Service Management Contracts in Merseyside

Service Management
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside requiring Service Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Service Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 23 20
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 +15
Contract jobs citing Service Management 6 10 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 3.57% 4.39% 8.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.51% 5.59% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 25
10th Percentile £527 £356 £350
25th Percentile £549 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £425 £438
Median % change year-on-year +47.06% -2.86% -1.41%
75th Percentile £663 £438 £488
90th Percentile - £441 £530
North West median daily rate £517 £493 £445
% change year-on-year +4.85% +10.79% -3.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merseyside

Service Management 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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 133 179 300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 79.17% 78.51% 87.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 90 229
10th Percentile £143 £145 £313
25th Percentile £203 £242 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £545 £494 £550
90th Percentile £649 £603 £689
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 26 8
10th Percentile £13.28 - £16.23
25th Percentile - £15.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.44 £20.31 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.11% +12.81% +48.42%
75th Percentile £20.00 £34.32 £23.75
90th Percentile £25.22 £37.18 £25.63
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Service Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

Job postings citing Service Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Merseyside.

Job vacancy trend for Service Management in Merseyside

Service Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Service Management in Merseyside.

Daily rate trend for Service Management in Merseyside

Service Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Service Management in Merseyside.

Hourly rate trend for Service Management in Merseyside

Service Management
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Service Management within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Southport - 4 £523 -
Liverpool +8 2 £625 +150.00% 12
Service Management
North West

Service Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Military
3 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Change and Release Manager
1 4 (66.67%) Change Manager
1 4 (66.67%) Release Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) ITIL
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Release Management
3 3 (50.00%) Change Management
3 3 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (33.33%) Investment Management
4 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Business Change Management
5 1 (16.67%) Business Strategy
5 1 (16.67%) Change Control
5 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
5 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) Programme Delivery
5 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
5 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
5 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (16.67%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) MUMPS
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Grafana
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Splunk