Service Management Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Service Management
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Service Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 22 6
Rank change year-on-year -18 -16 +87
Contract jobs citing Service Management 21 5 10
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 6.98% 4.39% 20.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.42% 5.38% 25.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 4 6
10th Percentile £502 £347 £463
25th Percentile £518 £405 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £456 £480
Median % change year-on-year +18.03% -4.95% -18.09%
75th Percentile £540 £469 £527
90th Percentile £548 - £563
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £571 £475
% change year-on-year -9.77% +20.16% -17.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £12.18 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £12.62 £30.23 £55.00
% change year-on-year -58.25% -45.05% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 283 93 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 94.02% 81.58% 79.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 67 21
10th Percentile £382 £304 £313
25th Percentile £430 £358 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £477 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% +0.42% -11.63%
75th Percentile £538 £519 £500
90th Percentile £557 £567 £588
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -3.66% +3.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £26.13 £13.32 -
25th Percentile £27.59 £15.04 -
Median hourly rate £31.31 £17.89 -
Median % change year-on-year +74.99% - -
75th Percentile £36.30 £20.75 -
90th Percentile £38.53 £22.46 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.05 £26.13 £27.50
% change year-on-year -11.77% -5.00% +55.19%

Service Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Service Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire.

Service Management job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Service Management
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Service Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Service Management

Service Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Shropshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Management in Shropshire over the 6 months to 14 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Management in Shropshire

Service Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Service Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Service Management

Service Management
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Service Management within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 14 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Telford -19 19 £539 +18.03% 4
Service Management
West Midlands

Service Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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 14 (66.67%) Apache
1 14 (66.67%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (66.67%) AWS
1 14 (66.67%) Azure
1 14 (66.67%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) SAN
General
1 20 (95.24%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (52.38%) Monitoring Engineer
2 10 (47.62%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Splunk Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) SAP Manager
4 1 (4.76%) SAP Transition Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Service Design Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Service Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Service Transition Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Storage Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Transition Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) HP Storage
Operating Systems
1 15 (71.43%) Linux
1 15 (71.43%) Windows
2 14 (66.67%) Unix
3 1 (4.76%) AIX
3 1 (4.76%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (95.24%) Continuous Improvement
2 19 (90.48%) Analytics
2 19 (90.48%) Full-Stack Development
2 19 (90.48%) Incident Response
2 19 (90.48%) Log Analytics
2 19 (90.48%) Observability
2 19 (90.48%) Performance Monitoring
2 19 (90.48%) Proactive Management
2 19 (90.48%) Synthetic Monitoring
2 19 (90.48%) Test Strategy
3 18 (85.71%) Business Intelligence
3 18 (85.71%) Incident Management
3 18 (85.71%) Visualisation
4 11 (52.38%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (14.29%) DevOps
6 2 (9.52%) Change Management
6 2 (9.52%) ITIL
6 2 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (9.52%) Service Delivery
7 1 (4.76%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 14 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (76.19%) SC Cleared
1 16 (76.19%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 19 (90.48%) AppDynamics
1 19 (90.48%) Dynatrace
1 19 (90.48%) Splunk
2 18 (85.71%) Cisco
3 14 (66.67%) Oracle
4 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.76%) Brocade
5 1 (4.76%) EMC
5 1 (4.76%) HP
5 1 (4.76%) NetApp
5 1 (4.76%) SAP
5 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.76%) Veritas