Service Management Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Service Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Service Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Service 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 109 68 88
Rank change year-on-year -41 +20 +32
Contract jobs citing Service Management 237 447 661
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.39% 2.91% 2.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.63% 3.32% 2.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 291 468
10th Percentile £225 £325 £250
25th Percentile £350 £446 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £593 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £688 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 6
10th Percentile £12.22 - £17.65
25th Percentile - £19.00 £29.35
Median hourly rate £12.62 £20.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.15% -62.29% +230.83%
75th Percentile - £26.50 £58.19
90th Percentile £30.51 £26.80 £74.38
UK median hourly rate £22.14 £17.72 £55.00
% change year-on-year +24.94% -67.78% +208.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Service 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Service Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Service Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Service Management trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Service Management
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Service Management.

Service Management daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Service Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Service Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Service Management daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Service Management
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Service Management.

Service Management hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Service Management
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Service Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Service Management hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Service Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 24 (10.13%) Confluence
2 10 (4.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.11%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.84%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.42%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.42%) JBoss
5 1 (0.42%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.42%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.42%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.42%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 35 (14.77%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.11%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.42%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.42%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.42%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 30 (12.66%) Azure
2 20 (8.44%) AWS
3 16 (6.75%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (2.53%) Entra ID
5 5 (2.11%) Asana
5 5 (2.11%) GCP
5 5 (2.11%) SaaS
5 5 (2.11%) Slack
6 3 (1.27%) GitHub
6 3 (1.27%) IaaS
6 3 (1.27%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (0.84%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (0.84%) OCI
7 2 (0.84%) OneDrive
7 2 (0.84%) PaaS
7 2 (0.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (0.84%) WhatsApp
8 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.42%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.80%) VPN
2 6 (2.53%) Firewall
3 5 (2.11%) HTTP
3 5 (2.11%) Network Security
4 4 (1.69%) Remote Desktop
4 4 (1.69%) Skype
4 4 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (1.27%) Internet
5 3 (1.27%) Intranet
6 2 (0.84%) BIG-IP
6 2 (0.84%) DHCP
6 2 (0.84%) DNS
6 2 (0.84%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (0.84%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (0.84%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.84%) SAN
6 2 (0.84%) SSH
6 2 (0.84%) SSL
6 2 (0.84%) Unified Communications
6 2 (0.84%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.27%) Power BI
1 3 (1.27%) SAP HANA
2 2 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (0.84%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (0.84%) InterSystems Cache
2 2 (0.84%) MariaDB
2 2 (0.84%) MySQL
2 2 (0.84%) Oracle Database
2 2 (0.84%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (0.84%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.42%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (0.42%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.42%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.42%) OLAP
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (0.42%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 39 (16.46%) JIRA
2 10 (4.22%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.53%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.69%) ScriptRunner
5 3 (1.27%) Git
5 3 (1.27%) GitLab
6 2 (0.84%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.84%) JMeter
6 2 (0.84%) LoadRunner
6 2 (0.84%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.42%) Gatling
7 1 (0.42%) JIRA Agile
7 1 (0.42%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.42%) webpack
7 1 (0.42%) Zephyr
General
1 95 (40.08%) Social Skills
2 52 (21.94%) Finance
3 42 (17.72%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (13.08%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.06%) Banking
6 9 (3.80%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (3.80%) Telecoms
7 6 (2.53%) Law
7 6 (2.53%) Legal
8 5 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.69%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.69%) Retail
10 3 (1.27%) Billing
10 3 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.27%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.84%) Local Government
11 2 (0.84%) Marketing
12 1 (0.42%) Electronics
