IT Service Management (ITSM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for ITSM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ITSM over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 123 185
Rank change year-on-year -2 +62 +42
Contract jobs citing ITSM 771 1,218 1,335
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.80% 2.10% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.09% 2.33% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 473 834 926
10th Percentile £215 £207 £181
25th Percentile £400 £382 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -9.09% +4.21%
75th Percentile £569 £588 £587
90th Percentile £700 £688 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £450 £414
% change year-on-year +8.89% +8.76% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 34 38
10th Percentile - £12.47 £11.00
25th Percentile - £13.37 £12.00
Median hourly rate £14.00 £15.78 £13.66
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +15.54% -26.16%
75th Percentile £18.13 £23.41 £19.13
90th Percentile £35.00 £73.63 £31.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £14.00 £14.50 £13.44
% change year-on-year -3.45% +7.89% -27.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

ITSM is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,956 52,182 79,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.29% 89.83% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,793 36,175 55,967
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,727 1,890
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

ITSM
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ITSM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ITSM in the UK

ITSM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ITSM.

Daily rate trend for ITSM in the UK

ITSM
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITSM over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ITSM in the UK

ITSM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ITSM.

Hourly rate trend for ITSM in the UK

ITSM
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ITSM over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for ITSM in the UK

ITSM
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. 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 -7 674 £500 +9.89% 286
UK excluding London -1 398 £490 +8.89% 203
Work from Home +43 303 £500 +11.11% 108
London -22 299 £500 +8.70% 86
North of England +53 128 £513 +7.89% 59
South West +42 93 £475 -17.39% 24
South East -49 78 £492 +9.30% 44
Yorkshire +48 69 £525 +5.00% 17
North West +32 58 £475 +5.56% 31
Midlands +7 39 £525 +0.48% 34
Scotland -22 35 £282 -36.63% 9
East of England -33 29 £600 +57.38% 26
West Midlands +15 24 £525 +58.49% 24
East Midlands +6 15 £650 +18.18% 10
North East +17 4 £590 +93.44% 11

