Service Catalogue Contract Job Trends

Service Catalogue
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Service Catalogue skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 524 441 495
Rank change year-on-year -83 +54 +139
Contract jobs citing Service Catalogue 69 95 100
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.29% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.32% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 47 63
10th Percentile £340 £369 £285
25th Percentile £425 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -10.71% +12.00%
75th Percentile £546 £590 £623
90th Percentile £638 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.25% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £25.53 - -
25th Percentile £35.44 - £66.83
Median hourly rate £54.46 - £68.67
75th Percentile £75.98 - £70.50
90th Percentile £87.39 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.92 - £68.67
% change year-on-year - - +226.98%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Service Catalogue 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 32,495 29,409 38,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.07% 88.28% 88.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,479 17,921 25,423
10th Percentile £300 £308 £306
25th Percentile £406 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,043 952 1,523
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.30 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -25.71% +25.00%
75th Percentile £51.65 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.72 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.58 £30.78 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.41% -31.60% +43.91%

Service Catalogue
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Service Catalogue relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Service Catalogue job vacancy trend in the UK

Service Catalogue
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Service Catalogue.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Service Catalogue

Service Catalogue
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Catalogue over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Catalogue in the UK

Service Catalogue
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Service Catalogue.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Service Catalogue

Service Catalogue
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Service Catalogue over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Service Catalogue in the UK

Service Catalogue
Top 13 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Service Catalogue within the UK over the 6 months to 29 December 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 -68 64 £506 +0.25% 33
UK excluding London -59 36 £494 -1.25% 30
London -27 27 £488 -4.41% 13
Work from Home -12 25 £494 +7.92% 13
South West -5 17 £525 -7.89% 3
South East -4 8 £513 -14.58% 10
North of England -56 5 £450 +12.50% 3
North West -28 4 £338 -15.63% 1
Scotland +2 3 £450 +20.00% 6
West Midlands -30 2 - - 4
Midlands -45 2 - - 6
East of England -21 1 - -
Yorkshire -46 1 £525 -

Service Catalogue
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 (2.90%) Confluence
2 1 (1.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.35%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.35%) assyst
2 2 (2.90%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (1.45%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 12 (17.39%) Azure
2 8 (11.59%) AWS
2 8 (11.59%) GCP
3 4 (5.80%) SaaS
4 3 (4.35%) IaaS
4 3 (4.35%) Lucidchart
5 2 (2.90%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (2.90%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.45%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.45%) Canva
6 1 (1.45%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.25%) VPN
2 3 (4.35%) Broadband
2 3 (4.35%) Firewall
2 3 (4.35%) MPLS
2 3 (4.35%) NaaS
2 3 (4.35%) SD-WAN
2 3 (4.35%) WAN
3 2 (2.90%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.90%) Looker
1 2 (2.90%) Power BI
2 1 (1.45%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 6 (8.70%) JIRA
2 2 (2.90%) Burp Suite
2 2 (2.90%) GitLab
2 2 (2.90%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.90%) Metasploit
2 2 (2.90%) sqlmap
General
1 22 (31.88%) Finance
2 20 (28.99%) Social Skills
3 17 (24.64%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (21.74%) Public Sector
5 9 (13.04%) Telecoms
6 7 (10.14%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (7.25%) Banking
7 5 (7.25%) Electronics
7 5 (7.25%) Legal
7 5 (7.25%) Manufacturing
7 5 (7.25%) Marketing
8 3 (4.35%) Military
9 2 (2.90%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.45%) Billing
10 1 (1.45%) French Language
10 1 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.45%) International Banking
10 1 (1.45%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.45%) Police
Job Titles
1 13 (18.84%) Analyst
2 12 (17.39%) Service Manager
3 10 (14.49%) Developer
4 9 (13.04%) ServiceNow Developer
5 7 (10.14%) Architect
6 6 (8.70%) Senior
7 5 (7.25%) Incident Manager
7 5 (7.25%) ITIL Incident Manager
7 5 (7.25%) ITIL Manager
7 5 (7.25%) Service Analyst
8 4 (5.80%) Business Analyst
8 4 (5.80%) Delivery Manager
8 4 (5.80%) Penetration Tester
8 4 (5.80%) Senior Analyst
9 3 (4.35%) Senior Service Transition Analyst
9 3 (4.35%) Service Delivery Manager
9 3 (4.35%) Service Design Analyst
9 3 (4.35%) Service Desk Manager
9 3 (4.35%) Service Transition Analyst
9 3 (4.35%) Transition Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.80%) CSS
1 4 (5.80%) HTML
2 3 (4.35%) AngularJS
2 3 (4.35%) REST
2 3 (4.35%) SOAP
3 1 (1.45%) JSON
3 1 (1.45%) LDAP
3 1 (1.45%) Middleware
3 1 (1.45%) React
3 1 (1.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (20.29%) CMDB
2 6 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.70%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.80%) Security Posture
4 3 (4.35%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.90%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.45%) IoT
6 1 (1.45%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.45%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.80%) Windows
2 2 (2.90%) Linux
2 2 (2.90%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (52.17%) ITIL
2 29 (42.03%) Service Management
3 25 (36.23%) ITSM
4 18 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (21.74%) Stakeholder Management
6 14 (20.29%) Agile
6 14 (20.29%) Service Delivery
7 11 (15.94%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (14.49%) Problem Management
8 10 (14.49%) Service Design
9 9 (13.04%) Programme Management
9 9 (13.04%) Project Management
9 9 (13.04%) User Experience
10 8 (11.59%) Configuration Management
11 7 (10.14%) Business Intelligence
11 7 (10.14%) Change Management
11 7 (10.14%) DevOps
11 7 (10.14%) Roadmaps
12 6 (8.70%) Test Automation
12 6 (8.70%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 8 (11.59%) JavaScript
2 5 (7.25%) Python
3 4 (5.80%) Bash
4 2 (2.90%) Go
5 1 (1.45%) C#
5 1 (1.45%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.45%) SQL
5 1 (1.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (40.58%) Security Cleared
2 19 (27.54%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.80%) Degree
3 4 (5.80%) GPEN
3 4 (5.80%) OSCP
4 3 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.90%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.90%) GWAPT
5 2 (2.90%) GXPN
5 2 (2.90%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (2.90%) OSCE
5 2 (2.90%) SANS
6 1 (1.45%) CCIE
6 1 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (15.94%) SLA
2 4 (5.80%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 3 (4.35%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.45%) COBIT
System Software
1 4 (5.80%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.35%) Ansible
1 3 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.90%) Nessus
2 2 (2.90%) Nmap
2 2 (2.90%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (31.88%) ServiceNow
2 7 (10.14%) SAP
3 6 (8.70%) Remedy
4 4 (5.80%) Workday
5 3 (4.35%) Cisco
5 3 (4.35%) Fortinet
5 3 (4.35%) IFS
5 3 (4.35%) Juniper
6 2 (2.90%) BMC
6 2 (2.90%) Oracle
7 1 (1.45%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.45%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (1.45%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.45%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.45%) Spotify
7 1 (1.45%) VMware