Ticket Management Contracts

Ticket Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Ticket Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ticket Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 433 524 602
Rank change year-on-year +91 +78 +140
Contract jobs citing Ticket Management 87 58 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.13% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.15% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 44 89
10th Percentile £126 £163 £143
25th Percentile £153 £185 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £215 £225
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% -4.44% -43.75%
75th Percentile £313 £296 £278
90th Percentile £523 £446 £450
UK excluding London median daily rate £225 £200 £250
% change year-on-year +12.50% -20.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 9 9
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.80 £17.48
25th Percentile - £13.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £18.51 £13.18 £20.64
Median % change year-on-year +40.44% -36.14% +25.09%
75th Percentile £18.87 £14.50 £23.75
90th Percentile £21.01 £14.70 £25.74
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.51 £13.18 £20.00
% change year-on-year +40.44% -34.10% +23.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Ticket 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 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Ticket Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Ticket Management in the UK

Ticket Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Ticket Management in the UK

Ticket Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ticket Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ticket Management in the UK

Ticket Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Ticket Management in the UK

Ticket Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Ticket Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Ticket Management in the UK

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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 Ticket Management within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +72 72 £225 +4.65% 70
UK excluding London +97 67 £225 +12.50% 60
South West +72 28 £225 +29.50% 16
London +29 15 £233 +8.14% 16
South East +51 13 £300 - 15
Midlands +17 10 £513 +144.05% 10
Scotland +21 9 £170 -2.86% 1
Work from Home +34 8 £288 +9.52% 30
West Midlands +9 7 - - 5
North of England +23 6 £205 +2.50% 9
East Midlands +10 3 £513 +144.05% 5
North East - 3 £205 - 3
Yorkshire +8 2 - - 3
Wales - 2 - - 2
North West - 1 - - 3

Ticket 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (4.60%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (4.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (8.05%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (24.14%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (10.34%) Azure
3 4 (4.60%) Entra ID
4 3 (3.45%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.30%) AWS
6 1 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.15%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.15%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.15%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.45%) LAN
1 3 (3.45%) Skype
1 3 (3.45%) VPN
2 2 (2.30%) DHCP
2 2 (2.30%) DNS
2 2 (2.30%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.30%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.15%) Firewall
3 1 (1.15%) FTP
3 1 (1.15%) Internet
3 1 (1.15%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (1.15%) MPLS
3 1 (1.15%) NAS
3 1 (1.15%) Network Security
3 1 (1.15%) SAN
3 1 (1.15%) SMTP
3 1 (1.15%) Telnet
3 1 (1.15%) Unified Communications
3 1 (1.15%) WAN
3 1 (1.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (2.30%) JIRA
General
1 27 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 13 (14.94%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (11.49%) Public Sector
4 5 (5.75%) Legal
5 4 (4.60%) Law
6 2 (2.30%) Finance
6 2 (2.30%) Marketing
6 2 (2.30%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.15%) Electronics
7 1 (1.15%) Local Government
7 1 (1.15%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 22 (25.29%) IT Engineer
2 16 (18.39%) Support Engineer
3 15 (17.24%) Analyst
4 9 (10.34%) Field Engineer
4 9 (10.34%) IT Support
4 9 (10.34%) Service Analyst
4 9 (10.34%) Service Desk Analyst
5 8 (9.20%) IT Support Engineer
6 5 (5.75%) 2nd Line Support
7 4 (4.60%) 1st Line Engineer
7 4 (4.60%) Break Fix Engineer
7 4 (4.60%) Desktop Engineer
7 4 (4.60%) Field Service Engineer
8 3 (3.45%) Field Service Technician
8 3 (3.45%) Hardware Engineer
8 3 (3.45%) IT Analyst
8 3 (3.45%) IT Technician
8 3 (3.45%) Support Analyst
9 2 (2.30%) Help Desk Analyst
9 2 (2.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.15%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 18 (20.69%) Driving Licence
2 2 (2.30%) Management Information System
2 2 (2.30%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.15%) CMDB
3 1 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.15%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.15%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (1.15%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.15%) Social Media
3 1 (1.15%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 22 (25.29%) Windows
2 11 (12.64%) Windows 10
3 5 (5.75%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.60%) Apple iOS
5 3 (3.45%) Mac OS
6 2 (2.30%) Mac OS X
7 1 (1.15%) Android
7 1 (1.15%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (45.98%) Asset Management
2 19 (21.84%) Customer Service
3 14 (16.09%) ITIL
3 14 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (11.49%) Break/Fix
4 10 (11.49%) ITSM
5 6 (6.90%) Time Management
6 5 (5.75%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 5 (5.75%) Workflow
7 4 (4.60%) Project Management
7 4 (4.60%) Service Delivery
8 3 (3.45%) Cybersecurity
8 3 (3.45%) Incident Management
8 3 (3.45%) User Experience
9 2 (2.30%) Data Protection
9 2 (2.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 2 (2.30%) Knowledge Transfer
9 2 (2.30%) Migration
9 2 (2.30%) Root Cause Analysis
9 2 (2.30%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.15%) PowerShell
1 1 (1.15%) SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (54.02%) SC Cleared
1 47 (54.02%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.75%) Dell Certification
3 4 (4.60%) A+ Certification
4 2 (2.30%) ACSP
4 2 (2.30%) Degree
5 1 (1.15%) MCP
5 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.79%) SLA
2 4 (4.60%) QA
3 1 (1.15%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (25.29%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.30%) Hyper-V
2 2 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.15%) NFS
3 1 (1.15%) vSphere
3 1 (1.15%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 4 (4.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (3.45%) SCCM
3 2 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.15%) PowerCLI
4 1 (1.15%) vRealize
Vendors
1 29 (33.33%) Dell
2 26 (29.89%) HP
3 22 (25.29%) Microsoft
4 6 (6.90%) ServiceNow
5 4 (4.60%) iManage
6 2 (2.30%) Apple
6 2 (2.30%) Computacenter
6 2 (2.30%) OneLogin
6 2 (2.30%) VMware
7 1 (1.15%) Cisco
7 1 (1.15%) Citrix
7 1 (1.15%) Civica
7 1 (1.15%) F5
7 1 (1.15%) SAP