Service Management Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Service Management
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Service Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 65 39
Rank change year-on-year -21 -26 +14
Contract jobs citing Service Management 60 24 70
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.61% 2.53% 4.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.94% 2.75% 4.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 10 38
10th Percentile £191 £180 £256
25th Percentile £420 £223 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.12% -22.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 - £600
90th Percentile £622 £488 £670
England median daily rate £520 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.95% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.17 - -
Median hourly rate £16.25 £22.14 £12.53
Median % change year-on-year -26.60% +76.70% -27.32%
75th Percentile £16.33 - £15.17
90th Percentile - - £18.51
England median hourly rate £45.46 £22.14 £17.72
% change year-on-year +105.33% +24.94% -57.58%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 requiring process or methodology skills in Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,038 874 1,462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 88.72% 92.29% 86.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,344 548 875
10th Percentile £313 £262 £250
25th Percentile £405 £363 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £551 £556 £575
90th Percentile £638 £638 £668
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 36 59
10th Percentile £14.25 £11.60 £11.26
25th Percentile £15.25 £16.93 £12.15
Median hourly rate £23.19 £21.24 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.19% +57.33% +27.00%
75th Percentile £57.25 £28.75 £21.35
90th Percentile £68.75 £69.07 £53.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £33.07
% change year-on-year +15.38% -1.71% -11.83%

Service Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Service Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Service Management job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Service Management
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Service Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Service Management

Service Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Management in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 4 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Service Management in Yorkshire

Service Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Service Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Service Management

Service Management
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Service Management within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 4 April 2026. 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
West Yorkshire -17 29 £506 +19.12% 21
South Yorkshire -34 21 £475 +105.18% 5
North Yorkshire - 7 £195 - 1
Service Management
England

Service Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 11 (18.33%) SharePoint
2 3 (5.00%) Confluence
2 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (3.33%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.67%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.67%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.67%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 13 (21.67%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (18.33%) Azure
3 7 (11.67%) Entra ID
3 7 (11.67%) OneDrive
4 3 (5.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (5.00%) PowerApps
5 2 (3.33%) AWS
5 2 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (3.33%) OpenShift
5 2 (3.33%) SaaS
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.67%) Datadog
6 1 (1.67%) GCP
6 1 (1.67%) GitHub
6 1 (1.67%) PaaS
6 1 (1.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.67%) LAN
1 4 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (5.00%) DNS
2 3 (5.00%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (5.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.33%) DHCP
4 1 (1.67%) BIG-IP
4 1 (1.67%) Firewall
4 1 (1.67%) Network Security
4 1 (1.67%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.67%) VPN
4 1 (1.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.33%) GIS
2 1 (1.67%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (1.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (15.00%) JIRA
2 1 (1.67%) Browser DevTools
2 1 (1.67%) Fiddler
2 1 (1.67%) Git
2 1 (1.67%) GitLab
2 1 (1.67%) Hudson
2 1 (1.67%) Jenkins
General
1 20 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 17 (28.33%) Finance
3 6 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (10.00%) Banking
4 5 (8.33%) Retail
5 3 (5.00%) Legal
5 3 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Local Government
7 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (13.33%) Analyst
1 8 (13.33%) Service Manager
2 6 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 6 (10.00%) Architect
2 6 (10.00%) IT Support
2 6 (10.00%) Project Manager
3 5 (8.33%) Service Analyst
4 4 (6.67%) Delivery Manager
4 4 (6.67%) SAP Manager
4 4 (6.67%) Service Delivery Manager
5 3 (5.00%) Business Analyst
5 3 (5.00%) Lead
5 3 (5.00%) Microsoft 365 Business Analyst
6 2 (3.33%) Coordinator
6 2 (3.33%) Field Engineer
6 2 (3.33%) IT Security Officer
6 2 (3.33%) Lead Architect
6 2 (3.33%) Programme Manager
6 2 (3.33%) Security Officer
6 2 (3.33%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.33%) JSON
1 2 (3.33%) REST
2 1 (1.67%) .NET
2 1 (1.67%) FIDO
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (1.67%) OAuth
2 1 (1.67%) OAuth2
2 1 (1.67%) OpenID
2 1 (1.67%) SAML
2 1 (1.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.67%) Web Services
2 1 (1.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.33%) CMDB
1 5 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.67%) Virtual Team
3 3 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.00%) PMI
3 3 (5.00%) Smartphone
4 2 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.33%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (3.33%) NHS
5 1 (1.67%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.67%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.67%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.67%) Culture of Ownership
5 1 (1.67%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.67%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.67%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (21.67%) Windows
2 4 (6.67%) Windows 10
3 3 (5.00%) Mac OS
4 2 (3.33%) Linux
4 2 (3.33%) Unix
5 1 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.67%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (55.00%) ITIL
2 21 (35.00%) ITSM
3 18 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 17 (28.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 16 (26.67%) Agile
6 15 (25.00%) Service Delivery
7 14 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (16.67%) DevOps
9 9 (15.00%) Service Design
10 8 (13.33%) Incident Management
10 8 (13.33%) Project Management
10 8 (13.33%) Risk Management
11 7 (11.67%) Customer Service
11 7 (11.67%) Observability
11 7 (11.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 6 (10.00%) Change Management
12 6 (10.00%) CI/CD
12 6 (10.00%) PRINCE2
12 6 (10.00%) Project Delivery
13 5 (8.33%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.00%) Python
2 2 (3.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.67%) C#
3 1 (1.67%) Java
3 1 (1.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.67%) Search Processing Language
3 1 (1.67%) Shell Script
3 1 (1.67%) SQL
3 1 (1.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (18.33%) Security Cleared
2 7 (11.67%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.00%) PMI Certification
4 5 (8.33%) Degree
4 5 (8.33%) PMP
5 2 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.33%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.67%) CISM
6 1 (1.67%) CISSP
6 1 (1.67%) ISEB
6 1 (1.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.00%) SLA
2 2 (3.33%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.33%) PMO
2 2 (3.33%) QA
3 1 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.67%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.67%) GDPR
3 1 (1.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (6.67%) SCCM
3 3 (5.00%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (3.33%) Ansible
4 2 (3.33%) Grafana
4 2 (3.33%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (1.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (15.00%) ServiceNow
3 4 (6.67%) SAP
4 2 (3.33%) HP
4 2 (3.33%) Splunk
5 1 (1.67%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.67%) BMC
5 1 (1.67%) Canon
5 1 (1.67%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.67%) Cribl.io
5 1 (1.67%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.67%) Dell
5 1 (1.67%) F5
5 1 (1.67%) IFS
5 1 (1.67%) Infoblox
5 1 (1.67%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (1.67%) New Relic
5 1 (1.67%) Oracle
5 1 (1.67%) Salesforce