ITSM Contracts in the South West

IT Service Management (ITSM)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 26 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 67 105
Rank change year-on-year +15 +38 -27
DemandTrendContract jobs citing ITSM 68 71 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.53% 2.59% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.93% 3.12% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 51 39
10th Percentile £205 £363 £190
25th Percentile £235 £456 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £295 £488 £575
Median % change year-on-year -39.49% -15.22% +21.05%
75th Percentile £450 £583 £625
90th Percentile £615 £613 £694
England median daily rate £450 £500 £486
% change year-on-year -10.00% +2.83% -3.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile £31.15 - £80.63
25th Percentile £31.25 - £94.69
Median hourly rate £32.50 - £123.75
75th Percentile £33.75 - £152.19
90th Percentile £41.85 - £165.88
England median hourly rate £18.82 £18.13 £14.50
% change year-on-year +3.81% +25.03% +6.15%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,730 2,279 2,917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 89.87% 83.11% 87.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,005 1,450 2,045
10th Percentile £213 £263 £313
25th Percentile £363 £424 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% +2.48%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £650
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 246 261
10th Percentile £14.98 £13.86 £20.50
25th Percentile £18.51 £39.15 £45.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.74% +3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £63.75 £72.50 £76.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +53.90%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for ITSM in the South West

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Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing ITSM

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITSM in the South West over the 6 months to 26 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ITSM in the South West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing ITSM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing ITSM

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ITSM in the South West over the 6 months to 26 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for ITSM in the South West

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DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 26 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bristol +26 30 £235 -50.53% 10
Wiltshire -4 18 £575 +21.05% 9
Gloucestershire +30 16 £278 -25.87% 14
Somerset +1 2 £557 +3.63% 1
Devon +3 1 - - 2
Dorset - 1 £600 - 6
ITSM
England

ITSM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 8 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.47%) Confluence
2 1 (1.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (13.24%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (7.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (7.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (7.35%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (4.41%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 13 (19.12%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (4.41%) Azure
3 2 (2.94%) AWS
4 1 (1.47%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (1.47%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.47%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (1.47%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.29%) VPN
2 3 (4.41%) DNS
2 3 (4.41%) Firewall
2 3 (4.41%) LAN
2 3 (4.41%) VoIP
2 3 (4.41%) WAN
2 3 (4.41%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.47%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.47%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 1 (1.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (5.88%) JIRA
2 1 (1.47%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.47%) Git
2 1 (1.47%) MSI
General
1 32 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 15 (22.06%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (17.65%) Military
4 11 (16.18%) Public Sector
5 6 (8.82%) Legal
6 5 (7.35%) Finance
7 3 (4.41%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.47%) Aviation
8 1 (1.47%) Fire and Rescue
8 1 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.47%) Police
Job Titles
1 22 (32.35%) Desktop Support
2 18 (26.47%) Analyst
3 16 (23.53%) Support Analyst
4 14 (20.59%) Service Manager
5 11 (16.18%) Deskside Analyst
5 11 (16.18%) Deskside Support
5 11 (16.18%) Deskside Support Analyst
5 11 (16.18%) Technology Support Analyst
6 9 (13.24%) Architect
6 9 (13.24%) Support Engineer
7 7 (10.29%) Delivery Manager
7 7 (10.29%) Desktop Engineer
7 7 (10.29%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 7 (10.29%) IT Support
7 7 (10.29%) Service Delivery Manager
8 6 (8.82%) IT Analyst
8 6 (8.82%) Service Management Architect
9 5 (7.35%) Designer
9 5 (7.35%) IT Support Analyst
9 5 (7.35%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.41%) HTML
2 2 (2.94%) AngularJS
2 2 (2.94%) CSS
2 2 (2.94%) jQuery
3 1 (1.47%) ADO
3 1 (1.47%) Apache Camel
3 1 (1.47%) HTML5
3 1 (1.47%) JDBC
3 1 (1.47%) JSON
3 1 (1.47%) LDAP
3 1 (1.47%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (1.47%) ODBC
3 1 (1.47%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.47%) REST
3 1 (1.47%) RESTful
3 1 (1.47%) SAML
3 1 (1.47%) SOAP
3 1 (1.47%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.35%) Driving Licence
2 3 (4.41%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.94%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.94%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.47%) Blackberry
4 1 (1.47%) CMDB
4 1 (1.47%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.47%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.29%) Windows
2 4 (5.88%) Android
2 4 (5.88%) Mac OS
2 4 (5.88%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.47%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.47%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (69.12%) ITIL
2 41 (60.29%) Service Management
3 25 (36.76%) Customer Service
4 21 (30.88%) Service Delivery
5 13 (19.12%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (13.24%) Service Catalogue
8 8 (11.76%) Change Management
8 8 (11.76%) Service Design
9 7 (10.29%) Case Management
9 7 (10.29%) Collaborative Working
9 7 (10.29%) Migration
9 7 (10.29%) Service Migration
9 7 (10.29%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (8.82%) Agile
10 6 (8.82%) Availability Management
10 6 (8.82%) Enterprise Architecture
10 6 (8.82%) PRINCE2
10 6 (8.82%) Root Cause Analysis
10 6 (8.82%) Service Delivery Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (5.88%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.47%) PL/SQL
2 1 (1.47%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.47%) SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (52.94%) Security Cleared
2 30 (44.12%) SC Cleared
3 8 (11.76%) Degree
4 7 (10.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 6 (8.82%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (8.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (7.35%) APMP
7 2 (2.94%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.47%) MCITP
8 1 (1.47%) MCP
8 1 (1.47%) MCSA
8 1 (1.47%) MCSE
8 1 (1.47%) MCTS
8 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Certified Master
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (22.06%) SLA
2 7 (10.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.47%) GDPR
3 1 (1.47%) GRC
System Software
1 12 (17.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 30 (44.12%) ServiceNow
2 26 (38.24%) Microsoft
3 7 (10.29%) Citrix
4 5 (7.35%) Remedy
5 3 (4.41%) IFS
6 2 (2.94%) BMC
7 1 (1.47%) Foundry
7 1 (1.47%) HP
7 1 (1.47%) Ivanti
7 1 (1.47%) Okta
7 1 (1.47%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.47%) SAP
7 1 (1.47%) Workday