Service Management Contracts in Sheffield

Service Management
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 62 21 44
Rank change year-on-year -41 +23 -4
Contract jobs citing Service Management 10 40 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 1.76% 9.76% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.86% 11.02% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 23 2
10th Percentile £283 £476 -
25th Percentile £300 £510 £171
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £349 £554 £173
Median % change year-on-year -37.09% +221.16% -61.67%
75th Percentile £369 £584 £174
90th Percentile £417 £598 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £349 £540 £173
% change year-on-year -35.40% +212.75% -61.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 537 363 373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 94.71% 88.54% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 358 194 242
10th Percentile £295 £393 £400
25th Percentile £374 £435 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £520 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.81% -13.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £545 £588 £697
90th Percentile £625 £645 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £468 £515 £600
% change year-on-year -9.22% -14.17% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 4
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.88 £13.18
25th Percentile £17.33 £20.13 £16.44
Median hourly rate £18.36 £21.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.58% +7.69% +2.63%
75th Percentile £18.87 £21.88 £20.69
90th Percentile - £22.00 £21.93
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.36 £12.83 £20.00
% change year-on-year +43.08% -35.85% +19.40%

Service Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Management in Sheffield

Service Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Service Management in Sheffield

Service Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Management in Sheffield over the 6 months to 16 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Management in Sheffield

Service Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Hourly rate trend for Service Management in Sheffield

Service Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (10.00%) Confluence
1 1 (10.00%) Umbraco
Applications
1 8 (80.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (30.00%) PowerApps
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) Power BI
2 3 (30.00%) Data Mining
2 3 (30.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 8 (80.00%) Finance
2 6 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (30.00%) Banking
4 3 (30.00%) Billing
5 2 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Analyst
2 5 (50.00%) Data Analyst
3 3 (30.00%) Report Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Senior
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) C# Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) IT Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
1 1 (10.00%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 7 (70.00%) Data Centre
2 6 (60.00%) Mainframe
3 3 (30.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (10.00%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) ITIL
2 7 (70.00%) Budgeting
2 7 (70.00%) Cost Management
2 7 (70.00%) Virtual Environments
3 5 (50.00%) Data Mapping
4 4 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (40.00%) Data Analysis
4 4 (40.00%) Data Visualisation
4 4 (40.00%) Visualisation
5 3 (30.00%) Analytics
5 3 (30.00%) Cost Optimisation
5 3 (30.00%) Cost Reduction
5 3 (30.00%) Cost Transparency
5 3 (30.00%) Data Analytics
5 3 (30.00%) Data Transformation
5 3 (30.00%) Financial Modelling
5 3 (30.00%) FinOps
5 3 (30.00%) Portfolio Management
6 2 (20.00%) Agile
6 2 (20.00%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft