Service Catalogue Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Service Catalogue
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Service Catalogue skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 177 160 172
Rank change year-on-year -17 +12 +68
Contract jobs citing Service Catalogue 16 9 28
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.38% 0.22% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.26% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 3 2
10th Percentile £366 £378 £415
25th Percentile £384 £386 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.75% -20.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £537 - £588
90th Percentile £550 - £625
England median daily rate £525 £538 £590
% change year-on-year -2.33% -8.90% +7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £17.79 - -
England median hourly rate £18.92 - £68.67
% change year-on-year - - +69.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,749 3,407 4,491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.09% 84.27% 88.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,464 1,852 3,020
10th Percentile £250 £294 £281
25th Percentile £369 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.79% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £563 £575 £600
90th Percentile £671 £655 £680
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 178 211
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.28 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.55 £18.13 £18.00
Median hourly rate £24.38 £35.00 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.34% +20.69% +36.47%
75th Percentile £41.46 £51.90 £46.18
90th Percentile £64.88 £70.00 £62.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -39.40% -6.74% +27.14%

Service Catalogue
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Service Catalogue job vacancy trend in the North of England

Service Catalogue
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Service Catalogue.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Service Catalogue

Service Catalogue
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Catalogue in the North of England over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Catalogue in the North of England

Service Catalogue
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Service Catalogue.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Service Catalogue

Service Catalogue
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 Service Catalogue within the North of England region over the 6 months to 20 October 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 -9 13 £438 +9.38% 3
Yorkshire -26 3 £538 - 1
Service Catalogue
England

Service Catalogue
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (31.25%) MS Visio
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) Lucidchart
2 1 (6.25%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) JIRA
General
1 8 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Fire and Rescue
3 1 (6.25%) Police
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Business Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Designer
2 3 (18.75%) Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Service Designer
2 3 (18.75%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) ServiceNow Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Service Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Tester
4 1 (6.25%) Administrator
4 1 (6.25%) DevOps Administrator
4 1 (6.25%) IT Manager
4 1 (6.25%) IT Services Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Service Design Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Service Desk Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) CSS
1 4 (25.00%) HTML
1 4 (25.00%) REST
1 4 (25.00%) SOAP
1 4 (25.00%) Web Services
2 3 (18.75%) AngularJS
2 3 (18.75%) LDAP
3 1 (6.25%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) CMDB
2 4 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 4 (25.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) ITIL
2 12 (75.00%) ITSM
2 12 (75.00%) Service Management
3 7 (43.75%) Agile
4 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (31.25%) IT Asset Management
6 4 (25.00%) Analytics
6 4 (25.00%) Computer Science
6 4 (25.00%) Configuration Management
6 4 (25.00%) Scrum
6 4 (25.00%) Service Design
6 4 (25.00%) SIAM
6 4 (25.00%) Time Management
7 3 (18.75%) Business Analysis
7 3 (18.75%) Enterprise Architecture
7 3 (18.75%) Migration
7 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (18.75%) TOGAF
7 3 (18.75%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) Java
1 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Degree
2 4 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (6.25%) CBAP
3 1 (6.25%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) COBIT
1 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 1 (6.25%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) Atlassian
3 1 (6.25%) BMC
3 1 (6.25%) MuleSoft