Service Management Contract Job Trends in Stevenage

Service Management
Hertfordshire > Stevenage

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Stevenage requiring Service Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 33 44
Rank change year-on-year -1 +11 +5
Contract jobs citing Service Management 5 5 4
As % of all contract jobs in Stevenage 2.13% 2.75% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.50% 3.62% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £450 - -
25th Percentile £451 - £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 - £275
Median % change year-on-year - - -55.47%
75th Percentile £453 - £278
90th Percentile £454 - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £550 £450 £688
% change year-on-year +22.22% -34.55% +19.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 0
Median hourly rate £60.00 £67.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - -
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £21.92 £67.50 -
% change year-on-year -67.53% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Stevenage

Service Management 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 Stevenage.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 200 138 234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Stevenage 85.11% 75.82% 92.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 19 50
10th Percentile £389 £262 £258
25th Percentile £456 £290 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £345 £500
Median % change year-on-year +59.42% -31.00% -14.68%
75th Percentile £575 £506 £553
90th Percentile £765 £610 £639
Hertfordshire median daily rate £528 £425 £525
% change year-on-year +24.24% -19.05% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 68 131
10th Percentile £41.25 £40.00 £42.25
25th Percentile £43.00 £60.00 £60.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £89.75 £90.00
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £43.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -33.85% - +8.33%

Service Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Stevenage

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Service Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Stevenage.

Service Management job vacancy trend in Stevenage

Service Management
Daily Rate Trend in Stevenage

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Stevenage citing Service Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Stevenage citing Service Management

Service Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Stevenage

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Stevenage citing Service Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Stevenage citing Service Management

Service Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stevenage 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 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) SSL
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Lead
2 2 (40.00%) Administrator
2 2 (40.00%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Linux Systems Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Linux Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Linux Systems Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Systems Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL
1 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Change Control
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) CRM
2 1 (20.00%) Data Extraction
2 1 (20.00%) Data Management
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (20.00%) ERP
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (20.00%) Information Management
2 1 (20.00%) ITSM
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Portfolio Management
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Release Management
2 1 (20.00%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow