Service Catalogue Contracts

Service Catalogue
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Service Catalogue skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Service Catalogue over the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 477 488 537
Rank change year-on-year +11 +49 +67
Contract jobs citing Service Catalogue 90 79 134
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.20% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.24% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 43 69
10th Percentile £358 £375 £453
25th Percentile £405 £459 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.04% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £700
90th Percentile £631 £742 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £525 £625
% change year-on-year -14.29% -16.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £18.01 - -
25th Percentile £18.34 - -
Median hourly rate £18.90 £20.74 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.90% - -
75th Percentile £19.45 - -
90th Percentile £19.78 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.79 £20.74 -
% change year-on-year -14.22% - -

All Process and 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 29,972 33,531 47,751
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.41% 85.45% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,760 21,562 32,735
10th Percentile £300 £310 £320
25th Percentile £404 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £734 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,662 1,890 1,565
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.15 £18.57
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.90% -4.71% +62.40%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.59 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £41.25 £40.00
% change year-on-year -44.24% +3.13% +86.05%

Service Catalogue
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Catalogue in the UK

Service Catalogue
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Service Catalogue in the UK

Service Catalogue
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Catalogue over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Catalogue in the UK

Service Catalogue
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Service Catalogue in the UK

Service Catalogue
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 Service Catalogue within the UK over the 6 months to 2 August 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 +43 86 £506 -8.06% 39
UK excluding London +26 57 £450 -14.29% 25
North of England +12 27 £447 +16.10% 7
London -2 27 £550 -12.00% 17
North West +13 22 £438 +13.64% 4
Work from Home +12 20 £537 -2.36% 14
South East +25 11 £450 +9.09% 4
South West +30 10 £575 - 7
Midlands -4 7 - - 4
Yorkshire -2 5 £500 - 1
East Midlands +1 4 - -
West Midlands -5 3 - - 4
Scotland -4 2 - - 1

Service Catalogue
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 4 (4.44%) Apache
1 4 (4.44%) nginx
1 4 (4.44%) Tomcat
2 2 (2.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (8.89%) MS Visio
3 4 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.11%) BambooHR
1 1 (1.11%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 8 (8.89%) Azure
1 8 (8.89%) SaaS
2 7 (7.78%) AWS
3 5 (5.56%) GCP
3 5 (5.56%) IaaS
4 4 (4.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (4.44%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (4.44%) Amazon S3
4 4 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (4.44%) AWS KMS
5 3 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.22%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (2.22%) Lucidchart
7 1 (1.11%) GitHub
7 1 (1.11%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.11%) OCI
7 1 (1.11%) PaaS
7 1 (1.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.22%) VPN
2 1 (1.11%) LAN
2 1 (1.11%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.11%) WAN
2 1 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.44%) MongoDB
1 4 (4.44%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.33%) BigQuery
2 3 (3.33%) Looker
3 2 (2.22%) Power Query
4 1 (1.11%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (8.89%) JIRA
2 5 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.33%) Chocolatey
3 3 (3.33%) Git
3 3 (3.33%) SonarQube
4 2 (2.22%) GitLab
General
1 27 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 24 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 23 (25.56%) Finance
4 14 (15.56%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.78%) Military
6 6 (6.67%) Legal
7 5 (5.56%) Automotive
7 5 (5.56%) Banking
8 3 (3.33%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.22%) Fire and Rescue
9 2 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.22%) Police
10 1 (1.11%) Aviation
10 1 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.11%) Games
10 1 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.11%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.11%) Marketing
10 1 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (21.11%) Analyst
2 17 (18.89%) Service Manager
3 11 (12.22%) Senior
4 8 (8.89%) Developer
4 8 (8.89%) ServiceNow Developer
5 7 (7.78%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (6.67%) Applications Support
6 6 (6.67%) Business Analyst
6 6 (6.67%) Delivery Manager
6 6 (6.67%) IT Support
6 6 (6.67%) Lead
6 6 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
6 6 (6.67%) Service Analyst
6 6 (6.67%) Service Continuity Leader
6 6 (6.67%) Service Delivery Manager
6 6 (6.67%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
7 5 (5.56%) Consultant
7 5 (5.56%) IT Analyst
7 5 (5.56%) Senior Manager
7 5 (5.56%) Senior Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.78%) .NET
2 6 (6.67%) REST
2 6 (6.67%) SOAP
3 4 (4.44%) CSS
3 4 (4.44%) HTML
3 4 (4.44%) LDAP
3 4 (4.44%) OAuth
3 4 (4.44%) Web Services
4 3 (3.33%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.11%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.78%) CMDB
2 8 (8.89%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.44%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.44%) Virtual Team
4 3 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.33%) Private Cloud
4 3 (3.33%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.11%) BYOD
5 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.11%) IoT
5 1 (1.11%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.56%) Linux
1 5 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (2.22%) Windows
2 2 (2.22%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.11%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.11%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (57.78%) ITIL
2 41 (45.56%) Service Management
3 33 (36.67%) ITSM
4 30 (33.33%) Service Delivery
5 18 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (16.67%) Agile
7 13 (14.44%) DevOps
8 12 (13.33%) BCP
8 12 (13.33%) Business Continuity
8 12 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
8 12 (13.33%) Incident Response
9 11 (12.22%) Decision-Making
9 11 (12.22%) Runbook
9 11 (12.22%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (11.11%) Configuration Management
10 10 (11.11%) Risk Management
11 9 (10.00%) CI/CD
11 9 (10.00%) Roadmaps
11 9 (10.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 6 (6.67%) SQL
2 4 (4.44%) Java
2 4 (4.44%) JavaScript
3 3 (3.33%) C#
3 3 (3.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 26 (28.89%) Degree
2 18 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 15 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 7 (7.78%) Master's Degree
5 4 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.33%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (2.22%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.11%) CBAP
8 1 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.00%) SLA
2 7 (7.78%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 6 (6.67%) Data Quality
4 3 (3.33%) COBIT
System Software
1 3 (3.33%) Docker
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (10.00%) Terraform
2 5 (5.56%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.44%) Ansible
3 4 (4.44%) Kibana
3 4 (4.44%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.11%) SCCM
4 1 (1.11%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 39 (43.33%) ServiceNow
2 10 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.78%) Atlassian
3 7 (7.78%) SAP
4 5 (5.56%) Salesforce
5 4 (4.44%) AppDynamics
6 2 (2.22%) Okta
6 2 (2.22%) Oracle
6 2 (2.22%) Remedy
7 1 (1.11%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (1.11%) BMC
7 1 (1.11%) Concur
7 1 (1.11%) Foundry
7 1 (1.11%) Google
7 1 (1.11%) Nexthink