Service Management Contracts in Reading

Service Management
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 53 39 62
Rank change year-on-year -14 +23 -4
Contract jobs citing Service Management 7 56 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.17% 4.70% 2.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 5.21% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 53 18
10th Percentile £325 £513 £550
25th Percentile £363 - £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +0.88% +11.22%
75th Percentile £475 £608 £679
90th Percentile £542 - £751
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -21.74% +0.88% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £53.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £56.50
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate - - £37.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

Service Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Management in Reading

Service Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Service Management in Reading

Service Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Management in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Management in Reading

Service Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Service Management in Reading

Service Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (14.29%) Remedy AR System
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
1 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) Subversion
2 1 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (14.29%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (57.14%) Telecoms
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Billing
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (14.29%) Analyst
1 1 (14.29%) Change Analyst
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre Manager
1 1 (14.29%) Data Manager
1 1 (14.29%) Developer
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA Expert
1 1 (14.29%) Lead
1 1 (14.29%) OSS Project Manager
1 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
1 1 (14.29%) Remedy Developer
1 1 (14.29%) Technical Leader
1 1 (14.29%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) CMDB
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Unix
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Agile
1 3 (42.86%) ITIL
1 3 (42.86%) ITSM
2 2 (28.57%) Change Management
2 2 (28.57%) Defect Management
2 2 (28.57%) PRINCE2
2 2 (28.57%) Project Management
2 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (28.57%) Test Management
3 1 (14.29%) Capacity Management
3 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
3 1 (14.29%) Defect Tracking
3 1 (14.29%) Project Governance
3 1 (14.29%) Project Planning
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
3 1 (14.29%) Test Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) Trend Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Use Case
3 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) PMI Certification
1 1 (14.29%) PMP
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Amdocs OSS
1 1 (14.29%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Remedy
2 2 (28.57%) BMC
3 1 (14.29%) Atlassian
3 1 (14.29%) BT
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco
3 1 (14.29%) Cramer
3 1 (14.29%) Infoblox
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) PagerDuty
3 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow