ITSM Contracts in the UK excluding London

IT Service Management (ITSM)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 111 106
Rank change year-on-year +39 -5 +33
Contract jobs citing ITSM 418 392 548
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.25% 1.93% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.59% 2.29% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 267 377
10th Percentile £195 £229 £180
25th Percentile £238 £413 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £564 £550 £588
90th Percentile £650 £692 £675
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £455
% change year-on-year -2.50% +9.89% -8.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 11 25
10th Percentile - - £12.40
25th Percentile £16.95 - £13.16
Median hourly rate £18.82 £14.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.43% -3.45% +7.89%
75th Percentile £30.79 - £18.82
90th Percentile £56.82 £15.17 £49.50
UK median hourly rate £18.82 £14.00 £15.78
% change year-on-year +34.43% -11.29% +15.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,649 17,108 20,638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.51% 84.43% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,262 10,200 14,248
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.04%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 838 2,053 1,261
10th Percentile £14.10 £12.31 £10.75
25th Percentile £17.26 £15.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.66 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.82 £73.71
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%

ITSM
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing ITSM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for ITSM in the UK excluding London

ITSM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ITSM in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for ITSM in the UK excluding London

ITSM
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITSM in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ITSM in the UK excluding London

ITSM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ITSM in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for ITSM in the UK excluding London

ITSM
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ITSM in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for ITSM in the UK excluding London

ITSM
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITSM within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
North of England +24 145 £425 -17.02% 125
North West +34 86 £465 -2.11% 80
South East +40 66 £494 +0.68% 147
South West +17 65 £442 -6.95% 52
Yorkshire +3 57 £388 -27.23% 35
Scotland +27 55 £503 +78.37% 30
Midlands +25 48 £538 +2.38% 60
West Midlands +36 45 £550 +7.32% 33
East of England +39 44 £375 -37.50% 83
Wales - 4 £325 - 14
East Midlands -3 3 £275 -57.69% 24
Channel Islands - 3 £425 -
North East -3 1 £110 -81.36% 11
ITSM
UK

