ITSM Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

IT Service Management (ITSM)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring ITSM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 41 27
Rank change year-on-year -18 -14 +30
Contract jobs citing ITSM 19 17 24
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 3.02% 4.00% 6.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.15% 4.46% 6.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 13 16
10th Percentile £469 £502 £538
25th Percentile £500 £508 £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £525 £587
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% -10.63% +30.55%
75th Percentile £584 £554 -
90th Percentile £639 £584 £589
South Yorkshire median daily rate £529 £525 £587
% change year-on-year +0.67% -10.63% +30.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 603 381 368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.87% 89.65% 96.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 400 196 238
10th Percentile £313 £250 £396
25th Percentile £400 £450 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £525 £587
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% -10.63% +11.90%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £663
90th Percentile £638 £650 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £481 £520 £587
% change year-on-year -7.45% -11.48% +17.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 4
10th Percentile £14.66 £13.14 £18.33
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £18.44
Median hourly rate £18.87 £20.00 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% -1.23% +6.58%
75th Percentile £20.44 £21.50 £24.88
90th Percentile £25.15 - £28.70
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.87 £12.83 £20.50
% change year-on-year +47.08% -37.41% +22.39%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

ITSM job vacancy trend in Sheffield

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Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing ITSM

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Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITSM in Sheffield over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ITSM in Sheffield

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Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing ITSM

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 4 (21.05%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 14 (73.68%) JIRA
General
1 15 (78.95%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (63.16%) Finance
3 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
4 3 (15.79%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) Incident Manager
2 3 (15.79%) Major Incident Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Business Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Scrum Master
3 2 (10.53%) Splunk Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Service Design Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Service Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Service Transition Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Distributed Computing
1 2 (10.53%) Virtual Team
2 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (78.95%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (57.89%) Incident Management
3 10 (52.63%) Backlog Management
3 10 (52.63%) Decision-Making
3 10 (52.63%) Mentoring
4 9 (47.37%) Incident Response
5 8 (42.11%) Service Management
6 7 (36.84%) ITIL
7 6 (31.58%) Impact Analysis
8 4 (21.05%) Agile
8 4 (21.05%) AI
8 4 (21.05%) Business Impact Analysis
8 4 (21.05%) Observability
8 4 (21.05%) Root Cause Analysis
9 3 (15.79%) Major Incident Management
9 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
10 2 (10.53%) GAP Analysis
10 2 (10.53%) Migration
10 2 (10.53%) Project Management
10 2 (10.53%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) Perl
1 4 (21.05%) Python
1 4 (21.05%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (52.63%) GDPR
1 10 (52.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 14 (73.68%) ServiceNow
2 4 (21.05%) Splunk
3 3 (15.79%) Microsoft