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 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 48 67
Rank change year-on-year -8 +19 -23
Contract jobs citing Service Management 12 44 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.97% 3.98% 1.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.13% 4.64% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 39 15
10th Percentile £230 £350 £400
25th Percentile £306 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £605 £610
Median % change year-on-year -23.55% -0.82% +10.91%
75th Percentile £593 £608 £644
90th Percentile £603 £675 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £442 £600 £610
% change year-on-year -26.29% -1.64% +10.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.38 - £53.50
Median hourly rate £20.75 - £55.00
75th Percentile £21.13 - £56.50
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £20.75 - £55.00

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 563 948 952
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.30% 85.71% 88.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 356 515 631
10th Percentile £352 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £464 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £598 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.03% +8.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £715 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £516 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.18% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 34 22
10th Percentile - £14.50 £21.40
25th Percentile £14.75 £51.86 £54.50
Median hourly rate £20.38 £61.60 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.92% -6.67% +120.00%
75th Percentile £38.42 £74.23 £74.59
90th Percentile £59.13 £87.46 £76.82
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.05 £60.83 £59.38
% change year-on-year -47.31% +2.45% +97.92%

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 16 August 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (8.33%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle CX
2 1 (8.33%) SaaS
2 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Firewall
1 2 (16.67%) LAN
1 2 (16.67%) WAN
2 1 (8.33%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) RDBMS
1 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
1 1 (8.33%) Subversion
1 1 (8.33%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5 (41.67%) Telecoms
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Billing
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing
3 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Lead
1 3 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Project Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Test Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Change Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Incident Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Lead Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Network Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) OSS Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Quality Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Remedy Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) RFC 2544
2 1 (8.33%) Middleware
2 1 (8.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 2 (16.67%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) CMDB
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Unix
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) ITIL
2 5 (41.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (33.33%) Case Management
4 3 (25.00%) Customer Experience
4 3 (25.00%) Defect Management
4 3 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
4 3 (25.00%) ITSM
4 3 (25.00%) Network Design
4 3 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (25.00%) Waterfall
5 2 (16.67%) Business Case
5 2 (16.67%) Change Management
5 2 (16.67%) Customer Service
5 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (16.67%) Resource Management
5 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 2 (16.67%) SIAM
5 2 (16.67%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
1 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) CCNA
1 2 (16.67%) CCNP
1 2 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) PMI Certification
2 1 (8.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Remedy
2 3 (25.00%) BMC
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle
3 2 (16.67%) Cisco
3 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow
4 1 (8.33%) BT
4 1 (8.33%) Cramer
4 1 (8.33%) Infoblox
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (8.33%) Salesforce