ITSM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 44 (10.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (5.74%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.67%) Skype for Business
4 3 (0.72%) Confluence
4 3 (0.72%) SAS
5 2 (0.48%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 83 (19.86%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (3.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.91%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.24%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 25 (5.98%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.96%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.96%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.72%) iTrent
3 3 (0.72%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (0.72%) SAP LE
3 3 (0.72%) SAP WM
4 2 (0.48%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 2 (0.48%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.48%) Oracle iProcurement
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 92 (22.01%) Microsoft 365
2 52 (12.44%) Entra ID
3 43 (10.29%) Azure
4 16 (3.83%) AWS
4 16 (3.83%) SaaS
5 12 (2.87%) Google Workspace
6 10 (2.39%) GCP
6 10 (2.39%) GitHub
7 8 (1.91%) Power Platform
8 6 (1.44%) OCI
9 5 (1.20%) SuccessFactors
10 3 (0.72%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (0.72%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.48%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.48%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.48%) Datadog
12 1 (0.24%) Amazon ECS
12 1 (0.24%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (0.24%) Nutanix
12 1 (0.24%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 39 (9.33%) VPN
2 38 (9.09%) DNS
3 20 (4.78%) DHCP
4 16 (3.83%) TCP/IP
5 12 (2.87%) Firewall
5 12 (2.87%) Skype
6 11 (2.63%) LAN
7 10 (2.39%) BGP
7 10 (2.39%) OSPF
7 10 (2.39%) SMTP
7 10 (2.39%) WAN
8 8 (1.91%) EIGRP
8 8 (1.91%) HSRP
8 8 (1.91%) IPsec
8 8 (1.91%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (1.67%) Internet
10 6 (1.44%) Remote Desktop
10 6 (1.44%) VLAN
11 5 (1.20%) Network Security
12 4 (0.96%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.15%) Metadata
1 9 (2.15%) Oracle Reports
2 6 (1.44%) Power BI
3 5 (1.20%) Oracle Database
4 2 (0.48%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.24%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.24%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.24%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.24%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.24%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.24%) MySQL
5 1 (0.24%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Discoverer
5 1 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.24%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.24%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.24%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 18 (4.31%) JIRA
2 9 (2.15%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.67%) GitLab
4 6 (1.44%) Git
5 4 (0.96%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.72%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.48%) Maven
7 2 (0.48%) Selenium
8 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.24%) MSI
8 1 (0.24%) Postman
8 1 (0.24%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.24%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.24%) Toad
General
1 207 (49.52%) Social Skills
2 79 (18.90%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (10.05%) Finance
3 42 (10.05%) Public Sector
4 31 (7.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (5.02%) Retail
6 20 (4.78%) Organisational Skills
7 13 (3.11%) Banking
8 12 (2.87%) Legal
8 12 (2.87%) Military
9 11 (2.63%) Telecoms
10 8 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.91%) Law
11 7 (1.67%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.96%) French Language
13 2 (0.48%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.48%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.48%) Publishing
14 1 (0.24%) Billing
14 1 (0.24%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 62 (14.83%) Analyst
2 33 (7.89%) Senior
2 33 (7.89%) Support Engineer
3 32 (7.66%) Architect
4 28 (6.70%) 1st Line Support
4 28 (6.70%) IT Support
5 26 (6.22%) Service Manager
6 25 (5.98%) Service Analyst
7 23 (5.50%) Lead
8 22 (5.26%) Desktop Support
8 22 (5.26%) Developer
8 22 (5.26%) IT Engineer
8 22 (5.26%) IT Manager
9 20 (4.78%) Service Desk Analyst
10 19 (4.55%) ServiceNow Developer
11 18 (4.31%) Support Manager
12 17 (4.07%) Business Analyst
13 16 (3.83%) Consultant
14 15 (3.59%) Desktop Engineer
14 15 (3.59%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.78%) CSS
1 20 (4.78%) REST
2 19 (4.55%) HTML
3 15 (3.59%) XML
4 14 (3.35%) Web Services
5 13 (3.11%) SOAP
6 10 (2.39%) JSON
7 9 (2.15%) AngularJS
8 8 (1.91%) Ajax
9 7 (1.67%) LDAP
10 5 (1.20%) RESTful
10 5 (1.20%) SailPoint
11 4 (0.96%) jQuery
11 4 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
12 3 (0.72%) SAP PI
12 3 (0.72%) WebCenter
13 2 (0.48%) Node.js
14 1 (0.24%) .NET
14 1 (0.24%) FastAPI
14 1 (0.24%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 52 (12.44%) CMDB
2 33 (7.89%) Self-Motivation
3 30 (7.18%) iPhone
4 25 (5.98%) Management Information System
5 20 (4.78%) Smartphone
6 14 (3.35%) Data Centre
7 13 (3.11%) Onboarding
8 12 (2.87%) iPad
9 11 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.67%) Replication
12 6 (1.44%) Driving Licence
12 6 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (1.20%) Mainframe
13 5 (1.20%) Product Ownership
14 4 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
14 4 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
15 3 (0.72%) Algorithms
15 3 (0.72%) Data Structures
15 3 (0.72%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 111 (26.56%) Windows
2 31 (7.42%) Windows 10
3 27 (6.46%) Linux
4 26 (6.22%) Mac OS
5 24 (5.74%) Windows Server
6 13 (3.11%) Apple iOS
7 9 (2.15%) VMS
8 8 (1.91%) Solaris
8 8 (1.91%) Unix
9 6 (1.44%) Android
9 6 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (1.20%) HPUX
10 5 (1.20%) Windows 7
11 4 (0.96%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.72%) CentOS
13 2 (0.48%) AIX
13 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.24%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (48.80%) ITIL
2 198 (47.37%) Service Management
3 105 (25.12%) Problem-Solving
4 80 (19.14%) Customer Service
5 77 (18.42%) Agile
6 68 (16.27%) Service Delivery
7 53 (12.68%) Continuous Improvement
8 48 (11.48%) Incident Management
9 43 (10.29%) Change Management
10 42 (10.05%) Asset Management
11 38 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
12 34 (8.13%) DevOps
12 34 (8.13%) IT Asset Management
13 31 (7.42%) Configuration Management
14 30 (7.18%) Collaborative Working
15 29 (6.94%) Problem Management
16 27 (6.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 25 (5.98%) Migration
17 25 (5.98%) Project Management
18 21 (5.02%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (6.22%) PowerShell
2 25 (5.98%) JavaScript
3 21 (5.02%) Python
4 17 (4.07%) SQL
5 7 (1.67%) Java
6 5 (1.20%) Bash
6 5 (1.20%) Shell Script
7 4 (0.96%) VB
7 4 (0.96%) VBScript
8 3 (0.72%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.48%) ProC
9 2 (0.48%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.24%) C#
10 1 (0.24%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 104 (24.88%) Security Cleared
2 89 (21.29%) SC Cleared
3 58 (13.88%) Degree
4 25 (5.98%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 16 (3.83%) ITIL Certification
6 10 (2.39%) A+ Certification
6 10 (2.39%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.72%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.72%) MCP
11 2 (0.48%) CCIE
11 2 (0.48%) CCNP
11 2 (0.48%) CISA
11 2 (0.48%) CISSP
11 2 (0.48%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (0.48%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.48%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (7.18%) SLA
2 14 (3.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.91%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.91%) QA
4 7 (1.67%) Disclosure Scotland
5 5 (1.20%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.20%) GRC
6 4 (0.96%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.72%) GDPR
8 2 (0.48%) COBIT
9 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.24%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.24%) ISO 31000
9 1 (0.24%) NCSC
9 1 (0.24%) NIST
9 1 (0.24%) PMO
9 1 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 104 (24.88%) Active Directory
2 13 (3.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.20%) BitLocker
4 4 (0.96%) Docker
4 4 (0.96%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.48%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 34 (8.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (6.94%) Ansible
3 19 (4.55%) Jamf Pro
3 19 (4.55%) SCCM
4 16 (3.83%) Terraform
5 14 (3.35%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (2.87%) WSUS
7 8 (1.91%) Puppet
8 5 (1.20%) Kubernetes
9 4 (0.96%) SCOM
9 4 (0.96%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 3 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.72%) Automic
10 3 (0.72%) Grafana
10 3 (0.72%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.72%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.72%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.48%) HP ALM
11 2 (0.48%) vRealize
11 2 (0.48%) VxRail
Vendors
1 194 (46.41%) ServiceNow
2 119 (28.47%) Microsoft
3 25 (5.98%) Remedy
3 25 (5.98%) VMware
4 19 (4.55%) Apple
4 19 (4.55%) Cisco
4 19 (4.55%) Oracle
5 17 (4.07%) Citrix
6 16 (3.83%) Google
7 13 (3.11%) BMC
8 12 (2.87%) MobileIron
8 12 (2.87%) Nexthink
9 11 (2.63%) HP
9 11 (2.63%) SAP
10 7 (1.67%) Broadcom
10 7 (1.67%) IBM
10 7 (1.67%) SolarWinds
11 5 (1.20%) Atlassian
11 5 (1.20%) Sun
11 5 (1.20%) Unisys