Service Catalogue Contract Job Trends in the South West

Service Catalogue
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Service Catalogue skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 121 146
Rank change year-on-year +18 +25 +14
Contract jobs citing Service Catalogue 16 9 9
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.79% 0.37% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.44% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 7
10th Percentile £313 £462 £369
25th Percentile £413 £501 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.02% +2.61% +33.33%
75th Percentile £538 £593 £591
90th Percentile £588 £653 £632
England median daily rate £525 £538 £590
% change year-on-year -2.33% -8.90% +7.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Service Catalogue 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,819 2,055 2,791
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.14% 83.98% 87.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,041 1,190 1,903
10th Percentile £213 £312 £308
25th Percentile £375 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £734 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 277 182 279
10th Percentile £15.25 £20.10 £20.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £40.63 £46.55
Median hourly rate £25.15 £65.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.60% +9.17% -4.76%
75th Percentile £63.75 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £73.98 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -39.40% -6.74% +27.14%

Service Catalogue
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Service Catalogue relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Service Catalogue job vacancy trend in the South West

Service Catalogue
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Service Catalogue
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Catalogue in the South West over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Catalogue 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 Service Catalogue.

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

Service Catalogue
Contract 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 Service Catalogue within the South West region over the 6 months to 20 October 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
Wiltshire +12 12 £525 -11.02%
Gloucestershire - 3 £325 - 1
Bristol -3 1 £575 -23.33% 1
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England

Service Catalogue
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (18.75%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) AWS
1 1 (6.25%) Azure
1 1 (6.25%) GCP
1 1 (6.25%) IaaS
1 1 (6.25%) PaaS
1 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 8 (50.00%) Finance
2 7 (43.75%) Public Sector
3 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (31.25%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (31.25%) Electronics
3 5 (31.25%) Legal
3 5 (31.25%) Manufacturing
3 5 (31.25%) Marketing
3 5 (31.25%) Military
3 5 (31.25%) Telecoms
4 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Service Manager
2 5 (31.25%) Delivery Manager
2 5 (31.25%) Incident Manager
2 5 (31.25%) ITIL Incident Manager
2 5 (31.25%) ITIL Manager
2 5 (31.25%) Service Delivery Manager
3 3 (18.75%) Service Desk Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) IT Manager
4 1 (6.25%) IT Programme Manager
4 1 (6.25%) IT Services Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) CMDB
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Service Management
2 10 (62.50%) Service Delivery
3 9 (56.25%) ITIL
4 8 (50.00%) ITSM
4 8 (50.00%) Problem Management
5 6 (37.50%) Configuration Management
6 5 (31.25%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (31.25%) Compliance Audit
6 5 (31.25%) Digital Marketing
6 5 (31.25%) Programme Management
6 5 (31.25%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
6 5 (31.25%) Service Delivery Management
6 5 (31.25%) Software Licensing
6 5 (31.25%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (25.00%) Availability Management
7 4 (25.00%) Logistics
7 4 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
8 3 (18.75%) Performance Analysis
8 3 (18.75%) Planning and Forecasting
8 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 15 (93.75%) Security Cleared
2 13 (81.25%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Remedy
1 5 (31.25%) SAP
2 3 (18.75%) IFS
3 1 (6.25%) BiZZdesign
3 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow