCP/IP
4 7 (2.92%) DHCP
5 5 (2.08%) Remote Desktop
5 5 (2.08%) VoIP
6 4 (1.67%) Wireless
7 3 (1.25%) Firewall
7 3 (1.25%) iSCSI
7 3 (1.25%) LAN
7 3 (1.25%) Skype
7 3 (1.25%) WAN
7 3 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.83%) HTTP
8 2 (0.83%) NAS
8 2 (0.83%) NetScaler
8 2 (0.83%) SAN
8 2 (0.83%) SMTP
9 1 (0.42%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.75%) Power BI
2 6 (2.50%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.67%) MySQL
4 2 (0.83%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.42%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.42%) DB2
5 1 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.42%) IMS/DB
5 1 (0.42%) Pentaho
5 1 (0.42%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 43 (17.92%) JIRA
2 3 (1.25%) Octopus Deploy
2 3 (1.25%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.42%) Git
3 1 (0.42%) MLflow
3 1 (0.42%) ScriptRunner
3 1 (0.42%) Zephyr
General
1 96 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 44 (18.33%) Finance
3 28 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (8.75%) Public Sector
5 13 (5.42%) Banking
6 12 (5.00%) Legal
7 11 (4.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (4.58%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.50%) Local Government
9 5 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.67%) Retail
11 3 (1.25%) Back Office
11 3 (1.25%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.25%) Marketing
11 3 (1.25%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.83%) Billing
12 2 (0.83%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.83%) Law
12 2 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.42%) Police
Job Titles
1 44 (18.33%) Architect
2 30 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 24 (10.00%) Developer
3 24 (10.00%) ServiceNow Architect
4 22 (9.17%) Senior
5 21 (8.75%) Analyst
6 20 (8.33%) Consultant
7 18 (7.50%) ServiceNow Developer
8 17 (7.08%) Lead
9 16 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
10 15 (6.25%) IT Support
11 12 (5.00%) Senior Architect
12 11 (4.58%) Desktop Support
13 10 (4.17%) IT Engineer
13 10 (4.17%) IT Support Engineer
13 10 (4.17%) Service Manager
14 9 (3.75%) 2nd Line Support
14 9 (3.75%) Desktop Engineer
14 9 (3.75%) Desktop Support Engineer
14 9 (3.75%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (11.67%) HTML
2 23 (9.58%) Web Services
3 21 (8.75%) REST
4 19 (7.92%) JSON
4 19 (7.92%) SOAP
5 18 (7.50%) AngularJS
6 16 (6.67%) CSS
6 16 (6.67%) jQuery
7 13 (5.42%) JDBC
8 12 (5.00%) .NET
8 12 (5.00%) Apache Camel
8 12 (5.00%) HTML5
8 12 (5.00%) LDAP
8 12 (5.00%) ODBC
8 12 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
8 12 (5.00%) SAML
9 11 (4.58%) RESTful
10 5 (2.08%) Lightning Web Components
10 5 (2.08%) OpenTelemetry
10 5 (2.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.83%) CMDB
2 9 (3.75%) Onboarding
3 7 (2.92%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.50%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.08%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 5 (2.08%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (2.08%) Low-Code
5 5 (2.08%) Replication
6 4 (1.67%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.25%) Smartphone
7 3 (1.25%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (0.83%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.83%) Blog
8 2 (0.83%) iPad
8 2 (0.83%) iPhone
8 2 (0.83%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.83%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.83%) Reference Data
8 2 (0.83%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 52 (21.67%) Windows
2 16 (6.67%) Windows 10
3 10 (4.17%) Apple iOS
4 7 (2.92%) Android
4 7 (2.92%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.08%) Mac OS
5 5 (2.08%) VMS
6 3 (1.25%) Linux
7 2 (0.83%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.42%) CentOS
8 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.42%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.42%) Unix
8 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (49.17%) Service Management
2 109 (45.42%) ITIL
3 59 (24.58%) Problem-Solving
4 48 (20.00%) Agile
5 41 (17.08%) DevOps
6 38 (15.83%) Customer Service
7 31 (12.92%) Service Delivery
8 29 (12.08%) Stakeholder Management
9 27 (11.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 25 (10.42%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (10.00%) Change Management
12 22 (9.17%) Project Management
13 21 (8.75%) Asset Management
13 21 (8.75%) Microservices
13 21 (8.75%) Migration
14 18 (7.50%) Roadmaps
14 18 (7.50%) Scrum
15 17 (7.08%) Data Protection
15 17 (7.08%) User Experience
16 16 (6.67%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 41 (17.08%) JavaScript
2 14 (5.83%) PowerShell
3 11 (4.58%) SQL
4 10 (4.17%) Java
4 10 (4.17%) Kusto Query Language
5 8 (3.33%) Python
6 7 (2.92%) Bicep
7 5 (2.08%) C#
8 2 (0.83%) Bash
9 1 (0.42%) Groovy
9 1 (0.42%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.42%) REXX
9 1 (0.42%) Ruby
9 1 (0.42%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 41 (17.08%) Security Cleared
2 37 (15.42%) SC Cleared
3 20 (8.33%) Degree
4 9 (3.75%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (2.50%) CompTIA Security+
6 4 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.83%) A+ Certification
8 2 (0.83%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.83%) MCP
8 2 (0.83%) MCSA
8 2 (0.83%) PMP
9 1 (0.42%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.42%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (0.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.42%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.67%) SLA
2 15 (6.25%) QA
3 5 (2.08%) COBIT
3 5 (2.08%) GDPR
4 4 (1.67%) GRC
5 3 (1.25%) NIST
6 2 (0.83%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.83%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 19770
6 2 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 2 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.42%) GxP
7 1 (0.42%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 41 (17.08%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.75%) Virtual Desktop
2 9 (3.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.08%) vSphere
4 4 (1.67%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.67%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.25%) KVM
6 2 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.83%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.42%) Docker
7 1 (0.42%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
2 11 (4.58%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (3.75%) Kubernetes
4 8 (3.33%) SCCM
5 6 (2.50%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.08%) Grafana
6 5 (2.08%) HP ALM
7 3 (1.25%) Ansible
8 1 (0.42%) HP Operations Orchestration
8 1 (0.42%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.42%) Nessus
8 1 (0.42%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.42%) Plesk
Vendors
1 122 (50.83%) ServiceNow
2 66 (27.50%) Microsoft
3 27 (11.25%) Remedy
4 18 (7.50%) BMC
4 18 (7.50%) HP
5 12 (5.00%) Ivanti
6 10 (4.17%) VMware
7 8 (3.33%) Citrix
8 6 (2.50%) Cisco
8 6 (2.50%) Oracle
8 6 (2.50%) Salesforce
9 5 (2.08%) Apple
9 5 (2.08%) Forcepoint
9 5 (2.08%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.67%) IBM
10 4 (1.67%) Workday
11 3 (1.25%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.25%) Databricks
11 3 (1.25%) Google
11 3 (1.25%) SAP