ITSM Contracts in the North of England

IT Service Management (ITSM)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 65 130
Rank change year-on-year +15 +65 -20
Contract jobs citing ITSM 136 139 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 4.12% 2.92% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.58% 3.41% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 85 67
10th Percentile £199 £378 £256
25th Percentile £240 £432 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £515 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.62% +8.42% +20.63%
75th Percentile £551 £553 £588
90th Percentile £639 £699 £643
England median daily rate £499 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -0.30% +11.11% -7.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £13.16
Median hourly rate £29.00 £15.17 £15.44
Median % change year-on-year +91.17% -1.75% +38.91%
75th Percentile - - £18.00
90th Percentile - - £18.49
England median hourly rate £18.82 £14.00 £14.50
% change year-on-year +34.43% -3.45% +6.15%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,970 4,081 5,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.97% 85.83% 90.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,907 2,497 3,663
10th Percentile £263 £300 £304
25th Percentile £380 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £684
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 357 205
10th Percentile £13.70 £11.04 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.31 £12.50 £15.75
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.72 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +62.25% -36.03% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.59 £44.74 £45.05
90th Percentile £83.41 £55.40 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

ITSM
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing ITSM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for ITSM in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ITSM in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for ITSM in the North of England

ITSM
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITSM in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ITSM in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ITSM in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for ITSM in the North of England

ITSM
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITSM within the North of England region over the 6 months to 2 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
North West +25 85 £472 -0.63% 53
Yorkshire -12 47 £450 -16.67% 37
North East -3 3 £188 -68.22% 13
ITSM
England

