ITSM Contract Job Trends in South Lanarkshire

IT Service Management (ITSM)
Scotland > South Lanarkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Lanarkshire requiring ITSM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 - 17
Rank change year-on-year - - -11
Contract jobs citing ITSM 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in South Lanarkshire 15.00% - 2.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.00% - 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £731 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £738 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £744 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £389 £435 £375
% change year-on-year -10.69% +16.00% -14.77%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Lanarkshire

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 South Lanarkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 20 2 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Lanarkshire 100.00% 66.67% 91.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 23
10th Percentile £610 - -
25th Percentile £617 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £669 - £670
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.24%
75th Percentile £766 - £750
90th Percentile £793 - -
Scotland median daily rate £465 £465 £450
% change year-on-year - +3.33% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £18.85 - -
25th Percentile £20.12 - -
Median hourly rate £22.24 £18.87 -
Median % change year-on-year +17.86% - -
75th Percentile £24.36 - -
90th Percentile £25.63 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £16.86 £20.00 £20.94
% change year-on-year -15.70% -4.48% +9.16%

ITSM
Job Vacancy Trend in South Lanarkshire

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

ITSM job vacancy trend in South Lanarkshire

ITSM
Daily Rate Trend in South Lanarkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Lanarkshire citing ITSM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Lanarkshire citing ITSM

ITSM
Contract Job Locations in South Lanarkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITSM within the South Lanarkshire region over the 6 months to 15 September 2026. 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
East Kilbride - 3 £738 - 1
ITSM
Scotland

ITSM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Lanarkshire 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 2 (66.67%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Head of User Experience
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Service Management
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Application Virtualisation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Management
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Business Development
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Demand Management
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (33.33%) Service Design
3 1 (33.33%) SIAM
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) User Experience
3 1 (33.33%) User Research
3 1 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) UAG
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Desktop
1 2 (66.67%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (66.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) VMware