Service Asset and Configuration Management Contracts

Service Asset and Configuration Management (SACM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Service Asset and Configuration Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Service Asset and Configuration Management over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 508 536 656
Rank change year-on-year +28 +120 +137
Contract jobs citing Service Asset and Configuration Management 10 46 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.034% 0.11% 0.081%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.037% 0.12% 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 36 36
10th Percentile £506 £413 £424
25th Percentile £511 £448 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -7.41% +7.46%
75th Percentile £594 £575 £600
90th Percentile £600 - £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £531 £475 £588
% change year-on-year +11.84% -19.15% +17.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Service Asset and Configuration 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,789 37,090 51,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.94% 86.26% 89.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,213 23,884 36,030
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £411 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £745 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £479 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.20% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,097 2,438 1,721
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.22 £16.00 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.41 £36.50 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -22.16% +0.69% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.34 £38.06 £35.00
% change year-on-year -30.81% +8.74% +75.00%

Service Asset and Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Service Asset and Configuration Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Service Asset and Configuration Management in the UK

Service Asset and Configuration Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Service Asset and Configuration Management.

Daily rate trend for Service Asset and Configuration Management in the UK

Service Asset and Configuration Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Service Asset and Configuration Management.

Hourly rate trend for Service Asset and Configuration Management in the UK

Service Asset and Configuration Management
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Service Asset and Configuration Management within the UK over the 6 months to 11 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
UK excluding London +44 8 £531 +11.84% 4
England +53 5 £600 +26.32% 7
Scotland - 5 £513 - 1
Work from Home +22 3 £600 +4.35%
Midlands - 3 £550 - 2
West Midlands - 3 £550 - 2
London +24 2 £600 +25.00% 4

Service Asset and Configuration Management
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) GCP
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) BGP
2 1 (10.00%) DHCP
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) EIGRP
2 1 (10.00%) HTTP
2 1 (10.00%) IPsec
2 1 (10.00%) Network Security
2 1 (10.00%) OSPF
2 1 (10.00%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (10.00%) SSL
2 1 (10.00%) TACACS
2 1 (10.00%) VLAN
2 1 (10.00%) VPN
2 1 (10.00%) Wireless
General
1 7 (70.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (10.00%) Law
4 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Service Manager
2 2 (20.00%) IT Manager
2 2 (20.00%) IT Services Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Product Owner
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Configuration Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Configuration Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) CMDB
2 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) ITIL
2 6 (60.00%) Configuration Management
3 5 (50.00%) Service Management
4 3 (30.00%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (30.00%) Incident Management
4 3 (30.00%) Service Delivery
4 3 (30.00%) SIAM
5 2 (20.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 2 (20.00%) Business Analysis
5 2 (20.00%) Coaching
5 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (20.00%) Process Improvement
5 2 (20.00%) Product Backlog
5 2 (20.00%) Product Management
5 2 (20.00%) Product Requirements
5 2 (20.00%) Product Strategy
5 2 (20.00%) Product Vision
5 2 (20.00%) RBAC
5 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Identification
5 2 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (10.00%) Arista
3 1 (10.00%) Google
3 1 (10.00%) Juniper
3 1 (10.00%) SolarWinds