ITSM Contracts in South Wales

IT Service Management (ITSM)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales requiring ITSM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ITSM over the 6 months leading up to 1 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 - 48
Rank change year-on-year - - +17
Contract jobs citing ITSM 5 0 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 2.10% - 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% - 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile - - £320
25th Percentile £230 - £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +29.50%
75th Percentile £338 - £650
90th Percentile £394 - -
Wales median daily rate £325 - £538
% change year-on-year - - +30.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £46.63
25th Percentile - - £47.19
Median hourly rate - - £48.75
75th Percentile - - £49.69
90th Percentile - - £49.88
Wales median hourly rate - - £48.75
% change year-on-year - - +290.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 213 253 422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 89.50% 77.61% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 171 321
10th Percentile £188 £143 £190
25th Percentile £285 £313 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £484 £566 £588
90th Percentile £648 £667 £650
Wales median daily rate £400 £490 £490
% change year-on-year -18.37% - +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 26 23
10th Percentile £12.73 £11.45 £16.37
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.48 £16.98
Median hourly rate £22.50 £20.24 £18.14
Median % change year-on-year +11.19% +11.55% -15.11%
75th Percentile £41.25 £52.31 £22.11
90th Percentile £45.00 £86.90 £49.75
Wales median hourly rate £23.83 £19.17 £18.14
% change year-on-year +24.28% +5.68% -15.11%

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Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Job postings citing ITSM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Job vacancy trend for ITSM in South Wales

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ITSM in South Wales.

Daily rate trend for ITSM in South Wales

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Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITSM in South Wales over the 6 months to 1 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ITSM in South Wales

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ITSM in South Wales.

Hourly rate trend for ITSM in South Wales

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Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Cardiff - 4 £278 - 30
Newport - 1 £413 - 29
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Wales

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) LAN
1 2 (40.00%) VoIP
1 2 (40.00%) WAN
1 2 (40.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) Remote Desktop
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Legal
4 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Deployment Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) IT Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) IT Support
1 2 (40.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
2 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Technical Support
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (20.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows 10
2 3 (60.00%) Mac OS
3 2 (40.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Migration
1 3 (60.00%) Service Management
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) A+ Certification
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) ServiceNow
2 3 (60.00%) Remedy
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco