ITSM Contract Job Trends in Portsmouth

IT Service Management (ITSM)
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Portsmouth requiring ITSM 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 41 - 38
Rank change year-on-year - - +10
Contract jobs citing ITSM 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Portsmouth 0.56% - 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% - 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £441 - -
25th Percentile £466 - £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 - £225
75th Percentile £581 - £238
90th Percentile £602 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £538 £500 £225
% change year-on-year +7.50% +122.22% -48.57%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 259 146 191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 72.35% 74.87% 90.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 91 80
10th Percentile £363 £300 £400
25th Percentile £461 £450 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -6.52% +15.00%
75th Percentile £625 £556 £688
90th Percentile £685 £626 £850
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £537 £575
% change year-on-year +2.42% -6.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 29 82
10th Percentile £15.72 £25.15 £51.06
25th Percentile £48.64 £32.94 £53.40
Median hourly rate £60.00 £50.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -12.82% +4.27%
75th Percentile £65.00 £55.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.25 £59.00 £76.86
Hampshire median hourly rate £48.72 £33.47 £57.35
% change year-on-year +45.57% -41.64% +9.24%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ITSM relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth.

ITSM job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

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Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing ITSM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing ITSM

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Daily Rate Histogram in Portsmouth

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITSM in Portsmouth over the 6 months to 25 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ITSM in Portsmouth

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Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing ITSM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing ITSM

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Service Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) CSOC
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Forensics
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Malware Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery Management
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Clearswift
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (50.00%) Tanium
1 1 (50.00%) Trend Micro
1 1 (50.00%) Tripwire