ITSM Contracts in Manchester

IT Service Management (ITSM)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 50 76 88
Rank change year-on-year +26 +12 +24
Contract jobs citing ITSM 32 13 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 3.19% 1.06% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.62% 1.22% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 8 19
10th Percentile £205 - £522
25th Percentile £363 £175 £535
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -21.74% +53.33%
75th Percentile £613 £495 £588
90th Percentile £780 £545 £600
North West median daily rate £475 £504 £524
% change year-on-year -5.75% -3.77% +16.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31.00 - -
Median hourly rate £32.00 - -
75th Percentile £33.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £63.40 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 884 1,063 1,613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.05% 86.92% 89.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 563 687 1,184
10th Percentile £308 £325 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £690 £700 £675
North West median daily rate £463 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.50% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 54 59
10th Percentile £17.12 £15.94 £14.52
25th Percentile £19.07 £24.12 £16.15
Median hourly rate £22.63 £38.75 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.60% +98.72% +8.33%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.19 £38.13
90th Percentile £77.00 £80.45 £66.80
North West median hourly rate £27.90 £33.61 £33.00
% change year-on-year -16.97% +1.83% +43.48%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for ITSM in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for ITSM in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for ITSM in Manchester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for ITSM in Manchester

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Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITSM within the Manchester 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
Bolton - 4 - - 2
Salford - 2 £550 - 1
ITSM
North West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Applications
1 2 (6.25%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (15.63%) GCP
2 3 (9.38%) Azure
3 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (6.25%) Lucidchart
4 1 (3.13%) AWS
4 1 (3.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) DHCP
1 4 (12.50%) DNS
1 4 (12.50%) TCP/IP
1 4 (12.50%) VPN
Development Applications
1 5 (15.63%) JIRA
2 4 (12.50%) Postman
3 1 (3.13%) GitLab
3 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (34.38%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (12.50%) French Language
3 4 (12.50%) Telecoms
4 3 (9.38%) Finance
5 1 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.13%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 11 (34.38%) Analyst
2 7 (21.88%) Desktop Support
2 7 (21.88%) IT Support
2 7 (21.88%) Support Analyst
3 4 (12.50%) Deskside Analyst
3 4 (12.50%) Deskside Support
3 4 (12.50%) Deskside Support Analyst
3 4 (12.50%) Help Desk Analyst
3 4 (12.50%) IT Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) IT Support Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Project Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Service Manager
3 4 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Technology Support Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) Desktop Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) Desktop Support Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) IT Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) IT Support Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) Lead
4 3 (9.38%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Management Information System
2 4 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (9.38%) CMDB
4 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.13%) Mainframe
4 1 (3.13%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.63%) Windows
2 1 (3.13%) HPUX
2 1 (3.13%) Linux
2 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (71.88%) ITIL
2 21 (65.63%) Service Management
3 12 (37.50%) Service Delivery
4 11 (34.38%) Customer Service
5 7 (21.88%) Agile
5 7 (21.88%) Change Management
5 7 (21.88%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (18.75%) Computer Science
6 6 (18.75%) Data Analysis
6 6 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (18.75%) Process Improvement
6 6 (18.75%) Workflow
7 5 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (15.63%) DevOps
7 5 (15.63%) Incident Response
7 5 (15.63%) Project Management
8 4 (12.50%) API Testing
8 4 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
8 4 (12.50%) Unit Testing
Qualifications
1 7 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 6 (18.75%) Degree
3 4 (12.50%) A+ Certification
3 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 3 (9.38%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.88%) SLA
2 1 (3.13%) COBIT
2 1 (3.13%) GDPR
2 1 (3.13%) ISO 22301
2 1 (3.13%) ISO 31000
2 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.13%) QA
2 1 (3.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (3.13%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) Ansible
1 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.13%) SCSM
1 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (46.88%) Microsoft
2 9 (28.13%) ServiceNow
3 4 (12.50%) Google
4 2 (6.25%) Remedy
5 1 (3.13%) Atlassian
5 1 (3.13%) BMC
5 1 (3.13%) IBM
5 1 (3.13%) SolarWinds
5 1 (3.13%) Sun
5 1 (3.13%) Unisys