12 1 (0.42%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (13.08%) Architect
2 25 (10.55%) Service Manager
3 24 (10.13%) Lead
4 19 (8.02%) Support Engineer
5 18 (7.59%) IT Support
6 15 (6.33%) Analyst
7 14 (5.91%) ServiceNow Architect
8 13 (5.49%) IT Engineer
8 13 (5.49%) IT Support Engineer
8 13 (5.49%) Senior
9 10 (4.22%) Delivery Manager
9 10 (4.22%) Solutions Architect
9 10 (4.22%) Virtualisation Engineer
10 9 (3.80%) Coordinator
10 9 (3.80%) Service Delivery Manager
11 8 (3.38%) Consultant
11 8 (3.38%) IT Manager
11 8 (3.38%) Release Manager
11 8 (3.38%) Service Architect
12 7 (2.95%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.75%) Web Services
2 15 (6.33%) HTML
3 10 (4.22%) Flash
4 9 (3.80%) AngularJS
5 8 (3.38%) CSS
6 7 (2.95%) REST
6 7 (2.95%) SOAP
7 6 (2.53%) Ajax
7 6 (2.53%) XML
8 3 (1.27%) DCOM
8 3 (1.27%) Node.js
8 3 (1.27%) RESTful
9 2 (0.84%) JSON
9 2 (0.84%) Oracle Fusion
9 2 (0.84%) RFC 2544
9 2 (0.84%) SAP Basis
10 1 (0.42%) .NET
10 1 (0.42%) J2EE
10 1 (0.42%) LDAP
10 1 (0.42%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.28%) CMDB
2 17 (7.17%) Onboarding
3 12 (5.06%) Clustering
4 9 (3.80%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.38%) PKI
6 6 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.11%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.11%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.69%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.27%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.84%) FMCG
10 2 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.84%) NHS
10 2 (0.84%) PMI
10 2 (0.84%) Replication
10 2 (0.84%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.42%) SCADA
11 1 (0.42%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 39 (16.46%) Windows
2 21 (8.86%) Windows 10
3 14 (5.91%) Linux
4 6 (2.53%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.11%) Android
5 5 (2.11%) Apple iOS
5 5 (2.11%) Unix
6 4 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.69%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (1.27%) AIX
8 1 (0.42%) Solaris
8 1 (0.42%) VMS
8 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (53.16%) ITIL
2 87 (36.71%) ITSM
3 48 (20.25%) Agile
4 35 (14.77%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (13.50%) Change Management
6 27 (11.39%) Incident Management
6 27 (11.39%) Service Delivery
7 23 (9.70%) Configuration Management
7 23 (9.70%) Stakeholder Management
8 22 (9.28%) DevOps
9 20 (8.44%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (8.44%) Problem Management
10 16 (6.75%) Computer Science
10 16 (6.75%) Project Management
11 15 (6.33%) Critical Thinking
11 15 (6.33%) Decision-Making
11 15 (6.33%) NsoIT
11 15 (6.33%) Service Design
11 15 (6.33%) System Testing
12 14 (5.91%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 14 (5.91%) JavaScript
2 13 (5.49%) PowerShell
3 9 (3.80%) Python
4 7 (2.95%) SQL
5 6 (2.53%) Java
6 4 (1.69%) Groovy
7 3 (1.27%) Bash
7 3 (1.27%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.84%) ActionScript
8 2 (0.84%) ActionScript 2.0
8 2 (0.84%) Bicep
8 2 (0.84%) C#
8 2 (0.84%) MUMPS
8 2 (0.84%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.42%) C
9 1 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.42%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.42%) VB
9 1 (0.42%) VBA
9 1 (0.42%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 77 (32.49%) Security Cleared
2 73 (30.80%) SC Cleared
3 28 (11.81%) Degree
4 17 (7.17%) DV Cleared
5 13 (5.49%) ITIL Certification
6 12 (5.06%) CCNA
6 12 (5.06%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (4.22%) Master's Degree
7 10 (4.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 8 (3.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 5 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.69%) MCSE
10 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.27%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.84%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.84%) ISEB
13 1 (0.42%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.42%) PMP
13 1 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.38%) SLA
2 3 (1.27%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 3 (1.27%) QA
3 2 (0.84%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.84%) NIST
4 1 (0.42%) COBIT
4 1 (0.42%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.42%) GDPR
4 1 (0.42%) GxP
4 1 (0.42%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.42%) PMO
4 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (8.44%) Active Directory
1 20 (8.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (4.64%) VMware NSX
3 10 (4.22%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.69%) Docker
4 4 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.27%) vSphere
6 2 (0.84%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.42%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.42%) Firmware
7 1 (0.42%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (6.75%) Terraform
2 14 (5.91%) Ansible
3 10 (4.22%) vCenter Server
4 8 (3.38%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (2.53%) Kubernetes
6 5 (2.11%) Grafana
6 5 (2.11%) Opsgenie
6 5 (2.11%) SCCM
6 5 (2.11%) WSUS
7 3 (1.27%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.27%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.84%) Argo
8 2 (0.84%) Consul
8 2 (0.84%) logstash
8 2 (0.84%) Packer
8 2 (0.84%) Puppet
8 2 (0.84%) Tivoli
8 2 (0.84%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 45 (18.99%) ServiceNow
2 41 (17.30%) Microsoft
3 23 (9.70%) Atlassian
4 21 (8.86%) VMware
5 15 (6.33%) Cisco
6 8 (3.38%) SAP
7 7 (2.95%) Palo Alto
8 6 (2.53%) BMC
8 6 (2.53%) IBM
8 6 (2.53%) Oracle
8 6 (2.53%) Remedy
8 6 (2.53%) Zscaler
9 5 (2.11%) Broadcom
10 4 (1.69%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.69%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.69%) Splunk
11 3 (1.27%) Google
12 2 (0.84%) IBM Sterling
12 2 (0.84%) NetScout
12 2 (0.84%) QAD