ITSM
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 41 (5.32%) SharePoint
2 32 (4.15%) Confluence
3 30 (3.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 28 (3.63%) SharePoint Server
5 18 (2.33%) Skype for Business
6 6 (0.78%) CMS
Applications
1 69 (8.95%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 46 (5.97%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.39%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.26%) Remedy AR System
5 2 (0.26%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.26%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.26%) SAP FSCM
5 2 (0.26%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.13%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.13%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.13%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 86 (11.15%) Azure
2 80 (10.38%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (3.89%) Power Platform
4 29 (3.76%) AWS
5 27 (3.50%) Azure Stack
6 18 (2.33%) SaaS
7 15 (1.95%) IaaS
8 14 (1.82%) Entra ID
9 12 (1.56%) OpenShift
10 8 (1.04%) GCP
10 8 (1.04%) PaaS
11 7 (0.91%) GitHub
11 7 (0.91%) OneDrive
12 6 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (0.65%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 3 (0.39%) Azure API Management
14 3 (0.39%) Azure Event Grid
14 3 (0.39%) Azure Logic Apps
14 3 (0.39%) SuccessFactors
15 2 (0.26%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 74 (9.60%) Firewall
2 47 (6.10%) BGP
3 37 (4.80%) VPN
4 30 (3.89%) Cisco Nexus
5 27 (3.50%) Wireless
6 24 (3.11%) DMZ
7 21 (2.72%) Skype
8 19 (2.46%) OSPF
9 18 (2.33%) IPsec
9 18 (2.33%) SD-WAN
10 16 (2.08%) WAN
11 13 (1.69%) Cisco IOS
11 13 (1.69%) LAN
12 12 (1.56%) Cisco ASA
12 12 (1.56%) Cisco Firepower
12 12 (1.56%) Cisco ISE
12 12 (1.56%) EIGRP
12 12 (1.56%) HSRP
12 12 (1.56%) NetScaler
12 12 (1.56%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (3.76%) Power BI
2 7 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (0.78%) SQL Server
4 4 (0.52%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.39%) Metadata
5 3 (0.39%) Tableau
6 2 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.26%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.26%) Pentaho
7 1 (0.13%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.13%) DB2
7 1 (0.13%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.13%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 53 (6.87%) JIRA
2 8 (1.04%) Jenkins
3 7 (0.91%) GitLab
4 5 (0.65%) Git
4 5 (0.65%) Visual Studio
5 4 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.26%) Hudson
7 1 (0.13%) Selenium
7 1 (0.13%) TestRail
General
1 244 (31.65%) Social Skills
2 136 (17.64%) Finance
3 81 (10.51%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (10.25%) Public Sector
5 61 (7.91%) Banking
6 38 (4.93%) Telecoms
7 27 (3.50%) Legal
8 23 (2.98%) Presentation Skills
9 22 (2.85%) Organisational Skills
10 15 (1.95%) Retail
11 12 (1.56%) Investment Banking
12 9 (1.17%) Financial Institution
12 9 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.78%) Marketing
14 5 (0.65%) French Language
15 4 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.52%) Law
15 4 (0.52%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.52%) Military
15 4 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 159 (20.62%) Analyst
2 111 (14.40%) Architect
3 79 (10.25%) Developer
4 72 (9.34%) Service Analyst
5 71 (9.21%) ServiceNow Developer
6 65 (8.43%) Service Manager
7 61 (7.91%) Consultant
8 57 (7.39%) ServiceNow Architect
9 49 (6.36%) IT Analyst
10 46 (5.97%) Network Engineer
11 43 (5.58%) Service Desk Analyst
12 41 (5.32%) Service Architect
13 40 (5.19%) Senior
14 31 (4.02%) IT Manager
14 31 (4.02%) Lead
15 30 (3.89%) Banking Analyst
16 26 (3.37%) IT Services Manager
17 25 (3.24%) ServiceNow Consultant
17 25 (3.24%) Technical Analyst
18 23 (2.98%) ITSM Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (5.19%) Web Services
2 22 (2.85%) XML
3 20 (2.59%) HTML
4 19 (2.46%) CSS
5 17 (2.20%) JSON
6 15 (1.95%) Kafka
7 14 (1.82%) SOAP
8 13 (1.69%) AngularJS
8 13 (1.69%) REST
9 11 (1.43%) Jinja
10 8 (1.04%) ActiveMQ
10 8 (1.04%) Ajax
11 6 (0.78%) .NET
12 5 (0.65%) Lightning Web Components
13 4 (0.52%) jQuery
13 4 (0.52%) LDAP
13 4 (0.52%) Middleware
13 4 (0.52%) YAML
14 3 (0.39%) Node.js
14 3 (0.39%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 98 (12.71%) CMDB
2 46 (5.97%) Management Information System
3 28 (3.63%) Private Cloud
4 17 (2.20%) Product Ownership
5 15 (1.95%) iPhone
6 14 (1.82%) Data Centre
7 12 (1.56%) Onboarding
8 11 (1.43%) Cloud Native
