Service Catalogue Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Service Catalogue
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Service Catalogue skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 133 127
Rank change year-on-year -58 -6 +12
Contract jobs citing Service Catalogue 7 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.15% 0.12% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.14% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £422 - £433
25th Percentile £437 - £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +161.36%
75th Percentile £536 - £606
90th Percentile £634 - £618
England median daily rate £550 £506 £550
% change year-on-year +8.77% -8.06% -8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

Service Catalogue 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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,891 2,203 2,186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.11% 87.52% 81.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,285 1,425 1,467
10th Percentile £306 £235 £263
25th Percentile £405 £358 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £563 £612
90th Percentile £670 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.74% -2.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 177 91
10th Percentile £13.18 £12.62 £12.75
25th Percentile £15.25 £16.35 £14.85
Median hourly rate £22.81 £21.39 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.64% +6.95% -27.27%
75th Percentile £43.31 £26.51 £37.50
90th Percentile £67.84 £50.00 £52.50
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

Service Catalogue
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Service Catalogue relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Service Catalogue job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Service Catalogue.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Service Catalogue

Service Catalogue
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Catalogue in the Midlands over the 6 months to 25 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Service Catalogue in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Service Catalogue.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Service Catalogue

Service Catalogue
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Service Catalogue within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 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
West Midlands -42 4 £563 - 6
East Midlands -17 3 £466 - 1
Service Catalogue
England

Service Catalogue
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Amazon S3
1 3 (42.86%) Amazon SQS
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Step Functions
2 2 (28.57%) dbt
2 2 (28.57%) SaaS
2 2 (28.57%) Serverless
2 2 (28.57%) Snowflake
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Glacier
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) CloudFront
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (14.29%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (28.57%) Data Lake
1 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (14.29%) Architect
1 1 (14.29%) Asset Management Consultant
1 1 (14.29%) Consultant
1 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Data Modeller
1 1 (14.29%) Desktop Technician
1 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architect
1 1 (14.29%) IT Consultant
1 1 (14.29%) Management Consultant
1 1 (14.29%) Senior
1 1 (14.29%) Senior Consultant
1 1 (14.29%) Senior IT Consultant
1 1 (14.29%) Senior Management Consultant
1 1 (14.29%) Senior ServiceNow Consultant
1 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow Consultant
1 1 (14.29%) Technology Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) CMDB
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Smartphone
1 1 (14.29%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Unix
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Analytics
1 3 (42.86%) Cost Optimisation
1 3 (42.86%) ETL
2 2 (28.57%) Asset Management
2 2 (28.57%) Budgeting
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (28.57%) Data Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
2 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (28.57%) IT Strategy
2 2 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 1 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (14.29%) Key Management
3 1 (14.29%) Secrets Management
3 1 (14.29%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
1 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Data Quality
2 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) Firmware
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) BiZZdesign
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
2 1 (14.29%) Sparx