SIAM Contract Job Trends in the South East

Service Integration and Management (SIAM)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring SIAM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 180 164 196
Rank change year-on-year -16 +32 +47
Contract jobs citing SIAM 8 10 7
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.18% 0.26% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.30% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 0
10th Percentile £356 £463 -
25th Percentile £520 £566 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £863 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year +43.75% - -
75th Percentile £1,050 £678 -
90th Percentile - £691 -
England median daily rate £525 £588 £475
% change year-on-year -10.71% +23.79% -13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

SIAM 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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,730 3,324 4,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 85.41% 87.91% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,439 2,067 2,895
10th Percentile £222 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £523
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.44% +1.95%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £615
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 375 129 232
10th Percentile £14.62 £19.19 £16.53
25th Percentile £17.00 £26.00 £25.25
Median hourly rate £22.27 £50.00 £53.94
Median % change year-on-year -55.47% -7.31% +43.85%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.73 £65.89
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

SIAM
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SIAM relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

SIAM job vacancy trend in the South East

SIAM
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SIAM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SIAM

SIAM
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIAM in the South East over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SIAM in the South East

SIAM
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SIAM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SIAM

SIAM
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SIAM within the South East region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
Surrey - 5 £1,000 -
Thames Valley -12 2 £481 -19.79%
Buckinghamshire +5 1 £375 -21.05%
Berkshire -10 1 £588 -2.08%
Hampshire - 1 £325 - 1
SIAM
England

SIAM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Google Ads
1 1 (12.50%) IaaS
1 1 (12.50%) PaaS
1 1 (12.50%) SaaS
General
1 6 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Designer
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Procurement Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Procurement Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Service Transition Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Supply Chain Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Supply Chain Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Mainframe
2 2 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (25.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
3 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) ITIL
2 6 (75.00%) Service Management
3 5 (62.50%) Migration
4 4 (50.00%) ITSM
5 3 (37.50%) Change Management
5 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (37.50%) Incident Response
5 3 (37.50%) Observability
5 3 (37.50%) Strategic Thinking
5 3 (37.50%) Vulnerability Management
6 2 (25.00%) Agile
6 2 (25.00%) Coaching
6 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery
7 1 (12.50%) Business Analysis
7 1 (12.50%) Business Process Mapping
7 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
7 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2
7 1 (12.50%) Programme Management
7 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (12.50%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) PMI Certification
1 1 (12.50%) PMP
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
2 1 (12.50%) TIBCO
2 1 (12.50%) webMethods