9 10 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.04%) Hedge funds
11 7 (0.91%) Virtual Team
12 6 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (0.65%) Blackberry
13 5 (0.65%) Driving Licence
13 5 (0.65%) NHS
13 5 (0.65%) Operational Technology
14 4 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
14 4 (0.52%) PKI
14 4 (0.52%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 131 (16.99%) Windows
2 57 (7.39%) Windows 10
3 30 (3.89%) Apple iOS
4 22 (2.85%) Linux
5 20 (2.59%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.43%) Unix
7 9 (1.17%) Windows 7
8 7 (0.91%) Android
9 5 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.39%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.39%) VMS
11 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.13%) Solaris
13 1 (0.13%) Windows XP
13 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 441 (57.20%) ITIL
2 403 (52.27%) Service Management
3 141 (18.29%) Agile
4 140 (18.16%) Change Management
5 118 (15.30%) Problem-Solving
6 111 (14.40%) Service Delivery
7 101 (13.10%) Customer Service
8 70 (9.08%) Asset Management
8 70 (9.08%) Incident Management
9 65 (8.43%) Configuration Management
9 65 (8.43%) DevOps
10 64 (8.30%) Continuous Improvement
11 59 (7.65%) Customer Requirements
12 51 (6.61%) Problem Management
13 49 (6.36%) Project Management
14 46 (5.97%) IT Asset Management
15 44 (5.71%) Stakeholder Management
16 41 (5.32%) Network Management
17 39 (5.06%) Roadmaps
18 34 (4.41%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (3.50%) JavaScript
2 23 (2.98%) Python
3 17 (2.20%) PowerShell
4 15 (1.95%) SQL
5 13 (1.69%) Perl
6 11 (1.43%) Tcl
7 8 (1.04%) Swift
8 6 (0.78%) Ruby
9 5 (0.65%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.52%) C#
10 4 (0.52%) Go
10 4 (0.52%) Java
10 4 (0.52%) SOQL
11 3 (0.39%) Bash
11 3 (0.39%) PHP
12 1 (0.13%) C
12 1 (0.13%) C++
12 1 (0.13%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.13%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 234 (30.35%) Security Cleared
2 160 (20.75%) SC Cleared
3 75 (9.73%) DV Cleared
4 67 (8.69%) Degree
5 42 (5.45%) ITIL Certification
6 31 (4.02%) Cisco Certification
7 27 (3.50%) CCNA
8 18 (2.33%) CCNP
9 16 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
9 16 (2.08%) MCP
10 14 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
11 12 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.91%) PMI Certification
13 6 (0.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 6 (0.78%) PMP
14 5 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 4 (0.52%) MCITP
15 4 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 4 (0.52%) VCAP
16 3 (0.39%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (8.43%) SLA
2 28 (3.63%) Government Security Classifications
3 15 (1.95%) QA
4 8 (1.04%) Accessibility
5 7 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.78%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.52%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.39%) GRC
8 3 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.26%) GDPR
9 2 (0.26%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.26%) PMO
10 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.13%) NCSC
10 1 (0.13%) NIST
10 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 73 (9.47%) Active Directory
2 19 (2.46%) Firmware
3 16 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.56%) VMware NSX
5 10 (1.30%) vSphere
6 4 (0.52%) BitLocker
6 4 (0.52%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.39%) Docker
7 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (0.39%) vCloud
7 3 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.13%) NFS
8 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 29 (3.76%) Ansible
1 29 (3.76%) SCCM
2 25 (3.24%) SCOM
3 16 (2.08%) Jamf Pro
4 12 (1.56%) Kubernetes
5 9 (1.17%) Progress Chef
5 9 (1.17%) Puppet
5 9 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (1.04%) Terraform
7 7 (0.91%) Argo
7 7 (0.91%) Grafana
7 7 (0.91%) Istio
7 7 (0.91%) Kibana
7 7 (0.91%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.52%) vRealize
8 4 (0.52%) VxRail
9 3 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.39%) Autotask
9 3 (0.39%) OPNET
Vendors
1 277 (35.93%) ServiceNow
2 147 (19.07%) Microsoft
3 51 (6.61%) Cisco
4 46 (5.97%) Remedy
5 42 (5.45%) Citrix
6 32 (4.15%) VMware
7 28 (3.63%) Atlassian
8 27 (3.50%) Palo Alto
9 21 (2.72%) SolarWinds
10 20 (2.59%) SAP
11 19 (2.46%) F5
12 18 (2.33%) Apple
13 16 (2.08%) BMC
14 13 (1.69%) Dell
15 12 (1.56%) Fortinet
16 11 (1.43%) Blue Coat
16 11 (1.43%) CheckPoint
16 11 (1.43%) Juniper
17 10 (1.30%) Splunk
18 9 (1.17%) IBM