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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 431 529 585
Rank change year-on-year +98 +56 +144
Contract jobs citing Ticket Management 94 55 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.13% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.15% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 42 87
10th Percentile £126 £163 £160
25th Percentile £153 £183 £161
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £213 £250
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% -37.50%
75th Percentile £313 £299 £278
90th Percentile £523 £449 £460
UK excluding London median daily rate £225 £200 £275
% change year-on-year +12.50% -27.27% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 8 8
10th Percentile £17.02 £13.00 £17.37
25th Percentile - £13.14 £17.72
Median hourly rate £18.51 £13.18 £20.32
Median % change year-on-year +40.44% -35.14% +23.15%
75th Percentile £18.87 £14.55 £24.06
90th Percentile £21.01 £14.70 £26.11
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 26,597 36,644 51,414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 91.01% 86.11% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,043 23,629 35,622
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £409 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,109 2,441 1,693
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.00 £15.99
Median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%

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 20 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 20 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Ticket Management in the UK

Ticket Management
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 20 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 +86 78 £225 +4.65% 62
UK excluding London +92 73 £225 +12.50% 55
South West +73 32 £225 +57.89% 3
London +43 15 £233 +8.14% 16
South East +49 12 £300 -3.23% 21
Midlands +10 11 £325 +58.54% 11
Scotland +14 9 £170 -2.86% 4
Work from Home +38 8 £256 -15.98% 39
North of England +21 8 £205 +2.50% 12
West Midlands -2 7 £138 -31.25% 4
Yorkshire +19 4 - - 5
East Midlands +11 4 £513 +144.05% 7
North East - 3 £205 - 1
Wales - 2 - -
North West - 1 - - 6

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 5 (5.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (7.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (22.34%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (10.64%) Azure
3 4 (4.26%) Entra ID
4 3 (3.19%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.13%) AWS
6 1 (1.06%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.06%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.06%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.19%) LAN
1 3 (3.19%) Skype
2 2 (2.13%) DHCP
2 2 (2.13%) DNS
2 2 (2.13%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.13%) Unified Communications
2 2 (2.13%) VPN
2 2 (2.13%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.06%) Firewall
3 1 (1.06%) FTP
3 1 (1.06%) Internet
3 1 (1.06%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (1.06%) IP Telephony
3 1 (1.06%) MPLS
3 1 (1.06%) NAS
3 1 (1.06%) Network Security
3 1 (1.06%) SAN
3 1 (1.06%) Telnet
3 1 (1.06%) WAN
3 1 (1.06%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (1.06%) JIRA
General
1 26 (27.66%) Social Skills
2 13 (13.83%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (9.57%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.26%) Legal
5 3 (3.19%) Law
6 2 (2.13%) Finance
6 2 (2.13%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.06%) Electronics
7 1 (1.06%) Local Government
7 1 (1.06%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.06%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 25 (26.60%) IT Engineer
2 15 (15.96%) Analyst
3 14 (14.89%) Support Engineer
4 9 (9.57%) Field Engineer
4 9 (9.57%) IT Support
4 9 (9.57%) Service Analyst
4 9 (9.57%) Service Desk Analyst
5 8 (8.51%) IT Support Engineer
6 5 (5.32%) 1st Line Engineer
6 5 (5.32%) Field Service Technician
7 4 (4.26%) 2nd Line Support
7 4 (4.26%) Break Fix Engineer
7 4 (4.26%) Desktop Engineer
7 4 (4.26%) Field Service Engineer
8 3 (3.19%) Hardware Engineer
8 3 (3.19%) IT Analyst
8 3 (3.19%) IT Technician
8 3 (3.19%) Support Analyst
9 2 (2.13%) Field Hardware Engineer
9 2 (2.13%) Senior Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.06%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 24 (25.53%) Driving Licence
2 2 (2.13%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.06%) CMDB
3 1 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.06%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.06%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.06%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (1.06%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.06%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 21 (22.34%) Windows
2 11 (11.70%) Windows 10
3 5 (5.32%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.19%) Apple iOS
5 2 (2.13%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.13%) Mac OS X
6 1 (1.06%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.06%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.06%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (52.13%) Asset Management
2 18 (19.15%) Customer Service
3 14 (14.89%) ITIL
4 13 (13.83%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (10.64%) Break/Fix
5 10 (10.64%) ITSM
6 6 (6.38%) Time Management
7 5 (5.32%) Service Delivery
7 5 (5.32%) Workflow
8 4 (4.26%) Incident Management
8 4 (4.26%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 4 (4.26%) Project Management
9 3 (3.19%) Cybersecurity
9 3 (3.19%) User Experience
10 2 (2.13%) Data Protection
10 2 (2.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 2 (2.13%) Knowledge Transfer
10 2 (2.13%) Root Cause Analysis
10 2 (2.13%) Threat Detection
10 2 (2.13%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.06%) PowerShell
1 1 (1.06%) SQL
Qualifications
1 55 (58.51%) SC Cleared
1 55 (58.51%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.32%) Dell Certification
3 4 (4.26%) A+ Certification
4 2 (2.13%) ACSP
4 2 (2.13%) Degree
5 1 (1.06%) MCP
5 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.70%) SLA
2 4 (4.26%) QA
3 1 (1.06%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.06%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (22.34%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.13%) Hyper-V
2 2 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.06%) NFS
3 1 (1.06%) vSphere
3 1 (1.06%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.13%) SCCM
2 2 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.06%) PowerCLI
3 1 (1.06%) vRealize
Vendors
1 35 (37.23%) Dell
2 32 (34.04%) HP
3 21 (22.34%) Microsoft
4 6 (6.38%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.19%) Computacenter
5 3 (3.19%) iManage
6 2 (2.13%) Apple
6 2 (2.13%) OneLogin
6 2 (2.13%) VMware
7 1 (1.06%) Cisco
7 1 (1.06%) Citrix
7 1 (1.06%) Civica
7 1 (1.06%) F5
7 1 (1.06%) SAP