ISO/IEC 20000 Contract Job Trends

ISO/IEC 20000 (supersedes BS 15000)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring ISO/IEC 20000 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 521 547 599
Rank change year-on-year +26 +52 +194
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 20000 39 15 42
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.040% 0.087%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.66% 0.30% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 9 26
10th Percentile - £474 £472
25th Percentile £519 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -13.04% +31.43%
75th Percentile £556 £600 £588
90th Percentile £596 - £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +7.50% -13.04% +57.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £27.50 £68.00
Median % change year-on-year - -59.56% -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £27.50 -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

ISO/IEC 20000 falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5,867 5,008 6,824
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.70% 13.41% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,748 2,915 4,621
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £400 £392 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +4.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 236 259
10th Percentile £13.60 £13.26 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.50 £17.18 £20.04
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -23.61% +45.69%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.59 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £79.82
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £27.50 £38.75
% change year-on-year -9.09% -29.03% +72.22%

ISO/IEC 20000
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ISO/IEC 20000 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

ISO/IEC 20000 job vacancy trend in the UK

ISO/IEC 20000
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ISO/IEC 20000.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ISO/IEC 20000

ISO/IEC 20000
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISO/IEC 20000 over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ISO/IEC 20000 in the UK

ISO/IEC 20000
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ISO/IEC 20000.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ISO/IEC 20000

ISO/IEC 20000
Top 11 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISO/IEC 20000 within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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
England +38 38 £538 +7.50% 20
UK excluding London +6 35 £538 +7.50% 18
South East +32 31 £538 +7.50% 5
Work from Home +42 29 £538 +7.50% 13
London - 3 £273 - 4
Midlands - 1 - - 5
North West - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - - 5
East of England - 1 £375 - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - -

ISO/IEC 20000
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.13%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (5.13%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (7.69%) Azure
2 2 (5.13%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.56%) Power Automate
3 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.13%) Tableau
General
1 5 (12.82%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.13%) Finance
3 2 (5.13%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.56%) Back Office
4 1 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (74.36%) Architect
1 29 (74.36%) Service Architect
2 3 (7.69%) Data Engineer
3 2 (5.13%) Change Manager
3 2 (5.13%) Lead
3 2 (5.13%) Service Continuity Leader
4 1 (2.56%) Applications Developer
4 1 (2.56%) Change and Release Manager
4 1 (2.56%) Developer
4 1 (2.56%) Development Engineer
4 1 (2.56%) IT Change Manager
4 1 (2.56%) IT Manager
4 1 (2.56%) Python Data Engineer
4 1 (2.56%) Python Engineer
4 1 (2.56%) Release Manager
4 1 (2.56%) Senior
4 1 (2.56%) Senior Applications Developer
4 1 (2.56%) Senior Developer
4 1 (2.56%) Software Development Engineer
4 1 (2.56%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.56%) HTML
1 1 (2.56%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.13%) Algorithms
1 2 (5.13%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (2.56%) Driving Licence
2 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (94.87%) ITIL
2 32 (82.05%) Service Management
3 29 (74.36%) IT4IT
3 29 (74.36%) Service Design
4 25 (64.10%) Project Delivery
5 4 (10.26%) Impact Assessments
5 4 (10.26%) ITSM
6 3 (7.69%) Business Continuity
6 3 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (7.69%) High Availability
6 3 (7.69%) Service Catalogue
6 3 (7.69%) Service Delivery
6 3 (7.69%) Six Sigma
7 2 (5.13%) Business Continuity Planning
7 2 (5.13%) Data Visualisation
7 2 (5.13%) Impact Analysis
7 2 (5.13%) Incident Response
7 2 (5.13%) Predictive Modelling
7 2 (5.13%) Runbook
7 2 (5.13%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.69%) SQL
2 2 (5.13%) Python
3 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 31 (79.49%) Security Cleared
2 27 (69.23%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.69%) Degree
3 3 (7.69%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (7.69%) ISO 9001
3 1 (2.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (2.56%) ISO 22301
3 1 (2.56%) SLA
Vendors
1 4 (10.26%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.13%) MicroStrategy
2 2 (5.13%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.56%) BMC
3 1 (2.56%) Google
3 1 (2.56%) Remedy