ITSM Contracts in the West Midlands

IT Service Management (ITSM)
England > West Midlands

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

6 months to
1 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 94 86
Rank change year-on-year +27 -8 +60
Contract jobs citing ITSM 42 16 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.54% 0.86% 2.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.88% 1.05% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 12 30
10th Percentile £107 £328 £180
25th Percentile £122 £388 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £304
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% +72.84% -24.06%
75th Percentile £575 £602 £400
90th Percentile £719 £681 £596
England median daily rate £450 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -10.00% +1.01% -3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £18.00 - -
England median hourly rate £18.82 £18.13 £14.50
% change year-on-year +3.81% +25.03% +6.15%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

ITSM 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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,459 1,522 1,888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.26% 81.65% 85.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 917 1,036 1,299
10th Percentile £217 £294 £263
25th Percentile £363 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £625 £600
90th Percentile £655 £738 £725
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 67 38
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.90 £13.34
25th Percentile £13.78 £14.19 £18.69
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.50 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year +21.62% -32.11% +57.97%
75th Percentile £32.44 £38.13 £30.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £56.25 £46.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.03 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.16% -1.11% +63.46%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing ITSM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for ITSM in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ITSM in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for ITSM in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITSM in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ITSM in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ITSM in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for ITSM in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITSM within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Birmingham +20 24 £250 -33.33% 15
Warwickshire +6 14 £563 -22.41% 3
Coventry - 1 £550 - 1
Solihull - 1 £575 - 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (9.52%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (7.14%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (7.14%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (7.14%) Oracle iProcurement
3 2 (4.76%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (4.76%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (4.76%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (4.76%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (4.76%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (19.05%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 5 (11.90%) SuccessFactors
4 3 (7.14%) Azure
4 3 (7.14%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.38%) AWS
5 1 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.38%) Nutanix
5 1 (2.38%) OCI
5 1 (2.38%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.38%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.38%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.14%) VoIP
2 2 (4.76%) SAN
3 1 (2.38%) DNS
3 1 (2.38%) Firewall
3 1 (2.38%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (21.43%) Metadata
2 2 (4.76%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.38%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (2.38%) Oracle Discoverer
Development Applications
1 2 (4.76%) JIRA
General
1 18 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 10 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (11.90%) Finance
4 4 (9.52%) Legal
5 3 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.38%) Advertising
7 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.38%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (21.43%) Analyst
1 9 (21.43%) Audio Visual Technician
2 6 (14.29%) Architect
2 6 (14.29%) Service Manager
3 5 (11.90%) IT Manager
4 4 (9.52%) IT Services Manager
4 4 (9.52%) Senior
4 4 (9.52%) Service Analyst
4 4 (9.52%) Service Desk Analyst
5 3 (7.14%) Product Analyst
5 3 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (4.76%) 2nd Line Support
6 2 (4.76%) Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Linux Support
6 2 (4.76%) Linux Support Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Support Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Unix Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Unix Support
6 2 (4.76%) Unix Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.90%) SailPoint
2 1 (2.38%) .NET
2 1 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.38%) HTML
2 1 (2.38%) NETCONF
2 1 (2.38%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (2.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.52%) Product Ownership
1 4 (9.52%) Video Conferencing
2 3 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.76%) CMDB
4 1 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.38%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.38%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.38%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.38%) IoT
4 1 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.38%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.14%) Linux
2 2 (4.76%) AIX
2 2 (4.76%) Unix
2 2 (4.76%) Windows
3 1 (2.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (50.00%) ITIL
2 19 (45.24%) Service Management
3 16 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (26.19%) Asset Management
5 8 (19.05%) Customer Service
6 6 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (14.29%) Migration
7 5 (11.90%) Identity Access Management
7 5 (11.90%) Knowledge Transfer
7 5 (11.90%) Password Management
7 5 (11.90%) Privileged Access Management
8 3 (7.14%) Agile
8 3 (7.14%) Change Management
8 3 (7.14%) ERP
8 3 (7.14%) Risk Management
8 3 (7.14%) Service Delivery
8 3 (7.14%) Service Design
8 3 (7.14%) Translating Business Requirements
8 3 (7.14%) User Experience
8 3 (7.14%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.52%) SQL
2 3 (7.14%) PL/SQL
3 2 (4.76%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.38%) Bash
4 1 (2.38%) C#
4 1 (2.38%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (26.19%) Security Cleared
2 8 (19.05%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 4 (9.52%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.76%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (2.38%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.38%) CISA
6 1 (2.38%) CISM
6 1 (2.38%) CISSP
6 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.38%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.52%) SLA
2 3 (7.14%) GDPR
3 1 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.38%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 9 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (4.76%) Tivoli
1 2 (4.76%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (2.38%) Grafana
2 1 (2.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (42.86%) ServiceNow
2 10 (23.81%) Microsoft
3 5 (11.90%) Oracle
3 5 (11.90%) SAP
4 4 (9.52%) Remedy
5 3 (7.14%) Cisco
5 3 (7.14%) VMware
6 2 (4.76%) BMC
6 2 (4.76%) IBM
7 1 (2.38%) Commvault
7 1 (2.38%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.38%) Snow
7 1 (2.38%) Veeam