ITSM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 27 (19.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (17.65%) SharePoint
3 8 (5.88%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.74%) Confluence
Applications
1 43 (31.62%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (4.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (4.41%) MS Visio
3 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (5.15%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 46 (33.82%) Microsoft 365
2 31 (22.79%) Entra ID
3 25 (18.38%) Azure
4 10 (7.35%) GCP
5 9 (6.62%) GitHub
6 8 (5.88%) SaaS
7 7 (5.15%) AWS
8 2 (1.47%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.74%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.74%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.74%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 22 (16.18%) DNS
2 21 (15.44%) VPN
3 20 (14.71%) DHCP
4 12 (8.82%) Skype
5 11 (8.09%) BGP
5 11 (8.09%) OSPF
6 9 (6.62%) EIGRP
6 9 (6.62%) HSRP
6 9 (6.62%) IPsec
6 9 (6.62%) SMTP
7 7 (5.15%) TCP/IP
8 6 (4.41%) VLAN
9 4 (2.94%) LAN
9 4 (2.94%) Remote Desktop
9 4 (2.94%) WAN
9 4 (2.94%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (2.21%) Firewall
11 2 (1.47%) MPLS
11 2 (1.47%) Network Security
12 1 (0.74%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.74%) MongoDB
1 1 (0.74%) NoSQL
1 1 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (0.74%) Power BI
1 1 (0.74%) Relational Database
1 1 (0.74%) Yellowfin
Development Applications
1 6 (4.41%) JIRA
2 2 (1.47%) GitLab
2 2 (1.47%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.47%) Selenium
3 1 (0.74%) Git
3 1 (0.74%) Maven
3 1 (0.74%) ScriptRunner
General
1 64 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 16 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (11.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (11.03%) Retail
4 14 (10.29%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.88%) Banking
6 7 (5.15%) Finance
7 5 (3.68%) Military
8 4 (2.94%) French Language
8 4 (2.94%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.94%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.47%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.47%) Legal
11 1 (0.74%) Games
11 1 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 21 (15.44%) Analyst
2 15 (11.03%) Network Engineer
2 15 (11.03%) Support Engineer
3 14 (10.29%) IT Support
4 13 (9.56%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 13 (9.56%) Support Manager
5 12 (8.82%) 1st Line Support
6 10 (7.35%) Senior
7 9 (6.62%) IT Manager
7 9 (6.62%) Service Analyst
7 9 (6.62%) Service Desk Analyst
8 8 (5.88%) 1st Line Support Manager
8 8 (5.88%) IT Support Manager
9 7 (5.15%) Business Analyst
9 7 (5.15%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 6 (4.41%) Desktop Support
10 6 (4.41%) IT Engineer
10 6 (4.41%) Junior
10 6 (4.41%) Junior Network Engineer
10 6 (4.41%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.09%) REST
2 2 (1.47%) SOAP
3 1 (0.74%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.74%) JDBC
3 1 (0.74%) LDAP
3 1 (0.74%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.03%) Smartphone
2 13 (9.56%) iPhone
3 10 (7.35%) CMDB
3 10 (7.35%) Management Information System
4 8 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (4.41%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.94%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.47%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.47%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.47%) Replication
9 1 (0.74%) Blog
9 1 (0.74%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.74%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 46 (33.82%) Windows
2 14 (10.29%) Mac OS
3 13 (9.56%) Windows Server
4 10 (7.35%) VMS
5 9 (6.62%) Windows 10
6 6 (4.41%) Linux
7 5 (3.68%) Windows 7
8 2 (1.47%) HPUX
8 2 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.47%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (46.32%) ITIL
2 57 (41.91%) Service Management
3 35 (25.74%) Customer Service
3 35 (25.74%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (15.44%) Incident Management
5 20 (14.71%) Agile
5 20 (14.71%) DevOps
6 18 (13.24%) Service Delivery
7 16 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
8 13 (9.56%) Mobile Device Management
9 12 (8.82%) Change Management
9 12 (8.82%) Problem Management
10 11 (8.09%) Collaborative Working
10 11 (8.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 10 (7.35%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (7.35%) Decision-Making
12 9 (6.62%) Project Management
12 9 (6.62%) SIEM
13 8 (5.88%) Computer Science
13 8 (5.88%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (14.71%) PowerShell
2 4 (2.94%) Python
2 4 (2.94%) VB
2 4 (2.94%) VBScript
3 3 (2.21%) Bash
4 1 (0.74%) Groovy
4 1 (0.74%) Java
4 1 (0.74%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.74%) SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (30.15%) Security Cleared
2 38 (27.94%) SC Cleared
3 27 (19.85%) Degree
4 6 (4.41%) A+ Certification
4 6 (4.41%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (2.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.21%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.47%) CCIE
7 2 (1.47%) CCNP
7 2 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.47%) JNCIE
8 1 (0.74%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.74%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.74%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.74%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.62%) SLA
2 5 (3.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.47%) QA
4 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.74%) COBIT
4 1 (0.74%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.74%) ISO 31000
4 1 (0.74%) PMO
4 1 (0.74%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 50 (36.76%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.94%) BitLocker
3 2 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.74%) Docker
4 1 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (13.97%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (9.56%) Ansible
2 13 (9.56%) Jamf Pro
3 12 (8.82%) WSUS
4 7 (5.15%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (4.41%) SCCM
6 4 (2.94%) Terraform
7 3 (2.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.47%) HP ALM
8 2 (1.47%) Kubernetes
9 1 (0.74%) Grafana
9 1 (0.74%) Graylog
9 1 (0.74%) Packer
9 1 (0.74%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.74%) Puppet
9 1 (0.74%) SCSM
9 1 (0.74%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 57 (41.91%) Microsoft
2 49 (36.03%) ServiceNow
3 17 (12.50%) Cisco
4 14 (10.29%) Apple
5 11 (8.09%) Citrix
5 11 (8.09%) VMware
6 7 (5.15%) Remedy
7 4 (2.94%) Google
8 3 (2.21%) BMC
9 2 (1.47%) F5
9 2 (1.47%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.47%) HP
9 2 (1.47%) IBM
9 2 (1.47%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.47%) Sun
9 2 (1.47%) Unisys
10 1 (0.74%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.74%) Bomgar
10 1 (0.74%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.74%) Salesforce