ISO/IEC 20000 Contracts

ISO/IEC 20000 (supersedes BS 15000)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring ISO/IEC 20000 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ISO/IEC 20000 over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 498 553 660
Rank change year-on-year +55 +107 +156
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 20000 21 47 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.072% 0.11% 0.089%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.46% 0.75% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 39 41
10th Percentile £450 £450 £350
25th Percentile £478 £500 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +4.35% +28.67%
75th Percentile £663 - £600
90th Percentile £691 £644 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% +37.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £45.00
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £55.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £48.75

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 4,558 6,250 7,982
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.59% 14.34% 13.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,921 3,951 5,482
10th Percentile £265 £295 £275
25th Percentile £400 £402 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 383 225
10th Percentile £18.04 £10.95 £13.21
25th Percentile £22.21 £13.18 £18.70
Median hourly rate £34.50 £21.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -44.00% +33.93%
75th Percentile £65.00 £45.00 £62.00
90th Percentile £83.01 £67.38 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.78 £18.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year +126.53% -50.34% +72.21%

ISO/IEC 20000
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ISO/IEC 20000 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ISO/IEC 20000 in the UK

ISO/IEC 20000
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ISO/IEC 20000.

Daily rate trend for ISO/IEC 20000 in the UK

ISO/IEC 20000
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISO/IEC 20000 over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ISO/IEC 20000 in the UK

ISO/IEC 20000
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ISO/IEC 20000.

Hourly rate trend for ISO/IEC 20000 in the UK

ISO/IEC 20000
Top 13 Contract 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 30 April 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 +39 18 £575 -0.43% 20
Work from Home +40 10 £625 +8.70% 15
UK excluding London +34 10 £575 -4.17% 19
London +34 9 £581 +1.09% 4
North of England +30 3 £550 +57.14% 3
Midlands +26 3 £500 -28.57% 1
West Midlands +17 2 - - 1
North West +12 2 £650 +85.71% 2
Scotland +9 2 £675 +12.50% 1
South West +43 1 - - 9
South East +22 1 - - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £450 -
East Midlands - 1 £500 -

ISO/IEC 20000
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (4.76%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) SMS
General
1 8 (38.10%) Public Sector
2 3 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Aerospace
4 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.76%) Law
4 1 (4.76%) Military
4 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Architect
2 6 (28.57%) Lead
2 6 (28.57%) Service Architect
3 4 (19.05%) Service Continuity Leader
4 3 (14.29%) Service Manager
5 2 (9.52%) Designer
5 2 (9.52%) Developer
5 2 (9.52%) IT Architect
5 2 (9.52%) ITSM Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Lead Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Service Designer
5 2 (9.52%) Service Management Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Service Management Designer
5 2 (9.52%) ServiceNow Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Consultant
6 1 (4.76%) IT Consultant
6 1 (4.76%) IT Manager
6 1 (4.76%) ITIL Service Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Senior
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) AngularJS
1 2 (9.52%) CSS
1 2 (9.52%) HTML
1 2 (9.52%) JSON
1 2 (9.52%) REST
1 2 (9.52%) SOAP
1 2 (9.52%) Web Services
1 2 (9.52%) XML
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Unix
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (90.48%) ITIL
2 10 (47.62%) Service Management
3 9 (42.86%) Service Design
4 5 (23.81%) BCP
4 5 (23.81%) Business Continuity
4 5 (23.81%) Business Continuity Planning
4 5 (23.81%) Business Impact Analysis
4 5 (23.81%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (23.81%) High Availability
4 5 (23.81%) Impact Analysis
4 5 (23.81%) Load Balancing
4 5 (23.81%) Risk Management
4 5 (23.81%) Runbook
4 5 (23.81%) Service Catalogue
5 4 (19.05%) Business Development
5 4 (19.05%) Incident Response
5 4 (19.05%) ITSM
6 3 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
6 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (9.52%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) SLA
2 2 (9.52%) ISO 9001
2 2 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.76%) GDPR
3 1 (4.76%) ISO 14001
3 1 (4.76%) NEBOSH
3 1 (4.76%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) QAD
1 2 (9.52%) ServiceNow
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle